September 1st, 2004
The Bush twins’ introduction of their mother (and father) can only be described as dada. Could it be that they, like John Kerry before them, wrote their convention remarks themselves?
0 commentsSeptember 1st, 2004
Hugh Hewitt had a tussle with Terry McAuliffe this morning. The transcript should be up soon, stay tuned.
0 commentsSeptember 1st, 2004
Mickey Kaus is all over this week’s hidden story: The possible Team Kerry shake-up.
Hey, it worked for Howard Dean! Oh, wait, never mind.
0 commentsSeptember 1st, 2004
Okay, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s a great guy, and bully for him for being governor and coming to speak at the convention, but should he really have emphasized in his personal narrative how it was Richard Nixon who made him a Republican?
Here me now and listen to me the day after next Tuesday, I am a Nixon Republican!
0 commentsAugust 31st, 2004
It’s true the press has been giving John Kerry a hard time. Here’s how one columnist recently described the Democratic presidential nominee: “…Kerry is frustrating and infuriating because he seems not to believe much of anything worth risking offense … what infuriates [me] about Kerry is his wish to be all things to all people–or, at any rate, not to give them any basis for attacking him…. Is Kerry acting on advice of his political advisers, or does he really have no important and articulable policy differences with the man he would replace? If the former, it strikes me as questionable advice; if the latter, it suggests a president who would be weak on leadership.” The columnist is not, however, George Will or Charles Krauthammer. Rather, it is lefty writer William Raspberry in yesterday’s Washington Post.
And today another columnist says Kerry “seems to be speaking from under water, making glub, glub sounds as he tries to explain his original vote in support of the Iraq war resolution, his subsequent vote against funding the war and now his conduct in Vietnam lo these many years ago and what he said afterward … as a public speaker he is no public speaker.” The writer goes on describe the senator as being trapped “in a kind of rhetorical molasses” and thinks he ought to learn from John McCain. “It is a magical thing McCain does: Tell the truth, tell it simply and get on with life.” And again, this columnist is no Robert Novak, but rather the liberal Richard Cohen.
What’s next? An article by James Carville calling John Kerry the second coming of Michael Dukakis? Unlikely, but at least we know there are some on the left who are starting to think this.
0 commentsAugust 31st, 2004
For fellow Monk fans, a tragedy.
0 commentsWill They Wear White?
August 31st, 2004
Also from the Times this morning:
“We are going to be out there dressed in white, to stand out and be dramatic,” said Ed Hedemann, an organizer of the War Resisters League, which describes itself as a secular, pacifist organization. “Probably by the end of our incarceration we will be grubby.”
Yeah. Probably.
0 commentsRadical Chic
August 31st, 2004
What’s with the mainstreaming of this suicide-bomber/jihadi fashion of wearing a handkerchief to cover one’s face? Sure, it was once a cowboy thing, but it’s been a terrorist thing for a while, and now your more stylish American street protester has made it into a must-have accessory. Rosario Dawson, hot actress, dimbulb Bush hater was arrested in NYC yesterday, marching on Madison Square Garden. Says Fox news Channel website: “She and another person were wearing handkerchiefs as masks with only their eyes showing.”
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