November 26, 2004
can you believe


I had a lovely dream...


"We cannot accept this result as legitimate because it does not meet international standards" and because allegations of fraud had not been investigated, Mr Powell said at a news conference.

"It is still not too late for authorities to find a solution that respects the will of the people," he said.


"I have spoken this morning with the president to press him to take advantage of these openings and to caution him against the use of any kind of force against the demonstrators," he said.


Mr Powell also "encouraged him to use legitimate means available to him to examine these election results and these allegations of fraud and abuse".


He said he also spoke with other regional leaders...


lame-duck Secretary of State Colin Powell,
referring to the theft by Viktor Yanukovich of the
national election for Prime Minister in Ukraine.

...and I started to believe again.  But then, rubbing the sleep from my eyes, I realized with astonishment (and even more shame than before, if that is possible) that the words which woke me with what resembled the sterling sound of ringing truth were in fact words of hubris, drenched in gall, of an ultimate felon accusing others of petty crime.  Can you believe it? 

Colin Powell's only redeeming feature today is that his bosses have rejected him, yet still he snivels in their service, promoting a diversion. His manufactured indignation at questions of electoral fraud in the Ukraine--a nation new to democracy--is stunning in its arrogance and obscene in its presumption that we in the oldest democracy on earth will accept such a fraud. 

The fact that indeed we will accept his fraud is the only thing that sickens me more.

Can you believe it?

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November 21, 2004
pilgrim's pride

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She has been my pride; I have tolerated a great deal of inadequacy and imperfection in her over the years, because she is the land that saved the World.
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