systematically gaming the system

* karzai spent thurs doing sitdown interviews for cnn and beeb (at least)

* nice to see the oil4food getting a new burst. btw - there are no wmd.

* "44 million Americans watched last night's debate between Cheney and Edwards. That's--huge. How huge? The debate between Cheney and No-Joementum Lieberman in 2000 drew 29 million viewers" http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2004/10/rumbles.php

* its not even safe *inside* the safehouse, oops, i mean greenzone.
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2004_10_03_dish_archive.html#109707526207947119

* if kerry wins, he should first move to ensure that we never again see the likes of the cadmin. praps he could reinstitute the constitution.

* "AT&T announces another 7400 layoffs. Added to this morning's announcement from BoA, that's 11,900 jobs eliminated at only two companies in a single day." http://americablog.blogspot.com/archives/2004_10_03_americablog_archive.html#109718504781556126. yesterday BoA cuts workforce 4500. i cant wait to see that pre-debate jobs report 2morrow... fiction. faction.

* " Cheney asserted on Thursday that a finding by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq that Saddam Hussein)'s government produced no weapons of mass destruction after 1991 justifies rather than undermines President Bush's decision to go to war." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=9&u=/ap/cheney

* ""Kerry's edge on the economy is gone," pollster John Zogby said. "Among those who cite the economy as the top issue, the candidates are in a dead heat -- Bush holding a slight edge" at 46-44 percent." remember: bush on terrorism, kerry on the economy. extremely close race.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=1&u=/nm/20041007/pl_nm/campaign_poll_dc

* btw - that latest boeing story didnt get hardly any attention...

* "This week marks the first time that the Bush administration has listed abuses in the oil-for-fuel program as an Iraq war rationale." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20041007/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_weapons

* ""Look, the decision's been made that the president just isn't going to get into an introspective mode of 'we could have done this better,' " said one administration official who sat in on many of the campaign's strategy meetings. Such concessions, the official said, would "play right into" Mr. Kerry's argument. There was a time for Mr. Bush to make such concessions, the official said, but "that moment passed months ago." To do so now, the official argued, would both undercut the campaign and the 138,000 American troops in Iraq." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/politics/campaign/07bush.html?hp=&oref=login&pagewanted=all&position=

* who is more likely to bomb 'the journalists' hotel in bahgdad - insurgents or...?

* they spent $1bn looking for those silly wmd (if u dont count the cost of the war). who can remember waybackwhen when yep, judymiller was embedded with metalpha and actually directing the hunt???

* parently 'up to 18%' of ozvoters are undecided. (and we have compulsory voting remember)

* " it appears that Hussein underestimated how seriously the United States took the weapons issue, and he believed it was vital to his own survival that the outside world — especially Iran — think he still had them. It was a strategy, Hussein has told his FBI interrogators during the last 10 months, that was aimed primarily at bluffing Iraq's neighbor to the east." its amazing how little news we get outta 10months of interrogating saddam. not a leak. not a pr release.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=721&e=1&u=/latimests/20041007/ts_latimes/onlyhusseinhadfullpicture

* apropos my democracy simulacra point yesterday: "Time Warner’s Cable News Network abruptly yanked a poll from the front page of their website Tuesday which was favoring Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards by more than a three-to-one margin... Some 200,000 previous responses to the poll were deleted when the new poll was posted... Fox News also pulled a poll from their front page asking who won the debate late Tuesday. " http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=327

* cnns 'insight' is doing 30min on ozelection.

* "Indeed, the only thing more dangerous than electing John Kerry president of the United States would be to re-elect George W Bush." http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FJ07Ak01.html




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