'Rally round the president when the nation is at war' is the American tradition -- but only for a time. Bush was able to keep Iraq at bay long enough to get re-elected, but the debacle threatens to derail his second term.
During his 'Meet the Press' appearance, RNC chair Ken Mehlman was allowed to distort, twist, manipulate and obfuscate his way through every stop on the disinformation highway.
An excerpt from the <i><a href="http://www.alternet.org/sms/">Start Making Sense</a></i> section Understanding the Election: "Interview with Arianna Huffington."
Bush's definition of homeland security doesn't include things like the safety of our streets, especially the streets of our inner cities, which have become war zones.
When it comes to dealing with the many energy-related crises we're facing, can the Bushies really go on pretending that their policies are any more forward-looking than a rerun of <i>That '70s Show</i>?
It's one thing for credit card companies to exact their pound of flesh even as their profits soar. But shouldn't we hold our elected officials to a higher standard?
Michael Eisner is the Disneyland doppelganger of Arnold Schwarzenegger – both men forge personal bonds with others, then turn around and stab them in the the back.
By even the most charitable standard, the effort to rebuild Iraq has been an unmitigated disaster – it's a cornucopia of waste, fraud, cronyism, secret no-bid contracts and profiteering cloaked in patriotism.
The Iraqi election's Kodak moment, however moving, should not be allowed to erase all that came before it, leaving us unprepared for all that may come after it.
The Democrats should do everything in their admittedly diminished power to try to place some conditions before they vote for another $80 to $100 billion in supplemental funding for the war in Iraq.
The evidence is overwhelming. Everywhere you look, it's IOUs passed on to future generations: Record federal debt. Record foreign debt. Record budget deficits. Record trade deficits.
All indications point to a radical turnaround in young voter turnout in the coming election – a turnaround fueled by a force more powerful than all the electoral hurdles placed in young people's way.
Despite mounting evidence that poll results can't be trusted, pundits and politicians continue to treat them with a reverence ancient Romans reserved for chicken entrails.
Bush and the GOP have taken their bible-thumping ways to a whole new level: now they're using the Good Book to try and bash in the skulls of their opponents.
This Howler has to come in John Kerry's voice – and the message has to be pounded, Rove-style, day after day, week after week, until it sinks in.
The word is that after a summer of substance-free campaign stumping, the president is ready to tangle with "the vision thing" and roll out his second term plans for America.
Thanks to a tidal wave of polls, focus groups, Powerpoint presentations, slideshows, studies, and laboratory dissections, we now know more about undecided voters than we do about almost anyone else involved in the 2004 campaign – including the candidates.
