....LMB: "aWol"....

Unlike Geov, I'm very much pessimistic. Bush will win again because of neocons' craft at distracting and confusing the American public (deceive, inveigle, and obfuscate to steal a line from THE X-FILES) and the left-liberals who fail miserably at providing any alternatives.

Prepare for four more years of social and political reaction.

I agree with you Jake, in that I'm glad the heat is a little more turned up on this guy.

However, Eric has a point. I'm not sure who this matters to, because half the country is against him already, and his supporters think this was long ago, far away. Compared to Clinton (their favorite comparison), at least he ‘served his country’ for 3-odd years. I do love his reaction to the question, though: “I was honorably discharged, so I must have completed my service”. He sounds like he’s not even sure himself. This would have been more relevant when he was running against Gore, who actually went to Nam, but the lyingmediabastards pretended the story wasn't out there – even though it was already brought up when he was running for governor.

Even if it were to be revealed today that strings were pulled on his behalf to cover up his disappearance from the Guard, I think it would be of far less relevance than say, a rigged election – and no one seems overly upset about that in our ‘representative democracy’.

I can only conclude that mainstream Americans think this is all just fine. Lied about WMD? Americans either don’t care or else think these countries deserve it for 9/11 – (as if). And those NASCAR dads like their SUVs and Indianapolis 500s. Why else would they accept his sending troops to kill and be killed?

If the aim of these reports is simply to bring up his questionable behaviors from 30+ years ago, far more relevant to me is the fact that the guy was arrested as many as 3 times.

If the aim is to point out that he just a plain bad man, even more relevant is his international war criminal behavior – responsible for the invasion and occupation of countries that never attacked us and the deaths of nearly 4000 Afghani civilians and between 8 to 10 thousand Iraqi civilians.

I’ve seen only one case in my lifetime (Vietnam) where Americans finally cared enough that their tax money was being used to rain fiery death from the sky – but that wasn’t until we were at least 5 years into it, and mostly because of the draft and the huge amount of American casualties - in other words, it affected Americans directly.

Korea, Yugoslavia, Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine –who cares, really? If they do care, why are they not in the streets? Or at least turning out to vote? Why doesn’t Tom Brokaw or Dan Rather or PBS for that matter mention civilian deaths - ever? It’s apparently not newsworthy. Greatest Nation on Earth and all that. Makes one proud, really.

Missed some Texas Air National Guard duty? Wow! That is so horrifying. Notify McNeil-Lehrer - this is news!

I have seen nothing to show me that this guy is going to be defeated in November - Deibold and non-trackable touch-screen voting will see to that. Call me paranoid, buy I believe these charges are a red herring, to keep the heat off the election fraud that these criminals have just spent the last 3 years adjusting and perfecting.

Eh, but look on the bright side. The Democrats will return in 2008 and resume their UN-sponsored wars. At least it will look better.

Must we continue running in circles?

And it's a sad commentary on American affairs that to be elected, you must have served in the war machine. Are voters that narrow or is this something that keeps getting fed to the public? When Michael Moore endorses Wesley Clark because he's a military general, who was involved in war crimes of his own, that pretty much sums it up for this electoral process.

Perhaps Jake should post his "Voting Is Irrelevant" piece he did ages ago.