The Fear & Ad Hominem Approach

With ten days to go before a presidential election billed on both sides as the most important in a generation, our incumbent’s desperation is on full display. Sadly for John Kerry, who, barring outright election fraud, should receive enough popular and electoral college votes on November 2nd to become the next President of the United States, any victory will be a pyrrhic one.

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Baseball, Mom, and Apple Pie

To hear the slice of America tell it who dialed into C-Span’s phone bank after tonight’s final round of the 2004 Presidential Election Debates, President Bush was the evening’s clear winner because he is a man of faith and integrity who will protect America and keep her strong.

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Take My Wife; Please!

John Kerry and George W. Bush met tonight at Washington University in St. Louis for a town hall style debate with implications for the future of the United States and the entire world. Mr. Kerry came prepared to speak clearly and seriously to the fears and concerns of ordinary Americans, to defend his record as a legislator, and to offer his plans for addressing affairs both foreign and domestic. Mr. Bush came prepared for Open Mic at the Improv.

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Tweedledum & Tweedledee?

For everyone out there who worries that we face a choice between tweedledum and tweedledee in this election season, last night’s debate between George W. Bush and John Kerry made one thing perfectly clear: the choice is between tweedledum and a guy who might actually be able to handle the job of leading the most powerful nation on earth.

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Safety And Numbers

Safety, security, and prosperity being three of the talking points in the Bush Administration’s sales pitch to American voters, I am stunned to hear any consideration of the presidential election as a close race.

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Turn Out The Lights

George W. Bush must think no one in America remembers the presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Or, what is more likely, our current Commander-in-Chief, given his predilections of that era, doesn’t remember much about LBJ’s time in office himself.

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Who You Gonna Call?

I am not a bitter man. Yet. I was only born in 1960. John F. Kennedy died when I was 3, his brother Robert and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., when I was 8. Richard Nixon delivered his resignation speech to the American people the night of my 14th birthday.

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