2004 Presidential Transition
The Rocky Mountain News ediorial staff writes, "In his second term, President Bush has an opportunity to rectify the errors of his first, and one of those was the ad hoc assertion of the right of the president to treat captives as 'illegal combatants' without regard to U.S. or international law."
"That strategy is in any case starting to fall apart piecemeal under legal challenge. This past week, a federal judge ruled that the military commissions set up to try the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees were unlawful. The White House should reaffirm American adherence to the Geneva Conventions and reiterate its confidence in our civilian and military justice systems."
Michael Tracey looks at the role Christian faith played in President Bush's victory in his column in today's Rocky [November 13, 2004, "Tracey: Faith, not reason gave Bush victory"]. He writes, "It is now clear that for large numbers of Americans it is still as if modernity never actually happened, that irrationality, unreason, belief in the mystical and supernatural hold sway, larded with an intense and emotional fervency, and a serious willingness to crush those who disagree or are different."
Blogs for Bush: "We promise a massive education program over the next four years to knock some sense into these morons." That should be fun. 
Taegan Goddard: "Education Secretary Rod Paige intends to leave his Cabinet position, a Bush administration official told the Associated Press."
Wired: "Longing for a Blogging Candidate."
The Daily Kos has the names of the 440 people that will choose the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. Colordo names: Chris Gates, Denver, CO; Andrew Boian, Denver, CO; Julia Hicks, Arvada, CO; Mary Alice Mandarich, Denver, CO; Honorable Ramona Martinez, Denver, CO; Jonathan Postal, Denver, CO; Honorable Wellington Webb, Denver, CO.
Update: Washington Post: "The deputy director of the CIA resigned yesterday after a series of confrontations over the past week between senior operations officials and CIA Director Porter J. Goss's new chief of staff that have left the agency in turmoil, according to several current and former CIA officials. John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year CIA veteran who was acting director for two months this summer until Goss took over, resigned after warning Goss that his top aide, former Capitol Hill staff member Patrick Murray, was treating senior officials disrespectfully and risked widespread resignations, the officials said."
Update: Josh Marshall: "So for all these reasons there is something rich and precious about hearing some of these folks sagely noting how the leadership of 'the party' is out of touch with the Red States when they are the party, when they're the folks who've been in the drivers' seat for years. If there[base ']s a problem and especially if it revolves around being out of touch with the lives of ordinary Americans, then by all means the first place to start is for some of these folks to say a collective, my bad, my time has passed and depart the scene -- especially if their proposed remedies are as clichéd and pathetic as the ones many of them are offering."
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