So much for the Republican Help America Vote Act. And remember to bring your ID to the polls, especially if you are a first time voter. The Republicans are trying to turn away new voters, so be prepared. You have a right to vote, and don’t let anyone stop you! Now [...]

Cheney didn’t need a costume, he’s scary enough…

From Mary Jacoby in Salon:
For 25 years, Yoshi Tsurumi, one of George W. Bush’s professors at Harvard Business School, was content with his green-card status as a permanent legal resident of the United States. But Bush’s ascension to the presidency in 2001 prompted the Japanese native to secure his American citizenship. The reason: to be [...]

This morning, top Bush surrogate and GOP Convention headliner Rudy Giuliani blamed our troops in Iraq for the President’s failure to secure 380 tons of explosives in Iraq:
“No matter how you try to blame it on the president the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search [...]

From Paul Krugman in the New York Times:
…It’s remarkable that the right-wingers who dominate cable news and talk radio are still complaining about a liberal stranglehold over the media. But, that absurdity aside, they’re missing a crucial point: Al Qaqaa is hardly the only tale of incompetence and mendacity to break to the surface in [...]

Remember Maude used to say, “God will get you for that, Walter”? Well all I can say is, Mr. Bush, boy, is God going to get you. From Arianna Huffington:
…Nowhere is this blending of church and campaign more evident than in “George W. Bush: Faith in the White House,” a DVD being distributed [...]

Rudy Guiliani once again licks Bush’s boots, with a greedy eye toward the treats his master will dispense if elected. Bush and the Bushublicans have shown their “support” for the troops by pushing cuts to their pay and benefits, and waging a war of choice without adequate planning or protection. From the Guardian:
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From Doonesbury:
“So the only mistake you made was appointing a few aides who made the mistake of pointing out your mistakes.”
And check out the flap over Saturday’s Doonesbury. But remember it’s OK for Cheney to tell a U.S. Senator, “Go F- yourself” on the floor of the U.S. Senate…

IraqDraft.com

Bush and Cheney first tried to deny it happened, now are blaming the troops. From Reuters:
ABC News on Thursday showed video that appeared to confirm that explosives that went missing in Iraq did not disappear until after the United States had taken control of the facility where they were stored.
The disappearance of the hundreds [...]

From the Rocky Mountain News:
A number of lifelong Republicans gathered at Kerry-Edwards headquarters in Denver on Monday to endorse Democrats this year.
Members of the group said they had soured for various reasons on President Bush’s policies and would not support his re-election.
At the same rally, Mayor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, formally endorsed John Kerry and [...]

More incriminating video of Holy Bush. Methinks Jesus never struck this pose. And that voice in Bush’s head telling him to go to war in Iraq wasn’t God’s.

Texans for Truth video of Bush giving the “one-fingered salute” while governor of Texas

From Truthout:
I have been a registered Republican since I first became eligible to vote. I’ve been an Air Force officer for 20 years, first on active duty and now in the reserves. I gladly voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and supported his battle to win the Cold War. If called to serve in Iraq, [...]

From the AFP:
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of the late Democratic president John Kennedy, urged Republican President George W. Bush not to invoke her father’s name in his campaigning against Democratic rival John Kerry.
“It’s hard for me to listen to President Bush invoking my fathers memory to attack John Kerry. Senator Kerry has demonstrated his courage [...]

From the AP:
…Seven weeks after quadruple bypass heart surgery, looking pale and unusually thin, the former president came back to give John Kerry a sendoff for the final week of the campaign ? promoting his own presidency as well ? and bluntly framed the campaign between Kerry and President Bush…
There were flashes of Clinton at [...]

Kerry has lined up endorsements from all the big papers, and even papers from some surprising places (including Bush’s home town.) It’s pretty darned obvious to those who are paying attention that Bush has messed up the country big time. And Kerry has solid plans to turn things around. From Montana’s Billings [...]

From the Los Angeles Times:
Nationwide, at least two polls in the last week showed that newly registered voters favored Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry by double-digit margins. The Massachusetts senator holds an even greater lead, the polls found, among voters 29 and younger, many of whom will be voting for the first time.
Democratic strategists [...]

From the Washington Post:
…ON THE DOMESTIC side, Mr. Bush and his Republican allies in the House have governed as heavy-handed partisans. We applaud Mr. Bush’s campaign to promote accountability in elementary and secondary schools, and some of his other ideas may sound attractive as well: a degree of privatization to give people more control over [...]

American Conservative Magazine, while blindsided by prejudice against Democrats, has been no Bush Fan Club. While founder Pat Buchanan essentially says, Bush sucks, but he’s a Republican, so I’m voting for him, editor Scott McConnell says Bush must go in order to save the Republican party. From the American Conservative:
… To the surprise [...]

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From The Nation:
100 reasons not to vote for Bush

Another in a long line of Republicans appalled by the Bush presidency. From the Star Tribune:
Throughout my tenure and beyond as the 30th governor of this state, I have been steadfastly aligned – and until recently, proudly so – with the Minnesota Republican Party.
It dismays me, therefore, to have to publicly disagree with the [...]

The latest Gallup poll is trumpeting a large Bush lead through corporate news outlets all across the country. Now that’s odd. I’ve never seen so many people determined to boot a president from office in my life. People are volunteering who never even voted before. Did they forget the huge turnout [...]

From the Guardian:
George Bush suffered an embarrassing rebellion from the ranks yesterday when the founder of the conservative Christian Coalition said the White House had dismissed the very idea of US casualties in Iraq during the run-up to the war.
In an interview with CNN, the movement’s founder, Pat Robertson, described a conversation with Mr Bush [...]

One evil empire down, one to go. Forgive this lifetime Orioles fan and Yankee hater for talking about baseball on a political blog, but I must acknowledge a remarkable performance by the Red Sox. Any lover of the game of baseball has to appreciate the singular achievement of coming back from 0-3 in [...]

Yes, that most important of all decisions – who is president of the United States of America – should be made on who you “connect with.” For God’s sake, elect a president, not a significant other. And preferably one who is intelligent this time, is that too much to ask?
From the USA Today:
The [...]

The debates revealed to the nation a man unable to grasp basic policy issues. And this interview reveals a man speaking gibberish about one of the most compelling issues of our time. That this man is acting president of the most powerful nation in the world is truly disturbing. From the AP:
Q: Do [...]

From Jacob Weisberg in Slate:
The question I am most frequently asked about Bushisms is, “Do you really think the president of the United States is dumb?”
The short answer is yes.
The long answer is yes and no.
Quotations collected over the years in Slate may leave the impression that George W. Bush is a dimwit. Let’s face [...]

From Reuters:
President Bush governs from a “love of power” and right-wing ideology rather than religious beliefs, and he has yet to hold anyone in his administration accountable for mistakes, former Vice President Al Gore said on Monday.
As the campaign by Bush and Democrat John Kerry for president headed into the last stretch before the Nov. [...]

From James K. Galbraith in Salon:
I knew Bruce Bartlett well when we were young antagonists over the Reagan revolution. He was deputy director of the congressional Joint Economic Committee, head of the Republican staff, and a supply-side point man on Capitol Hill. I was his counterpart, working for the beleaguered Democrats under Rep. Henry Reuss. [...]

If you aren’t reading the Emerging Democratic Majority blog by Ruy Teixeira to make sense of the polls, you should be. Check out this entry by contributor Alan Abramowitz:
Fasten your seat belts and make sure that your tray tables and seat backs are in their fully upright and locked positions. The 2004 presidential campaign [...]

From the New York Times:
enator John Kerry goes toward the election with a base that is built more on opposition to George W. Bush than loyalty to his own candidacy. But over the last year we have come to know Mr. Kerry as more than just an alternative to the status quo. We like what [...]

Bush was floundering about, failing at all the businesses opportunities his father pulled strings to get him, then Karl Rove decided he should be governor of Texas, and 6 years after that, he was president of the United States. He simply doesn’t have the experience, and worse yet, is now ruling no differently than [...]

Damn, he’s good. Tucker Carlson, the joke’s on you.
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This is great:
Freeway Free Speech Day

This directly contradicts John O’Neill’s fabrications. So on the one hand, we’ve got Kerry’s shipmates and the Vietnamese eye witnesses corroborating the official US Navy story that John Kerry earned his medals. On the other hand is a Bush campaign-financed attack dog from the Nixon years promoting baseless partisan lies. From ABC [...]

From the Clarion Ledger:
A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a “suicide mission” to deliver fuel, the troops’ relatives said Thursday.
The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq – north of Baghdad – because their vehicles were [...]

And please, let’s not forget the severely wounded. Their lives – and the lives of their families – will never be the same.
Iraq Casualties by name and place of death

Be sure to check this one out. From Bob Whitby in the Orlando Weekly:
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you believe, George W. Bush has betrayed you, specifically and repeatedly.
Are you a law-and-order type? Then you should probably know that Bush has an arrest record (see reason No. 24). Are you a [...]

From The Guardian:
Vice presidential candidate John Edwards promised Thursday that Democrats will move quickly to change the Bush administration’s overtime rules if they win the White House next month.
“The first day John Kerry is sworn into office, we’re going to reverse the overtime rule,” Edwards told about 500 cheering supporters gathered at a town [...]

OK, I’m neither black nor gay, but I’ve been listening to Chuck D (the famous rap musician) and Rachel Maddow (openly gay with an Oxford doctorate in political science) talk about two debate topics pertaining to these subjects on Air America Radio’s Unfiltered. And the overwhelming sentiment among the black and gay communities [...]

From the AP:
America’s reputation around the world is hurting, according to a series of coordinated polls published Friday from 10 countries, including many of the United States’ closest allies.
In eight of the countries where the surveys commissioned by major newspapers were conducted, more people said their view of America had worsened in the past two [...]

Quotes from John Kerry in the third Presidential Debate:
On his faith
I believe that I can’t legislate or transfer to another American citizen my article of faith. What is an article of faith for me is not something that I can legislate on somebody who doesn’t share that article of faith.
I believe that choice is a [...]

A couple mega blunders by George “Ha ha ha, I hope it’s not the administration’s fault” Bush. From Chris Suellentrop in Slate:
…By denying that he had ever minimized the threat posed by Bin Laden, Bush handed Kerry, during the very first question, the victory in the post-debate spin. The Kerry campaign’s critique of the [...]

From a letter to Salon:
My husband, David Pettigrew, lost his right leg in Iraq on July 7, 2003. During a night patrol with his unit in the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, an RPG round struck his Bradley fighting vehicle. The armor-penetrating round – which, according to faulty U.S. intelligence, the enemy wasn’t even supposed to [...]

From Dante Zappala, a member of Military Families Speak Out in Salon:
…I made it my task to find truth. Not the truth about weapons. Like most Americans, I had long ago figured out that Iraq didn’t have them…
I watched with sadness as this war unfolded. I watched the justification for it magically appear. I saw [...]

From Salon:
It’s the obvious political ad that has just been waiting to be made – a young Iraq war veteran, missing a body part, talking simply and directly to the camera about the sacrifice he made in the service of official lies… The new ad is the creation of a group of Iraq war veterans, [...]

Dear MoveOn member,
We have a media emergency. Sinclair Broadcast Group is now instructing their 62 local stations, many in battleground states, to pre-empt regular programming to air a Kerry smear piece two weeks before the election. This unprecedented move would be direct electioneering by a corporate media giant – and against federal election law.
Sinclair is [...]

Republicans are for state rights, my foot. Like hell they are. Just waiting for them to overrule the state courts here, like they did in Florida. From the AP:
A state court knocked Ralph Nader off Pennsylvania’s presidential ballot on Wednesday, citing thousands of fradulent signatures including “Mickey Mouse” and “Fred Flintstone.”
Describing the [...]