via Josh Marshall: GOP Prism Distorts Some Kerry Positions (washingtonpost.com) GOP Prism Distorts Some Kerry Positions

Wow. Bono woos O’Reilly. Fascinating reading. Bono really is an extraordinary person. I have heard Tony Campolo rave about him, and also former Secretary of the Treasury, Paul O’Neill (in Ron Suskind’s Book, “The Price Of Loyalty”) via willzhead willzhead: Bono on Fox In case you missed it, here is an edited transcript of Bono’s appearance on Bill O’Reilly’s show.

Josh offers this today: Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 05, 2004 – September 11, 2004 Archives A note on polls: as of the day after the convention I’m told by what I believe to be reliable sources that the internal polls of both campaigns had President Bush up roughly four points on John Kerry. Getting straight-up info Continue Reading

This is so like them….it’s fact because I say so. Lying Liars. Martini Republic – Lead, follow, or have a drink. Substitute clubs for spitballs, and Zell was repeating an email hoax, almost word for word. As Snopes goes on to explain, “all the citations stem from votes on three Congressional bills, none of which were about a specific weapons Continue Reading

Daily Kos :: Welcome to Iraq, Mr. President Bad choices and badder choices. But one of the candidates put us there (the voters are clear on that). I wonder how Bush will run away from that? And how will Dems (not just Kerry) clarify the situation on the ground? Do you leave the car keys with the guy who drove Continue Reading

We need an aggregator of this stuff…..I guess we have that, but we need collections of voices such as AKMA, James Carroll (of the Boston Globe), Jim Wallis, thinking such as that of the Ekklesia Project who are rapidly attracting increasing numbers of thinkers who wonder where the Church’s voice has gone in al of this. We have this for Continue Reading

I’ve been reading a bit in Crusade tonight (James Carroll’s just published collection of Boston Globe articles since September 11, 2001. The following is a link to one of columns included in the book (p. 259) Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / But George McGovern was right “It’s a we/they world,” Paul Nitze said when Continue Reading

Kerry responds to the RNC flap about his being “unfit to lead”. The “war on terror” celebration (how they are “stronger” …..I guess because they talk tough, even though they IGNORED constant and clear warnings and pleadings from anti-terrorist leaders to do something about Al-Quieda in Afganistan. Bushies just shake their head as if none of these warnings happened. They Continue Reading

This statement from the conservative Washington Times illustrates how clueless they are about the difference between the opinion of the justice of a war, and the not-at-all obligatory matching “contempt” for the people who have to carry out those orders. The burden of responsibility lies with the leadership. Obama asked us in his Democratic Convention keynote if “we were really Continue Reading

SojoMail After being extremely kind to President Bush in the first part of his critique of the Bush speech, Wallis lists the major failures: ..what the president failed to deal with was how his central domestic priority, “making permanent” his tax cuts that most benefit the wealthy, will simply not allow such positive government initiatives – because of a lack Continue Reading

Andrew Sullivan, once known as a Conservative blogger (I guess he still is, but one who sees the deceptions rampant in BushWorld): www.AndrewSullivan.com – Daily Dish Just remember all that Bush promised last night: an astonishingly expensive bid to spend much more money to help people in ways that conservatives once abjured. He pledged to provide record levels of education Continue Reading

That is, his astonshingly frequent tendency to render things as bumber sticker slogans, and totally ignore those things which cannot be so reduced without looking like a further dunce (if that is possible). ABC News. Bravo. It’s about time. (via Mike James, via KOS) ABCNEWS.com : Bush Glosses Over Complex Facts in Speech Bush Glosses Over Complex Facts in Speech Continue Reading

By William Saletan via Mike James Imperial President – Opposing Bush becomes unpatriotic. By William Saletan Tonight the Republicans had a chance to explain why they shouldn’t be fired for these apparent screw-ups. Here’s what Cheney said about the economic situation: “People are returning to work. Mortgage rates are low, and home ownership in this country is at an all-time Continue Reading

I was sickened (but not surprised) by Cheney’s remarks, especially “Kerry says we need to be fighting a sensitive war — he thinks our enemy will be impressed by our softer side”….which is of course, twisted drivel, since Kerry meant nothing of the kind. He meant to have some eye toward “coooperation” and “collaboration” , to which the Bush/Cheney arrogance Continue Reading

Jonathan Alter has a great article MSNBC – Only the Strong Will Survive via skeptic tank’s post on KOS Bush believes that the best way to reinforce his strongman image is to stay on the offensive. He’s betting that the dynamic of the campaign will allow him to level a new stinging charge every day that Kerry must then “explain.” Continue Reading