Author: pete

  • Happy days are already here again

    [Cecil, if you don’t smile over this, please report to an ER.] Thursday evening, homeward commute time; corner of Treat Bl. and Clayton Rd. in Concord, California (medium-size intersection in a medium-size suburb): A dozen people scattered around all the sidewalks, waving Kerry/Edwards signs. Now, this is antithesis of a battleground state. And it’s in…

  • Best Analysis of a Politician Ever

    Digby deconstructs the “two faces of Bush” meme.

  • Handy Retort #3

    Another snappy answer for Cecil’s collection: “Wrong leadership is not strong leadership.” (TM Orcinus, which is having a helluva fine blogging week and where you should read the entire post, including the very long litany of “Just remember: It wasn’t Democrats who…”)

  • Beaming Republican faces

    I’m not watching the RNC convention. (“Why bother?” I thought, since I pretty much know the Repo script and it’s just as simplistic as Starlight Express, though with a plot that has far less contact with reality). But Cecil’s posts made me curious, so I poked around. From reading about the convention at Tacitus, Instapundit,…

  • Bush loses the 2012 Olympics?

    Following up on Boris Khadinov’s note about the pro-Bush ad that takes advantage of the Olympics: various blogs are now repeating a quote from the German magazine Der Spiegel (here translated by me). An unnamed IOC member says that because Bush won’t stop running the ad, “New York’s chances to host [the Olympics in 2012]…