President Carter's Speech to the DNC

At stake is nothing less than our nation’s soul. In a few months, I will, God willing, enter my 81st year of my life, and in many ways the last few months have been some of the most disturbing of all. But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

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Politics and tongues

For bloggers, it hasn?t been a bad few days. Elections always provide good grist. We?ve gone from Dick Cheney?s potty mouth to the first daughter giving reporters some tongue from the back of a Presidential limousine.

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Intelligence Report Whitewash

Can the CIA be that bad? In an effort to cover for the Bush Administration’s misuse of and lies about intelligence reports about Iraq’s WMD, the Senate Committee report on the Iraqi Intelligence SNAFU’s places all the blame on the CIA. I think its misplaced.

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Extreme (but good) Outsourcing

Congress today announced that the Office of President of the United States will be outsourced to overseas interests as of June 30th,the end of this fiscal year. The move is being made to save $400K a year in salary, a record $521 billion in deficit expenditures and related overhead.

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