Dying embers stand forgotten
Greg Palast on the likelyhood that, just as in 2000, the democratic candidate won this election. But “unlike last time, Democrats aren’t even asking Ohio to count these cards with the not-quite-punched holes (called “undervotes” in the voting biz).”
Palast is the man who broke the story of how the vote was manipulated last time and the author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. He’s one of the best investigative journalists in the world.
I say this to make the point: We’re not talking about a looney-left, blogging member of the tinfoil hat brigade here. And if he’s right, then the democrats have shown once at for all that pretending we have a level playing field is more important to them than…oh, what is the phrase…The Will Of The People.
On a completely unrelated matter, this just in from Yahoo! News: Aide says Bush to seek gay-marriage ban
And they killed Matthew Shephard.