An Amazing Series of Coincidences | Billmon nails it.

[Jacobin]

So on the day John Kerry gave the most important speech of his career - his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention - the Pakistanis announced the capture of a "high value" Al Qaeda target, keeping precisely to the schedule predicted beforehand by John Judis and Spencer Ackerman in The New Republic:

But according to this ISI official, a White House aide told ul-Haq last spring that "it would be best if the arrest or killing of HVT were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July"--the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
(Granted, according to the TNR, the Bushies asked for Osama, and instead only got a semi-celebrity terrorist. But when you're an incumbent president who can't crack 50% approval in the polls, you take what you can get.)

Then, right after Kerry's speech - and right as the Bush-Cheney campaign swung into its post-convention counterattack - we got the by-now familiar threat warning - but this time with enough scary specifics to cut through the by-now customary bored response from the press and the public.

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We are told, however (and I have Holy Joe Lieberman's word on this), that this sudden flurry of activity has absolutely nothing to do with polls showing John Kerry narrowing the gap with Bush on the question of who would do a better job of fighting terrorism. Or with the fact that the latest ABC/Washington Post poll actually shows Kerry outranking ex-Lt. Shrub on the question of who is more qualified to be the nation's commander in chief.



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[Dudley_DUright]

1. I am so glad the "Whiskey Bar" is still serving up

cocktails of nearly peerless analysis. A must read blog on my daily internet travels.

[Jacobin]

2. He's great

He must be a DU reader. I don't know anywhere else that Chris Mathews is called "Tweety"

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Media Whores Online used to always refer to Matthews

as Tweety

[notadmblnd]

4. You know what pisses me off the most about bush and his minions?

That they actually refer to their running of the government as a game. I've heard it more than once directly from their mouths.

Since bush was placed in the Whitehouse, My husband has died, I've lost my job and I've had to file bankruptcy. I can't help but think how different things might be If some of the policies were not in place these last 4 years.

Perhaps my husbands heart would not have given out if we had access to better health care or we weren't so stressed out over paying the bills when he couldn't work anymore. Perhaps I'd still have a job today if off-shoring wasn't so popular and encouraged by this regime.

My life and my family's lives is not a game and I resent the hell out of having to constantly being on the offensive just trying to stay ahead of what this corrupt administration is trying to do to us.

I have one thing left that they can take from me that makes my life still worth living. If they take him, it won't matter any longer what happens to me.....

[Ripley]

5. And remember the day Kerry picked Edwards?

I've never seen DU so UNITED!!! Everyone was pleased and relieved it wasn't Gep.

That day Ridge and Ashcroft were scaring us.

It is very obvious they are running scared!