Category: 2004 Election

The whole was Bush wearing a wire? story really seems to have legs. Of course, Cecil noticed something odd was up back in April September of 2003 (His lips almost moving)*. A little more fuel for the fire: Bush the articulate… hearing voices, padded bulge from second debate, wiregate, the type of wire we mean…

Kos is polling his readers for ideas about his election-season column for the Guardian (UK). Here’s the comment I just posted to the thread: Write about ABC/Halpern/objectivity issue else they’ll just get Glennbot’s view of it, which will be so slanted as to produce an unconscious meta-parody of the issue at hand. plus, it ties…

He’s nearly speechless. Me too. It’s just another example of high-technology put to good purpose. Well worth your time. Checkitout, here.

Cecil: he must have a pedometer on “I’m worried about this country…” (or my reelection chances?) canadian drugs “I haven’t yet” … “a third world” “I went to Washington to fix problems.” If they’re safe they’re coming “President Clinton did the same thing” show me one accomplishment toward Medicare that he accomplished We did something…

Cecil: is he going to shout for 90 minutes? Contrast with kerry calm? who’s rattled? “…of course we’ll get bin laden” (contrast with “i don’t think about him much”) Bush repeats the 75% lie about al qaeda Re reaction shots: “he’s trying so hard not to smirk…” –Cecil “…didn’t guard the ammo dumps and now…

Kerry 51%, Bush 46%, Nader 1%, misc 1%; Kerry 304, Bush 234, Nader 0

It’s amazing to how many things have gone wrong for Bush since the first presidential debate just last Friday: Poland announces troop withdrawals right after Bush makes a big deal about us not forgetting Poland Fox News has truth problems on foxnews.com, effectively silencing the anti-Rather campaign Bremer drops the big one right before the…

Daily Kos :: Unbelievable – AP Election Day story ALREADY filed (screenshot downthread)… Another mistake, more innocent than the last few (Fox fakes, AP debate coverage filed in advance) no doubt. Tinfoil hat time. If nothing else, even in their boilerplate the AP bends. over backward to avoid the appearance of liberal bias. We’re about…

Alex DeLarge of Martini Republic surmises that Bush, like Vonnegut’s protagonist Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse Five has “come unstuck in time.”

In about a week and a half, I’m going to make the leap to door-to-door volunteer work in a battleground state. I’ve done phone banks and such a little bit over the years, but this kind of face-to-face thing is new to me, let alone face-to-face in a foreign land. I was a little lost…

It’s the little things that get your attention sometimes. Like John Edwards saying “Yes Maam” to moderator Gwen Ifill in the Veep debate last night. That’s a southern boy speaking. Contrast that with Dick Cheney constantly saying “Gwen” and “Gwen” having to respond each time with “Mr. Vice President.” But for me the defining moment…

I’ve never been much of a fan of pundit Andrew Sullivan. He’s a master of cognitive dissonance and he often goes for the cheap shot (referring to the antiwar left as a potential “fifth column” on the eve of Iraq War II, for example), but I think he may be onto something in his analysis…

And the Kerry site has the goods:

Ifill asked Cheney to compare himself to Edwards. He says that though he doesn’t talk about himself much he is also the son of a mill worker, or something like that. He’s been laid off and hospitalized without healthcare. He left out a few other points of difference: “I’ve been arrested for drunk driving.” “I…

Edwards evokes the Enron image again (I paraphrase): I pay all my taxes. Halliburton took advantage of every loophole with multiple offshore entities Cheney’s response: the worthless drug-discount card.

OK, Ifill set one up. If Edwards can’t knock this one out of the park….

Hmmm, sounds like Edwards had a good answer ready for the Kerry-voted-for-tax-increases-98-times memes (which includes procedural motions and so on, as I recall). I guess if you overcount the same way, you can find 600 votes to cut taxes by Kerry. Throwing back their lousy methodology in their face is a good idea. Cheney’s pate…

Wow, I didn’t know that. I know he opposed the MLK holiday and Nelson Mandela’s freedom, but I enjoyed Edwards’ litany o fCheney’s paleoconservative congressional voting record. Wish Edwards hadn’t jumped in to defend how much he talked about Israel in response to Ifill’s quip. Still, Cheney starves old people. Whodathunkit?

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…