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BUSH BEAT

Bush pushing oil & gas exploration

The LA Times gives an enormous amount of coverage to portraying President Bush as the worst environmentalist in history. It offers personal reports without proof that the President’s policy of opening government lands to exploration is terrible and goes on and on. It is clear President Bush is allowing more oil and gas exploration than past administrations.

Vice President differs

Vice President Dick Cheney voiced his differences on the issue of gay marriage while his wife sat by his side at a stop in Davenport, Iowa.

''I made clear four years ago when I ran and this question came up in the debate I had with Joe Lieberman that my view was that that's appropriately a matter for the states to decide, that that's how it ought to best be handled," Cheney said.

Commenting on President bush’s position Cheney said, ''I think his perception was that the courts, in effect, were beginning to change, without allowing the people to be involved."

Cheney made it clear that his position was not the President’s position.

''At this point . . . my own preference is as I've stated," Cheney said. ''But the president makes basic policy for the administration. And he's made it."

 Just POlitics

Kerry’s political theater

Sen. John Kerry will dispatch two fellow Vietnam veterans to President Bush's secluded Texas ranch on Wednesday to press him to condemn television advertisements accusing Kerry of lying about his wartime service.

However, it is clear from Kerry’s campaign admission that Kerry was not shot at when he received his first purple heart that Kerry did lie about his Vietnam record and should not have received his first Purple Heart.

Kerry is sending to Crawford former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia, a frequent companion of Kerry's on the campaign trail and a fellow Vietnam War veteran who lost three limbs during the war.

Along with Cleland will be former Army Green Beret Jim Rassmann, who says that his life was saved by Kerry in Vietnam. They will try to deliver a letter protesting the ads to Bush at his heavily guarded ranch, Kerry aides said.

Bush has called on Kerry to join him in urging all 527 PACs take their TV ads off the air. This is day two in Kerry’s refusal to condemn all 527 TV ads.

New 527 group

The United States Chamber of Commerce and other business groups plan to spend roughly $10 million attacking trial lawyers, including Sen. John Edwards, by financing a new organization that will run television and mail advertisements in critical swing states.

The organization is known as the November Fund. It was created in an effort to paint Edwards as among lawyers who, through a proliferation of lawsuits, have increased the cost of health care and insurance, damaging the business climate nationwide and as a result causing jobs to go oversees and harming communities.

O’Neill: it’s personal

The Boston Globe covers John E. O’Neill and his long-standing personal animus towards Sen. John Kerry With O’Neill, it’s personal not politics:

Kerry campaign officials do not dispute that O'Neill harbors a grudge against the Democratic nominee, but they see the swift boat movement as much larger and more sinister.

"The more the facts come out about what O'Neill is doing, the more people realize this is just politics," said Stephanie Cutter, spokeswoman for the Kerry campaign. "It has nothing to do with what happened 30 years ago."

Yet, for O'Neill, there is reason to believe it does.

O'Neill did not know Kerry in Vietnam but followed Kerry as commander of Swift Boat No. 94. Like Kerry, he emerged a decorated hero, winning two Bronze Stars. A graduate of the Naval Academy and originally from San Antonio, O'Neill was furious over Kerry's postwar contention that soldiers were torturing civilians in Vietnam.

Lawyer has divided clients

A lawyer for President Bush's re-election campaign disclosed yesterday that he has been providing legal advice for a veterans group that is challenging Democratic Senator John F. Kerry's account of his Vietnam War service. Benjamin Ginsberg's acknowledgment marks the second time in days that an individual associated with the Bush-Cheney campaign has been connected to the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which Kerry has accused of being a front for Bush's re-election effort.

The Bush campaign and the veterans' group say there is no coordination.

The group ''came to me and said, 'We have a point of view we want to get into the First Amendment debate right now. There's a new law. It's very complicated. We want to comply with the law, will you keep us in the bounds of the law?"' Ginsberg said. ''I said yes, absolutely, as I would do for anyone." Ginsberg said he never told the Bush campaign what he discussed with the group, or vice versa, and doesn't advise the group on ad strategies.

Kerry still getting act together

The LA Times reports that Sen. John Kerry’s foreign policy advisor, James Rubin, has had to withdraw his statement "in all probability" would also have invaded Iraq if weapons inspections broke down and the United Nations explicitly authorized war.":

Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for Bush's reelection campaign, said the statement by Rubin, an assistant secretary of state for public affairs during the Clinton administration, was "more in a long line of confusing statements by John Kerry and his advisors" about the war in Iraq.

"There's a reason why a guy as smart as Jamie Rubin is confused about John Kerry's position: it's because John Kerry has changed it on an almost weekly basis," Schmidt said.

The Kerry - Daily show

Working for votes in all the wrong places, Sen. John Kerry tried to win votes from the sarcastic block by going on the Daily Show. For those looking for an account of what was said in detail, The Washington Post offers that service. Those who know about the bathroom story watched the show or have read about it:

"That's the test of debates," Kerry explained. "The president has won every debate he's ever had. People need to understand that. He beat Ann Richards. He beat Al Gore. He's a good debater and debates are sort of formulaic. But I believe that the truth is what people are looking for."

Kerry doesn’t add up

The Washington Post covers the fact that Kerry’s promise to balance the budget by taxing the rich and adding huge new spending programs doesn’t ad up:

"You have to begin with the premise that the steps you need to take to reduce deficits are almost diametrically opposed to the steps you need to take to win elections," said Leon E. Panetta, Bill Clinton's first budget director. "You can cut spending and raise taxes or you can cut taxes and raise spending."

What the real Bush bashers are planning

The following is the latest e-mail from the Vote to Impeach Bush organization:

Dear VoteToImpeach / ImpeachBush.org Member,

What was Mayor Bloomberg in New York thinking? If groups of twenty or more people arrive as a group in New York City during the Republican National Convention (RNC) wearing "I Love New York" or "I Love Bush" t-shirts they will be welcomed with open arms in the Big Apple. But if a group of twenty or more people arrive wearing "Bush Lied Thousands Died: ImpeachBush.org" t-shirts they are threatened with arrest for carrying out an unlawful demonstration - unless, of course, they applied for and received a permit. But the City is refusing to grant permits to groups holding anti-Bush rallies in Central Park.

Doesn't that just make you want to round up twenty friends, put on your Impeach Bush t-shirts, and head for Central Park this weekend!

Come rain or shine, permit or no permit, New Yorkers and people from around the country are going to be waving Impeach Bush signs and banners in the streets around Madison Square Garden before and during the days of the RNC.

Outraged already by Bush's lawless conduct, the endless lies, "pre-emptive wars," and the assault on the Bill of Rights, people are sickened by Bush and Karl Rove cynically attempting to use the pain and grief experienced by New Yorkers on September 11 as nothing more than a Hollywood-set so that George W. Bush can act his part as a John Wayne tough-guy type leader.

Well, Bush is not getting away with it. Hundreds of thousands of people will be in the streets in New York during those days. The whole world will be watching New York at the end of August and thankfully they will see a massive display of Impeach Bush sentiment.

We all owe a great debt to the volunteers around the country who are making this all happen. Arranging transportation, printing and circulating leaflets, petitions, paper impeachment ballots, bumper stickers - all of these tasks are being carried out by people who believe that the impeachment of Bush is a requisite act. Otherwise criminal acts go unpunished. Criminals go free. The Constitution is sullied and its principal mechanism to insure accountability devolves into rhetoric and fantasy.

All of these efforts, as well as the newspaper ad campaign, are sustained because of the generous contributions of those who believe in the centrality of the Impeach Bush movement. This work continues because of the support it receives from those who recognize that we have come to a critical phase in the life of this country.

Please help today so that in the coming days, everywhere that the cameras turn, everywhere that Bush and his cabal look out their limousine windows, everywhere the delegates walk - they are confronted with the clear sentiment of our movement: IMPEACH BUSH!

Bush’s lawyer resigns

Benjamin Ginsberg was the second person to quit the Bush campaign over ties to the group, called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The Bush's campaign insists it has no relationship with the group and has denied Kerry's charge the president's re-election team is using such "front groups."

"I have decided to resign as national counsel to your campaign to ensure that the giving of legal advice to decorated military veterans, which was entirely within the boundaries of the law, doesn't distract from the real issues upon which you and the country should be focusing," Ginsberg wrote in a letter to Bush. A copy was released by the Bush campaign.

Minneapolis Star Tribune censors IPW cartoonist

www.IowaPresidentialWatch.com’s political cartoonist, Linda Eddy, has been censored by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Eddy distributes her cartoons by email and regularly sends them to the Tribune. Her latest, showing John Kerry during his 1971 Senate testimony, is titled “Silencing Veterans since 1971” and shows an American soldier in Kerry’s hand, his head covered. [LINK to "Silencing" cartoon]

Tribune Deputy Editorial Page Editor B. James Boyd responded to Eddy’s latest cartoon by banning any future editorials from the artist:

“Please take me off your e-mail list. Your latest statements about Kerry are too much. He said no such thing in 1971. His whole testimony was an appeal on behalf of veterans.”

Eddy responded to Boyd’s email:

“You are further proof of the silencing of any dissenting view on what John Kerry really said back in 1971. You are further proof of the denial of Freedom of Speech to those with whom you disagree.”

End of story? No! Back came yet another response from Tribune editor B. James Boyd – sent not once, but twice to Eddy:

“read kerry's testimony. Find one complete quote which supports your
claim. Just one.”

Eddy’s response:

“Obviously you are incapable of doing your own good, hard journalistic work.
As soon as I clear my schedule, I will respond... probably by tomorrow.”

The following is the actual email exchanges between Eddy and Minneapolis Star Tribune editor B. James Boyd:

----- Original Message -----

From: "Jim Boyd" <>

To: <>

Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:22 AM

Subject: Re: the silencing has got to stop!

Please take me off your e-mail list. Your latest statements about Kerry
are too much. He said no such thing in 1971. His whole testimony was an
appeal on behalf of veterans.
 
B. James Boyd
Deputy Editorial Page Editor
Star Tribune
425 Portland Av.
Minneapolis, MN 55488
612-673-4470
boyd@startribune.com

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Linda Eddy

To: Jim Boyd

Cc: Sean Hannity ; Rush Limbaugh ; Matt Drudge

Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:03 PM

Subject: Re: the silencing has got to stop!

I will gladly remove you from the email list.

You are further proof of the silencing of any dissenting view on what John Kerry really said back in 1971. You are further proof of the denial of Freedom of Speech to those with whom you disagree.

I just hate it when Media like you continue to promote lies. John Kerry's whole testimony was NOT an appeal on behalf of veterans. Kerry accused American troops in Vietnam of committing henious, barbaric, criminal acts on a regular, daily basis. He lied about American troops in Vietnam, he lied about what was happening in Vietnam, he lied about going into Cambodia on Christmas 1968... As the veterans say, Kerry lied while good men died. The fact is that American soldiers hated Kerry back in 1971 for what he falsely testified about them, and still hate Kerry to this day for these lies.

Kerry was a part of the meeting in Detroit, Michigan, where Veterans Against the War through the financial support of Jane Fonda and her friends (in something that has come to be known as Winter Soldier) gathered the information that Kerry gave before the Senate committee in 1971.

It has since been proven that most (if not all) of that personal testimony was not true and many giving testimony were not veterans. Furthermore, most of those who were veterans had not been to Vietnam. It has further been proven that among Kerry's board members of Veterans Against the War most had not been to Vietnam and many of them lied about their service record.

Then there is this whopper by Kerry - John Kerry said on April 18, 1971 on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in     that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered     to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages."            

If it were true, then Kerry is a war criminal.

The real great lie is that there is a free, fair and objective press. You have once again proven that is not true. You, the press and John Kerry continue to silence America's Vietnam veterans. This henious denial of Freedom of Speech must stop.

I will see what I can do to share your denial of truth and handling of a dissenting view with the rest of the world.

By the way, my cartoons have been chosen for exhibition by the Arizona State Museum of Art for the exhibit "Art and Democracy" -- the location of the last presidential debate.

sincerely,

Linda Eddy
political cartoonist for www.iowapresidentialwatch.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Boyd" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: the silencing has got to stop!


read kerry's testimony. Find one complete quote which supports your
claim. Just one.

----- Original Message -----

From: "Linda Eddy" <>

To: "Jim Boyd" <>

Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:36 PM

Subject: Re: the silencing has got to stop!

Obviously you are incapable of doing your own good, hard journalistic work.
As soon as I clear my schedule, I will respond... probably by tomorrow.
 
regards,
Linda Eddy

----- Original Message -----

From: Linda Eddy

To: Jim Boyd

Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 3:23 PM

Subject: Re: the silencing has got to stop!

Here you go, Jim

I wanted to get the exact wording, not just quote Kerry off the top of my head.

John Kerry, 1971 testimony, Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

"I would like to talk on behalf of all those veterans and say that several months ago in Detroit we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged, and many very highly decorated, veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia. These were not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command. It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit - the emotions in the room and the feelings of the men who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam. They relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do.

They told stories that at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

We call this investigation the Winter Soldier Investigation.

Point proven. My claim supported.

regards,

Linda Eddy