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Swift-Boated! The 12-year-old Graeme Frost talks to reporters after a press conference.

The swift-boating of 12-year-old Graeme Frost.

Don't believe it all. Beware of the RWA [right wing axis] attacks. The RWA and the rest of the RWW [right wing wackos] were hard at work trying to swift-boat the kid and his family after he delivered the "SCHIP" [State Children's Health Insurance Program] Democratic Party's response to the president's weekly address a couple of weeks ago. Soon after the radio appearance, the RWA and the RWW began to insist that the family were affluent because the kid and his sister are attending private schools [good on them, they are on scholarship], because they live in a neighborhood where some of the houses are expensive [the family bought their house for $55k in 1990 when the neighborhood was rundown and dangerous] and because the kid's father owns a business [the business was dissolved in 1999]. Politics is a dirty game, but why do we go as low as attacking a 12-year-old kid? How far are we going to go on the politics of destruction? When are we as Americans going to say enough is enough? Both major political parties are guilty as charged. The attacks on this family were sponsored and directed by the upper echelon of the Republican Party, including the office of the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Mitch McConnell [remember him, he is one of the Homo Corruptus]. Again, don't believe it all. Those attacking the kid and his family were totally discredited by the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and by Time Magazine. How bad was the swift-boating of this kid? The New York Times reported that Republicans in Congress were gearing up to use the kid as evidence that Democrats have over expanded the health program to include families wealthy enough to afford private insurance, but had backed off as the case fell apart. So, the case against this family fell apart, leaving a lot of Republicans with eggs on their faces, however, damage against this kid and his family is already done. In this case, who is going to hold the RWA and the rest of the RWW accountable?

Is this man a Phony General?

No, he is not. Iraq is a nightmare with no end in sight. It is all about Iraq. The war continues and nobody is talking about it, because there is nothing we can do about it. To a large majority of Americans Iraq is becoming a forgotten war. It is not a forgotten war for those with their kids or friends serving in the war front. Last Friday the war returned to our living rooms after a speech given by the former chief of the coalition, General Ricardo Sanchez. He commented that the US mission in Iraq is a nightmare with no end in sight, because of political misjudgments after the fall of Saddam Hussein that continue today. The General cast a wide net of blame for both political and military shortcomings in Iraq that helped open the way for the insurgency. Plus, he called current strategies [including the deployment of 30,000 additional forces earlier this year] a desperate attempt to make up for years of misguided policies in Iraq. He told a group of journalists covering military affairs that there is no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight. General Ricardo Sanchez was a yes man for the Secretary of Defense and for the president when he was running the show in Iraq [he was part of the problem]. Up to this point I have not read or hear nasty comments by part of the Republican leadership, however, I do expect to see this man labeled Phony General by The RWA and by the rest of the RWW talk show hosts.

We are talking elections!

Shipmates, it is all snafu for some of the candidates. My Final Four have made no progress on the polls. If the primaries were held today, the nominees would be Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side and Rudy Giuliani on the Republican side. How are we looking on the national polls? On the Republican side we have Hillary Clinton leading with 48.2 percent, followed by Barack Obama with 22.6 percent. John Edwards is third with 11.6 percent, followed by Bill Richardson with only 3.4 percent. On the Republican side of the house we have Rudy Giuliani leading with 30.2 percent, followed by Fred Thompson with 19.5 percent. John McCain is third with 13.0 percent, followed by Mitt Romney with 11.2 percent. On the mano-a-mano for the 2008 general election, we have Hillary Clinton beating ALL the candidates. She is now leading Rudy Giuliani by 7 points [48 to 41 percent], and she is giving a double-digit whipping to Fred Thompson, leading by 15 points [52 to 37 percent]. How are we doing on the favorable opinion of the candidates? Hillary Clinton is making progress, now with 54 percent of the Likely Voters expressing a favorable opinion of Hillary Clinton. While Hillary Clinton is making progress, things are not looking good for Rudy Giuliani, with just 49 percent of the Likely Voters now offering a positive assessment of Rudy Giuliani. At one point early in the season, Rudy Giuliani’s favorable ratings topped 70 percent.

The Boys Of Summer.

On the National League things are NOT looking good for my Arizona friends, with the Colorado Rockies leading Arizona 2 games three games to zip on the National League Playoff. Only a water cooler can stop the Colorado Rockies from winning this playoff. This team [Colorado] continues to win against all odds [winning 18 of 19 20 of 21 games]. On the American League things are even between the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox. The American League Playoff is too close to call, these two teams were the best in baseball during the regular season, both ending with 96 wins and 66 losses. Now, who do I want to see playing in The World Series? Personally, I would like to see the Colorado Rockies facing the Cleveland Indians, because both the Boston Red Sox and the Arizona Diamondbacks were champions a couple of years ago.

Addemdum as of 0845 Pacific, 10/15/2007

Update on Steve Fossett. This good American disapperared on 09/03/2007 and remains missing. Nothing heard from him in the past six weeks and this morning British entrepreneur [and a good friend of Steve Fossett] Sir Richard Branson said he had all but given up hope that explorer Steve Fossett would be found alive. Branson described his friend Fossett as a remarkable individual, and said I think the chances are that he's no longer with us, I think everybody involved has pretty well given up hope, sadly. As per Branson, Fossett's wife had written to him to say she was returning to Nevada for one final search but the likely fate of her husband was beginning to sink in. Three days into the search, Major Ed Dames [a Remote Viewer] went on record [I heard him on a radio program] saying that there was no hope to find Steve Fausett alive and that the search team was looking in the wrong place, he recommended to start searching an area to the west, on the Sierra Nevada which is packed with canyons and very strong wings. As far as I know this area was not searched by air because it is too dangerous.

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