Battle ground states continue
to tighten
The battle ground states have tightened, but President Bush remains on
the high ground. New Jersey remains a big vulnerability for Sen. John
Kerry, whose campaign dispatched Sen. John Edwards to shore it up. The
biggest vulnerability to the Kerry campaign may continue to be the
Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin trifecta. All three of the states are
blue states that Kerry cannot afford to lose.
If Bush wins the same states as last time he wins. If Bush wins
additional states he wins even bigger.
Ohio remains competitive for Bush, but blue state Pennsylvania appears
to have slipped. Red state Colorado has edged ahead in some polls for
Kerry and no one really knows where Florida is.
A reason that Bush and Kerry are concentrating on Iowa, Minnesota and
Wisconsin is because if Bush would take those states then Bush could
win by taking just one of the following states: Florida, Ohio, New
Jersey or Pennsylvania. The other way Bush could win is if he lost all
of those states and won New Mexico and Washington State.
It continues to appear by the time, money and the map that Iowa,
Minnesota and Wisconsin remain the key to whom will be President.
Al Qaeda myopia
Editorial by: Roger Wm. Hughes
"It was wrong. It was a mistake," Sen. John Edwards said. "We should
have stayed focused on al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden and the war on
terror. Instead, they diverted their attention. Instead, they began to
plan for the invasion of Iraq," Edwards said in New Jersey where the
Kerry campaign is struggling to hold onto that Democrat stronghold.
The Kerry campaign dispatched all their foreign policy experts to spin
that the war on terrorism is limited to al Qaeda. The spin would have
the American public believe that the Muslim terrorists in the
Philippines are not related. They would have us believe that the
Muslim terrorists in Indonesia are not related. They would have us
believe that the Hamas-- headquartered in Syria -- is not related.
The Kerry campaign spin would have the American public believe that
only al Qaeda are the Muslim terrorists that we need to worry about.
In fact to emphasize the point Sen. John Kerry said, "The president of
the United States and the vice president of the United States may well
be the last two people on the planet who won't face the truth about
Iraq."
The fabrication that Hussein was not linked to terrorists is
ludicrous. Hussein gave the surviving families of the Hamas suicide
bombers $10,000. Hussein, while not connected with the religious
Islamic fundamentalists because of his secularism, had the express
desire to create as much harm to the U.S. as possible. Iraq, according
to the 9-11 report, had several high level contacts with al Qaeda.
Hussein wanted alliance to fundamentalist Islamic jihad groups. After
all, Hussein even tried to kill an American president. There was
obviously nothing that Hussein was not capable of doing.
One of Hussein’s Lieutenant Colonel’s, Ahmed Hikmat Shakir - a member
of the Fedayeen Saddam - was in attendance at al Qaeda’s planning
session for 9-11. He was present at an al Qaeda summit in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, on January 5-8, 2000. This was a key planning
session for the 9-11 attacks.
There is also the fact that the chemical plant that President Clinton
blew up in Sudan was financially backed by Osama bin Laden and was
engineered by one of Hussein’s chemical weapons experts.
The most ludicrous of all is the fact that Kerry argues that sanctions
were working when we now know the very names of those within the
French, German, Russian and Chinese governments who were taking bribes
from Hussein to not only circumvent the sanctions but to lift the
sanctions -- circumvention of the sanctions that put billions of
dollars in Hussein’s control and illegal weapons in his hands.
If America buys this line from Kerry, they will be buying the absurd
line that terrorism is limited; and that we can make everything better
with our allies who want to weaken us, take our money, take Iraq’s
oil, and laugh at our stupidity.
Hillary campaigning
Roll Call reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton is hot on the campaign
trail raising money for candidates and making appearances. The article
highlights Clinton’s support of Missouri Treasurer Nancy Farmer who is
challenging Sen. Kit Bond.
Democrat terrorists
Democrats seem to want to join the terrorists during this election:
Near
Milwaukee, "more than 50 demonstrators supporting
Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry stormed a Republican
campaign office in West Allis at mid-day [Tuesday], trespassing,
creating a disturbance through the use of a bullhorn in the office and
then refusing to leave when asked," according to a Wisconsin GOP press
release. State party chairman Rick Graber also pointed "to an incident
in Madison last week in which Bush-Cheney yard signs were stolen from
the yards of three homes. The vandals then used chemicals to burn
swastikas into the lawns of the homes."
In
Huntington, W.Va., "someone fired a shot at the
Republican Headquarters office" on Sept. 2, as local party members
were watching President Bush's nomination speech, reports WSAZ-TV.
"The bullet left a hole in the front window," but no one was hurt.
In
Knoxville, Tenn., "an unknown suspect fired multiple
shots into the Bearden office of the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign
Tuesday morning." No one was in the office. "One shot shattered the
glass in the front door and the other cracked the glass in another of
the front doors."
In
Orlando, Fla., "a group of protesters stormed and
then ransacked a Bush-Cheney headquarters building" on Tuesday. WKMG
reports that most of the intruders "were from the AFL-CIO and were
taking part in one of 20 other coordinated protests around the
country."
In
Tampa, Fla., "labor activists stormed President
Bush's campaign headquarters" Tuesday. No one was injured or arrested.
More French arrogance
It seems that the French are not only capable of taking bribes and
providing illegal weapons to Saddam Hussein, but they are also capable
of an arrogance unparalleled for a country that continues to decline
on the world stage.
French President Jacques Chirac warned Thursday of a "catastrophe" for
global diversity if the United States' cultural hegemony goes
unchallenged.
Speaking at a French cultural center in Hanoi ahead of Friday's
opening of a summit of European and Asian leaders, Chirac said France
was right to stand up for cultural and linguistic diversity.
The outspoken French president warned that the world's different
cultures could be "choked" by U.S. values.
This, he said, would lead to a "general world sub-culture" based
around the English language, which would be "a real ecological
catastrophe".
Vietnam is a former French colony, which the French failed to bring
even the most rudimentary necessities of potable water and sewage
control.
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