It’s bad enough that Bush has sent hundreds of thousands of troops to fight in a war against an enemy that wasn’t a threat, but it’s just as outrageous that those troops can’t count on Bush to fully fund their benefits if they come home with injuries. Thousands of U.S. troops returning from Iraq and […]
Guess who thinks John Kerry’s right about the Bush’s pre-invasion failures in Iraq? The former U.S. official who governed Iraq after the invasion said yesterday that the United States made two major mistakes: not deploying enough troops in Iraq and then not containing the violence and looting immediately after the ouster of Saddam Hussein. Ambassador […]
I had never heard of “Gold Star Mother’s Day” until my friend Phil mentioned it the other day, but it’s a special day to honor mothers who have lost children in combat. In fact, Bush issued this year’s proclamation last week to honor these mothers. Americans have always answered the call to serve our Nation. […]
The Bush campaign couldn’t just accept defeat in the first debate and move on; they have to flail around until they find something on which they can focus their attention. Four years ago, it was Al Gore’s “sighs”; this week, it’s John Kerry’s “Global Test.” Gore’s breathing proved to be an effective distraction; the “Global […]
One of the highlights of the debate was Kerry telling the now-famous story of how France was prepared to take the United States’ word at face value during the Cuban Missile Crisis. “We can remember when President Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis sent his secretary of state to Paris to meet with DeGaulle. And […]
In his weekly radio address (listened to by exactly six people nationwide), Bush laid out his primary economic accomplishments as president. “The unemployment rate is now 5.4 percent, down almost a full point since June, 2003, and below the average rate of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The home ownership rate is at an all-time […]
The New York Times appears to have buried the lede today in its story about Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.). The Times emphasizes what we already know: he won’t vote for Bush on Election Day. The story, however, included a lot of interesting information about Chafee’s future. For example, Chafee has been talking about his options […]
In one of the more memorable exchanges of last week’s debate, Bush emphasized the significance of Poland’s role in the war in Iraq. Kerry: [W]hen we went in, there were three countries: Great Britain, Australia and the United States. That’s not a grand coalition. We can do better. Bush: Well, actually, he forgot Poland. And […]
Chalk up another life-long Republican who is anxious to vote for John Kerry. This time the issue is the environment and the Republican is Nixon’s former EPA director. Russell Train is so disappointed in President Bush’s environmental record that the staunch Republican, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s second leader 30 years ago, is casting his […]
From the front page of Saturday’s Washington Post: The Internet, which was created in the 1960s as a communications network that could survive a Soviet nuclear attack, has emerged as a prime tool of Islamic radicals. They use its anonymity to coordinate operations secretly and to get their message to the public sphere with little […]