Just to add a bit to yesterday’s list of lies from the VP debate, I’ve since found a few more of Dick Cheney’s whoppers. “Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I’m up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they’re in session.” No, he’s not. In […]
The Bush campaign has been focusing on an argument about expanding international support in Iraq that sounds kind of logical at first blush, but falls apart upon further inspection. Bush laid out this line of reasoning last week and Cheney follow up on the same point last night. In the last debate, for example, Bush […]
In case there was any doubt, there’s a startling difference between Ayad Allawi’s rhetoric when Bush officials are writing his remarks and when he’s speaking on his own. One is dishonest, the other true. One is embarrassingly wrong, the other sobering but accurate. At the White House for a campaign stop, I mean, diplomatic event […]
No wonder Bush seemed particularly uncomfortable today on the campaign stump. It’s not about the debates or the polls; it’s about reality constantly seeping in and making him look bad. Yesterday, it was Paul Bremmer announcing that America “paid a big price” as for Bush’s poor pre-invasion planning in Iraq. Today, it’s the Duelfer report. […]
Usually, when Bush is speaking from a script, he’s less inclined to make nonsensical arguments. When he’s giving a “significant speech,” as the White House described today’s speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Bush is usually on the top of his game. But Bush’s primary argument today — that John Kerry is wrong about Iraq — was […]
I’m beginning to think the Bush campaign just can’t think of a good response to the charges that the administration let Osama bin Laden slip through our grasp at Tora Bora. Kerry hammered away at this last week and Edwards followed up last night. “[W]e had Osama bin Laden cornered at Tora Bora. We had […]
This may seem like a minor point in the grand scheme of things, but I’m pretty sure Dick Cheney accidentally explained last night why he’s opposed to the U.S. embargo against Cuba. Ifill: Mr. Vice President, in June of 2000 when you were still CEO of Halliburton, you said that U.S. businesses should be allowed […]
The Fox News Channel clearly isn’t good at reporting the news, but I think we’ve finally discovered what the network does well: follow the instructions sent to them by the Bush campaign. As Ryan Lizza noticed, the Bush campaign sent out the following message to BC04 “surrogates”: We will be sending more talking points later […]
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a national figure tell so many lies in such a short period of time as I did last night. Dick Cheney’s reputation as a dishonest attack-dog is well-deserved, but he was in rare form last night. I counted 11 doozies, but there were no doubt more. Whopper #1: “[I]n […]
Usually, one would look to the actual participants in trying to decide who was hurt most by a debate. Not last night. There were two big losers from the VP debate — one was on the stage, one wasn’t, but neither were Edwards or Cheney. The Big Loser Runner-Up was PBS’s Gwen Ifill, whose questions […]