Category: 2004 Election

I don’t think Edwards is tearing up Cheney the way I hoped he would, but i did enjoy just now when Cheney said he’d need more than 30 seconds to defend Halliburton’s crimes and Gwen Ifill told him, in effect, “tough luck.”

Digby deconstructs the “two faces of Bush” meme.

At Blue Lemur (White House fueled CBS ‘memo-gate’ by withholding document; Was it all a set-up?) there’s more evidence that the “forgery consensus” about the Texas Air National Guard scandal was carefully cultivated from the top. It sure put Bush’s questionable behavior and avoidance of fulfilling his cushy responsibilities off the table through November. I…

I think it will. I have been among the eldest citizens for years (though my attention has drifted lately). I have felt it was a unique dialectic of candor that would turn out to be redemptive for the United States. The OG’s (“Original Gangstas”) of my own generation are on tour right now for the…

It’s been a pretty solid 20 hours (and counting) for John Kerry. But the Cheney/Bush team are industrious folks. We don’t know exactly what’s brewing. Not yet. But you can hear the shouting behind closed doors at the White House. And the clippity-clop clippity-clop in the evening fog. Something nasty this way comes. Brace for…

I just took a Pew Center online poll designed to gather the views of people involved in the Dean primary campaign. It seemed like a decent polls but when we were asked for our opinions on some key issues, I felt that the either/or choices offered were subliminally slanting the issues in a media-inflected way…