Countdown Friday: Inside Job?
Posted: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:49 PM by Countdown
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Anthrax Investigation: If reporting by The Los Angeles Times today is even remotely accurate, the questions about the anthrax attacks which terrified this nation late in 2001 would seem, tonight, to have boiled down to three. First: was the anthrax sent by just one employee of our own government, or more than one employee of our government? Second: when the F.B.I. missed an easy clue - the unreported spilling of anthrax in the federal repository of anthrax, that the suspect did not report - was it incompetence, or a cover-up? Third: how, if there was evidence of something askew at our biological warfare lab in Maryland as early as December 2001, did national news organizations in this country receive supposedly reliable leaks from the Bush Administration that the anthrax originated in Iraq. There is finally a suspect in the Anthrax Attacks, he worked for the government's anthrax lab, and, unfortunately, he's dead, as of this past Tuesday.
Politic Energy: Obama goes high-low. High? An emergency cash rebate to be paid for by windfall profit taxes on the oil industry. Low? He seems to have opened the door to some off-shore drilling.
ODDBALL: Football Players versus Cheerleaders and inter-species shenanigans.
Wal-Mart, Always Low: Written in 2003, set in the near future, "Jennifer Government" imagines a world run by American corporations so mighty, that workers name themselves after their employers. Hyperbole? Ask John and Jane Wal-Mart. They aren't being told how to name themselves. But they may have been told how to vote.
Worst Person in the World: Congresswoman Michele Bachmann battles Billo, Presidents Bush and Roger Ailes for top honors.
Fit for Office? When pollsters are willing to ask voters , and when we ask ourselves, which presidential candidate we would most like to have a beer with or which one we want driving by when we need help changing a tire, then maybe we shouldn't be surprised that there is actual serious consideration about whether Senator Barack Obama is too skinny to be President. That's right, the country has pretty much gone to hell over the past eight years, but Obama isn't eating enough junk food.
