I really did plan on letting the Swiftboat story sink under its own corrupt weight, but there were just too many provocative details released since yesterday afternoon. I’m afraid I can’t help myself. First, and most importantly, is the latest connection between the Bush campaign and these lying liars. When Kerry suggested that Bush aides […]
Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper was facing jail time for refusing to answer questions about the Plame Game scandal, but reached an agreement and spoke to federal investigators yesterday. As has been the case with other journalists, questions continued to focus on just one White House staffer. Time magazine said in a statement today that […]
One of those “shadowy” 527 groups that Bush likes except when he doesn’t, has decided to launch an expensive national campaign against John Edwards’ pre-political legal career. I have a hunch the Republicans haven’t thought this one through. The United States Chamber of Commerce and other business groups plan to spend roughly $10 million attacking […]
There are at least two interesting things about the Bush campaign’s new TV ad in Nevada. One is substantive, the other strategic. Today, Bush-Cheney ’04 announced the release of the campaign’s newest television advertisement, “Kerry’s Yucca.” The new advertisement highlights the divide between John Kerry’s rhetoric and his voting record on the issue of a […]
To hear the Bush campaign tell it, John Kerry must have been out of his mind for recommending cuts to the intelligence budget in the 1990s. Indeed, the Bush gang was so outraged by Kerry’s supposed recklessness that they made it the subject of its own campaign commercial, which took Kerry to task because he […]
If you haven’t already seen it, be sure to read the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank’s piece about the frequency with which Bush tortures Kerry quotes in order to score cheap political points. It’s cynical, it’s dishonest, and it’s a genuine treat to see a reporter call Bush on it. For example, there’s what Kerry said […]
It’s as if Bush saw the similarities between the attacks on McCain in 2000 and the smear of Kerry this year and wanted to make the comparison absolutely perfect. * Bush’s hatchet men questioned McCain’s and Kerry’s service using the same people and the same rhetoric. Check. * Bush refused to denounce both of the […]
I can appreciate that some want to maintain the façade that the president’s words are his own, but the idea that Bush is writing his own convention speech is pretty silly. Q: How is work coming on your convention speech? What should we expect from it? Bush: …In terms of the speech, I’m working on […]
With all of their claims about Kerry’s heroism having been dispatched quickly and easily, the Swiftboat hacks’ attacks against Kerry have narrowed in on whether he was in Cambodia in 1968. It’s not a particularly important point, but the GOP hacks seem to believe it’s critical to some vague point that no one can identity. […]
Bush held an exceedingly rare press conference yesterday from Crawford (13 minutes total) in which he fielded several questions about the infamous Swiftboat lies. It was a simple and straightforward opportunity for Bush to take the high ground, denounce the malicious attacks, and move the campaign forward. He refused. “I’m denouncing all the stuff being […]