You're doing a bang-up job of helping Obama and Edwards with this suggestion:  Former President G.H.W. Bush (a/k/a 41) will "help" President Hillary by going around the world with Slick to help rehabilitate the US image.

This is the same GHW Bush who (a) can't find a single word to say about his son's performance in office which disagrees with any of son's criminality, (b) helped make Cheney, (c) used his administration to help further both the cancer rotting the country from the inside out and the careers of the personages doing that cancerous work, (d) started this whole cycle of MidEast wars with the first Gulf War*, (e) got the Shock Doctrine really working in places like, um, Eastern Europe.

Yeah.  Him.  He'll be really welcome.

This initiative by WJC seems more directed at the Establishment, to let them know they are safe with Hillary.  The problem is, the People want change.  And Hillary is the anti-change candidate.

That, and it shows just a little more flailing from the Clinton campaign - desperation.

[COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's electronic voting systems have "critical security failures" which could impact the integrity of elections in the Buckeye State, according to a review of the systems commissioned by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.]  

1,000 pages of bad news: Ohio e-voting report released

[Unfortunately, the findings in this study indicate that the computer-based voting systems in use in Ohio do not meet computer industry security standards and are susceptible to breaches of security that may jeopardize the integrity of the voting process. Such safeguards were neither required by federal regulatory authorities, nor voluntarily applied to their systems by voting machine companies, as these products were certified for use in federal and state elections. ]

["The findings of the various scientists engaged by Project EVEREST are disturbing. These findings do not lend themselves to sustained or increased confidence in Ohio's voting systems." ]

["To put it in every-day terms, the tools needed to compromise an accurate vote count could be as simple as tampering with the paper audit trail connector or using a magnet and a personal digital assistant," ]

as a consequence of both the rising cost of metals used in production, and increased demand by the military, this dept. has had an almost 100% increase in their ammo budget, between 2007 and 2008. they've cut down on training ammo, to the bare minimum, to save money.

This lynching happens daily and several times a day.

Ironically you stay quiet about Jeralyn's constant attacking of Obama while constantly praising Clinton.  It isn't surprising that I haven't seen anything even mentioned about Kerrey's racial/religious bigotry against Obama.

Mind you, I am an Edwards supporter and I don't thing much of Hillary as a candidate. But hate, especially when inherited from the right wing, is an abomination.

I totally agree with Krugman who originally implied that Obama is a liar and a Republican.

A couple guys awaiting sentencing, one a gang-banger who'd done a homicide and another who'd shot a convenience store clerk in the head, managed to escape from the Union County, NJ jail.  By digging out the mortar between the cinderblocks of the cell wall and the outside wall with a piece of metal.  How'd they hide their work?  Under magazine pinups.

After they removed the cinder blocks, they smashed them (with a valve wheel).  Then, they squeezed out through the gap onto a third floor roof, took a running jump to clear the razor wire below, landed on a railroad embankment, and got away clean.  They'd left behind a note with smiley face and a hand, flipping off the guards, and used their mattress foam to make dummies in their beds to look like they were sleeping.

I'm not a big fan of escaping prisoners but, in this case, it looks like the guards and jail kinda had it coming by not properly running the little things in their jail.  Not making them take down the posters.  Not tossing the jail to find the missing valve wheel (a 10 lb. block of metal, that).  Not checking cells often enough.  Maybe relying a little too much on video.  Ignore the little things, and the big ones will crop up and bite.

I've made the correlation before at that the reduction of rights concerns tied with 9/11 and the Iraq war and emboldened local police forces that are being more aggressive. This trend will get worse since the public has become less concerned with human rights issues in the US and the typical rights defenders are distracted by Guantanamo and Iraq, leaving those who are abused in the US largely ignored.

So now George H. W. Bush is going to become an active member of the new Clinton administration, this has got to be some kind of F-king joke.

Yet more evidence that the Clintons plan to take us back to the 90s, and relive old home week with the Bush family.  Bill apparently looks back nostalgically on those times, and looks forward to spending more time with his buddy George.

This country and the people of America have had enough of the Constitution subverting Bush family, I don't want them anywhere near my government or acting as my spokesman anywhere in the world, thank you!

Christ his son is still in the White House, and we've already got another Bush to look forward to, I knew they'd find a way to remain in the White House in 2009.

n June 2005, US District Judge Henry Kennedy ordered the government to safeguard all evidence regarding possible torture, mistreatment, and abuse of detainees at the US prison at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Navy base.

The Justice Department has argued that the destroyed tapes were not covered by this order, as the suspected terrorists involved - Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim Al-Nashiri - were not at Guantánamo at that time.

But Judge Kennedy has rejected the Justice Department's request that he now stay out of the matter. He has ordered administration lawyers to appear before him on Dec. 21 and explain their actions.