Rapper: Blacks 'cheered when 9-11 happened'

KRS-One: used to be dope. now his records kind of honk and he's saying some ignant stuff.

A Tiny Revolution: Uh Oh

sy hersh from a talk last friday.

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Very, very weird. Granted, this is coming from someone who can read lips, but...

apparently Bush wanted to meek with Kerry after the debate for a bit. and some speculation that Bush's health is seriously failing....note for example that his face was drooping on one side last night and there was some drool/froth on the right side of his mouth (his right, our left).

The Onion | 2004 Election Guide

FT.com / World / Europe - Germany in rethink on Iraq force deployment

John Kerry just passed the "Global Test"

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: October 10, 2004 - October 16, 2004 Archives

So it looks like a Republican funded voter registration group has been literally shredding registration forms of people who registered as democrats in Nevada.

literally shredding. hundreds to thousands.

shredding.

literally.

oh, and they did it in Oregon, too.

anybody got a phone number for a UN election monitor? or Jimmy Carter? or the FEC?

I mean, what the hell?

Please mention this tonight, John Kerry...

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al roker is about to be blown away

and now for a quiz:

which major news organization recently circulated a flyer among its campaign reporters that encourages those reporters to double-check the accuracy of claims and features "Facty, the Fact-Checking Dog"?

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you know, it really does look like there's something under his jacket.

Bush Administration Plans to Delay Major Assaults in Iraq

I guess the rush to war makes good politics, but the realities of it do not.

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this has nothing to do with politics

Live from New York...
It's 1-3 points nationwide!!!
want some wood?

John Forbes Kerry just won the second debate. Not the one that was broadcast live from Washington University in St. Louis (holla) friday night, but the one broadcast live from NBC studios in NYC.

Or, he just won the prior by absolutely cleaning up in the latter. Think back to 2000. The conventional wisdom about the debates was that Gore lost because he seemed so different at each debate. But polls taken right after the debates aired showed that people thought Gore won. It wasn't until Saturday Night Live spoofed the debates that the image of Gore as pandering reallt gelled. And I'd bet that you remember the SNL debates as well or better than you remember the actual debates.

Now, the friday debate: It was on a Friday night during a Yankees/Twins playoff game. Undecided voters aren't undecided because they, after watching C-Span/CNN/Fox religiously, just can't choose. They're undecided because they would rather go out on a friday night, or watch the Twins and the Yankees, than watch Bush and Kerry. And so the spin and the process of forming the Conventional Wisdom for this particular debate are much more important in terms of moving votes.

I thought it was a tie when I watched it. But now that my mind has been made up for me by television, I echo JFK's line from last night:

"Mr. President, you're 0-2."

and the last round, a domestic policy debate in the one-on-one format of the first contest, W isn't likely hit one out of the park.

remainders: is the forced airing of the Anti-Kerry movie on network TV one of Rove's October surprises?

(also there's a great Victoria's Secret ad I just saw that used "Monkey Man" by the Stones as the backdrop. It will not matter in the presidential campaign.)

Dred Scott, Explained: It's About Abortion

I didn't get it, when Bush said it, but now it makes sense. Code words and winks for the base. Got it. A Dred Scott litmus test is a Roe v Wade litmus test.

and this isn't the right place for it, but....

Bush-Cheney '04: Because I need some wood.

Tucker Carlson loosens the bowtie. He and Begala had literally been crowdsurfing not 4 minutes earlier.

Appetizer Baby for Hungry Candidate