The random political thoughts thread

[scaeagles]

I often have brief political thoughts that I don't figure are worthy of a whole thread, so I figured I'd start a place to post such things.

Did Ted Kennedy skip the State of the Union address? I can't seem to find confirmation that he was there, and apparently he was not seen in one TV shot.

John Kerry said on the Today show that 53% of American children don't graduate highschool. What a moron. The actual number is about 13%. He's off by a factor a 4. What possible purpose could he have had to say something so outlandish and easily refutable?

Julian Bond as the leader of NAACP is a joke. "The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side," he said. He also said Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell are/were "tokens."

CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) sent Bush a letter prior to the SOTU advising him it would not be good to use such terms as "Islamofacists" or "Radical Islamic fundamentalism" or anything that would link Islam to terrorism. Now why would anyone think terrorism is related to radical islamic fundamentalists?

On a related note, those peace loving fundamentalists are threatneing violence because European papers dared to print a satirical picture of Muhammed with a bomb as a headdress. Apparently printing images of Muhammed is taboo and not supposed to be done. I'm waiting for the National Endowment for the Arts to fund someone a la Maplethorpe who submerges a statue of Muhammed in a jar of urine. I would guess that would make them mad. (A French newspaper editor has been fired for daring to print the picture, by the way.)