Sorry for the late notice, but do your best to see tonight's PBS Frontline, about the two presidential candidates. It's the most in-depth analysis I've seen on tv -- faint praise, I know. If you miss it, they'll be streaming it as of Friday.
Of all the awful things to be said about Bush, few are worse than that he is a frustrated athlete, as Nicholas Lemann observes in The New Yorker. It tells everything you need to know about the guy. And if all that jock sniffing weren't enough, Lemann's account of the Trojan horse called "No Child Left Behind" should seal the deal. In masterful understatement, Bush's erstwhile partner on that education initiative, Rep. George Miller (D-CA), says of the Administration: "They find the basic tenets of democracy—very inconvenient."
Posted by Vernam at October 12, 2004 09:25 PMYou're way too paranoid about something that takes virtually no brains and very little brass.
Posted by: TOF at October 14, 2004 09:53 PM
>The liberal mind is undisciplined
>and relativiely easy to manipulate.
These casino spam posts get more banal by the day!
Posted by: VC at October 14, 2004 09:01 PMThe liberal mind is undisciplined and relativiely easy to manipulate.
Posted by: TOF at October 14, 2004 08:07 PMI don't underestimate the Republican's ability to brazenly manipulate the media.
Did you catch the Sean Hannity/Wes Clark mix-it-up? It looked like they were *this close* to coming to blows. And with O'Reilly now being acussed of sexual harrassment, the media lunatic fringe has got their problems.
October surprises? How about a Kerry endorsement by Colin Powell? He's out of the admin next year anyway...you never know. Does Cronkite still matter? Would he break his non-partisan vow, at this late stage in his life and times? Who else currently stands head and shoulders above the fray?
Posted by: deano at October 14, 2004 11:14 AM>You want worse? Is that a challenge? ;~>
Sure -- consider it so!
>Seems pretty unanimous, out there in
>pundit-land - Kerry/Edwards swept the
>debates. Good post final-debate polling
>too.
Look at the recent incumbents who were deemed to have lost debates to their opponents: Ford, Carter, and Bush I. Does not bode well for Dear Leader, especially since there's been record viewership of this year's debates.
>Now, assuming the RNC-funded voter
>suppression crimes get squashed, as they
>must, the ticket is ticking along very nicely!
Kerry-Edwards have crossed an important threshold, and trends in the swing states -- especially among undecided female voters -- are encouraging. The next few weeks are perilous, though, because the challengers' limited control over the news cycle could hurt them. IOW, it's not surprising that they've surged due to unfiltered access to the public via the debates. I don't underestimate the Republican's ability to brazenly manipulate the media. Check out how Tom DeLay was rebuked twice in one month by House ethics investigators, then declared their report exonerated him. Bush claims the arms inspector's report last week proves he was right to invade Iraq -- another blatant disregard for facts. Yet the media blandly report the lies, which get equal footing with the truth because newspapers and tv news outlets are scared to be accused of not being fair.
Posted by: VC at October 14, 2004 09:55 AMOf all the awful things to be said about Bush, few are worse than that he is a frustrated athlete.
You want worse? Is that a challenge? ;~>
Seems pretty unanimous, out there in pundit-land - Kerry/Edwards swept the debates. Good post final-debate polling too. Now, assuming the RNC-funded voter suppression crimes get squashed, as they must, the ticket is ticking along very nicely!
Posted by: deano at October 13, 2004 11:45 PMI suggest you read the newly released “The Games Do Count - America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sports” by Brian Kilmeade of Fox News. Kilmeade interviews President Bush and others about their sports experiences.
From the Harper Collins page: “… nearly everyone shares a love of sports and has a story about how a game, a coach, or a single moment of competition changed his or her life.” To this day, I believe sports have been one the most powerful and positive influences in my life. Please allow for the possibility that not everyone exits as a “warped, frustrated young man."