For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, "He has a devil." The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, "Behold a man who is a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners."--- Luke 7: 33-34

Pharisees were Democrats?? Who knew?

(Apparently Steven denBeste!)

James Taranto: "Every Democrat who voted save two--Louisiana's Rodney Alexander and Tennessee's Lincoln Davis--voted not to honor the bravery of the troops."

Well, this has certainly been a good week for the terrorists. (Pretty much their first since the week the Iraq war started, the week our own soldier fragged troops and Jessica Lynch and all were captured.) RIP and more.

Saddam's Useful Idiots. (Including, apparently, my sister's congresscritter Baghdad Jim.) Oil for Anti-War. (Chirac, maybe, on Kerry's "list"? As if he really HAS a list.) Hillary says Iraqi women were better off under Saddam.

Roundup of Iraq news. (Pre-bomb) More from Glenn and from Jeff Jarvis.

Neil Boortz:

Clearly the terrorists prefer national leaders who will appease them rather than leaders who will try to locate them and kill them. This would mean that the terrorists would much rather see John sKerry win in the United States than President Bush. I know that's a tough pill to swallow for the Democrats ... but the fact is that in this presidential election they are clearly on the same side as the terrorists. Saying it ain't so won't work. You're just going to have to find a way to accept it and live with it.

So who are the "foreign leaders" Flip-flop John is claiming favor him? As Cheney points out, it IS the business of the voters...what is he promising whom that a President Kerry would do for them? We know they include NoKo and the new Spanish leader. THAT's real reassuring.

Fool me Once..., Temper, temper, and more.

Heh. If he needs an endorsement... Oh, here they are!

If you're going to make an accusation in the course of a presidential campaign, you've got to back it up with facts.

He's probably lying. It seems lately that most Democrats are liars, though Clinton was the only one who was any good at it.

"I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." -- John Kerry.Mickey Kaus explains...

He's lying about dog story. Someone else says he's a lying coward.

sKerry, as you know, is challenging Bush to a series of monthly debates leading to the election. Bush officials said that perhaps it might be a good idea for Kerry to finish debating himself before he tries to take on the president.

Heh. James Taranto adds; "No wonder he's so popular with the ladies. John Edwards may have been cute, but Kerry has more positions than the Kama Sutra."

Kerry plays defense:

It's the language of disengaging from the terrorists, and preparing for when they hit us again. It's the language of switching from offense to defense.
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For John Kerry, our "first responders" in the War on Terror are the people who respond to an attack with firehoses, bulldozers and cadaver dogs. For President George Bush, our "first responders" are the 101st Airborne, the Third Infantry Division, the Navy and the Air Force. They get no mention in Kerry's self-described "Agenda to Support Front Lines in America's War on Terror," which contains not a single single word about offense.

That, in brief, is the stark choice America faces in November. Do we keep the coach who is playing offense in the War on Terror, taking the battle to where the enemy lives and breeds, smashing their stronghold in Afghanistan, setting a trap for them in Iraq, and confronting Islamist terrorists by planting that which they loathe the most - freedom and democracy for Muslims - in the heart of their territory. Or do we hire a new coach who will switch to defense and focus on preparing the firefighters and police and "first responders' to douse the flames and dig the bodies from under the rubble of the next attack?

Jeff Jarvis:

A free election is a defeat for them. But before that election, this is why it is now all the more important to have a strong debate on how best to protect us against this terror. And the last thing I want to hear Kerry do is echo this logic that he will protect us by trying not to piss off terrorists.

The best way to piss off terrorists is to hunt them down and exterminate them and I want to hear Kerry and Bush battle for the right to the title of Toughest on Terrorism. I want the President of the United States to piss off terrorists as much as he possibly can. I want to see him continue to put pressure on countries that harbor and grow terrorists (read: Libya). I want to see him bring democracy to the Middle East, for that is the best way to stop bringing up generations of pissed off victims.

Thank you, Rachel Corrie.