Category: 2004 Election

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…