I’m not jumping to any conclusions either. A sitting Congressman and Candidate for the Presidency has asked for a hand recount of the NH vote. That in itself is a huge story, imo.

If they ‘fix’ NH and give it to Obama, then Edwards is out. Is that what Kucinich wants? What kind of lefty is he?

Is he going to also call for an investigation of Obama’s youth support and voting irregularities in Iowa?

Things are bad enough for Edwards already. Kucinich can only make it worse.

I am a firm believer in paper ballots, and optical scan ballots can be recounted. If people are suggesting she cheated, she ought to demand a recount.

I believe Obama cheated in Iowa and then said it was justified because Howard Dean did the same in ‘04 by busing in kids to vote.

Then, someone decided to not let him have a free ride and cheated in NH to even the playing field. Great, but John Edwards, who had an early lead in Iowa by about 5% pts never got a win and now has lost time, money and momentum.

How can we continue this madness with bad election processes?

Madness madness madness!

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/20…..html#NHDEM

43-35 urban
42-35 surburban
39-34 rural

Rural counties are more like to hand count.

You are somewhat correct about Vietnam in the initial stages but that all changed in ‘68 IIRC. Specifically, when Cronkite came back froma visit and said it was unwinnable. I believe at that point, LBJ was quoted as saying “If we’ve lost Cronkite, we’ve lost the American public.” And from that point on, the majority of the American press was far more adversarial with the gov’t than they’d been previously

Sometimes I think I live in a parallel universe. I am 57 years old. I started my subscription to Ramparts Magazine when I was 15, in 1965. I started my subscription to I.F. Stone’s Weekly, The New Republic and Commentary the following year. My parents took the local NW Illinois newspaper and the Chicago Tribune. Until 1968, Only Ramparts and I.F. Stone were telling the truth about Viet Nam. In 1969 I moved to Madison to get tear gassed and laid. I dropped TNR and Commentary. They were smarmy, crappy elitist imperial ass-licking rags back then too. I took the Madison newspaper. And after 1969 I noticed one thing. Ramparts and I.F. Stone were telling the truth and opposing the war and every other god-damned source of MSM news I had was cheerleading the war. Kronkite was just stating the obvious to the country. Anyone with a brain knew from 1965 that the war was unwinnable. In my high school class that amounted to two of us out of 73 graduates (class of ‘68). The others labeled us Mr. & Mrs. Marx for knowing stuff. That’s when I decided to look into Marxism. I found out they know stuff, too.

The first time I could really suggest that the media were adversarial was in 1971 when Daniel Ellsberg attempted to have the Pentagon Papers published. That was really an outlier, as far as I was concerned, because I’d become totally blase about the MSM, assuming it was simply carrying water for the LBJ and the Nixon thugs because that is what MSM does. I really think it was the Ellsberg thing that burst the dam. Of course by that time I was off tear gas an into an entirely different kind of gas. So my memory of the ’60s that occurred in the ’70s was… well, never mind…

For those who may have never read this (I number myself among them), here’s link to a 2004 Slate article that sums up GWB’s life choices pretty well:

The Misunderestimated Man- How Bush Chose Stupidity

Off to work. Read you all later.

Methinks the lady from Texas has been swigging koolaid

Sandra Day O’Conner hails from Arizona. They grow lots of reptiles down there.