Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Connecting the Dots

If you watched Patrick Fitzgerald's press conference on friday, you probably missed a very important information coming out of that press conference.

He used the "baseball" analogy to describe the lack of evidence to indict on the original crime of "the outing of a CIA agent with covert status". "If someone throws sand in the umpire's eye, or blocks his view from seeing the facts, the umpire can't determine whether it was intentional or not"

What was more important his statement regarding the fact that Scooter Libby lied to him and the Grand Jury. Had Libby told him the truth, "we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005."

That means, if we'd knew this in october 2004 Bush would not have been elected as President.

For all those pundits, showing puzzlement about the stupidity of Libby for not telling the truth, think again. Libby deliberately lied to postpone the outcome of the Special Counsel's investigation to after the presidential election.

Read E.J. Dionne at Washington Post connecting the dots

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

The Emperor's Nakedness.

With all the bad rap the New York Times got, thanks to one reporter, named Judith Miller, the New York Times encompasses the most serious political commentators. Experienced journalism that can sort through the events overwhelming the populace.

One of the distinguished op-ed writers at NYT is Paul Krugman.

I came across a NYT column written by Paul Krugman dissecting the clothing of the Emperor.

The Rove political machine created the image of Chimpy as tough, decisive leader, a wartime president unleashing the shills and war enthusiastic crowd to portray him as an inspiring patriot. Also at the first Inauguration, by promising the restoration of morals and ethics to the "Clinton blemished" image of the White House. That set the bar high as a highly ethical and moral leader

Paul Krugman deconstructs all the myths surrounding this president.

•Katrina took away the tough, decisive leader, a wartime president image.
•The Plamegate unmasked the fact that he is not an an inspiring patriot
•The Libby indictments and the gray surrounding the case dispelled the myth of highly ethical and moral leader

That leaves the our leader naked, for who he is, a bumbling, awkward, ignorant, less than average human being, but you should read for yourself how eloquently Paul Krugman deconstructs our sorry ass president.