Category: 2004 Election

From Thursday’s Bush/Allawi press conference: Q: do you believe, given the situation on the ground and Fallujah and other northern cities in the Sunni triangle, that elections are possible in four months? BUSH: I do, because the [Iraqi] prime minister [Allawi] told me they are. He’s interested in moving this country forward. And you heard…

From today’s press conference with Allawi (quoted in a Daily Kos diary): Secondly, I saw a poll that said the right track/wrong track in Iraq was better than here in America. (Chuckles.) Bush could retroactively earn that honorable discharge by volunteering now to serve in country.

Russ Baker reports on the fortunate son/black sheeps’ doings in Houston and Alabama that surrounded his apparently incomplete service in the Air National Guard in the Nation. Apparently he was having trouble flying the planes he was trained on, getting into trouble, and unwilling to take a physical exam: One middle-aged woman whose general veracity…

It’s not who did or didn’t go to war, who did or didn’t support Vietnam, who was or wasn’t injured abroad or defending the homeland. It’s the trail of lies in the form of memoirs, advertisement, and puffed-up resume line items (Daily Kos :: New US NEWS undisputed analysis: Bush was AWOL): Some experts say…

You know, I don’t think we should be using the word “conservative” to describe right-wing extremism. Too many people, even people with a fair number of progressive, even liberal political views, see themselves as conservative, and see conservatism as a good thing that means something like preserving what’s good and not changing things too fast.…

Brokentype: So Long RNC (via Ftrain linky love).