Kerry’s picked up an awful lot of newspaper endorsements, but that’s no big deal — right? Because newspapers are all so liberal.
Despite having worked for two conservative-leaning newspapers and a conservative-leaning news magazine, I would have thought Ed Gillespie was right on that score. I would have thought wrong:
bq. Since 1940 when the industry trade [...] Read more »

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Ah. Looks like they’ve settled on a cover story, at least for now. It’s the “it was gone when we got there” defense.
Which, if true, means that the chaos from our invasion encouraged and/or permitted the distribution of these weapons from a secure, known, monitored situation to one that was insecure, unknown, and unmonitored. [...] Read more »

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When things are this bad you have to take your entertainment where you can, so I have been waiting with baited breath to see how the kool-aid drinking portion of the Right will spin the al Qa Qaa issue into “no big deal.”
Bush campaign spokesman “Steve Schmidt says”:http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_10_24.php#003785: “John Kerry has no vision [...] Read more »

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At some point, a large majority of the people who are currently supporting George W. Bush are going to realize that, for all his folksy manner and macho kick-em-in-the-nuts swagger, George W. Bush is incompetent. He is incompetent now, he has always been incompetent, and he will always be incompetent. He has always always always [...] Read more »

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OK, first and foremost I don’t know what the answer is. But it’s clear our election process is _completely screwed up_ in this country. Was it screwed up before and we just didn’t notice? Possibly. But before when interest was low and landslides were the rule, it probably didn’t make a great deal of difference. [...] Read more »

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