Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Kerry Does The Right Thing and Picks Edwards...oh, and the New York Post is a Joke
I breathed a sigh of relief this morning when my wife informed me that John Kerry had chosen John Edwards as his running mate. I'd been having Gephardt nightmares for a few days...
This is only made better by the fact that the New York Post proved once again that they don't know what the fuck they're doing by going "Dewey Defeats Truman" with Dick Gephardt. Wishful thinking, I guess...
Kerry Chooses Gephardt (They changed it on the website, but it was too late!)
Then there's the issue of Matt Drudge being a hack...
On an unrelated note, it's unfortunate that great news always seems to be undercut with bad news during the Bush presidency...
3 Marines killed in Iraq while the justification for war continues to fizzle...
Oh, and then there's the "revelation" that while Bush talks about spreading democracy throughout the world, he spends most of our money propping up autocratic regimes.
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration, while stating that democracy is the cornerstone of its Mideast policy, has directed more than half of the funds in its key democracy-promotion initiative to assist autocratic regimes in promoting free trade and education.
Only about $3 million of roughly $95 million went for direct funding for local groups promoting democracy or ''civil society," according to 2002 and 2003 data from the State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative, which describes itself as ''the primary diplomatic policy and development programmatic tool" of President Bush's ''strategy of freedom in the Middle East."
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