Did George W. don a blonde wig (a Sheinhardt perhaps?) and speak in New Hampshire today? (Video Below)

I don't think it was by accident that Al Qaeda decided to test the new Prime Minister immediately (referring to bombings in Glasgow the day after Gordon Brown took office). They watch our elections as closely as we do -- maybe more than some of our citizens do. They play our...allies...they do everything they can to undermine security in the world. Let's not forget you are hiring a president not just to do what a candidate says he or she wants to do in a election; you are hiring a president to be there when the chips are down.

Now this is true bipartisanship. It's good to see a Democrat primary candidate reading from the same "The terrorists want my opponent to win" hymn sheet as the GOP.

And I interpreted this as that the terrorists are actually involved and want to involve themselves in our electoral process, which must mean they want a change. [Vice President Cheney, 10/17/06]

There’s certainly a stepped up level of violence, and we’re heading into an election. … They are trying to not only kill American troops, but they’re trying to foment sectarian violence. [President Bush, 10/18/06]

[I]t is possible, although we don’t have a clear pathway into the minds of terrorists, it is possible that they are trying to use violence right now as a way of influencing the elections. [Then-White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, 10/19/06]

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I'm in the "Too soon" crowd when it comes to movies like United 93 and World Trade Center. I'm not quite ready to turn a national nightmare into a money making melodrama, and I can't stand Nicholas Cage. Sure, you can make an emotional propaganda piece like Remember Pearl Harbor made only a year after (1942), but you have save the Hollywood epic stuff for much later...say, 29 years (Tora! Tora! Tora!). Here's to 9-11 insensitivity.

What's Next? "Osama's Day Off," "National Lampoons Jihadi Vacation?"

I made the huge mistake of trying to engage Conservatives in "reasonable debate":http://sayanythingblog.com/2006/01/27/liberal-bias-2/. Read the thread just to see the attacks on me from the Anne Coulter in training who has a pic of her shooting a gun as her avatar. I'm not about to win any high school debate contest, and the thread devolves from a discussion about media bias against John Kerry to the nature of Al Qaeda, but at least I try to make an argument and use some facts. You'll notice my talking points are backed up with links and quotes, while theirs are simply blanket statements of falsehoods. It is almost an exponential exercise: the longer and more source-filled my posts become, the more terse and vindictive become theirs.

The big differences between the left and extreme right is "loyalty beyond reason":http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/8/184627/9037. While mini-Coulter is happy to just call me an "asshole," rob108, sticks to the "President is our leader" meme. Not based on anything I've said, but based on his vision of "Liberals," he claims, "Maybe your hatred for the President has effectively lowered your IQ."

What is truly sad is that these Wingers must now deceive themselves and practice some revisionist history of their own. Since the WMDs never materialized they must now convince themselves that they initially supported the war for other reasons. Most, simply ignore that the purported ties between "Al Qaeda and Saddam":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47812-2004Jun16.html have now been proven false, and live in a fantasy world where Iraq is going well, we've killed more terrorists than "we've created":http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1512597,00.html, "bin Laden and his leadership":http://reallyimportantstuff.com/wojo/wanted_dead_or_alive_or_eventually/01/20/2006 network doesn't really matter, we have "plenty of troops":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7053-2004Oct4.html (and the chickenhawks are not needed to enlist), and history will vindicate GW. These people are "loyal to their brand":http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/8/184627/9037.