Rice said Clarke "left when he did not become deputy director of homeland security."

The interview has been the focus of much attention — drawing nearly 1.2 million views on YouTube and earning the show its best ratings in nearly three years.

Rice questioned the value of the dialogue.

"I think this is not a very fruitful discussion," she said. "We've been through it. The 9/11 commission has turned over every rock and we know exactly what they said."

Let's clarify something here. To become "deputy director of homeland security," the non-promotion that Clarke supposedly left over, you need a Department of Homeland Security, said department doesn't exist until November of 2002. Clarke was still the number one guy at the time of the September 11 attacks, and has repeatedly stated he tried to get meetings with the Bush White House to get them up to speed and get a plan for dealing with Al-Q prior to everything going to shit.

Basically Condi is saying Clarke wasn't fired, they just assigned all his work away from him and left him with a desk with nothing on it, which amounts to the same thing but keeps paying him. It does not answer the question about why he was blown off January to September, especially in light of things like the infamous PDB.

Rice challenges Clinton on terror record - Yahoo! News

A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim challenged by civil-rights researchers.

This is a combination of the stupidest and most offensive thing I think I've seen in a while. Let's ignore that the Democrats and "Dixiecrats" split about 50 years ago, and let's ignore that those same pieces of crap are now the "base," we're going to do anything we can, lie, cheat, steal, whatever, to see if we can win.

Go to Hell.
Go directly to Hell.
Do not pass Go!
Do not collect $200.

Black Republicans run racially tinged ad - Yahoo! News

At the time, Bush administration officials denied that they did any micromanaging of media requests for interviews. But a large batch of e-mails obtained by Salon through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that the White House was, in fact, controlling access to scientists and vetting reporters.

I think the quote speaks for itself.

Climate-controlled White House | Salon News

Or imagine a Middle East with an Iran with a nuclear weapon threatening free nations and trying to promote their vision of extremism through Hezbollah.

I think we've been down this road with Iraq. It was crap then and it's crap now. The most destabilizing government on the planet right now is headed by W. He's made Afghanistan into a total mess, and worse than it was before, Iraq into a bloodbath and worse than it was before, is no longer interested in going after bin Laden, but instead is pushing for war in Iran.

Thirty years ago Nixon and Kissenger put into play the Madman Theory of foreign relations. Make the other side think you're crazy and they'll give you more space to move in. I don't think W is playing the theory, from every indication, he is completely earnest in his insane pronouncements.

Osama bin Laden cannot destroy America. He can blow up buildings, maybe airplanes, cars, buses, and if he gets lucky, he can kill a lot of people. The only ones who can destroy America is We the People, and we are doing it. We are throwing away our liberty and our moral core to satisfy the self-rightous god-inspired delusions of a mono-maniacal dolt who couldn't even figure out how to field a winning baseball team. He is trying to sell us a bill of goods, and it's the same bill of goods he already sold us last time.

Here's hoping for regime change in the November election.

Bush in the Rose Garden.

Tony Blair will leave office on July 26

This is goodbye to W's only ally in his "Coalition of the Willing" and the likely next PM would be from the Conservative Party. That does not bode well for W.

UK's Blair to resign next July: report�|�International News�|�Reuters.com

What would be most useful for America at this point is that its 2006 electoral campaign be waged on the basis of truths -- about its economic situation, of primary importance, as well as the current position of the United States in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. Feeding lies into the system -- with claims that advocacy of withdrawal is disloyalty, "Islamic fascism" is the problem or the situation in the Middle East is like that in 1930s Europe -- is stupid and counterproductive to useful debate among competing candidates. It needs to stop now before it goes any further.

Thank you Pittsburgh!

Editorial: Loose talk / The Bush rhetoric on Iraq is sounding desperate

And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren’t involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we’re going to have a nation of secular laws. That’s not what our founding fathers intended and that’s certainly isn’t what God intended.

Actually, that is exactly what they intended. The majority of the founding fathers are best described as deists, but more to the point, they were already fully aware of the issues of sectional fighting with the wars between England and France being in great part about religion, and they were all "Christian" of one sort or another. In Revolutionary America there were already multiple groups, and the only way they could see the government operating was if it were secular.

She does get one point right though, it does look like "Florida is the forerunner state." It was the first recent state where the actual election results were tossed out, and led the way for places like Ohio.

There's a God, and he's looking at what this nut job is doing, and wondering how He can arrange to have a ship fall on her. Like, ark size...

Katherine Harris

During his half-hour speech before the Tulsa Metro Chamber at the Doubletree Hotel at Warren Place, Inhofe called the United Nations an "absolute disaster" whose peacekeepers in Africa have been "going around teaching girls to be prostitutes."

ummmm... huh? Wow. If that's true, I wonder how those internationally trained prostitutes stack up against Jim's homegrown Oklahoma City hookers. I'm betting the ones with UN training are better at just about everything except sucking chrome off trailer hitches. They don't have chrome trailer hitches in Africa after all...

Shnook.

UN Training Hookers!

That's the point, Jamiel Terry said. If a candidate is going to talk about strong families - he ought to talk about why his own family isn't, he said.

"Both Tila and I have tried to revive or rekindle our relationship with my father and we've been shut out," Jamiel Terry said. "So maybe if we had been invited for Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays, etc., we would be in a family photo."

Yep, family values. Disown your family.

In Senate race, family values campaign tested by real life

U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings, three congressmen and four state legislators were expected to stand side by side with Harris at the “Orlando Fly-In Rally” set up the day before by the Harris campaign.

None of them showed up.

Oops. The Harris campaign mess continues.

Mel Martinez, Toni Jennings no shows at Harris rally