token political post

BBC Washington correspondent Rob Watson says President Bush is campaigning on the basic pitch that you don't change leaders during a time of war.

And when you're at war with a concept, like, say, Terror, you never really finish. Logical conclusion left as an exercise for the student. Anyway. I'm amused (as ever, king_mob) by Bush's assorted spokespeople rushing to defend his ad campaign as "tasteful", particularly in the face of what appears to be a noticable public outcry that it's precisely the opposite. And in other news, Daily Kos is carrying a story about the White House nixing a Pentagon hit on a major terrorist because it'd undermine the arguments for a war on Iraq. Nice.

leading from the rear

We could lead the world in developing a modern, industrialized, open food system with down-to-earth family farm values.

Uh, Don. Never mind that we've had DNA tracking here in the colonies for several years now. How about the fact that you've said in your own article that Japan not only has the DNA tracking, but a customer-oriented lookup system as well? How are you going to lead that, exactly?