Category: 2004 Election

Fahrenheit 9/11 is a very big deal by any standard. “Steven Spielberg has said the film could reap $100 million.” (article) But the specific electoral impact is going to be enormously magnified, because it is soo perfectly aligned with the sweet-spot of Bush’s popular support. The Alignment This scene is already famous: NYT, 6/20/04 “[T]he…

“Recalling Anguish in 2000, Kerry Is Mum on His No. 2” reads the NYTimes piece (Sat. June 19) by David M. Halbfinger. “I don’t think John went through life fantasizing about being on the ticket as vice president,” an associate comments. Why not? Because being vice president, according to one former incumbent of the job,…

If only we could get some of Rove and Norquist’s sweet sweet money into our grubby little proletarian hands: Political Wire: Dirty Political Blog Tricks kos sez: Man, if we are working for Rove, I don’t think the guy is getting his money’s worth.

link nipped from Mark A. R. Kleiman: The Zen of Bushism: The Zen of Bushism Evan Eisenberg explicates Bushido: The Way of the Armchair Warrior. Knowledge is not important. The armchair warrior strives to attain a state beyond knowledge, a state of deep, non-knowing connection to the universe: in particular, to that portion of the…

Kos linked over to this extraordinary chart that shows the ups and downs of presidential popularity for Bush I and II, Reagan, Carter, and Clinton. I’ve been hoping to find something like this for weeks, to draw my own side by side comparisons without, er, benefit of media interpretation. In that same spirit, I’ll let…