OSCEOLA, Iowa (AP) - Presidential contender Mike Huckabee bagged a pheasant Wednesday, offering Iowa voters the image of an experienced outdoorsman on the hunt, shotgun blasting and dogs braying.
Just a campaign gambit? “Maybe it will show that I certainly understand the culture of being outdoors,” Huckabee said. “It’s not something we had to go out and get a primer in. It’s very much ordinary to me.”
Oops. Wrong picture. That’s actually John Kerry proving he’s a man’s man back in 2004. Here’s Pastor Mike:
I’m suitably impressed.
Please, please, Republicans… nominate this guy! (Rudy Giuliani would be my second choice, followed closely by Mitt Romney and John McCain.)
I’m kind of torn over the recount in the election for governor of the state of Washington.
A recount was definitely called for - of that there can be no doubt. When the difference is only 42 votes out of 2.8 million votes cast, you have to have a recount. People and machines make mistakes.
The Republicans do have a point, however. A recount, by definition, means you recount the votes that have already been counted once (or, in this case, twice).
The Democrats have a point, too. You should count every legitimate vote. Poll workers in King County made a mistake and did not count some votes that should have been counted. Given the opportunity to correct that error, you probably should correct it.
I don’t think either side is out to “steal” this particular election. I think both are honestly trying to do what they think is right. Personally, I kind of think that every legitimate vote should be counted, but then again you can’t really recount a vote that was never counted in the first place.
See my dilemma? I think both sides are correct on this one. Perhaps Rossi and Gregoire should just get together a toss a quarter in the air. But then we’d have that whole argument over which one gets to call it.
I don’t think there’s going to be a real winner in this one. If we had a way to hold honest, clean elections in this country, I’d say do it all over again from square one.
(I ask you, was that not spoken like a true politician?)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress’ investigative agency, responding to complaints from around the country, has begun to look into the Nov. 2 vote count, including the handling of provisional ballots and malfunctions of voting machines.
The presidential results won’t change, but the studies could lead to changes.
The Government Accountability Office usually begins investigations in response to specific requests from Congress, but the agency’s head, Comptroller General David Walker, said the GAO acted on its own because of the many comments it received about ballot counting.
GAO officials said the investigation was not triggered by a request from several House Democrats, who wrote the agency this month seeking an investigation. The effort, led by senior Judiciary Committee Democrat John Conyers of Michigan, was not joined by any Republicans.
I realize that machines (and humans) are not perfect. Errors are bound to occur. What I don’t understand, though, is why all the errors seem to have benefited Doofus. You would think, given the statistics of probability, that at least a few of them would have been to Kerry’s benefit.
Posted by Len on Saturday at 2:16 am in Election 2004
It wasn’t moral values or gay marriage that won the election for George W. Bush, it was the money. His winning margin came from people making over a hundred grand per year. So you guys and gals who are beating yourselves up, thinking that your desire for equal rights, gave us another four years of King George can stop now.
Where did the lion’s share of the extra votes come from that gave George Bush his mighty, mighty mandate of 51 percent? “Two of those points,” Klinkner said when reached by phone, “came solely from people making over a 100 grand.” The people who won the election for him—his only significant improvement over his performance four years ago—were rich people, voting for more right-wing class warfare.
Their portion of the electorate went from 15 percent in 2000 to 18 percent this year. Support for Bush among them went from 54 percent to 58 percent. “It made me think about that scene in Fahrenheit 9/11,” says Klinkner, the one where Bush joked at a white-tie gala about the “haves” and the “have-mores”: “Some people call you the elite,” Bush said. “I call you my base.”
George has been very kind to the rich. They just returned the favor.
Remember, Kerry wanted to do away with Bush’s big tax cuts for people who make over $200,000 per year. They were having none of that nonsense!
Update: Another good article to read is “Don’t Blame the Gays” by Michelangelo Signorile, published by The New York Press.
We’ve had our week of mourning, and there is no shame in losing a presidential election by .001 of the national electorate–the equivalent of 136,483 misguided Ohioans. More important, there is no room for a crippling depression on the part of Democrats while the nation remains in irresponsible hands for another four years.
The good news is that unless George W. Bush is hoping to provoke Armageddon, life will go on. In fact, there is another national election a mere two years from now. By then, some of the far right now chortling about the possibility of flat taxes, repealing Roe vs. Wade and privatizing Social Security will have found that winning control of a nation on the skids isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be.
After all, at some point the Bush White House will have to stop blaming the Clinton Administration for its own mistakes. If the Republicans running all three branches of our government continue to pile up outrageous debt, shackle scientific progress with religious fundamentalism, erode civil liberties and thrash about uselessly abroad, the responsibility will be all theirs.
Click on the headline to read the entire column.
A lot of us are still screaming that the election was stolen (it probably was) and demanding recounts, but nothing is going to come of it. The Republicans also stole the election in 2000, and George W. Bush still took the oath of office. He’ll take the oath this coming January, also.
All we have to do now is sit back and laugh as they hang themselves. If they govern anything like they have governed for the past four years, it’s bound to be entertaining. The Democrats will ride in on their white horses in 2006 and 2008 to set things right.
Posted by Len on Thursday at 1:06 am in Election 2004
Bob Jones III, president of Bob Jones University, sent a letter of congratulations to George W. Bush. Here’s just a wee part of it…
In your re-election, God has graciously granted America—though she doesn’t deserve it—a reprieve from the agenda of paganism. You have been given a mandate. We the people expect your voice to be like the clear and certain sound of a trumpet. Because you seek the Lord daily, we who know the Lord will follow that kind of voice eagerly.
Don’t equivocate. Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ. Honor the Lord, and He will honor you.
Alright, I wanna know right now - who started this rumor that liberals despise George Bush’s Christ? Also, if you could enlighten me as to this “agenda of paganism,” I would be most appreciative. Is it anything like this “homosexual agenda” I keep hearing about?
Posted by Len on Wednesday at 6:57 pm in Election 2004
Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) laced into New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd yesterday on the “Imus in the Morning” radio show, saying, “The more Maureen Loud [sic] gets on ‘Meet the Press’ and writes those columns, the redder these states get. I mean, they don’t want some high brow hussy from New York City explaining to them that they’re idiots and telling them that they’re stupid.” Miller also suggested “that red-headed woman at the New York Times” should not mock anyone’s religion: “You can see horns just sprouting up through that Technicolor hair.” (source)
Okay.
Can we please stop putting that ‘D’ after Mr. Miller’s name? He is no more a Democrat than I am a Republican.
Can’t you just smell the irony? The same people who don’t want to be called idiots and told that they are stupid are the people who have no problem calling the people in France (and most of Europe) stupid idiots.
They also don’t seem to have any qualms about calling anybody who did not vote for their hero George stupid idiots.
What goes around comes around, folks.
Keep the fires burning, Zell. Jerry Falwell will be right there with you.
