Cassidy's just a comic character; Spike's a real guy!

Anyone remember when the first issue of Preacher (Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon) came out? It came to me this afternoon that Cassidy bears some resemblence as a character to early Spike from Buffy. Not physical, but in general personality and outlook. If you gave quick summaries of their characters, one or two sentences, they could easily come out the same except one’s Irish and the other English. Hm, and Cassidy’s probably too much of a fuck-up ever to kill a Slayer.

Polling

CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll: Kerry leads Bush 52%-44%. That’s among “likely voters”, those saying they’re likely to vote:

That is because Democratic voters are indicating they are more likely to vote than the overall electorate -- something that has rarely happened in past elections and may be fueled by the interest in the recent Democratic primaries.

Among registered voters, Kerry still leads, but by a smaller margin. 52% polled said they expected Bush to win in November, which means most Democrats are pessimistic, but that number should change as these very polling results circulate.

And Kerry leads Bush 49%-42% in Florida.

Mistrusting journalists, continued

I spotted this headline and first paragraph from Voice of America on Google News at work, but didn’t follow to read the article till now:

CIA Chief Denies Bush Administration Manipulated Iraq Intelligence

The head of the Central Intelligence Agency says he does not believe the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. CIA Director George Tenet appeared before a Senate panel Tuesday.

I just grumbled to myself. Back at home, I checked CalPundit, and saw this entry quoting CIA chief Tenet talking about intelligence being misconstrued by the administration, and hunted up the above VOA article and read the whole thing. Go do it now. Your task: Find an actual quote from Tenet — not a paraphrase by reporter Deborah Tate — that supports that headline. I couldn’t.