  A-REVA-DERCI I love when an urlLink attack piece about the Democratic candidates meant for the February issue of a publication was obviously written in mid-January. Bravo! On Kerry: Last October, he voted against granting $87 billion for postwar expenditures in Iraq and Afghanistan, in effect giving the troops an unfunded mandate as he told them to rebuild Iraq with a bit of creativity and a lot of sand.
I'll pose a question to the readers of the Patriot and this site, just in case anyone gets suckered in to Alavian's nonsense: Did Kerry, and Edwards for that matter, vote against the $87 billion Iraq bill because they wanted to starve the Iraqi operation, or because they wanted to make bush more accountable in how he wants to allocate taxpayer money, rather than giving him a blank check? Reva mocks Kucinich: Apparently, Grandfather Twilight, created by author Barbara Helen Berger, broke "20 years of silence" to publicly endorse Kucinich, because he so admires Kucinich's innovative ideas. Grandfather Twilight is not alone; woodland creatures have formally endorsed Kucinich as well, eagerly spreading the word.
His website shows mice holding signs and some sort of forest dog passing the word along that Kucinich is the man with a plan. When the crazy run for President, they have to take what they can get. Think what you want, but urlLink what about Bush ? From the Observer, in a review of Stephen Mansfield's The Faith of George W. Bush : Bush said to James Robinson: 'I feel like God wants me to run for President . I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen...
I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it. ' (emphasis CPW's) If you think he was talking about 9/11, remember that he also gave interviews after the attack that he was trying to "get out of harm's way" on that day. When Reva finally makes it to Clark, near the tail end of the article, we get this: Prior to 2003, Clark publicly voiced his support for US intervention in Iraq, with or without UN sanction, if need be. Could Reva be referring to, oh, I dunno, urlLink THIS ? A severely and misleadingly cherry-picked transcript of congressional testimony (in which Clark was arguing against Richard Perle ) is what is behind Reva's insinuation.
I like the concluding graf... All in all, this is not a very impressive group. Democratic voters across the country are stuck with this sorry cast of characters, which will result in many breaking ranks and voting for Bush, or forgoing this election entirely and holding ritual sacrifices in hopes of appeasing the gods and doing better in 2008.
The assortment of candidates does have an important message to both Democrats and Republicans, though: while we may not agree with everything Bush does, compared to the alternatives he is a prince among men, and he deserves our united support in order to keep the White House from turning into the Nut House in 2004. ...mostly because it gives me such a wonderful opening to link to the latest polls from urlLink Gallup and urlLink Quinnipiac . Lastly, I was modestly entertained by the sort of Dennis-Miller-with-smaller-vocabulary tone of this article. 
