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BushCo's Broken-Promised Land
In the interstitials to be found between Art, Politics, and the Internets, a person keeps creating killer visual polemics and then posting them to the web. This is her latest effort:
And these are her reasons, in her own words:
The recent Washington Post exposé of building 18 at Walter Reed is just the tip of the iceberg. Dana Priest and Anne Hull’s shocking look into treatment of our wounded men and women in uniform grabbed a lot of attention, and rightly so. They broke through the bureaucracy and effected real change. Those immediately responsible for conditions at Walter Reed were held accountable, and that’s a start.
But there’s a systemic issue with the treatment of returning veterans, and the indiscriminate and incomprehensible slashing of VA funding is at the heart of it. George Bush has cut funding year after year, and little is said. This video attempts to highlight that fact.
It should be noted that, with all the attention to the WaPo coverage, Salon’s Mark Benjamin has been reporting on the shocking treatment of veterans for some time now, and his coverage of the deficiencies in treating the returning wounded hasn’t received nearly the attention is deserves. Of particular importance is his focus on the ‘hidden wounds’ of PTSD and TBI that are largely overlooked. I’ve highlighted an excellent piece from Mr. Benjamin in the video, but all of his work on the topic deserves a read.
I’ve also included Bob Woodruff in the video. I caught him on Larry King last night, and it’s great to see that he’s well on his way to recovering from the devastating injuries he sustained from a roadside bomb while covering the war in Iraq.
Thanks for watching my video. Please pass it on and visit my YouTube channel for more of my pieces and those of others whose work I admire as well.
And while you’re at it -- sign up at www.setadeadline.com and let’s put an end to this immoral war and bring our troops home.
-- GlobalVillage
Wow - so powerful.
thanks, globalvillage, and Rick, for sharing with us and the world.
Great work!
People in general need to stop paying for wars in currency and blood. My dad suffered as a vet (mental problems) and there are too many wars. Bottom line. & for what - there is always some ideological crap that we can be fed such as "freedom isn't free" but the rich profit & the classes below them suffer.
America Shocked by Veteran Scandal
http://www.torontodailynews.com/index.php/WorldNews/2007030408veterans-scandal
Bush Troubled by Army Scandal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6414555.stm?ls
Too little too late
My husband just read that Bandar recently went to Tehran & now Ahmadinejad has meet with King Abdullah. The Christian-Judeo alliance of US & Israel were bypassed. I say if Persian and Arabia have fought for control of the Gulf for 14 centuries, it's damn appropriate for the head Shiite to meet with the head Sunni.
Sorry to change the subject, but this is actually pretty germane to the subject as it speaks to our habit of interfering in the internal affairs of other nations that happen to have resources that we are running out of.
By the way, thanks for the links/ personal words of GlobalVillage - I've been trying to get more info about incidence of TBI and how it's being treated.
I am noticing several articles saying that something is going to be done in the Senate. We need to improve treatment of vets but we also need to stop creating so many vets, here and in the countries we attack. We need to stop attacking other countries.
Also a reminder about nationwide events today commemorating the US Constitution.
http://www.backbonecampaign.org
I am noticing several articles saying that something is going to be done in the Senate. We need to improve treatment of vets but we also need to stop creating so many vets, here and in the countries we attack. We need to stop attacking other countries.
Posted by: not my president at March 4, 2007 01:44 PM
That is so true... At least, we need to stop creating phony wars with no purpose other than to fatten the wallets of military contractors.
And thanks for sharing the video, Rick. GV really knows her stuff, and W's cuts have NO excuse.
{David Maher of Australia's ABC recently said of Major Mori, "Looks like Gomer Pyle, pleads like Atticus Finch". He got that right - what a brilliant recommendation for a lawyer. David Hicks could not have had a more determined, nor dedicated, advocate. We're grateful that Major Mori was appointed to the defence of David. For him to be dumped now would simply prove to the world that David might actually be found not guilty under Major Mori's defence. And we couldn't have that could we.}
Hicks trial at risk if Mori taken off case
Tom Allard
March 5, 2007
Mori: Accused of breaching military rules.
MAJOR Michael Mori, the defence lawyer for terror suspect David Hicks, could be removed from the case after threats from the chief US prosecutor to charge him under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The intervention may derail Hicks' trial and possibly prompt his return to Australia.
It would take months for a new lawyer to get to grips with the case and the new military commission process.
Prime Minister John Howard has told Washington that any action leading to further delays would be unacceptable and would prompt him to demand the return of Hicks, 31, after being held for five years at the US base at Guantanamo Bay.
Colonel Morris Davis has accused Major Mori of breaching article 88 of the US military code, which relates to using contemptuous language towards the President, Vice-President or Secretary of Defence.
Penalties for breaching the code include jail and the loss of employment and entitlements.
Cont. .....
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/hicks-trial-at-risk/2007/03/04/1172943276209.html
Reposted from last Thread:
Well, damn. Our friend globalvillage just keeps knocking out these killer photo-montage pieces and posting them on the YouTubes -- check out her latest one at the link below, but be prepared for it to reach down and grab you by the, um, hearts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdhkJS3UFaU
Posted by: Otter at March 3, 2007 11:07 PM
I'm speechless. This is one of the most powerful pieces I've seen in a long, long time. It needs to be seen before during and after war. Thankyou globalvillage. And thanks otter for posting it here.
Posted by: woz at March 4, 2007 03:33 AM
Iran ready for strike in Gulf states
Colin Freeman
March 5, 2007
IRAN has trained secret networks of agents across the Gulf states to attack Western interests and incite civil unrest in the event of a military strike against its nuclear program, a former Iranian diplomat has revealed.
Spies working as teachers, doctors and nurses at Iranian-owned schools and hospitals have formed sleeper cells ready to be "unleashed" at the first sign of any serious threat to Tehran, it is claimed.
Trained by Iranian intelligence, they are also said to be recruiting fellow Shiites in the region, whose communities have traditionally been marginalised by the Gulf's ruling Arab clans.
Were America or Israel to attack Iran, such cells would be instructed to foment long-dormant sectarian grievances and attack the extensive American and European business interests in wealth centres such as Dubai and Saudi Arabia.
Cont. .....
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/03/04/1172943276125.html
Some of you may be aware of the "Thirty-something Working Group" in the House of Representative.
The other night, they took turns speaking on the floor of the house about the situation at Walter Reed, and you can view the transcript here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r110:8:./temp/~r110LgIdS2::
My friend Jason Altmire is the new congressman from the PA-4th and it was nice to see him and these other young representatives speaking out on this issue - for the record.
Bush takes a new guide
Michael Gawenda
March 5, 2007
While US Vice-President Dick Cheney was in Australia talking tough on Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was in the Middle East, was talking diplomacy, the sort of diplomacy that Cheney has long considered the preserve of spineless Democrats and cut-and-run appeasers.
When Rice announced the fruits of her diplomatic mission late last week, Cheney was in Afghanistan, the target of a suicide bombing at the Bagram Air Base that killed 23 people and forced Secret Service agents to quickly move the Vice-President into a secure bomb shelter. It seemed somehow appropriate, this juxtaposition, Cheney dodging a Taliban suicide bomber while Rice told a Senate hearing that the Bush Administration had done a complete about face and was now very enthusiastic about the efficacy of international diplomacy. So surprising was Rice's sudden announcement of the Administration's support for an international conference on Iraq that would include both Syria and Iran, that Robert Byrd, the chairman of the Senate appropriations committee couldn't believe what he was hearing and asked Rice his pre-prepared first question anyway: When would the Administration finally accept the need for a regional conference to deal with the Iraq "quagmire"?
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/bush-takes-a-new-guide/2007/03/04/1172943271218.html
Senators Rip VA Treatment of Wounded Vets
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/health/news/article_1272585.php/Senators_rip_VA_treatment_of_wounded_vets
They say what happened at Walter Reed was the tip of the iceberg. Somehow it's not surprising, thinking of all the Vietnam vets homeless on the streets and how the government didn't even send in sufficient body armor for the troops, & couldn't even help civilians after Hurricane Katrina.
I am glad that I see these every day.
War is Terrorism
Peace is Patriotic
WOW - SOUNDS LIKE A SMEAR JOB BY THE BUSHIES AND A MINOR OFFENSE -
Prime Minister John Howard has told Washington that any action leading to further delays would be unacceptable and would prompt him to demand the return of Hicks, 31, after being held for five years at the US base at Guantanamo Bay.
Colonel Morris Davis has accused Major Mori of breaching article 88 of the US military code, which relates to using contemptuous language towards the President, Vice-President or Secretary of Defence.
Antiwar Caucus Wants to Be Heard Now
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030407Z.shtml
With a change in power in Congress and a new military strategy to increase the number of American troops in Iraq, the members of the Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus group are suddenly much in demand, finding themselves at the center of the debate over the war. Yet even with a majority of Americans opposing the war, the caucus is struggling to overcome its fringe image and is becoming increasingly frustrated by what its members say is the Democratic leadership's unwillingness to heed their calls for decisive action to the end the war.
Excerpt:
At the same time, though the members are united in their desire to bring American military involvement in Iraq to a speedy end, they are still debating the best way to do so. In that sense, they reflect the broader struggle among Democrats in Congress, who have been unable to coalesce around a single position on how strongly to confront President Bush over the war.
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{{{People who want to end that illegal and unconstitutional war crime in Iraq are a "fringe" element?!?!? And no one knows how to "confront" a 'man' who's acting like a dictatorial spoiled brat?!? Are these people insane? Who are they trying to kid - or lie to?!? How 'bout this: Georgie is acting like a spoiled brat, so treat him like one! Paint the Constitution on a big paddle and spank him with it!!! When you have his attention after his butt is blistered, 'splain the limits of the power of a president under our Constitution (as originally written, not by the unconstitutional bills passed since 2000, like the Patriot Acts, amended FISA rules, and, in particular, that monstrously idiotic MCA '06, all of which NEED instant repealing in their entirety), and 'splain how torture and prison camps are war crimes for which he and Dickie and Condi and Godzilla and the rest of their ilk (including Rummy who seems to have offices where he's still working at the Pentagon) are all liable for their war crimes. Then whack them all over the head with the Constitution... and IMPEACH the bam dastards! What the hold-up is, what kind of hold Georgie and Dickie or the oil corporations have over Congress Critters, is just not being comprehended by the rest of us who just want this illegal and unconstitutional war to END and our troops brought home NOW...! Stop talking, spank the spoiled brat(s), and DO SOMETHING before more people die for lies and oil...!!! Reminder: Georgie and Dickie have their eyes on Iran... you in Congress need to STOP them by WHATEVER means necessary! Hint: Tell Pelosi to put IMPEACHMENT back on the table. We just CAN. NOT. HAVE. ANOTHER. ILLEGAL. WAR.... Period!}}}
The New York Times | The Must-Do List
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030407B.shtml
The New York Times writes: "The Bush administration's assault on some of the founding principles of American democracy marches onward despite the Democratic victory in the 2006 elections. The new Democratic majorities in Congress can block the sort of noxious measures that the Republican majority rubber-stamped. But preventing new assaults on civil liberties is not nearly enough."
{{{Long editorial, but perhaps it is necessary to send it to each of our Congress Critters. For whatever reasons, they are just not 'getting' the message the last election sent them, and they need to wake up. I would take a stronger stand than the NY Times against the Patriot Acts, FISA rules, MCA '06, and say they all need instant repealing in their entirety. There's no quick fix if all Congress does is repeal only certain specific sections. They're all abominable offenses and undermine the Constitution and Bill of Rights and Geneva Conventions and US law, one way or another. It's WAY past time for Gitmo to close, prisoners sent back to their country of origin.... And, still, no one's ever explained what laws apply on US military bases, which Gitmo is....}}}
Frank Rich | Bring Back the Politics of Personal Destruction
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030407D.shtml
"If you had to put a date on when the Iraq war did in the Bush administration," says Frank Rich,"it would be late summer 2005. That's when the bungled federal response to Hurricane Katrina re-enacted the White House bungling of the war, this time with Americans as the principal victims. Now this pattern is repeating itself: a searing re-enactment of the Iraq war's lethal mismanagement is playing out on the home front, again with potentially grave political consequences."
Excerpts:
The stuff happening on Brownie's watch in New Orleans was recognizably the same stuff that had happened on Donald Rumsfeld's watch in Baghdad. Television viewers connected the dots and the president's poll numbers fell into the 30s. There they have largely remained - at least until Friday, when the latest New York Times-CBS News Poll put him at 29.
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But, unlike Mr. McCain, Mr. Giuliani isn't dogged by questions about Iraq. To voters, his war history begins and ends with the war against the enemy that actually attacked America on 9/11.
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{{{ 29 in the polls...!!! And hopefully going down from there.... I take umbrage at that tired old saw about 'America being attacked by enemies on 9/11' - and I wish columnists (and Congress Critters!) would pay attention to the origins of some of the phrases they use and do a reality check - and not use the phrases put out by the propagandists in the administration. We were NOT "attacked" by "enemies!" There were criminal events of monumental proportions committed by criminals who were hijackers on 9/11, but no people representing any country or part of an army representing any country "attacked" us...!!! (And why did the towers fall straight down like a controlled implosion, and why did the third building implode when it wasn't even hit by a plane?) "America's enemies" who "attacked us because they hate our freedoms" is all war hype straight out of Georgie's and Dickie's script to try to keep people supporting their illegal and unconstitutional wars. We didn't have "enemies" before Georgie and Dickie and their script-writers invented "enemies" after 9/11, the singularly most fortunate day in the life of the wannabe dictator, Georgie W. Bushie.}}}
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20070304/cx_nq_uc/nq20070304
Non Sequitur
March 4th event at the Seattle Center was very good - The Constitution, Statue of Liberty & the Giant Backbone all visited with The People.
Wonderful piece, GV. How can we ratchet the message up and get your pieces OUT THERE??
Artistry in Motion: A MUST-SEE (and right up my alley!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_HKCzol748
YouTube has been a good place to start, certainly! Alot of people put YouTube videos on their MySpace pages. There is also a new Yahoo organization called ArtKos and I just joined it.
Thrash - what a wonderful idea - Physical Responses to the Bush Administration. I can't look at him & can barely ever listen on radio. I do have a visceral reaction. So now I think I am going to try to get ahold of a bunch of barf bags and decorate them and have other people do the same. I need to look into bulk purchase of barf bags & they certainly would fit into a suitcase, although the airlines might wonder why I wanted so many. Maybe I could UPS them ahead. The Barf Bag project - all it takes is a table and some markers. I can try it out here.
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I have been so confused about why Gates and Cheney and Rice all seem to be going in different directions, like they're not talking to each other.
On top of that, how do we know what's going on between Iran and Saudi Arabia now that they are meeting and discussing the middle east, man to man?!
I love the Troubletown cartoon for this week.
Frame one - Saddam and Khomeni are arm wrestling. Saddam says "I'll cut out your tongue and feed it to my dog." The Ayatollah says "Your severed head will make a fancy hood ornament."
Frame two - When the United States took Saddam out of the picture - cut to a grave that says Evil Saddam. Rafsanjani and Khomeini are cutting the rug and singing "Shia Brothers have you heard the news? Put away your troubles and fight Jews."
Frame three - Our right wing middle east brain trust never saw it coming. Then it shows some neocons trying to fit pegs into holes and they don't fit. One says, "Oh crap! Our war just accidentally turned over the world's oil supply to the Ayatollahs."
Frame four - On the ground: A crew-cut general is saying "Listen up, troops! Starting today - we arrest Iranians; shoot Saddamists; coddle Sunnis; torture Shiites; and cream Kurds - and NOT the other way around."
Frame five - Meanwhile in Northern Pakistan: Guy that looks like Bin Laden but aged some is saying "Al-Zawahiri, why don't we invite Hezbollah to train with us at one of our outstanding new Quaeda Facilities?"
Frame six - His henchman (who looks familiar) is saying: "Are you crazy, Osama? We can't invite Hezbollah! They're SHIITE -- We are SUNNI! It isn't done!"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070304/ap_on_bi_ge/brazil_us_ethanol
Bush seeks ethanol alliance with Brazil
Hmmmm.... trying to outsource ethanol production, too, eh? If this keeps up, we are going to be so outsourced there won't be any reason to live in our own country any longer because jobs just won't be available....
Finally saw V for Vendetta last nite...
Holy Shiite.
Posted by: not my president at March 4, 2007 01:31 PM
Not troubled enough. He's still pushing for a more troops into the Civil War. HE still started a war on lies and he still hasn't attended any funerals.
He's still holding his position above the mess even though his own family don't have the courage of convictions to join the military too.
It doesn't touch him. Not a bit. I'm sure he's the epitamy of evil that the Bible warns about and that our framers warned about too.
Now Fox didn't like the comparison some 'liberal 527' made comaparing Bush to Hitler, so he in turn opted to fund liars and reak a fraud against the people of the US. But I'd like to point out this. Maybe the Arabs in Guantanamo don't think the Hitler comparison is off base. Maybe the people in Iraq don't think so either. He's committed torture and death in our name. He's participated in eliminated all dissent. He's opted to lie and fire anyone who speaks the truth.
So my point is that this man and his administration and all the party supporters who allow him to continue should meet a serious fate here. Call for impeachment. Get the Hague. And if those fail, then I hope someone is ready to lead them to a really hot place in their afterlife.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=171489
Max Blumenthal chats up neocons.
Priceless.
ahh somebody beat me to the NYT editorial. And it's time to play hardball and get out the FAX machine. One copy will go to the White House and one copy to my two Senators (and maybe to Joe Lieberman and John McCain just for fun...)
The New York Times | The Must-Do List
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030407B.shtml
The New York Times writes: "The Bush administration's assault on some of the founding principles of American democracy marches onward despite the Democratic victory in the 2006 elections. The new Democratic majorities in Congress can block the sort of noxious measures that the Republican majority rubber-stamped. But preventing new assaults on civil liberties is not nearly enough."
{{{Long editorial, but perhap
here's more
Our list starts with three fundamental tasks:
Restore Habeas Corpus
One of the new act's most indecent provisions denies anyone Mr. Bush labels an "illegal enemy combatant" the ancient right to challenge his imprisonment in court. The arguments for doing this were specious......
Stop Illegal Spying
Mr. Bush's program of intercepting Americans' international calls and e-mail message.....
Ban Torture, Really
The provisions in the Military Commissions Act that Senator McCain trumpeted as a ban on torture are hardly that. It is still largely up to the president to decide what constitute......
Close the C.I.A. Prisons
When the Military Commissions Act passed, Mr. Bush triumphantly announced that he now had the power to keep the secret prisons open. He cast this as a great victory for national security. It was a defeat for America's image around the world. The prisons should be closed......
Account for 'Ghost Prisoners'
The United States has to come clean on all of the "ghost prisoners" it has in the secret camps. Holding prisoners without any accounting violates human rights norms. Human Rights Watch says it has identified nearly 40 men and women who have disappeared into secret American-run prisons.....
Ban Extraordinary Rendition
etc....
To address this mess, the government must:
Tighten the Definition of Combatant
"Illegal enemy combatant" is assigned a dangerously broad definition in the Military....
Screen Prisoners Fairly and Effectively
When the administration began taking prisoners in Afghanistan, it did not much bother to screen them. Hundreds of innocent men were sent to Gitmo, where far to.....
Ban Tainted Evidence
The Military Commissions Act and the regulations drawn up by the Pentagon to put it into action, are far too permissive on evidence obtained through....
We're celebrating the 20 year anniversary of buying our house & you guys are talking about some real serious stuff, but you are also right about what needs to be done.
This strikes me as pretty messed up. (Only I would check emai and the blog during a party). This kind of makes me think of the fake toppling of the Saddam statue. I can understand Sacha Baron Cohen doing something like this for a movie, but the US military?!! It's kind of like when Mexicans were used for Indians in western movies or when white people wore blackface. Not only extremely racist but fake, fake, fake and propaganda.
Kate Connolly in Berlin
The Guardian
They came with dreams of working on a movie set, or at the very least of earningsome respectable cash as a walk-on extra, encouraged by a mysterious advertisementprinted recently in a Berlin tabloid.
But the reality was different for dozens of Arab-speaking applicants at a supposedcasting session, only to be told they were wanted to play Iraqis and Afghans in aUS wargame planned for later this month.
For between £61 and £88 a day, 600 German-based Arab speakers are being offeredwork with the US military, pretending to be mayors, shopkeepers, terrorists or even brothel owners. The Americans call them COBs or Civilians on the Battlefield.
The idea is to set them in a landscape simulating Afghanistan or Iraq, in Bavaria.
At a recent recruitment session in Berlin run by the casting agency b.o.r.k.Dienstleistungen, many turned back at the door when asked: "Do you have anythingagainst working for Americans?" Der Spiegel magazine said only four out of dozens
decided to stay after hearing what the job entailed. One Moroccan man refusedto take part, saying: "I will not help the Americans hurt my brothers."
The US military admits recruiting was a challenge, but says it is confident it willget the numbers needed to enact the war game.
-snip-
Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2026512,00.html
GAO Head Says Fiscal Disaster Looms
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2613135
This is a long article from a stockbroker type from Oklahoma. The GAO is the Government Accounting Office, supposed to be a watchdog on government spending. In five pages, he essentially says we're going broke and no one wants to talk about it while running for office because no one knows what to do and it's not politically palatable.
It will be cool to get BBC on YouTube
http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003129.html
Posted by: not my president at March 4, 2007 10:40 PM
That's disgusting. Another war game?
And shame on Bavaria, Europe's equivalent to the Bible Belt, for allowing the US to do this.
Posted by: not my president at March 4, 2007 10:30 PM
Congrats! It's a nice house - especially the JK room.
Soldiers share troubling health care stories
‘It is not just Walter Reed,’ one vet says
By Anne Hull and Dana Priest
washingtonpost.com
Updated: 11:41 p.m. ET March 4, 2007
Ray Oliva went into the spare bedroom in his home in Kelseyville, Calif., to wrestle with his feelings. He didn't know a single soldier at Walter Reed, but he felt he knew them all. He worried about the wounded who were entering the world of military health care, which he knew all too well. His own VA hospital in Livermore was a mess. The gown he wore was torn. The wheelchairs were old and broken.
"It is just not Walter Reed," Oliva slowly tapped out on his keyboard at 4:23 in the afternoon on Friday. "The VA hospitals are not good either except for the staff who work so hard. It brings tears to my eyes when I see my brothers and sisters having to deal with these conditions. I am 70 years old, some say older than dirt but when I am with my brothers and sisters we become one and are made whole again."
Oliva is but one quaking voice in a vast outpouring of accounts filled with emotion and anger about the mistreatment of wounded outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Stories of neglect and substandard care have flooded in from soldiers, their family members, veterans, doctors and nurses working inside the system. They describe depressing living conditions for outpatients at other military bases around the country, from Fort Lewis in Washington state to Fort Dix in New Jersey. They tell stories -- their own versions, not verified -- of callous responses to combat stress and a system ill equipped to handle another generation of psychologically scarred vets.
more... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17458405/
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Our Fodder Who Art In Heaven...
The dying conservative movement, documented at firedoglake.com
http://www.firedoglake.com
See March 4, 2007: "Late nite FDL: What a Swell Party This Is."
Great youtube video link, by the Nation's Max Blumenthal.
I put nothing past these people, but I really do believe that the 2008 Dem presidential candidate is going to have a much easier time of it , in terms of the mood of the country, than did either Gore or Kerry, who both faced a somnolent (and, in 2004 also fearful) electorate.
Posted by: mbk at March 5, 2007 08:17 AM
Depends on the nominee (...and I ain't talkin' undergarments).