Stick a fork in him, he's done.

] VATICAN CITY - The Vatican said Friday that Pope John
] Paul II's condition was very serious, hours after he
] suffered heart failure.

Yahoo! News - Vatican: Pope Has Suffered Heart Failure

] In an informal poll of 100 academics, conducted by The
] Economist, Mr Bush's policies win low marks. More than
] 70% of the 56 professors who responded to our survey rate
] Mr Bush's first-term economic policies as bad or very
] bad. Fewer than 20% give positive marks to Mr Bush's
] second-term economic agenda, and almost six out of ten
] disapproved. Mr Kerry hardly got rave reviews either, but
] his economic plan still fared better than the president's
] did. In all, four out of ten professors rated Mr Kerry's
] economic plan as good or very good, but 27% gave it
] negative scores.

Economist.com | The economy and the election

] An exhaustive report released last week by Charles
] Duelfer, the CIA's chief weapons investigator in Iraq,
] concluded that Saddam Hussein destroyed his stockpiles of
] chemical and biological weapons in the early 1990s and
] never tried to rebuild them. But a little-noticed section
] of the 960-page report warns that the danger of a
] "devastating" attack with unconventional weapons has
] grown since the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq
] last year.
]
] The Bush administration, which went to war primarily to
] disarm the Baghdad regime of suspected illicit
] stockpiles, has not previously disclosed that the
] insurgent groups that have emerged and steadily expanded
] since Hussein's ouster now are seeking to develop their
] own crude supplies of such deadly agents as mustard gas,
] ricin and the nerve gas tabun.

Iraqi insurgents seek chemical weapons / Likelihood of success grew with U.S. occupation, report says

] Oh, duh. Like, major duh.
]
] The "Dred Scott" reference by Bush sent everyone at
] Atrios and other blog sites scrambling to historical
] tomes to figure out what on Earth Mr. Bush could mean,
] short of saying that he wouldn't appoint pro-slavery
] judges.
]
] Really, we should have just done a damn google search on
] the Internets.
]
] Because it's all there, plain as day. The Dred Scott
] reference is code language for abortion rights.

Q: Why Did Bush Mention 'Dred Scott'? A: It's a Message to Pro-Lifers

] Some highlights of the report include:
]
] * Voting Rights: The Bush administration did not
] provide leadership to ensure timely passage and swift
] implementation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of
] 2002. As a result, Congress did not appropriate funds for
] election reform until almost two years into the
] administration.
]
] * Equal Educational Opportunity: The No Child Left
] Behind Act (NCLB) does not sufficiently address unequal
] education, a major barrier to closing the achievement gap
] between minority and white students.
]
] * Affirmative Action: Instead of promoting
] affirmative action in federal contracting and education,
] the administration promotes "race neutral alternatives,"
] in many instances not applicable and in others not overly
] effective at maintaining diversity.
]
] * Environmental Justice: EPA has taken few actions to
] ensure disparate impact of minority communities to
] environmental contamination.
]
] * Racial Profiling: The administration responded to
] the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by instituting
] regulations that facilitate profiling rather than prevent
] it. Immigrants and visitors from Arab and Middle Eastern
] countries were subjected to increased scrutiny, including
] interviews, registration, and in some cases removal.

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Press Release

] WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has promoted its
] education law with a video that comes across as a news
] story but fails to make clear the reporter involved was
] paid with taxpayer money.
]
] The government used a similar approach this year in
] promoting the new Medicare law and drew a rebuke from the
] investigative arm of Congress, which found the videos
] amounted to propaganda in violation of federal law.

Yahoo! News - Bush Ad Appears to Be News Story

] WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 - From the beginning of the year, the
] White House has charted new ground with the sweep of its
] negative campaigning, starting with an $80 million wave
] of attack advertisements directed at Senator John Kerry
] that began the moment he effectively won his party's
] nomination last spring.
]
] But the scathing indictment that Mr. Bush offered of Mr.
] Kerry over the past two days - on the eve of the second
] presidential debate and with polls showing the race
] tightening - took these attacks to a blistering new
] level. In the process, several analysts say, Mr. Bush
] pushed the limits of subjective interpretation and
] offered exaggerated or what some Democrats said were
] distorted accounts of Mr. Kerry's positions on health
] care, tax cuts, the Iraq war and foreign policy.

The New York Times -- Political Memo: In His New Attacks, Bush Pushes Limit on the Facts

] (From the [Senate] diaries, Cheney presided over the Senate a
] grand total of two times the past four years -- just as
] many times as Edwards, who also did so twice. Slightly
] edited -- kos)
]
] "Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the
] president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the
] Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session."
]
] --Dick Cheney
]
] The extended entry has the presiding officers over the
] last four years for every Tuesday session.

Cheney Attendance at Senate

] Before this year [2003], Edwards missed just seven votes out of
] 1,307 in his first four years in office, Briggs said.
] During his five years in the Senate, Edwards voted 1,551
] times out of 1,626 roll-call votes, Briggs said, or 95.4
] percent.

Winston-Salem Journal | Edwards tops most hopefuls in Senate attendance record

] CLEVELAND Oct. 6, 2004 %u2014 Vice President Dick Cheney
] said Tuesday night that the debate with Democratic Sen.
] John Edwards marked the first time they had met. In fact,
] the two had met at least three times previously.

If Bush had made this mistake, no one would have cared, because polling shows people trust him. Cheney's a different story, and I'm not surprised the news of his lie is popular at both Yahoo News and Memigo.com.

ABCNEWS.com : Meeting Was Not First for Cheney, Edwards