George W. Bush and the Mandate of Heaven

[Domitan]

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3785

While the third and last presidential debate wasn't supposed to be about foreign policy, it is the overriding issue in this election – and impossible to separate from supposedly "domestic" issues, such as taxes and homeland security. Wars, after all, cost money: and, these days, they also incur risks on the home front. Kerry utilized these connections to get in a zinger when the moderator, Bob Schieffer, brought up the immigration issue: Bush winced as Kerry opined that 4,000 illegals a day are coming over our southern border, and cited – in the follow-up – recent cases of Middle Easterners getting across. Maybe he meant this. Or possibly this.

Ouch.

Another Kerry zinger: when the subject of "assault weapons" came up, Kerry said that the terrorists can get them in America, and furthermore claimed that Osama bin Laden's "handbook" instructs terrorists in how to do this once they get here. While this Al Qaeda Handbook is a complete fabrication – one that seems as though it might be a figment of the Telegraph's imagination – it sure was an effective ploy. Especially since the President never answered him.

These guys are in denial not only when it comes to the failures of their foreign policy, but even where it concerns what they've said on the public record. They'll lie right to our faces, in front of a television audience of millions, without so much as blinking.
And that is what is truly frightening about the Bushies: the deadpan manner in which they recite the most blatant, easily-checked falsehoods. They truly believe there isn't anything they can't get away with, as long as they put the proper "spin" on it.
God help us if they're right.

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Even Justin the antiwar paleoconservative/liberitarian shows no ambiguity about Kerry this time due to his stark fear of what Bush's second term will mean.