Curiouser and Curiouser! on john-kerry http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic john-kerry Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Why it doesn't matter Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:14:49 +0000 <blockquote><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/17/records">New Bush records, same old questions</a>. Why did the "outstanding young pilot" stop flying? Why don’t the records document his time in Alabama? And what about the missing physical? The 400-page document dump has no answers. [<a href="http://www.salon.com">Salon.com</a>]</blockquote> <p>Until you make it possible for an ordinary person, without oil money or dynstasty backgrounds, to run for president you are never going to have an honest man in the Whitehouse. It's too much of a magnet for the power hungry or the friends of the power hungry. I hold out little hope for Kerry, Edwards, or Dean. They aren't Bush but what are they exactly?</p> <p>What an interesting race it would be to have a dozen, non party, ordinary, smart, Joe's running. People who don't realise their entire life has been leading to this momement until they're actually there and doing it.</p> <p>Right now I think America would be better off with a lottery. Just pick someone at random every 4 years. You couldn't do any worse than you are now.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001900.html New Bush: Now 20% more loathsome than other brands Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:47:40 +0000 <blockquote><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/15/castellanos">Going negative</a>. He's the father of the modern attack ad, and he's behind the Bush campaign's new wave of anti-Kerry spots. Alex Castellanos is known as vicious, irresponsible -- and effective. [<a href="http://www.salon.com">Salon.com</a>]</blockquote> <p>It seems that the words <b>repulsive</b> and <b>Bush</b> are to be forever intertwined for me...</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002001.html Bush Spending $10M on Campaign Ads in 12 days Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:35:04 +0100 <a href="http://www.topix.net/redir/loc=frontpage/http=3A=2F=2Fwww.fortwayne.com=2Fmld=2Fnewssentinel=2F8506170.htm">This</a> is crazy. Spending $10 million in 12 days! Planning to spend $180 million on advertising!! Kerry doing similar!!! It's crazy!!!!<br> <br> Think what could have been <b>done</b> with that money if put to a purpose other than trying to out sleaze your opponent. I guess the advertisers and media companies, at least, are happy.<br> <br> And what will it be next time around? How long before you'll need to raise $1bn in order to have a credible chance of becoming president? You in the US are already in the situation of having two rich, well connected, ex-Yale boys duking it out. Heck if Bush gets a second term it wouldn't surprise me if he privatizes the white house and sells it to his pals.<br> <br> I propose an alternative strategy:<br> <ul> <li>Ban <b>all</b> paid political advertising of all kinds from all broadcast media.</li> <li>Ban <b>all</b> financial donations.</li> <li>Ban <b>all</b> paid political activity<br> </li> </ul> From then on anyone wanting to be president has to raise a grass-roots movement to support them. Supporters cannot contribute dollars, they volunteer their time or they contribute their voice in support of their candidate. Likely people will only do this for someone they believe in quite strongly which should weed out all future members of the Bush family (any idea when Jeb plans to run?)<br> <br> The current system just plays into the hands of the wealthy and well connected and, whilst my suggestions surely has many flaws, at least it would remove the financial advantage the current crop of bastards has over everyone else. Sure it would be difficult to get your message heard, but at least everyone would be in more or less the same boat.<br> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002119.html Four more years baby! Mon, 10 May 2004 14:28:28 +0100 <blockquote><img src="http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2004/05/10/tomo/story.jpg"></blockquote><p><font size="1">[Reproduced with the kind permission of <a href="http://www.thismodernworld.com/">Tom Tomorrow]</a></font></p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002224.html