fantomas:
The US Supreme Court wrongly elevated him instead.

Relevant U.S. Codes claimed (in whole or in part) to have been usurped by the FL. Supreme Court
Sec. 2. - Failure to make choice on prescribed day

Whenever any State has held an election for the purpose of choosing electors, and has failed to make a choice on the day prescribed by law, the electors may be appointed on a subsequent day in such a manner as the legislature of such State may direct

Sec. 5. - Determination of controversy as to appointment of electors

If any State shall have provided, by laws enacted prior to the day fixed for the appointment of the electors, for its final determination of any controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such State, by judicial or other methods or procedures, and such determination shall have been made at least six days before the time fixed for the meeting of the electors, such determination made pursuant to such law so existing on said day, and made at least six days prior to said time of meeting of the electors, shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes as provided in the Constitution, and as hereinafter regulated, so far as the ascertainment of the electors appointed by such State is concerned.

Sec. 6. - Credentials of electors; transmission to Archivist of the United States and to Congress; public inspection


It shall be the duty of the executive of each State, as soon as practicable after the conclusion of the appointment of the electors in such State by the final ascertainment, under and in pursuance of the laws of such State providing for such ascertainment, to communicate by registered mail under the seal of the State to the Archivist of the United States a certificate of such ascertainment of the electors appointed, setting forth the names of such electors and the canvass or other ascertainment under the laws of such State of the number of votes given or cast for each person for whose appointment any and all votes have been given or cast; and it shall also thereupon be the duty of the executive of each State to deliver to the electors of such State, on or before the day on which they are required by section 7 of this title to meet, six duplicate-originals of the same certificate under the seal of the State; and if there shall have been any final determination in a State in the manner provided for by law of a controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such State, it shall be the duty of the executive of such State, as soon as practicable after such determination, to communicate under the seal of the State to the Archivist of the United States a certificate of such determination in form and manner as the same shall have been made; and the certificate or certificates so received by the Archivist of the United States shall be preserved by him for one year and shall be a part of the public records of his office and shall be open to public inspection; and the Archivist of the United States at the first meeting of Congress thereafter shall transmit to the two Houses of Congress copies in full of each and every such certificate so received at the National Archives and Records Administration.

Sec. 7. - Meeting and vote of electors

The electors of President and Vice President of each State shall meet and give their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their appointment at such place in each State as the legislature of such State shall direct.

Jim Allen:
Bobby, Bluebird was a guy who posted here like it was a compulsion. He sometimes didn't make sense. He's been gone for a while, so PF needs a need playtime buddy.

Eastsidewa:
He hasn't supported Boeing,

Joe in Philly:
Check out the pic -- Saddam shows his true colors

The Vatican's Cardinal Renato Martino stressed the Roman Catholic Church's longtime opposition to capital punishment.

He said he felt \"compassion\" for Saddam, despite his crimes, after seeing images of \"this destroyed man\" being \"treated like a cow, having his teeth checked\" by an American military medic.

Joe in Philly:
Check out the pic -- Saddam shows his true colors

Given the recent Vatican embrace of Saddam, perhaps a Padres hat would be more appropriate

Jim Allen:
From the link Joe provided: Hee.

I see that the blog Joe linked to has its own version of our beloved PF, goes by the name of Natalie.

\"A couple from Knoxville, Tenn., Elaine and Will, agreed. 'I believe he was in on it on some level,' she said. 'He was around there someplace,' the husband said. Betty Hipp, San Antonio. 'Of course Saddam was responsible.'\"

AU Tiger in LA:
I'm trying to decipher Bill W's \"sure do y'all upstage bla bla bla uh huh duty.\"

JC:
Speaking of inevitable

Atta-Saddam link probably fake

William1865:
Lost in the hoopla of Saddam's capture was this intriguing story from the London Telegraph. Hope this link works, you might have to register.

fantomas:
Copman, come off it, please!

MIB:
I never really cared much about TIME's Man of the Year, but since we're discussing it, how about \"The American Soldier\" as this year's winner? In light of the Saddam capture, all the deaths and risks they've taken this year, etc., I think it wouldn't be a bad choice.

Just my $.02

Dec 21, 12:42 PM (ET)

By SARA KUGLER

NEW YORK (AP) - The American soldier, who bears the duty of \"living with and dying for a country's most fateful decisions,\" was named Sunday as Time magazine's Person of the Year.

The choice represents the 1.4 million men and women who make up the U.S. military, which led the invasion of Iraq nine months ago and a week ago captured deposed leader Saddam Hussein.

About 130,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq, with others deployed in Afghanistan, South Korea and elsewhere.

The troops were singled out as the top newsmakers of the year because \"the very messy aftermath of the war made it clear that the mission had changed, that the mission had not been completed and that this would be a story that would be with us for months, if not years, to come,\" Time Managing Editor Jim Kelly said.


The selection echoes 1950, the year the Korean War began, when the magazine's editors picked the American GI for the cover, writing that \"it was not a role the American had sought, either as an individual or as a nation. The U.S. fighting-man was not civilization's crusader, but destiny's draftee.\"

The 2003 Person of the Year package, on newsstands Monday, features an artillery survey unit from the 1st Armored Division to tell the story of the American soldier.

To applaud the US Army's capture of Saddam Hussein, and therefore in retrospect justify its invasion and occupation of Iraq, is like deifying Jack the Ripper for disemboweling the Boston Strangler. And that after a quarter-century partnership in which the Ripping and Strangling was a joint enterprise. It's an in-house quarrel. They're business partners who fell out over a dirty deal. Jack's the CEO.

bobby78751:
This soldier says that what the public knows about Saddam's capture is a lie. Why am I not surprised?
The Stroy

Hmmm ... why do I doubt this ex-GI's credibility? Could it be that there is no material variance between his story and the official report? Maybe it's because he was interviewed in Lebanon, which begs the quesion \"what's he doing there?\" Sounds like someone has a scimitar to grind. Or maybe I'm just one to \"question authority.\"

At this point, who knows what to think. The administration has lied, exaggerated, and \"spun\" so much during its entire tenure that it is actually difficult to know what, really, is the truth any more. They lied about WMDs, lied about the rescue of Jessie Lynch, staged the destruction of the statue of Saddam, spun the reasons for the invasion and the success of the war, hidden the number of Iraqi casualties, manipulated the terror warning system to suit their political needs, etc.

I suspect Jeff Gannon probably had something to do with all of this.

A week after Democratic legislators faulted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for using taxpayer money to produce \"propaganda\" in the form of a mock news video, the administration on Wednesday acknowledged making several others to advance its policies.

A state senator intends to question officials today about the funding and distribution of the videos.

Initially, legislators focused on one tape extolling an administration proposal to end mandatory lunch breaks for hourly workers. But additional videos have surfaced in which the administration is promoting a cut in the number of nurses required on duty in hospitals, pay for teachers based on merit rather than seniority and a more stringent tenure track.

gmginsfo:

Speaking of inconsistencies, I'll stick with FT's original 12-14-03 take on the capture, not his lately-turned rapture: