Via Oliver Willis, I see that Bob Graham has a weblog. Here is a sample post (careful- not all the entries are by Bob):
Today we discovered that the trailers found in Iraq that the president claims were used to produce weapons of mass destruction were actually being used to produce hydrogen for weather balloons. The American people need to have confidence that our president will tell us the truth. It seems George Bush is finding it increasingly difficult to either tell the truth, or listen to the truth tellers.
Clearly, of all the blogs I have seen from politicians, Graham seems to be the most natural at it (although I have seen only a limited sample). Maybe it is from all the years of diary keeping..
David Perron
I heard that story a number of months ago but never really bought it. First of all, they claimed that the hydrogen was produced by some fermentation process. I know of no such process. Not saying it doesn’t exist, but I believe if it did the whole hydrogen fuel cell business wouldn’t still be in the wishful-thinking phase. Second of all…well, there really isn’t much of a second. It’s more of a corollary to the first: if they were making hydrogen through some non-fermentive process, then it’s almost fot to be through electrolysis. Question: where does the power come from? You need a gob of powere to electorlyze hydrogen out of water; why on earth would you do it in some portable facility when it’s much, much, much easier to do it somewhere that connects to the grid, and then compress it into a cylinder?
Again, not saying it’s not true, but there’s so friggin’ little detail to this story that what is known points directly away from the hydrogen-production theory.
Tom Maguire
I don’t know waqht else Bob Graham learned today, but the rest of us learned that he is numb to nuance, and unreliable as a reporter.
From the NY Times:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8