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*Manage Subscription: To change your e-mail address, select editions and formats, view recent archives, send comments or to unsubscribe, Link to -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/services.asp Kerry and Edwards are double trouble! To find out why, Link to -- http://Kerry-04.org/ Visit the Patriot Shop: Link to -- http://PatriotShop.us/ CONTENTS: THE FOUNDATION INSIGHT UPRIGHT EDITORIAL EXEGESIS DEZINFORMATSIA THE DEMO-GOGUES VILLAGE IDIOTS SHORT CUTS NIGHTLINES ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." --Thomas Jefferson ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "We do not admire a man of timid peace." --Theodore Roosevelt "The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty." --Immanuel Kant "Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression." --Rudolph Rummel "Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them." --Seneca "Courage is resistance to fear, master of fear -- not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave." --Mark Twain "The Jews and Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity." --Alexander Wiley ______----********O********----______ UPRIGHT "Senator Kerry talked of reducing terrorism to -- quote -- nuisance -- end quote; and compared it to prostitution and illegal gambling. I couldn't disagree more. Our goal is not to reduce terror to some acceptable level of nuisance. Our goal is to defeat terror by staying on the offensive, destroying terrorists and spreading freedom and liberty around the world." --President George W. Bush "When pro-Kerry commentators solemnly pronounce Debate Round 2 to have been 'a draw' -- you know George Bush won that round."--William Safire "Congratulations to the people of Afghanistan, who have just held the first free election in their history. As in Australia, the Afghan election was a defeat for al-Qa'ida -- in this case simply by virtue of taking place." --James Taranto "Whether you're talking about an assembly line worker or the chairman of the board, attendance records like Senators Edwards' and Kerry's would get anyone else fired. ... Based on their records, neither John Kerry nor John Edwards deserves a job promotion." --Linda Chavez "[I]s it too much to hope that campaign trail accusations bear some resemblance to the facts?" --Paul Jacob "I have been involved in the war on terrorism for two decades, and in my view no world leader has better understood the stakes in this global war than President Bush. Mr. Kerry is free to quote my comments about Iraq. But for the sake of honesty he should also point out that I have repeatedly said, including in all my speeches in recent weeks, that President Bush made a correct and courageous decision to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein's brutality, and that the president is correct to see the war in Iraq as a central front in the war on terrorism." --Paul Bremer ______----********O********----______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "A genuine democratic election in war-torn and historically undemocratic Afghanistan is monumental by any account. Early reports indicated some irregularities, but by yesterday morning, monitors from the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were defending the overall integrity of the election. Taliban insurgents promised attacks to disrupt the voting but were either thwarted by Coalition and Afghan security forces or had already been rendered incapable of doing much harm. Where once democracy was a distant idea, now it is a reality. The results won't be in for two to three weeks -- the ballots haven't even begun to be counted -- but in a country where electricity is scarce and ballot boxes travel by donkey, that's to be expected. President Bush said it all this weekend when he pointed out that in Afghanistan, 'Just three years ago, women were being executed in the sports stadium. Today they're voting for a leader of a free country.' Credit goes first to the voters of Afghanistan who braved the Taliban's repeated threats not to vote. Where before Afghans were subjects, now they are an electorate. Credit should also go to Afghan electoral officials and security forces, who administered an election for the first time and kept order despite continued lawlessness in much of the country. Credit also goes to the Coalition forces who routed the Taliban regime, and now guard a fragile and emerging democracy where an abusive theocracy once stood. And of course credit goes to Mr. Bush, whose determination in the weeks after the September 11th attacks to remove the Taliban made Afghan democracy a possibility in the first place." --The Washington Times _________________________________________________ Check out all the great new Patriotic items at our Patriot Shop. Link to -- http://patriotshop.us/catalog/index.php_________________________________________________ ______----********O********----______ DEZINFORMATSIA This week's "Circling the Wagons" Award: "[W]hatever people say about Dan [Rather], some of which seems to me to be unnecessarily cruel and ugly, in 40 years the evening news has never been driven by ideology. And boy, do I recognize ideology when I see it." --Peter Jennings ++ "I indeed am humbled by this, and by what it represents to CBS News, and to me, personally. Please know, too, that we are resolved to emerge from this trial as an even stronger news organization, so that we may continue to be worthy of your trust and confidence." --Dan Rather, accepting the "Overall Excellence Award" on behalf of CBS News from the Radio-Television News Directors Association >From the "See BS" Files: "[N]early 60 percent of the uncommitted voters we surveyed said they did not personally like [Dick Cheney]. When asked how they'd feel if Cheney became President, 24 percent said 'scared'." --CBS's Anthony Mason **Why was "scared" an option to begin with? "To say that I consider Bush a 'bad' president would be a severe understatement. I think he's bad in a way that redefines my understanding of the word 'bad.' I used to think U.S. history had many bad presidents. Now, my 'bad' category consists entirely of George W. Bush, with every previous president redefined as 'good'." --Jonathan Chait of the L.A. Times >From the "Queen Maureen" Files: "Of his decision to invade Iraq, [Bush] said: 'Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.' Or you stick to them even after you know they're wrong." --Maureen Dowd **Tell the liberated Iraqis it was wrong to liberate them. >From the Leftmedia Cheerleading Files: "Whether you agree with him or disagree with him, you now know where John Kerry stands on what has happened in Iraq." --CBS's Bob Schieffer **Correction: we know John Kerry's stands. This week's "Leftmedia Psychosis" Award: "The administration has also helped Israel to demonize and isolate Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat." --Helen Thomas **Arafat needs no help from anyone to be recognized as a demon; he can successfully self-advertise. ______----********O********----______ THE DEMO-GOGUES This week's "Non Compos Mentis" Award: "If kids and adults don't have access to preventative care, if they're not getting the health care that they need day after day after day, the possibility of not only developing AIDS and...other life-threatening diseases, is there every day of their lives." --John Edwards claiming that lack of health care, not irresponsible sexual behavior, causes AIDS This week's "Leftpinkie" Award: "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance. ... I mean, [September 11th] didn't change me much at all." --John Kerry, in an interview with The New York Times Magazine **Wow! That inspires confidence! >From "The Plan" Files: "The president continues to think he is running against some imaginary figure that his ad-makers created. It's time to come back to reality. He's running against John Kerry, who has a plan to get the country back on track." --Kerry campaign spokesman Phil Singer **Ah, yes, "the plan." This week's "Blow Hard" Award: "John Kerry stands for a safer, stronger, and fairer nation for all our people. The last thing America needs is four more years of the same failed course we're careening down today." --Ted Kennedy This week's "Ultimate Demagoguery" Award: "Christopher Reeve just passed away, and America just lost a great champion for this cause, somebody who was a powerful voice for the need to do stem cell research and change the lives of people like him, who have gone through a tragedy. Well, if we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." --John Edwards **It sure didn't take long to politicize Reeve's death! ______----********O********----______ VILLAGE IDIOTS This week's "Theophobic" Award: "Some politicians and Religious Right activists are eager to transform houses of worship into political machines. ... It is not the job of religious leaders to tell people which candidates to vote for or not vote for." --Americans United for Separation of Church and State ++ This week's "TheoLib" Award: "For every Goliath, God has a David. For every Calvary's cross, God has a Christ Jesus. To bring our country out of despair, discouragement, despondency and disgust, God has a John Kerry." --Pastor Gaston Smith, stumping for Kerry at the pulpit **Where's Americans for Separation of Church and State? Oh, that's right. It's only wrong for the "Religious Right"... >From the files of the Morally Depraved: "We live in a world where all the violence is inspired by religion. When I was a kid, I had to go to a Christian school. I thought God was about peace and love, so now it seems strange that being labeled the devil is a bad thing. The devil is often the more human character, the one you can relate to. After all, he was cast out of heaven for wanting to be an individual." --Marilyn Manson More from the files of the Morally Depraved: "[I]t is increasingly clear that the administration and right-wing members of Congress intend to funnel the bulk of the new HIV/AIDS money to religious organizations that have a very narrow, abstinence-based approach to HIV/AIDS prevention that excludes condoms." --Planned Parenthood **How dare they fund programs that work! This week's "Consummate Village Celeb" Award: "We don't feel at home unless we hear some boos, so you're welcome." --Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines responding to boos from the crowd This week's "Conspiracy Theory" Award: "Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did [it]." --Wangari Maathai, latest Noble Peace Prize recipient **Since Saddam Hussein is in prison, he was not eligible to receive the prize. ______----********O********----______ SHORT CUTS "With a straight face [Senator Kerry] said, 'I have only had one position on Iraq.' I could barely contain myself. He must think we've been on another planet." --President George W. Bush "Democrats are now on the record: 60 countries harbor al-Qa'ida. But apparently the one nation that had managed to entirely purge itself of all al-Qa'ida members was Iraq -- under the great statesman Saddam Hussein! Iraq is the only country in the world liberals believe was hermetically sealed from al-Qa'ida." --Ann Coulter "Give [John Kerry] a wand and slap a pair of wings on his back: [he] is running for fairy godmother! Our allies are opposed to the war? A swoosh of the Kerry wand and President Kerry will have the French and Germans rushing to our rescue in no time. Iraq needs a new army to defend itself? Zap bing -- the Kerry touch will make training an Iraqi army faster and easier. Al-Qa'ida and other terrorists are pouring over the border to join the fight? When Kerry is elected, the guerrilla insurgency will magically disappear. A summit? How brilliant! Why didn't President Bush think of that?" --Maggie Gallagher "The Columbus Day Parade was held [Monday] in New York. [Columbus] was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money." --Argus Hamilton ______----********O********----______ NIGHTLINES David Letterman.... "Top Questions Audience Members Were Not Allowed To Ask During Friday's Debate:" Who's a better one-term president -- you or your father?; Is it annoying being married to a woman who always smells like ketchup?; With oil at $50 a barrel, why aren't we looking into cheaper barrels?' Which best describes your economic policies: "Preposterous lies" or "Absolute crap"?; Senator Kerry, what impact do you think your large, canoe-shaped head will have on the economy?; What is your favorite episode of "Sanford and Son"?; Do you prefer flipping or flopping?; Which one of you is Dukakis?; Do you think John Edwards would be interested in dating a New Jersey Governor?; If either of you win, will you pardon Martha? Jay Leno.... Friday was the second presidential debate, which was a town hall format. That's where everyday Americans, not just reporters, get a chance to have their questions avoided. .... To relax President Bush spent the day fishing in the rain. Am I missing something -- are they afraid he was a little too prepared for the last debate? .... [Friday's] debate in St. Louis was before an audience made up entirely of undecided voters. That created a huge dilemma for Kerry. ...[S]tand on stage beside Bush or sit in the audience with all the other people who can't make up their minds? .... How stupid is this -- a Minneapolis company has come out with a credit card size shotgun that fits in your wallet. The inventor says he invented it to give people a sense of security. Oh yeah, what makes you feel more secure than sitting on shotgun? .... Elementary school students in Berkeley are receiving a class credit for "lunch". Since they learn about nutrition, lunch is now considered a class. 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