He can't pay for it, he won't deliver on the promises. He can't Nobody could. If you believe him you'll believe anything. Oh, but he will cut taxes for the wealthy. Frankly I started to debunk the speech, but I got exhausted by the sheer audacity. Besides, with Hurricane Frances, Kerry's midnight "minuteman" speech, Clinton's heart attack, by the time I got half-way through the news had moved on. Enjoy the weekend everybody. UPDATE: Rumor has it that Clinton watched Bush's speech -- and it made him sick. I feel your pain Bill, I feel your pain.

According to this graphic from The New York Times > Washington > Image > The Words Speakers Use, over the first 3 days of the Democratic and Republican Conventions, the Democrat speakers used the name of their oponent 19 times -- The Republicans mentioned John Kerry by name 86 times.


Proof of negativity, in case you weren't sure.

VIA: Kicking Ass

And his Little Woman too. Spooky. Paying homage to the late Fay Rae.

Ladies and gentlemen I'd like to introduce my husband, Sauron. He'd like to keep his Ring for another four years. (by "lectric" at Kos)

Read more of the comments/captions at KOS. Funniest thing I've read in days. I especially loved the group rendition of White Rabbit.

One Pill Makes You Larger...
And One Pill Give You Gall

And cutting the wealthy's taxes
...don't do anything at allllll...
Go ask Laura
when she was just small.

And if you go chasing terrists (4.00 / 3)
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking Chalabi
Has given you the call.

When men called Turd Blossom
Get up and tell you where to go....
And you've just watched some so-called Hardball
and your mind is feeling low . . .

remember what Laura said...
that's the idiot I wed.

oh woAH!

FLASHBACK!

Groovy.

The very symbol of sober discourse and inclusion. Secretary of State Colin Powell, the only reason I ever had hope that the grown-ups were in charge of this administration, is conspicuously AWOL from NYC this week.

And the spin being pushed doesn't pass the laugh test.

A lot of tlak/spin about why the candidate should apologize for what he did in 1972. He himself is obviously more circumspect and mature than he was as a young man, and freely admits that.

One incident does not define a man, but extreme acts do set the bounderies of what he is capable of. Of course I'm not talking about John Kerry, this is the tale of a memorable time George Bush would like to forget.

Leaving the election-night "celebration," Allison remembers encountering George W. Bush in the parking lot, urinating on a car, and hearing later about how he'd yelled obscenities at police officers that night. Bush left a house he'd rented in Montgomery trashed -- the furniture broken, walls damaged and a chandelier destroyed, the Birmingham News reported in February. "He was just a rich kid who had no respect for other people's possessions," Mary Smith, a member of the family who rented the house, told the newspaper, adding that a bill sent to Bush for repairs was never paid. And a month later, in December, during a visit to his parents' home in Washington, Bush drunkenly challenged his father to go "mano a mano," as has often been reported.

Around the same time, for the 1972 Christmas holiday, the Allisons met up with the Bushes on vacation in Hobe Sound, Fla. Tension was still evident between Bush and his parents. Linda was a passenger in a car driven by Barbara Bush as they headed to lunch at the local beach club. Bush, who was 26 years old, got on a bicycle and rode in front of the car in a slow, serpentine manner, forcing his mother to crawl along. "He rode so slowly that he kept having to put his foot down to get his balance, and he kept in a weaving pattern so we couldn't get past," Allison recalled. "He was obviously furious with his mother about something, and she was furious at him, too."

What ever possessed this arrogant little bastard to think he could become President. He certainly proves that this IS the land of opportunity opportunists.

HAT TIP: Atrios

An interesting point of Presidential Trivia from the LA Times: Despite Claims, Bush Wavers on Decisiveness

Indeed, he has not yet vetoed any measure %uFFD1 even big spending bills loathed by his conservative supporters. If he keeps up that track record, Bush would be the first president never to wield a veto since James Garfield, who was shot to death after less than a year in office.

Does he know he's allowed to say, "no?"

Penultimate Convention Moment :

Immediately upon the adoption of the nomination of George W. Bush as a unanimous resolution, (and Bush was supposed to appear on the big screen but some glitch prevented that) the tired and Zell'd out crowd applauded meekly and was urged to cheer with more exuberance. The transcriot should read thusly:

. . . And without objection, it is so ordered, that Gworge W. Bush is hereby unanimously nominatted to be the next President of the United States.
(cheers applause)
. . . Oh come on, you can do better than that. We can do better
(Erruption of much more enthusiastic cheers applause).

Yes we can. My head is still swimming from that one.

Baloons Bah! They screwed up a live remote of POTUS. And then instead of Shrub's smirking puss, CNN showed an old tape of Zig Zag Zell Miller's speech at the Democratic Convention nominating Bill Clinton, shouting (as usual, kind of Gore-like with more twang) about the failings of the last Republican incumbant named George

"George Bush doesn't get it."

To their credit the CNN reports did their best when interviewing Zig Zag Zell Miller earlier not to laugh in his face when they confronted him on his outright lies (or mischaracterizations, or just plain stupidity) about John Kerry's record.

Who is more evil?

Zell Miller, I am a Deeemoekraaaat


Mr. Burns, Somewhere, there is a small crippled child in the hospital who really wants us to win. I know this becuase I'm the one who crippled him to inspire you.


Excellent!

Kevin Drum asks, "When is enough enough?"

(W)ith Bush, every time you get past the high school version of his policies, he's just adrift. He's generally shrewd enough to change the subject when he realizes he's at sea, but when he does answer it's scary.

Like I said, I don't think we need Albert Einstein in the Oval Office. But do Republicans really feel comfortable with a guy who so plainly doesn't understand his own policies? Don't they think this might have something to do with the fact that so much of what he's done has turned out badly even from a conservative perspective?

It's really not that he's all that stupid or all that evil, he's just not bright enough to handle the job, even after four years of on-the-job training. Being surrounded by smart advisors with their own agenda just makes him always seem like he has an ulterior motive which doesn't help. He does have an underlying scheme for his plans, unfortunately they are not of his making nor does he fully appreciate all of their implications.

Sad really. We SO deserve better. What happens on, say Hallowween, two days before the election, and we have twin bus bombing in Chicago like they just had in Tel Aviv, at the same time a school in Pittsburgh is taken over by gunmen demanding we get out of Iraq like what just happened in Chechnia?

My bet is that Bush doesn't miss his photo-op with the Governor of Ohio and has Scott McManiquin deliver the typical "bring 'em to justice," statement, then use the tragedy to say we still need him so this kind of thing doesn't happen again -- again? Callous bastards. They've taken advantage of this guy and he doesn't even know, or care.

If ever there was a need for a Constitutional Amendment limiting the presidency .to one six-year term, this guy is the poster child. Get back to work dammit! Recess is over. You just know something nasty is headed our way -- and it ain't a hurricane.