According to the president, David Kay’s opinion is a matter of significant importance. “In 2002, the United Nations Security Council yet again demanded a full accounting of Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs. As he had for over a decade, Saddam Hussein refused to comply. In fact, according to former weapons inspector David Kay, Iraq’s weapons programs […]
A month after Barack Obama delivered one of the best keynote addresses I’ve ever heard, the Republicans have announced their keynote speaker for this year’s convention. You may have heard of him; his name is Zell Miller. Ed Gillespie, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Mark Wallace, Bush-Cheney ’04 Deputy Campaign Manager, today announced […]
Almost 10 months to the day after Donald Rumsfeld announced a Pentagon investigation into Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, we learn what was pretty obvious all along — Boykin was violating military guidelines for official conduct. Boykin, you may recall, caused a bit of a stir last fall […]
Bush did his best to emphasize his record on helping veterans yesterday, but he left out some important details that military families probably should know. Hoping to gather enough support in northwestern Wisconsin to turn the state his way in November, President Bush said Wednesday he will push for extra education benefits for National Guard […]
The Bush campaign’s decision to try and obtain church directories for partisan political use continues to haunt them. Good; it was a sleazy move that deserves the negative attention it’s received. It started a couple of months ago, when a “religious outreach” scheme was launched. The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has sent a detailed plan of […]
Larry Thurlow, one of Kerry’s leading attackers as part of the Swiftboat Veterans for Bush, has been insisting that Kerry doesn’t deserve a Bronze Stars for a firefight in 1969 because Kerry’s boat wasn’t under enemy fire. Kerry and everyone who was on Kerry’s boat remember things differently and think Thurlow is lying. If only […]
I admit it; I’m addicted to anecdotes like these. There are a million of ’em, but I’m collecting them all. The Washington Post’s Richard Leiby spoke this week to John Prather, a “mild-mannered math prof” at Ohio University’s Eastern Campus, who came up with a clever idea to see which campaign better tolerates dissent. Prather’s […]
Quinnipiac released its latest poll data from Pennsylvania today (Kerry’s up by five, 47-42), which I’ll get into in more detail later. However, there was one piece of data that stood out for me. Military veterans or voters with a household member who is a veteran or currently in active duty or reserve service support […]
Carpetbagger regular David S. wrote in with a really good point, following up on this morning’s item about Bush and missile defense. David noticed another part of Bush’s statement that’s just as disturbing as the parts I emphasized earlier. Specifically, just to refresh your memory, Bush boasted, “We want to continue to perfect this system, […]
I really don’t know what to make of this one. In talking about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (or, in this case, the lack thereof), Bush offered us this gem last night: “Even though we didn’t find the stockpiles we affected (sic) — to find, Saddam Hussein had the capability of making weapons.” Usually, […]