More debate errata: No surprise that Cheney's relationship with the truth is about as close as his relationship with, say, Nelson Mandela. But while there've been plenty of more significant lies from him and his campaign, one is particularly easy to shoot down with one pic: Speaking of which, it takes a special kind of chutzpah for someone on a ticket with George Bush to use the term AWOL to describe his opponent's attendance Senate record rather than, say, his running mate's attendance at one of those institutions which contextualize the expression AWOL (no, not Yale). And speaking of strange imagery, who thought it would be a good idea to trot out Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) to announce that Cheney took Edwards behind a wood shed. Bizarre sexual imagery aside, is that really the Republican message to America? Now back to the bizarre sexual imagery... Very good: "They value wealth. We value work." I've always wished the Democrats would make more of the moral sinkhole behind having the government take a larger chunk of the money you make working than the money you make investing. That, and that they'd come up with better catch phrases. That one's a keeper.
10/06/2004
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