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Kerry Campaign Leaks
Nader Appointment:
"Take Back America 2004" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! - Internet Underground Network, October 27,2004
A confidential disclosure
from within the Kerry campaign confirmed a rumor Monday
that Ralph Nader will "have an open welcome at the White House" when
Kerry is elected. The rumor hit
the internet when one of Fox News network's infamous
"daily bulletins" warned its affiliates this past week to give no
credibility to a "dangerous rumor"
of a possible Kerry-Nader alliance.
A Kerry campaign
source said that both John Kerry and John Edwards consider
Nader to be a genuine American hero, "without whom car safety standards
would never have been made a priority." The Kerry camp considers Nader's
warnings about corporate corruption "have been manifest in the worst
possible way by the Bush administration."
Kerry is considering
Nader for an advisory position in his White House, possibly
at the cabinet level.
Asked whether this
leak is simply a political ploy to garner more votes, the
Kerry source said that Americans "should know the core ethics of a Kerry-Edwards
administration will be fundamentally opposed to those of George Bush.
Ralph Nader is one of the most educated and experienced advocates
in the country, and with his help, we aim to fight the corporate corruption
which now undermines our economy."
A spokesperson for
the Nader campaign welcomed the idea of a Nader role within
the Kerry administration, saying "that would fulfill everything Ralph
has been fighting to achieve in the
past two campaigns."
Burning Bush Bulletin
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SEATTLE -- Six blood relatives
of President Bush who support John F. Kerry's bid
for the presidency have launched a website to publicize their sharp
disagreements with Bush's policies.
The site, http://www.bushrelativesforkerry.com , consists of personal
statements from a group of decidedly
liberal second cousins of the president,
none of whom knows him personally. All are grandchildren of Mary Bush
House, the sister of Prescott Bush, a former US senator from Connecticut
and the father and grandfather of the two Bush presidents.
The introduction to the
site opens with the slogan, "Because blood is thicker
than oil!" and states: "As the election approaches, we feel it is our
responsibility to speak out about why we are voting for John Kerry,
and to do our small part to help
America heal from the sickness it has suffered since
George Bush was appointed President in 2000. We invite you to read our
stories, and please, don't vote for
our cousin!"
Hilary House, 39, a third-year
law student at the University of Washington, put
together the site with the participation of three of her six siblings:
Sheila House, Tracy Cannon,
and Chris House. The four are children of Mary Bush's
son Francis House III, now deceased, who taught English at a prep school
in Connecticut and was a first cousin of former president George H.W.
Bush. Jeanny House and Henry Kimsey-House,
two children of another of Mary's sons,
James House, also provided pro-Kerry testimonials.
The website was put up independent
of the Kerry campaign, Hilary House said, adding
that an e-mail she sent to the campaign about a month ago had not been
answered. Kerry campaign officials in Washington state and Washington,
D.C., said they were unaware of the
site.
Leah Yoon, spokeswoman for
the Bush-Cheney campaign in Washington state, declined
to comment about the site. "They're entitled to their opinions as American
citizens," said Yier Shi, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee.
Hilary House said she got
the idea for the site when she heard that Jeanny House,
a pastor in Wisconsin, had briefly spoken to the Massachusetts senator
at a Kerry event after he noticed her waving a "Bush Relative for Kerry"
sign. According to Hilary and her sister Sheila, 49, a mental health
counselor in Harwich, Mass., when
Jeanny explained the House family connection
to the Bushes and said they were nonetheless enthusiastic about voting
for Kerry, the Democratic nominee jokingly suggested they start a website.
Jeanny House declined to
comment. In her statement on the site, she denounces
what she describes as Bush's "imperialist cabal" and stated that her
understanding of Christianity, based on a concern for peace and social
justice, was not compatible with
the more conservative brand of Christianity embraced
by the president.
All of the House family
members writing on the site are sharply critical of the
president. Hilary House said she did not feel comfortable telling friends
and acquaintances of her family connection to the president, given his
conservative views, until putting up the website, which was completed
about a week ago. "I was very quiet
about my family relationship," she said. "I
was really, really embarrassed to be related to the president."
Personal ties between this
generation of the House family and the Bush family
are minimal. As the House children grew up in Windsor, Conn., the Bush
family was reestablishing itself in Texas. Hilary House and her two
cousins attended the 1989 inauguration
of the current president's father, and
met him at a private family luncheon there, according to Hilary House.
Both Sheila and Chris House had met
George H.W. Bush briefly when they were younger.
"I can't describe us as
particularly close to the Bush family," said Sheila House.
"I've never met George W. Bush and don't particularly care to."
The previous generation
of the House family was much closer to the Bushes.
Francis House was friendly
with George Bush senior when they were growing up,
his children said. Both attended Yale, as did the current President
Bush. Though Francis House shared
his family's decidedly liberal political views,
he voted for Ronald Reagan after the elder Bush was selected as Reagan's
vice-presidential nominee, and for his cousin during his successful
1988 presidential race.
"His family connections
still tied him to the Republican Party," said Chris House,
36, a high school English teacher in Olympia, Wash. "My dad at heart
was a social liberal, but he was
constantly pressured by his mom that you've got
to vote along family lines."
Bush Relatives for Kerry!
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Robert Bly: 'Clearly, Emperor has No Clothes'
In reality, the horrible
event called the Bush presidency is over now. It remains
only to start the sort of planning that enabled MacArthur to retrieve
what he could from the fall of Manila. Elaborate failures in high places
have happened before. It's a repeating event in American history, and
in the history of every nation.
President Bush has not really
registered the failures in his life. When his early
oil venture failed, he was bailed out by the Saudi oil family or by
his father. But when he bets all
his money on a lunatic invasion of Iraq, no one
can bail him out. During his debates with John Kerry, no one could bail
him out. When Kerry told him, in
front of millions of people, that the war was
wrongly begun, wrongly planned, wrongly carried out, he had to resort
to making faces. There is only so
much the Saudi oil family can do.
It has become clear that
the Emperor has no clothes. The Grimm Brothers fairy
story tells us that if the Emperor's people report that the Emperor
is well-dressed, all the people standing
around will swear they see the same thing.
But his nakedness became visible during those amazingly vivid Bush-Kerry
debates. The Emperor's lack of clothes is part of a larger failure.
The invasion of Iraq was
a hare-brained act, a colossal mistake. The dissolving
of the Iraq army was another mistake, which Paul Bremer himself admitted
last week. But Bush will not admit his mistakes.
It's hard to believe that
the president and the voters cannot see disaster when it's brought up
close to their faces. Our nation -- with its collapsing schools,
its failing factories, its huge increase of poverty -- is a sight just
as vivid. If voters can close their eyes to this daily disaster, why
not to the huge disaster happening
to the U.S. Army?
Hoping for the best is an
adolescent characteristic. Closing your eyes to your
own addiction is a childish response. Choosing a self-deceptive hero
in a crisis and thanking him for
lying to you about the world belongs to that Disneyland
immaturity for which the theme parks are famous.
Leaders need an instinct
for truth. Not to be able to take in truth leads to artificial
universes, to hundreds of soldiers in the coffin and millions of demoralized
citizens.
During a few months in 2000
and 2001, the New York Times Magazine was full of
essays arguing that the United States was the natural inheritor of the
Roman and British empires. Our production
capacity, the military bases we have
all over the world, our elaborate economy, make us a natural to take
over the reins of empire and drive
the teams of empire horses. The argument seemed
so logical at the time. But it turns out we can't control the horses.
Given our ruined schools, our devastated
Flint, Michigans, our millions of working
people worried over the next paycheck, how could we possibly create
the ingenious, studious, many-sided
intelligences needed to guide an empire?
After a few months of grandiosity
and falling statues, the test results come in.
After Rumsfelding our way down the river, the waterfall suddenly appears.
George W. Bush is not exactly a fool; he is a representative of our
enlarged ability to lie to ourselves.
SUVs represent our ability to lie to ourselves
about the abundance of oil. Many Democrats drive SUVs.
We have all participated
in the national illusion and self-pleasing prevarication
that a C-student can guide the country in a time of complicated
issues, that a mule can win the Kentucky Derby, that a man who doesn't
read books can guide the fate of nations. Mark Twain in "Huckleberry
Finn" gives a metaphor for all that
in his pair the Duke and the King. They pretend
to be secret royalty, but Mark Twain knows they would eventually be
hurried out of town in tar and feathers.
In Iraq, we are the King and the Duke;
let's stop lying about it. We'll be lucky to get out of town alive.
Robert Bly, author, poet
and translator, is a founder of Minnesota Artists for
Kerry.
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"I hold that man is
in the right who is most closely in league with the future,"
-- Henrik Ibsen
"When I dare to be powerful-- to use
my strength in the service of my
vision, then it becomes less and less
important whether I am afraid."
-- Audre Lorde
"Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and never will."
-- Frederick Douglass
"The two greatest obstacles to democracy
in the United States are, first,
the widespread delusion among the poor
that we have a democracy, and second,
the chronic terror among the rich, lest
we get it." -- Edward Dowling
BriarPatch Planetary Log
http://briarholler.blogspot.com Planetary Rescue Corps
"Human history becomes more
and more a race between education and
catastrophe."
H.G. Wells
"Never forget that everything Hitler
did in Germany was legal." -- Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Those who cast the votes decide
nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
-- Joseph Stalin
Burning Bush Blazing!
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