CNN special on JK. Debate with Weld. "I know something about killing

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

people. I don't like it. It's just a personal belief that I happen to have." (or something like this)

SLAM! DUNK!

Definitely one to consider resurrecting on an Iraq War question in Debate 2004.

[The Spirit of JFK]

1. That was a turning point in that election.

Weld, the only Republican I ever voted for (for Gov. when he ran against John "obey me or I will drink your blood and enslave your children" Silber), was waaay ahead in that senate race. He was smart, funny, charming and very media friendly. Even the Democrat political machine on Beacon Hill had written Kerry off. At that time, Kerry came off as...well, Kerry ..pre-Iowa. But he reached back for that something extra and really gave it to Weld. The rest is history.

Or something like that...I've been drinking for because the Sox traded Nomar, and despite my posts about it in the Lounge, I AM very upset.

[xray s]

2. Bush knows something about killing people too and he finds it funny

http://www.commondreams.org/views/102500-101.htm

Bush's Death Factory
by Derrick Z. Jackson

GEORGE W. BUSH'S dogged denial of factory defects in the death machinery of Texas invites memories of Lyndon Johnson telling us how we were defoliating the North Vietnamese into target range. In the beginning, one could charitably concede that the two men were merely bullheaded souls, filled with false pride and false missions, trying to persuade us we needed to slaughter some criminals or a whole nation into submission.

Johnson's stubbornness became massacres and suicide battles abroad and dead students at home. Bush's pathological denials have exploded into a time line that makes it easy to depict him, in the political sense, as a serial killer, indiscriminately dispensing with the despised and chuckling over their bodies.


Bush, remember, has gloated about the death penalty in more than just the presidential debates. He is the same Bush who last year ridiculed death row inmate Karla Faye Tucker, whining in mock exaggeration in an interview that Tucker begged, ''Please don't kill me.'' Bush, who has made his Christianity part of his resume, mocked Tucker even though she said she had found Christ.

(snip)

In May, The Washington Post wrote how death penalty defendants receive lawyers who are chronically inexperienced, incompetent, and indifferent to the point of sleeping at trials. No matter. Bush said, ''I'm absolutely confident that everybody that has been put to death ... are guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had full access to our courts.''