“The Americans called us, they told us, ‘Come here, come here,’ asking us if we wanted sweets. We went beside them, then a car exploded,” said 12-year-old Abdel Rahman Dawoud, lying naked in a hospital bed with shrapnel embedded all over his body.
“The Americans called us, they told us, ‘Come here, come here,’ asking us if we wanted sweets. We went beside them, then a car exploded,” said 12-year-old Abdel Rahman Dawoud, lying naked in a hospital bed with shrapnel embedded all over his body.
with presidential debate bingo .
Unfortunately this is real, not from the Peabody source: Washington Post
Through an incredible feat of technology, RANT-O-RAMA has obtained a time machine on loan from a certain Prof. Peabody. After some reverse engineering, this “way-back machine” was set to Thursday night, producing this result: an AP article from the very near future, namely tonight just after the Presidential debate. Remember folks, you read it here first.
(AP) -In a stunning display of raw emotion never before seen on national television, President George W. Bush appeared to suffer a psychological breakdown during last night’s square-off with Democratic nominee John Kerry.
Political commentators were quick to agree that Bush won the debate.
Observers first suspected a change in Bush’s emotional state when, following a blistering attack from Kerry, a large, apparently wet stain began to appear on the front of the President’s pants.
Laying his head upon the podium, Bush began to speak in a soft, high-pitched voice. His microphone was able to pick up questions apparently aimed at his father, former President George H.W. Bush, rather than his opponent. “Daddy. Daddy. Daddy, why don’t you love me? ” Bush whimpered.
Cokie Roberts, in a post debate roundtable on ABC, stated that such actions “clearly presented a softer, sensitive side” of Bush, ”that every man in America will identify with.”
Moments later Bush appeared to regain his energy, bolting upright and loudly asking “What’s a nigga got to do to get a drink around here?” He then began pounding on the podium while chanting “Jack and Coke, Jack and Coke, Jack and Coke” repeatedly.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was quick to point out how the alcohol reference would resonate with “Joe Six-pack,” while CNN’s Wolf Blitzer heralded Bush’s use of “the `N’ word,” as “an appeal to the hippity-hop generation.”
As Bush crumpled to the floor, his rival, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, implored the audience to “give the President some air.” Kerry also called out to the audience, asking “Is there a doctor in the house?” a clear violation of the debate rules.
FoxNews anchor Brit Hume lambasted Kerry for his “patronizing attitude,” while ABC’s Peter Jennings stated that he felt that “No American watching is going to want to vote for a candidate who doesn’t know if a doctor actually is in the house, I’m sure aboot that.”
On CBS, Dan Rather told his network’s viewers that the debate was being carried via a pool arrangement of cameras, and that he could not verify that Bush actually was curled up in a fetal position.
Bush’s debate performance was seen by most as dealing a harsh blow to Kerry’s presidential aspirations.
“If a soiled heap of laundry on the floor isn’t what we need in our war against those who would do us harm, I don’t know who is,” stated debate moderator Jim Lehrer.
Under the “pool system” the networks are running. This means that FOURTEEN networks will show you live coverage of Michael Jackson leaving a courtroom - or Bill Burkett’s farm in Texas - but ONLY ONE will show you the “debate.”‘
A growing number of career professionals within national security agencies believe that the situation in Iraq is much worse, and the path to success much more tenuous, than is being expressed in public by top Bush administration officials, according to former and current government officials and assessments over the past year by intelligence officials at the CIA and the departments of State and Defense.
Over the past 30 days, more than 2,300 attacks by insurgents have been directed against civilians and military targets in Iraq, in a pattern that sprawls over nearly every major population center outside the Kurdish north, according to comprehensive data compiled by a private security company with access to military intelligence reports and its own network of Iraqi informants.
The insistence by interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and many U.S. officials that foreign fighters are streaming into Iraq to battle American troops runs counter to the U.S. military’s own assessment that the Iraqi insurgency remains primarily a home-grown problem.
Investor’s Business Daily. Now everyone knows, this “Investor’s Business Daily” poll is just more liberal bias, unlike the trusty GALLUP poll that skews 17% off in the party balance compared to who actually voted in 2000. So come on, let’s see those comments discounting the IBD poll. I’m waiting.
In order to show Bush ahead, Gallup changed their polling sample from a 7% GOP bias in their last poll (which showed Bush ahead of Kerry by 11%) to a whopping 12% skew in favor of Republican voters in their new poll! Keep in mind - the actual figures in 2000 for voter ID was 39% Democrat, 34% Republican. Yet Gallup’s new poll has 43% Republicans in the sample, only 31% Democrat. Here is the breakdown of this indefensible Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll.
Keep in mind, if you re-balance the party ID of these people sampled by Gallup to 2000 levels (”likely voters”) then Kerry is ahead by even farther than the margin of error.