Here’s two seperate posts that look back on some of the not so bright spots of the past year:
Jeff Jacoby’s annual Globe piece: More liberal hate speech
and Steve has compiled a list of The (Third Annual) 35 Most Shameful Events of 2004
That’s what two letters in today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer suggest. Under the subheading: Give up the fantasy of a John Kerry presidency
[both letters are on the same webpage]
Good quotes from the two letters:
My wish for the new year is for all of these people who refuse to “give up the ghost” to find something to do with their lives and give up their wishful thinking. Funny thing is, so many of these people are college professors and attorneys – but they’re acting like morons now.
Despite what they say about “just making sure that the process is legitimate” and “not looking to change the outcome,” that is ex actly what they are trying to do. Otherwise, they would be searching equally hard in the states of New Hampshire (1 percent), Pennsylvania (2 percent), Michigan (3 percent), Wisconsin (1 percent), Minnesota (2 percent) and Oregon (3 percent) for voting irregularities. All of those states went to John Kerry by margins close to, or even less than, the 2 percent margin of victory that George W. Bush received in Ohio. This includes Wisconsin, which went to Kerry by fewer than 12,000 votes. Where is Jesse Jackson on that squeaker of a result?
So Jesse Jackson–where are you?
I came across this article from another blog, and I’m really not sure what to make of it. Part of it just sounds to conspiracy theory-esque for me.
Coming Up For Air
Kerry Preparing Grounds to Unconcede
Election Challenge likely on Jan 6th
I wouldn’t hold my breath wating…
As Republican officials stonewall subpoenas and subvert the recount process, Rev. Jesse Jackson has pronounced Ohio’s vote fraud fiasco “the biggest deal since Selma” –The Free Press
No, not a video game, nor is it a robot that does all sorts of things….the hot item this time of year in Ohio seems to be: Cuyahoga County voting records!?!?!
Elections board’s hot-selling records
Everybody wants a piece of Cuyahoga County’s presidential election.
High school students and college professors. Civil rights lawyers and self-appointed election activists. Politicians and Average Joes. Reporters from community newspapers to the Los Angeles Times.
Since Nov. 2, hundreds of requests to review, copy, inspect and even manipulate records related to the election have flooded the board’s offices. Many of the requests are testing Ohio’s open records law, the patience of elections officials and the will of the people submitting them.On the simple end, two high school students in Atlanta, working on a class project, asked in an e-mail for a breakdown by precinct of the number of voting machines distributed on Election Day.
Initiating a more complex search, a Toledo law firm sent a six-page request, seeking everything from samples of punch cards used in each precinct to a list of all people with access to counting machines.
Most of the people behind the requests are trying to examine mistakes made by election officials, intentional or not.
But some requests are off-target, such as those seeking information about electronic voting machines; Cuyahoga County uses paper-ballot machines.
A few requests have been so comprehensive or broad that, if interpreted liberally, would require officials to turn over thousands of papers with little relevance to the election…..
“I can’t for the life of me understand why Kerry isn’t fighting harder for this. Maybe it’s some secret Skull and Bones tradition, where you’re not supposed to show up the other guy,” Arnebeck said, referring to the Yale secret society of which Bush and Kerry were both members.–For Some, the Race Remains Far From Over
Besides the fact that these people need to come to grips with the election results already…
I’m suprised we didn’t hear more about the whole “Skull and Bones” thing this election. Even the Daily Show with John Stewart let us down! At least the people at WhiteHouse.org ed this.
Memo to Keith Olberman and the DU crowd: Let the Ohio election results stand!
Conspiracy theories on Ohio vote refuse to die
The newspapers in Ohio have even publlished this handy chart debunking each of your theories individually.
And please don’t waste our time or tax money with these assinine lawsuits that you’re planning.
It’s been over a month….can’t you just , oh say, move on already?
So as I was saying this week’s Justice has two pieces from noted campus liberal figures. One is a mainsteam Democrat, and one is a letter from a further left individual, whose actions have previously been chronicled on this blog!
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Here’s a shocker from the Justice:
Some bash fliers as controversial
Leaders of the Brandeis Republicans have expressed dismay with many of their campus fliers advertising President George W. Bush’s victory either being vandalized or removed.
And obviously this offended people in the community…
Does this suprise anyone? I mean really now…..
But in the interest of being fair and objective, supposively (rumors have it that) one of the recent republican flyers had quotes from Ann Coulter on it. *Throw in the penalty flag* You’ve gotta remember guys that most people don’t recognize Coulter’s firebrand, overthetop style of writing, so you’re bound to anger ‘em.
If you’re one fo the few still sticking to that meme that the election was decided over “moral values”….perhaps it’s time to adopt a new meme
Kerry Says UBL Tape Cost Him Election
Well, perhaps, but I think most people had already made up their minds before the tape came out.
Many pundits and talking heads, and don’t forget the blogsphere, believed that if the election came down to the issue of national security–that things would break in the Presidents favor….so perhaps this is partially true?
Then again, since this is Kerry speaking to Gerraldo…the quotes need taken with grains of salt.
This piece from the WSJ today presents a rather rational theory about how Bush overcame Ohio’s poor economy (you suck Gov. Taft!) over the past four years and won the state.
Perhaps people who write for the Justice should take this into consideration.
I’m inclined to agree with most of the WSJ piece. Plus Kerry also shot himself in the foot in many parts of Ohio. Start with the “Duck Hunt” photo-op, and his appearance as a wealthy city dweller doesn’t go over well with rural voters.
Oh no! They’re unleashing the lawyers!
Democrats take up fight over ballots
Cincinnati – Seeming to brush aside John Kerry’s concession speech, the Ohio Democratic Party has launched a federal court fight over nearly 155,000 provisional ballots by contending a proper accounting of those votes might decide who really won.
Okay, the Ohio Democrats are really disorganized…that’s a given, but they should listen to some of the professors in this case:
“But there’s no way the math is going to change,” Takaji said. “The margin might shrink as the provisionals are counted, but if you look seriously at the numbers, the outcome won’t change.”
Gene Beaupre, a political scientist at Xavier University in Cincinnati, saw the suit as an effort by Democratic officials to assuage party loyalists who feel Kerry quit without a fight in Ohio.
“There’s certainly a feeling out there that people were let down by the leadership,” Beaupre said. “All you have to do is look on the Internet, and that sense of disappointment is a political reality among a lot of people who are Internet users.”
Please just let it go people! Otherwise I’m gonna have to break out my whack-a-lawyer bat again…
There’s another piece in this week’s Justice that I’m not going to tackle right now, but it tries to explain to the “liberals and progressives” [sic] about why Ohio voted for President Bush in the election, in spite of Ohio’s economy (it’s been in the tubes) and other things.
In short, this person latches onto the “moral values” meme, and then basically calls all Ohio republicans anti-homosexual bigots who also oppose abortion. (Unlike the more progressive population of Mass–his words). He also thinks that Issue 1 (Same sex marriage ammendment) was put on the ballot as a ploy by the BC ’04 team.
To give you a preview of my response–the author obviously forgets that the Gov (R) and the State’s two Senators (both Rs) opposed the ammendment, as did a large segment of the buisness community.
Campaign a bonanza to businesses
Columbus-Relieved that the campaign is finally over? No way.
“We could [use] a few more visits,” said Bill Reynolds, president of Rent-a-John, a bipartisan supplier of portable toilets to several Kerry-Edwards and Bush-Cheney events the past six months. “If somebody calls for a restroom, we respond to whoever you are.”
I’m starting to think that the NY Times is just trying to egg on blogs, in order to build them up and then slam them as a way to get revenge for everything the blogs have (rightfully) done against the NYT.
With that in mind, comes this Opinion piece from the times, which all but feeds the moonbats conspiracy theories: The New York Times > Opinion > Making Votes Count: About Those Election Results
And a comment on one point the NYT makes:
The wild rumors about Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where the official results appeared to include an extra 90,000 votes, were a result of its bizarrely complicated method of posting election results, which is different in even- and odd-numbered years
It’s ashame that the bid to reform the county gov’t was shot down this past year….that would’ve been the first step in cleaning up the many messes.
and another thing for the times:
Besides election equipment that is easy to check for error, the strongest defense against conspiracy theorists is election officials who act with openness and integrity. Here, too, the current system is at fault. Ohio and Florida, two of the key states in the election, have highly partisan secretaries of state who favored the Republicans all year in their rulings.
Um, and that’s why Sec. of State Blackwell (R-OH), kept Nader off the Ballot and has also been publically butting heads with the state’s repoublican governor (and some in the state GOP)? Better check your sources….
In light of the recent bunch of post-mortems being written about the Kerry campaign this past week (e.g. see Ryan Lizza’s piece in TNR)
I came across this post at INDC Journal about buttons that were being distributed with Kerry’s name transliterated into Hebrew.
Small problem. the way Kerry’s name is transliterated (and make that Kerry’s name as a homonym) is the same as a Hebew word, that well, let’s just say it’s a word with a negative connotation in more way than one.
And yes, it is also a word which will deliver a chuckle. But you’ve gotta go read the post at INDC Journal to find out what it means!
(and yes-the translation there is correct)
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I would expect to hear stories like this coming out of NYC, SF, Boston….but South Florida?
From the one and only Professor Jerry Cohen:
Cohen said he believes the major problem goes beyond John Kerry’s image, but extends to the image of liberals on the whole.
Cohen told a story about Democrats who have threatened to throw themselves under Bush’s car when it makes its way to his inauguration in January. “These are not political people,” Cohen said. “They are exhibitionist narcissists who win votes for Bush. These people are religious fundamentalists about the Democratic Party. Come on Democrats, be Democrats, not depressives,” Cohen implored.–The Justice
Oh…time to take a peak back to the alma matter, and see what the reaction to the Election was inside the Brandeis Bubble….
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