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BUSH'S BRAIN -- AN EMPTY CHAIR

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Answer the DAMN QUESTION McSAME. . . knowing what you know now was it right for the U.S. to go to war with Iraq?

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Why with 85% of the country saying that we are on the wrong track is the presidential race so close? The dirty little secrete that they won't talk about on TV is that I think there is a silent (quite) race thing going on.

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I'm not sure what I think of these "so called" Clinton supporters that say they won't vote for Barack. I'm thinking that some of these folks are really republican "dirty tricks operatives".

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THINK ABOUT THIS: Presumptive first lady nominee Cindy McCain responded to a reporter's question today about how many half-sisters she had by saying that she was "unsure" about the exact number but would have "a staff member look into it."

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TODAYS BIG NUMBER: 266 (I'm thinking my new electronic scale is not working right. It seems that it only works one way . . . UP)

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BARACK IN SPRINGFIELD

Here is the full speach that Barack gave on Saturday as he made his first appearance with Joe Biden his VP pick.

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BIDEN IN SPRINGFIELD

Here is the full speach that Biden gave on Saturday as he made his first appearance with Barack Obama after his selection for VP.

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WILL CAPITALISM BRING DEMOCRACY TO CHINA?

Conversing with Bill Moyers on this week's JOURNAL, journalist Philip Pan discussed the situation on the ground in China and the prospects for democratization of its infamously authoritarian government.

"I think we have this assumption in the West that capitalism, that free markets lead to free societies, that capitalism will lead to democracy in China, that it's almost an automatic process. Once income levels reach a certain level there, that this political [change] is going to happen in China, just as it did in other parts of the world. My argument would be that it's not automatic, certainly. We've seen 30 years now of strong economic growth, and the [Communist] Party is arguably stronger now than it has been ever in these past 30 years. The Party has been able to use capitalism to strengthen its hold on power. At the same time, though, the party has retreated in many ways. People have much more personal freedom than ever before. Because so many people have been lifted out of poverty, they have many more options in life. So it's a mixed picture, but I think it would be naïve for policy makers to assume that this is going to be an automatic process, that we just have to continue to trade with China and the political change is just going to happen."

When you think about it we do much the same thing. . . it's just that we wait a little longer before we crack down.

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HOW ARE THESE THINGS STILL LEGAL?

Man I don't get this. I've been using my Quicken software for years and years and have never had a problem. The same with my debit card. Why is it these voting machines have so many problems.

A voting system used in 34 states contains a critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point, the manufacturer acknowledges.
The problem was identified after complaints from Ohio elections officials following the March primary there, but the logic error that is the root of the problem has been part of the software for 10 years, said Chris Riggall, a spokesman for Premier Election Solutions.
The flawed software is on both touch screen and optical scan voting machines made by Premier [formerly known as Diebold] and the problem with vote counts is most likely to affect larger jurisdictions that feed many memory cards to a central counting database rapidly.
It never ceases to amaze me that eight years after the whole Florida debacle, and four years since the shady Ohio vote count, that virtually nothing has been done to fix all these voting "irregularities." It's really inexcusable.

BUSHED

Keith Olbermann has listed the various scandles in the Bush administration. Here are three more.

Poland to get U.S. missile shields.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that a missile defense site would be established in Poland to deal with "long-range missile threats from countries like Iran or from North Korea." In Bushed, Keith Olbermann explains how neither country has missiles that could reach Poland.

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