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The Washington Post poll shows rising approval of president Bush’s handling of Iraq and terrorism, but a widening lead for John Kerry – eight points if you remove Nader from the survey. Hmm. This graph is particularly striking. I’d say that’s not too good news for the president. On the other hand, the same poll … Continue reading POLLS, POLLS

Well, we’re getting closer to understanding what’s been going on. Here’s a nugget from Newsweek: White House officials told reporters that such abstract legal reasoning was insignificant and did not reflect the president’s orders. But NEWSWEEK has learned that Yoo’s August 2002 memo was prompted by CIA questions about what to do with a top … Continue reading TORTURE

“I think it is very interesting when you reread the history of the late Thirties and the Second World War, the degree to which there was a very big disagreement between people as to how to deal with the Nazi threat. Not disagreement that it was a threat, but how to deal with it. And … Continue reading QUOTE FOR THE DAY I

I was hoping to write this morning about Iraq but I’m too tired now after talking half the night chez Hitch. I’ll check in later today to explain why a) I’m more encouraged than I have been and b) why I’m now persuaded that that wedding party story was and is bullshit.

It’s very hard to know the facts about the carnage on the Iraq-Syria border, but whatever the occasion, it appears that the U.S. military was responsible for the deaths of several Iraqi women and children. It was almost certainly a mistake – either of target or of provocation. But it’s another blow to the prestige … Continue reading IT GETS WORSE

Much closer than Sid Blumenthal gives them credit for. THE LEFT VERSUS KERRY: This is the Kerry campaign’s dream: get the anti-war, anti-American left to start calling you worse than Bush on Iraq. Pity it’s in Australia. HITCH’S SECOND THOUGHTS: They amount to a wish that we had acted ten years sooner to get rid … Continue reading GWB AND JFK

It was a fascinating CNN interview, in which the vice-president pointedly didn’t renounce his previous beliefs about letting civil marriage be dealt with by the states. When asked if he supported the president’s decision to ban gays from equal rights in the constitution itself, Cheney didn’t say he supported the amendment. He said he supported … Continue reading CHENEY’S DISSENT

“The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which ‘the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one’s skin or color or race’ are … Continue reading QUOTE FOR THE DAY I

A new ABC poll shows clear public opposition to a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The margin is 58 percent opposed to 38 percent in favor. Some of the responses depend on the question asked. But under no wording does support for an amendment go much above 55 percent – nowhere near the level of … Continue reading MARRIAGE AND THE POLLS