Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog)

Not according to Omar at Iraq the Model. He provides a translation of a signed appeal (online petition) signed by 402 Iraqis, as well as his own commentary as a preface. It asks Kofi Annan to “call on the governments of the states neighbouring [sic] Iraq as well as the French government to rectify their negative positions vis-à-vis the Iraqi people and to join the international community in the bid to help Iraq and its people defeat terrorism, realize security and democracy and rebuild their country, thereby restoring peace and security to the Middle East region, key to security and stability in the world.”

It is harsh, but methinks the Iraqis are sick of the French attitude towards their liberation.

Scott Elliot, a.k.a. the Blogging Caesar, sees no nail biting after Tuesday’s vote, no Electoral College ties and subsequent decisions by the House of Representatives. There is no Bush v. Kerry on the horizon from his vantage.

The popular vote, he forecasts, will be: Bush 51.9%, Kerry 46.5%.

The Electoral Vote, by his reckoning, will be: Bush 356, Kerry 182.

He breaks it down State-by-State with margins of victory and explanations on his site.

My own opinion, for all that it is worth, is that this scenario is more likely than possible, but I’ll have more on that tomorrow.

I’ve put the new column by Judson Cox, Send a Message to bin Laden, Vote Bush!, live on the web site of the Rightsided Newsletter. You can view it on the RSN site: HERE.

Also, you can read Sunday’s Rightsided Newsletter, the review of the Sunday Morning talk shows, on the site: HERE. (You can also go on to subscribe, free.)

Oglala Sioux tribal Judge Marina Fast Horse signed an order preventing Republicans from observing the voting at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The U.S. attorney, James McMahon, said that Judge Fast Horse had no authority to issue the order and that anyone who tried to enforce it would be in violation of federal law.

It’s a funky story, with concomitant charges that Tom Daschle’s people were offering recruiters $10 per voter plus a free meal.

Remember, it has been alleged that Senator Tim Johnson defeated John Thune in 2002 by the margin of 500 dead South Dakota Sioux.

Not many people vote based on whom a newspaper endorses, but such exercises in editorial advocacy are an opportunity for a paper’s editorial staff to let the world know what they think. The Associated Press reports 11 endorsements made on Sunday.

Of those 11, JF Kerry managed four, with President Bush receiving the remaining seven. Of the eleven, the most notable is from the Providence Journal, Senator Linc Chafee’s hometown paper. Chafee, of course, is the Republican Senator who has said that he would not vote for the President.

Chris Heinz, the son of the late Senator John Heinz (R-Pennsylvania) and Mama T, is acting like a true son of his Mama. According to Philadelphia magazine, as covered in the New York Post:

Heinz accused Kerry’s opponents - ‘our enemies’ - of making the race dirty. ‘We didn’t start out with negative ads calling George Bush a cokehead,’ he said, before adding, ‘I’ll do it now.’ Asked later about it, Heinz said, ‘I have no evidence. He never sold me anything.’

And here were my first impressions of Chris from last July, in an almost teen mag sense.

(I got the Post link off Drudge.)

My weekly review of the Sunday Morning talk shows for the Rightsided Newsletter has been sent to the sundry global Inboxes and is now on the web for you to read.

At the RSN web site: HERE.

The pre-election stuff comes fast and furious.

ABC’s This Week this morning was a campaign commercial, and won which I’ve heard too many times already. ABC anchor Peter Jennings interviewed JF Kerry about the OBL vid. Now, I am not a violent man, but the desire to slap weighed heavy on my psyche. (If he is somehow elected, I will somehow have to temper this or they’ll slap cuffs on me for saying it.)

Jennings opened by claiming that Republicans insist that the OBL vid will work in the President’s favor this election. (I suppose some do, but none whom I’ve heard.)

Kerry responded: “I’m outraged.” He does not think bin Laden should be a political issue.

Jennings informed him that it was his surrogates who started it, and Kerry said that he had told them not to do so.

Jennings told JF that voters favored the President by a wide margin on the issue of who could best defend the country against terrorism. Kerry rejected the polls and said he had seen different ones which favored him. (What are his people feeding him?)

Kerry said he would “fight a far more effective war against terrorism” than the President. The President “rushed us into war,” he alleged. He followed with all the stuff from his campaign speeches and was certain to claim that he would not give contracts to Halliburton.

At that point, the show went off. To whom would he give these contracts? I’d like for him to list some other firms which do the work Halliburton does for their price and with their skill.

Never mind that. Kerry is hurting on the issue of terrorism, and the OBL vid has served to bring that issue further to the fore. The Kerry campaign needed a national forum in which for their candidate to blast the President and inflate his own credentials, and ABC obliged.

Here’s John Edwards making his case:

“I saw that there’s a new Osama bin Laden tape. Let me be very clear about something. Democrats, Republicans, independents, all Americans, we’re united and we have a clear message for Osama bin Laden.

“We’re going to find you, we’re going to hunt you down, and we will hold you responsible for what happened on Sept. 11,” said Mr. Edwards, who spoke at the Ohio National Guard Armory where the Northwest Territory Militia was formed in 1788.

That sounds good to voters bent on raw revenge, but holding Osama bin Laden responsible for anything will make us no safer and will most certainly not act as a deterrent to other, likeminded mutants. They believe that what they are doing is just and right.

President Bush is changing the conditions in which terrorism breeds, while Kerry/Edwards is talking about running around, finding mutants, and killing them. In time for the next batch?

If they are elected and they govern as they’ve promised, we are in serious danger.

Good morning!

Michael Mina, Interim President of the Ohio Republican Assembly, is back with another of his monthly columns: Liberty vrs. Liberals.

Check it out on the RSN site: HERE.

We’ve a new column by Barbara J. Stock already, Osama Speaks, as she was moved to speak out.

No, things have not gone well for Bin Laden. Things have not gone well for one reason: George W. Bush.

Read her column at the RSN site: HERE.

I shall watch them tomorrow, copy down what I see, and analyze them. I’ve been doing that for the Rightsided Newsletter for a frighteningly long time. Yes, but tomorrow is only my second Pre-Election Sunday RSN.

Here’s what we’ll have:

Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert will talk toRudy Giuliani, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey (Dem) – and Charlie Cook, Peter Hart, and Bill McInturff.

FOX News Sunday: Host Chris Wallace chats with Governors Mike Huckabee (R-Arkansas) and Eddy Rendell (D-Pennsylvania). Then Karen Hughes will meet Bob Shrum.

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer meets with Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) and his idol, Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware). As always when these two appear together on a Sunday morning, McCain will say a few negative things about the President and Biden will dismiss Kerry as an empty intellect.

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to Bill Frist, Nancy Pelosi, Ed Gillespie, and Terence McAuliffe.

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolfgang Blitzer has Representative Peter King (R-New York); Al Sharpton; White House Chief of Staff Andy Card with former chiefs Ken Duberstein, Leon Panetta, and John Podesta; Dick Holbrooke; former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman (R); former Gore attorney Larry Tribe and former Bush attorney Barry Richard.

I will review and analyze the shows for Sunday’s Rightsided Newsletter, to which you can subscribe for free by visiting the web site at http://rightsided.tripod.com, or by sending a blank e-mail to rsn-subscribe [AT] topica.com.

It will arrive if your inbox shortly after it is completed early Sunday afternoon.
It’s a good read, whether you missed the shows or not.

BC04 had been using the old Hall & Oates track Still the One as a campaign theme, but co-songwriter Darryl Hall had a snit.

CNN.com sez:

“I’m not just some guy that’s stoned out and happened to write a song, and even if I were, it would still be a problem, because you should always ask permission to use the work,” Hall said.

Yeah, man, like, you know.

Hall’s 56. CNN.com referred to Darryl as “John Hall.” Oates was John.

But they were pretty hot for a while, pumping out workable pop tunes. Hall wrote Still the One, ironically, for a wife he divorced.

Man, like, you know.
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I’m not sure what had come over me when I wrote the above. The song was Still the One. CNN accurately reported that it was written by John Hall of the band Orleans. I saw “Hall” and thought Hall & Oates.

The David Kilmer who points out my error in the comments on this post is my brother, who will be a non-stereotypical A.B.B. voter.

Word from Paris is that PLO chairman Yasser Arafat does not have leukemia. They won’t say what is wrong with the mutant, though.

Perhaps the baby killing has caught up with him after all these years of murderous cavorting.

There was to be an anti-Kerry rally on the Capitol Steps Sunday at 2p, at which there was to be an announcement concerning JF Kerry’s alleged initial Dishonorable Discharge from the Navy. He supposedly received the boot dishonorably for meeting with the Viet Cong in Paris. However, on The Pajamahadeen blog comes word that the rally “has been called off by a ‘higher authority.’” Here is the announcement from SwiftVets.com, written by the same “Navy Chief” whom I reported yesterday as having said: “Yes, Kerry did receive an Other Than Honorable Discharge.” This message was then removed by this NavyChief from the SwiftVets board.

They are discussing their options on the SwiftVets bb.

If there is clear and convincing proof – undisputable – that Kerry was tossed out dishonorably we’ll see it. If there are any holes, they’ve be best keeping quiet. If the rally was called off by BC04, we have coordination.

Shouldn’t 60 Minutes be all over this story? It’s a much bigger story than whether or not some guard commanders were soft on a lieutenant.
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As I was going to the place to post this, I noted a headline with had a Newsweek poll, post-OBL vid, leading JF by 6 points. Polls is polls.

With a tip of the hat to Taegan Goddard, one year ago today (October 29, 2000), Governor George Bush led Vice President Al Gore by seven points in the Gallup Poll: 49-percent to 42-percent.

Of course, the polls last time do not apply to election. The last election was not entirely an election on Bill Clinton, as Gore wisely ran away from him. In this election, it is a referendum of two versions of President Bush, the President and the media-generated image of the man.

Dr. Rusty Shackleford at The Jawa Report draws a stinging indictment of the Arab press in general and Al Jazeera in particular for spreading the story which instigates mutants.

I concur, of course.

The new Reuters/Zogby 3-day tracking poll does not show a clear surge of momentum for JF Kerry, but he has snagged a 1-point lead, 47 to 46-percent amongst likely voters. They were tied at 47 yesterday.

The poll showed Kerry leading the newly registered voters, 48-41, a figure I find interesting because a lot of the “conventional wisdom” holding that almost all new voters had been registered in an Anybody But Bush frenzy.

Good morning.

Jason Smith at Blogs for Bush tells of some staff at the Labor Department have run some models which show the President winning by more than the polls indicate.

The report says Bush’s win of the popular vote could be 57.5 percent, 55.7 percent or 51.2 percent.

Hey, it’s a decent thought. Kerry reached his maximum threshold of support weeks ago, and the only real swing left is toward the President.

Kerry says he’s going to track down and kill Osama bin Laden “and all the terrorists.” Bin Laden is yesterday’s news. The man we saw in the vid this afternoon acted more like a professor than a chief jihadist. He has been castrated.

How will he find the time and moneyto socialize health care if he’s going to put a serious effort capturing and killing “all the terrorists” one-by-one. As new mutants are produced, and we go on the Kerry-go-round?

He won’t.

Osama, “Rivers of Blood” guy…

A former Navy Secretary: “Yes, Kerry did receive an Other Than Honorable Discharge”.

This was posted at SwiftVets.com, but it has since become: “Content removed at the request of the author.”

This is probably just Internet chatter, but if there is proof and someone knows, we may learn about it, probably, on Sunday or Monday.

Osama bin Laden is evidently not dead, what with a new Al Jazeera vid in which he talks about relatively recent events.

No one is using this politically, but OBL backs one of Kerry’s points: Bush is stupid and slow to repair. The 9-11 attacks, he said on the vid, would have been less severe had President Bush been more alert.

Oh, the White House will respond. BC04 will not.

At about lunchtime, the Pentagon held a press conference indicating that they had removed some 200 pounds of munitions from the al-Qaqaa weapons facility in Iraq on April 13, 2003. They weren’t sure whether any of the IAEA reported explosives were removed.

Meanwhile, KTSP-TV in Minneapolis has found vid shot on April 18 of that year – one barrel labeled “al-Qaqass” – showing sealed buckets of explosives.

This allows Kerry to keep blasting away, and it would be a good thing if he does. He’s hyperbolized an inconclusive situation, which the President could use to speak to Kerry’s fitness to be President.

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I’m still doing the thaang with the new machine. Now, it’s down to the old one refusing to recognize a USB cable through the XP safety garbage.

In a rare event, Christopher G. Adamo is back with his second column in as many days for the Rightsided Newsletter web site. You can read his Time to Follow Kerry’s Lead? on the RSN site: HERE.

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I might be gone for a space whilst I hook up the new machine and do all that stuff. A few hours.

The new column by Justin Darr, Laziness is not Disenfranchisement, is now live on the Rightsided Newsletter web site; you can read it: HERE.

The new column by Barbara J. Stock, The Death of the Democratic Party, is now live on the web site of the Rightsided Newsletter,.

You can read her column: HERE.

Hey, good morning!

I was AFTK this evening, as my wife dragged me to a rock concert. I hadn’t been to one of those since Genesis did their Invisible Touch tour. (I saw that show in Pittsburgh’s old Three Rivers Stadium, which has since burned down, fell over, and sunk into the swamp.)

Tonight’s fare was a band my wife has liked for some time, a Christian Alternative band called Jars of Clay. It was a great show, and I needed a few hours away from 3-day trackings and Uncle Eddy Rendell telling us that Pennsylvania’s overseas soldiers can vote on the Internet. (They can’t, and I’ll have more on this tomorrow.)

I’m prepared for the post-Bush victory riots, when the ABB crowd ravages the countryside in a manner reminiscent of Genghis Kahn.

According to the Zog-man, it’s all tied in 9 States: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. That’s almost half (126) of the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. And as Charlie Cook wrote Tuesday: “Anybody lucky enough to pick the precise outcome of the last half-dozen or so states in this election shouldn’t be wasting their time on politics — they should be playing the Powerball lottery.”

The next drawing is Saturday, if you’re up for it.

Thursday’s says Bush by two, 48-46. “Statistical dead heat,” yes, “within the margin.”

Says Zogby: “It’s close, it’s close, it’s close.”

They’re tied against Catholics, Zogby adds. This makes sense. JF is the second Roman Catholic to make it this far, and he is the first specifically anti-Catholic Catholic candidate to be a major Party nominee.

Tom Daschle asked the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) to run commercials for him in South Dakota despite having previously asked them to stay away and pledging to the people of South Dakota that he would not accept outside help.

DSCC spokesperson Brad Woodhouse explained that Daschle opponent “John Thune changed the rules of the game when he started attacking Tom Daschle’s wife.” (Daschle’s wife Linda is a paid lobbyist for the airline industry.)

The truth is, Tom Daschle is in the middle of a difficult campaign against Thune in a Republican State fiercely loyal to a Republican President in an extremely contentious Presidential election. He wants millions of South Dakota Republicans who vote for the President to stop, switch sides, and decide to vote for the man who is often seen as the President’s most effective opponent.

His mistake was not understanding that he would need all the help he could find.

The new column by Isaiah Z. Sterrett, Bush wins Election—If Kerry Doesn’t Cheat, is now live on the web site of the Rightsided Newsletter. You can read his column on the RSN site: HERE.

That’s what Jim Geraghty of NRO’s “The Kerry Spot” took from an interview with a “longtime GOP operative.”

The thesis is that Truman was not fighting to win the Korean War in 1952, so the American people let him know to opt out of the race. They elected General Eisenhower. In ‘72, they selected President Nixon over the peacenik candidate, George McGovern. He saw 1984 as a race between President Reagan the cold warrior and Fritz the co-existing Mondale.

This year, the guru said, the race is between commander in chief President Bush and international crime-fighter JK Kerry.

“Remember Reagan’s farewell letter. He never lost faith in the American people.”

Unfortunately, if the press is to be believed, it might be time to lose faith in half of them. The powers of division seized Bill Clinton and used him to push it to the max.

This is an unconventional election, and relying on conventional models is inappropriate; however, the American people did put aside politics for a moment when we were attacked on 9-11, suggested that there is a core Americanism which transcends the day-in-hand. Perhaps that’s what Geraghty’s “Obi Wan” was observing.

Boston Red Sox Ace Curt Schilling speaking this morning to host Charlie Gibson on ABC’s Good Morning America:

“And make sure you tell everybody to vote, and vote Bush next week.”

I hope someone asks Joe Lockhart to comment.

The new column by Christopher G. Adamo, Fallout from a Kerry Presidency, is now live on the web site of the Rightsided Newsletter, and you can read it on the RSN site: HERE.

Good morning.

Matt Drudge has ABC News sitting on a tape from terrorists warning us that our streets are going to be filled with blood and we’ll be too busy working on the body count to mourn.

Further claims: America has brought this on itself for electing George Bush who has made war on Islam by destroying the Taliban and making war on Al Qaeda.

It is unclear if the terrorists made this tape for the eventuality that the President is reelected next Tuesday, or if this was a general threat and they would kill us all for having elected him even if Kerry were to have won. (It is said to have been made in the past few months.)

ABC is trying to authenticate the tape, Drudge reports, and the CIA is analyzing it. ABC says the fact that they’re sitting on the tape has nothing to do with the upcoming election.

Visit the linked Drudge for more details. And more info as he gets it, I assume.

According to their e-mail listing ten, these are the three “Most Read Articles on NYTimes.com over the last two weeks”:

1. Without a Doubt
By RON SUSKIND, Published Oct. 17

2. Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq
By JAMES GLANZ, WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER, Published Oct. 25

3. Editorial: John Kerry for President
Published Oct. 17

All three pieces are anti-Bush articles with documentable mistruths. They failed the global test.

The new column by Bob Redman, Kerry’s Lies Don’t Matter, is now live on the web site of the Rightsided Newsletter. The title does have a proviso: “To the 45 and more millions of people who are going to vote for him on Tuesday.”

Read his column on the RSN site: HERE.

The new Quinnipiac University poll for the battleground State of New Jersey (15 ev) shows the President and JF Kerry tied with 46-percent of the vote. (Last week, JF led 49-45.)

Polls is polls, and State polls are problematic. But I’m writing of the battleground State of New Jersey. Al Gore won the State by 16-percent in 2000.

The new column by Doug Hagin, “Election Day–VOTE!”, is now live on the web site of the Rightsided Newsletter.

You can check it out on the RSN site: HERE.

Iranian reporter Borzou Daragahi has sold a piece to the Washington Times which purports to give the Iraqis take on Tuesday’s election. For the Times, he writes about the Iraqi resistance’s Anti-Bush sentiment and their attacks calculated to influence the direction of our election. An Iraqi professor , Mohammad Amin Bashar, even has so pro-Kerry words, saying that the Dem will bring in the U.N. and make everything alright.

Iranian reporter Borzou Daraghi has sold a piece to the San Francisco Chronicle which uses material from his Times story and some new material to make the point that opinion in Iraq about the U.S. election is mixed, and some foreigners in the Iraqi resistance would like for Bush to win for recruiting purposes.

Iranian reporter Borzou Daraghi has a web site: Borzou.com. These two stories show us that one can distort something either which way with a little nuance.

That’s what JF Kerry says. The world’s at danger, incompetence, silence, alien beings to land on Earth any day now.

The New York Times story has been duly refuted, shown to be a false campaign commercial, a lie on behalf of a crawling candidacy. But as Kerry pulls whatever he can from his nethermost cavity, his chief foreign policy advisor, Dick Holbrooke, says he doesn’t know.

Bill Kristol writes:

[T]he Kerry campaign admits that the information that is the basis of Senator Kerry’s statements and his campaign advertisement may not even be true. Pressed on Tuesday afternoon about the accuracy of the allegations on Fox’s Big Story with John Gibson, Richard Holbrooke, a senior adviser to the Kerry campaign, said: “You don’t know the truth and I don’t know the truth.” He later underscored this point: “I don’t know the truth.”

But JF talks as if he does, as if the President’s incompetence is killing U.S. soldiers.

What of it? It speaks miles about the state of the race in the minds of the two candidates. Kerry’s campaigning on what he knows to be a lie, while President Bush going positive with a new ad: Whatever it Takes.