Category: 2004 Election

My buddy Sean Hannity loves to talk about John Kerry’s private plane and multiple SUVs as a way of blowing smoke over any sort of talk about environmental or oil issues. In fact, his smoke screens alone have probably added significantly to global warning, but I digress… In today’s Chronicle, there is an article I’ve…

I’ve been open to the Kerry McCain ticket, but it struck me this week that McCain may actually be (even) more useful to the Kerry campaign right where he is — a Republican, and at least nominally part of the Bush campaign — someone who can’t be completely dismissed by the Right, much less independents…

Political Wire: McCain Speculation Continues No, Kerry won’t nominate McCain (note: I am notoriously always wrong when I make predictions about McCain)… but the speculation lends him gravitas, what the folks in the early 19th century called “bottom.” Let the speculation continue. Make the convention suspenseful by keeping the veep nominee secret till the nominating…

There’s being right and there’s winning the argument and they are two different things. Those of us who feared the worst of the (unpreventable, post 2000 election, I’m afraid) adventure in Iraq were right in 2002 but we weren’t winning the argument. The blame-Cassandra tack that the administration-policy apologist dead-enders are taking now, I’m afraid,…

Index of Edgewise on ‘bush’

On McLehrer today Zbigniew Brzezinksy (sp?) reported from the late water’s-edge consensus (cold war, new world order, remember?) to remind us all that our government has undermined the crediblity of the words “weapons of mass destruction” and that we should be careful not to debase “sovereignty” as well starting on June 30. He then referred…

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…

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…

Or has Jim Lehrer been kicking Bush’s ass all week?

Cool/Lame has built a simple-brilliant website that compares the last five entries from the Bush and Kerry blogs side by side. It’s called Bush and Kerry Side by Side or Bush/Kerry for short. [via Scripting News]

update circa late 2004: with autumn upon us, a lot of people appear to be dropping by to read this entry on Clark Pumpkin Templates from late 2003. 1. Welcome! 2. Vote Kerry! 3. While you’re here, I thought I’d take this opportunity to suggest that for up-to-date political content, you might visit us at…

This could be a Sleeper. Just guessing, but a decisive blow to Bush’s reelection may emerge, during the Spring and through the Summer, from devastating declines in reenlistment in the Guard, Reserves, and regular Army. This will be very hard for him to defend against: It is hard facts, not interpretation. It will be a…