Voting
* There seems to be a trend that no good news exists without bad news of equal or greater force smacking it down. Example: News out of Florida is that the voter roles are up significantly for 2004 over 2000, mostly for Democrats. The bad news of course is that it looks like there are examples of voter intimidation occuring unchecked at the same time. On the upside, it appears as though the younger/new voters are trending towards the Democrats.
Amusing
* Audience with the pope requires which hand to be kissed?
* In lieu of the changes suggested for the dime, an equally useless minted piece of mined metal has been forged with the visage of Ronnie the Memoryless.
* Bush indicates early on his approach to "playing fair".
* WaPo feigns sympathy with Ms. 'in the butt for $400 please' Washingtonienne while collective eyes roll nationally.
It's 10 p.m. on a Wednesday. She is going out. On the way to Saki, an Adams Morgan nightclub, Jessica seems uncharacteristically forlorn. "I had six boyfriends, and now none of the guys really want to have anything to do with me," she says. "I guess none of them really cared about me in the first place."
* How the Olympic games prefers you quote their news. Oh, I'm sorry.... there's an olympics going on right now? How quaint.
War on Terra
* Those nutty Abu Ghraib college type prankster guys have equally zany friends. Seems if you tell on them, they get all heady and require the military equivalent of a restraining order. WTF?
* We're yanking 100K troops out of Europe and Asia and bringing them home for what; backfill new deployments to Iraq, Iran readiness, martial law, election protection, or are we anticipating threats to our other bases overseas?
Your Taxes
* The CBO being the last bastion of liberal ideology has shot an unborn whale baby across the bow of the USS Trickle Down in an attempt to politicize your hard earned taxes. Shame on them for telling us we got screwed. To the blind sheep who's collective butts hurt, "that wasn't an exam".
On the Trail
* GWB Love Fest 101; the "We Love Intimacy Tour". There aren't any no's when you can't hear anything but yes. Bless them all in the Shrub Bubble.
* Kerry on the other hand, seems to pull in crowds that triple expectations, cause overflows and those that can't get in, don't go away. 60K in Portland? Magnificent. wonder what a trip to Dallas would look like?
Posted by kerry at August 16, 2004 08:39 PM | TrackBack60,000 or 300... the Bush campaign seems like one of those aging rock and roll bands who used to play the arenas and now play the caberets and -- when interviewed -- say, "We like the smaller venues... that way we can really connect with the fans!"
Uh, sure.
Bush / Cheney 2004 -- the political "This is Spinal Tap?"
Posted by: Chris Lehmann at August 17, 2004 07:02 AM