the daily misleader... a sample of the response from mcclennan:"White House spokesman Scott McClellan, echoing similar comments from top Administration officials, said that "this Administration made going after Al Qaida a top priority from very early on" in the face of increased terror warnings before 9/11"
The daily misleader footnotes show the above statement is simply wrong: the dates are wrong.

I had listened to Clarke saying that HE was told to minimize, but was NOT told to make a untrue case.

Nonetheless, he absolutely did. The time lines of information he presented earlier are materially different from that in his testimony. To that degree, he did quite exactly what Scott McClellan does above: he messed with the dates.

This is not to expose Clarke as a liar, but to understand the parameters of an "untrue case": apparently, the time line can be changed. Surely, if the time line is changed, then the number of meeting that occur within that shifted time line change. So, if the daily mislead says there were x meetings, but alters the time lines, then you have x meetings BEFORE a certain event rather than after.

If you close the barn door, it matters very much WHEN you did it. You CANNOT shift the time line. Yet, even with Clarke, that was permitted behavior in "minimizing" embarasment.

There is a BIG problem in this country: we do NOT know the rules of the game in minimizing embarassment!

While Clarke was working for the White House, he altered the dates to minimize embarassment. It is wonderful that he apologized. But one must note that he chose WHEN to apologize, when to let the country know the obvious, that the government had failed, but he withheld what was indeed a smoking gun: the government was actively looking elsewhere at the time.
But shit, we knew THAT too: we knew about missle defense, etc.

I don't think there is a writer, good or bad, who could create a less sympathetic creature than B**h. To die under his watch is something from Dante, from Kafka.
This administration manages to leave a film of slime everywhere. A political lounge lizard. This country needs a bath.

There is so much good and kindness and bravery, nobility, snuffed out by a silly man in a flight suit landing on a well lit and carefully positioned nuclear air craft carrier.
How could the bombing in Madrid and the destruction of the Lebanon Hotel NOT have an effect of reminding people they are loved and how much their own love is needed.
I think of Lewis Thomas, trying to understand the earth and realizing it is a most like a living cell. I think of the transmutation of human love to personal gain and realize it is like turning people into soap.

After a natural death, I should like to see his head on a pike. Of course, just a good hollywood artist could do the job well. Ah, the poor fool: did he ever imagine he could fuck up so badly.

I recall the line from a film: "You are a good man! Why didn't you kill yourself?"

From the "what we have here is a failure to communicate" dept.
The Hinderburg was a "misstep."
The B**h economy is something really bad

"A string of glaring missteps by President Bush's economic team has raised alarm among the president's supporters that his economic policymakers may have lost the most basic ability to formulate a persuasive message or anticipate the political consequences of their actions. "

Generating Power from the output of the B**h administration!
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First in a series:incredibly brilliant Democrats
Eliot Spitzer, NYS Attorney General.
Please, add to the list. But this guy is absolute pure gold.
If you know a great Democrat, lets get his name out there
Second in the series: Maurice Hinchey, US Congress, from NY.
Third: Bill Richardson, governor, New Mexico.

Now I've run out. For now. But these guys are charter member quality.

Independent, strong, totally grassroots American.