Blogging 101

A handy hint for those of you who might want to try doing this stuff. When you can't think of a better way to say something, just swipe stuff (with appropriate credit and links, of course.)

Hence this from The Carpetbagger Report, which makes a point I've been pondering lately...

Fresh from the AP:

Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday evoked the possibility of terrorists bombing U.S. cities with nuclear weapons and questioned whether Sen. John Kerry could combat such a threat, which the vice president called a concept "you've got to get your mind around."

But we should be outraged because Kerry is trying to "scare people going into the polls." Got it.

I mean, isn't the entire Bush election effort based on exploiting people's fears? And in case you're confused about what or who exactly we should be afraid of, Ezra Klein provides a little research over at Pandagon...

Did a quick term count in yesterday's "major" speech on terrorism. The results, amazingly, are even more ridiculous than I expected:

Frequency of John Kerry (with the terms "Senator", "Senator Kerry", or "my opponent"): 41

Frequency of "Saddam Hussein": 4

Frequency of "Al Qaeda": 1

Frequency of "Osama bin-Laden" or "bin-Laden": 0

Clearly, when fear strikes George Bush, it's John Kerry he's afraid of.

As it should be, given the whupping Kerry's going to put on him November 2.