Smoke and mirrors
Time magazine, at the bottom of the page:
As the Bush team sorts out its internal mechanics, it will press the advantage of incumbency. Administration sources tell TIME that employees at the Department of Homeland Security have been asked to keep their eyes open for opportunities to pose the President in settings that might highlight the Administration's efforts to make the nation safer. The goal, they are being told, is to provide Bush with one homeland-security photo-op a month. [P6: Emphasis added]
Libertarians: Did you give them permission to spend your money on this?
These are the people who want to hobble the free speech rights of a grass roots campaign that us spending its OWN money. Will Bush's campaign pay the salaries of the government workers who will be diverted because of his presence? Or for the time DHS staff spends looking for this crap?
This is ill.
You know, I got my tech spot to write about programming issues. I'm working on the aggregator and community site where I can do my race and society stuff. I could see this site in particular going into full-on anti-incumbent oratory mode. Because it's occurring to me that NO one is THIS foul unless they actually see nothing wrong with what they are doing.
I'll never be Counterspin Central. I don't think most Republicans are evil. They are just very badly, very, very sadly wrong.
