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Category: 2004 Elections

  • Bush's Speech, Republican National Convention, 2004

    I had to write about this. I had to keep turning off the television because I started screaming at the TV as George outlined another four years of ruin and mayhem. An entire stadium filled with people that feel I should be a second-class citizen is pretty damned disturbing. The staging of the evening was […]

  • Garrisson Keillor on the GOP

    Mr. Gentility tears into the Republicans: Here in 2004, George W. Bush is running for reelection on a platform of tragedy�the single greatest failure of national defense in our history, the attacks of 9/11 in which 19 men with box cutters put this nation into a tailspin, a failure the details of which the White […]

  • Police Officers Interrogate Eldery Black Voters in Florida

    It’s an Op-Ed piece. Details are few and sketchy. But… [Florida] State police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd “investigation” that has frightened many voters, intimidated elderly volunteers and thrown a chill over efforts to get out the black vote in […]

  • 1000 Reasons to Vote Against George Bush

    I only need one. One housand reasons to not vote for George W. Bush. In fairness – 40 Reasons to Vote For Bush (or Against Kery)

  • Am I a Felon or Not?

    As Florida gears up for another clusterfuck repeat of the 2000 debacle – People for the American Way (that name makes me just ache with patriotism) has published the list of possible felons purged from the Florida rolls. At least here in Chicago they run elections the old fashioned way – by buying them. Glad […]

  • Truckers Spy on You

    Remember the bright idea Ashcroft had about having service workers and postal carriers spying on the rest of us? Operation TIPS? Well it didn’t go through – but that doesn’t mean it still isn’t going to happen in one form or another. The Department of Homeland Security this year gave $19.3 million to the American […]

  • Bush Interviewed on Irish Television

    Great extended interview (RealMedia) – runs over 11 minutes. Reaction here, here, here and here. Also here which includes a quote that the journalist had submitter her questions three days in advance to the White House. Update: They’ve canceled Laura Bush’s interview with Irish media. Some gloating over at WaPo.