Steve Greenfield, upon his release from arrest during the 2004 Republican National Convention

It's time more people realized who she really is, and rejected the impressive, carefully-managed hype which disguises the reality. You don't even have to consider yourself a progressive to realize that in 2005, of all the nations of the Western world, only in Bush's America could this politician be represented as anything but a right-wing radical.

Clinton now has a Democratic primary challenger, Steve Greenfield. Maybe now we'll see some light shown on this Democratic/democratic travesty, although the character of our debased media doesn't offer me much hope.

What's wrong with Clinton? Barry explains it in a nutshell:

I don't know why so many liberals, including homos, think she's great. She says she likes the Defense of Marriage Act, she doesn't think public health insurance should cover abortion (Viagra seems to be OK), and she voted for both the PATRIOT Act and the Iraq War.

I really have to add that she thinks the 60-foot Israeli Apartheid Wall is just super.

[image from Greenfield for Senate]

Hyatt Regency is now Hyatt Imperial

We learned from Paul Kidd this morning that the trappings and fears which go with our imperial presidency have now been extended to the president's cabinet, specifically to our bloody secretary of war. In order to feel comfortable while staying in Adelaide during talks with members of the Australian government [an ally], Donald Rumsfeld apparently needs an entire 25-story hotel for himself and his immediate staff. Kidd, who is attending the 2005 NAPWA Conference and staying in a hotel across the road, reports that Rumsfeld's Hyatt Regency is surrounded by concrete barriers, wire mesh and barbed wire.

The meetings were scheduled to discuss the direction of the continued involvement of Prime Minister John Howard's government in America's unending wars.

The original site of the talks was to have been Sydney, and the change to Adelaide was made because of security concerns, raised by both governments following recent passionate but peaceful protest activity in the subcontinent's largest city. The Australian government has exercised its brand-new draconian "anti-terrorist" laws and will ban activists and protestors from the venue in Adelaide.

[image from buggery.org]

- this time apparently in spite of himself, since this shooting star reporter certainly hasn't been doing much investigating lately.

Reuters reports that Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, has disclosed to the special prosecutor that the White House had told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame nearly a month before her secret identity was revealed by others. According to Reuters' Adam Entous,

His testimony is a sign prosecutors are exploring new leads in the investigation that has reached into the top levels of the White House. It also prompted the Post's executive editor to publicly chastise one of the best-known journalists in the United States for withholding the information from him.

One of the two Post reporters who led the newspaper's coverage of the 1970s Watergate scandal that brought down President
Richard Nixon, Woodward has dismissed the leak investigation in television and radio appearances as laughable and referred to Fitzgerald as "a junkyard dog."

Woodward wrote in a first-person account in the Post that he testified he had learned of Plame's identity in mid-June 2003 from a senior Bush administration official.

My guess is that Cheney is next, and that Bush won't be far behind.

Some junkyard. Some dog.

I mean, what are they going to say?

Has anybody not noticed that the man frequently described as the President of the United States addresses his constituents only inside military bases or, if anywhere else, only in the company of very carefully selected groups of supporters who have been given passes?

Lately in fact the venues for his speeches or appearances have been more and more of the uniformed sort. Even during his first term I can't recall that Bush ever addressed a free assembly of any kind, and a commencement address or two in front of a religious college doesn't count.

[image by Charles Dharapak from the Associated Press]

especially if he's part of a "Drive Out the Bush Regime" demo

marching up 8th Avenue this afternoon

led by some of the youngest revolutionaries I've ever seen


the youth in question looking particularly endearing stopped by a flat tire at 21st Street