Category: 2004 Election

The other day we watched Rumsfeld struggle through a press conference, pointing to some weak press release (no doubt on a Friday evening amidst 100 other unrelated press releases, but still how come no one picked it up in January? or is he lying? who’s checking this?), floundering without successfully wielding hardly any of his…

Here’s a quick one-liner from my good pal, the Monkey Man: “George Bush isn’t a big picture guy — (oooh oooh! aaaah aaaah!) — he’s more of a big picture book guy.” And there it is: Your Monkey Man one-liner of the day.

When I read in the Times that Dean’s teenage son said to him (I can just imagine thte exact tone of voice) “I can’t believe you ran for president!” and Dean said that it made him laugh, I liked all the more, all over again. Last night the local DFA organizers in Berkeley and Oakland…

I’ve boiled down the messages of the last three viable presidential candidates in this election. Eventually, I got it down to one word each, so here they are: Dean: Truth Kerry: Nuance Bush: Lies

I think I’ve got the storyline that wins the election for Kerry. (Caveat: I’ve been out on limbs before.) Taegan Goddard notes that Kerry has thus far successfully targeted veterans. Here’s how I see it. Kerry served. He did his duty. Like all thinking people of his age group in that time, he had doubts…

Great comment from a reader of Kevin “CalPundit” Drum’s new Political Animal blog / column at The Washington Monthly: A lot of my family are conservatives and they are turning on W. Some are just upset about deficit spending, but most are learning that lying about your sex life is nothing when compared to lying…