As I’ve mentioned on (probably too) many occasions, Bush addresses large crowds all of the time, but the audiences are almost always made up of adoring fans. When he hosts an “Ask the President” event, the questions are exclusively positive set-ups, agreed upon in advance and designed to make Bush look good. The point is […]
George W. Bush continues to have a silly affinity for an unworkable missile-defense system. It hasn’t made a lot of headlines, but the initial deployment of his missile-defense program is just months away. The administration realizes, to at least a limited extent, that a missile-defense program is about as meaningful as weapons of mass destruction-related […]
Some of my more widely read colleagues endorse favorite candidates with some regularity, so I thought I’d get in on the fun and let readers know about a friend of mine, Nathan Rudy, who’s running for Freeholder in Somerset County, NJ. (In New Jersey, a “Freeholder” is a county commissioner and is responsible for human […]
You’d think that illegally using a non-profit organization’s offices for his campaign would offer Ralph Nader a little extra money. It’s not; this is a campaign with some serious financial troubles. In Pennsylvania, for example, Nader’s campaign hired dozens of petition circulators, many of them homeless, to help try and get their guy on the […]
Bush, two years ago: “I have no ambition whatsoever to use [9/11] as a political issue.” Bush in his new TV campaign ad, titled “Solemn Duty,” unveiled today: “I can’t imagine the great agony of a mom or a dad having to make the decision about which child to pick up first on September the […]
Bush continues to give almost the identical stump speech everywhere he goes, but I noticed a little something different about his remarks in Pensacola, Fla., yesterday. It wasn’t new rhetoric Bush has added to the speech; it’s something he took out. Two weeks ago, for example, Bush was really enjoying his “turn the corner” rhetoric. […]
Bush’s decision to announce Rep. Peter Goss (R-Fla.) as his pick to be the director of the CIA seemed to suffer from odd timing. Most officials in DC have been focusing on which recommendations from the 9/11 Commission needed immediate attention, Goss is likely to spark partisan tensions on the Hill, and the government’s intelligence […]
Dick “Go F— Yourself” Cheney lies with such reckless audacity, it’s hard to catch them all, but this one’s a gem. For months, the Bush campaign has repeated — ad nauseum — the ridiculous myth that John Kerry is the Senate’s #1 liberal, followed closely by John Edwards, who’s #4. It’s always been a twisted, […]
Well, I’ve been hoping for a year that someone would go to jail over the Plame Game scandal, I just didn’t expect it to be Matt Cooper. A federal judge has held a Time magazine reporter in contempt of court for refusing to testify in an investigation of the leak of a CIA officer’s identity, […]
We’ve seen Bush loyalty oaths and people getting arrested for wearing Kerry t-shirts to see the president speak, but the Bush campaign continues to push the envelope. This week, as Jesse Taylor noticed, BC04 removed ticket-holders from a Bush event because their clothing included a pro-choice message. Campaign workers removed the Millers — Marvin, Barbara […]