Good for Pat Buchanan, normally on Morning Joe, at the Dem convention; he keeps reminding them and us of the softball festival these three days have been. Bill Clinton said the word "torture." But what about the war, the police state, the spying, the lying? Nada. "Where was the word Guantanamo?" asked Pat. Disappeared and renditioned.

When I was in Republican politics - before going straight - a former aide to Nelson Rockefeller told me how Rocky, when he was elected governor of New York, had a special squad from the state police bug the office and home of every state senator. Subsequently, they seldom told him no. Is this one reason the Dictator wanted unlimited bugging power after 9/11? Does he now have the goods on the Dems? After all, the State wants most to control Americans. Arabs? Nobody in the security organs can speak Arabic.