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The New York Times sent a photographer out in search of back bulges akin to the debating President’s.
He presents the evidence.

The Bush campaign purposefully left Dick Cheney off the Oregon Voter Information Pamphlet.

It was the Bush-Cheney campaign’s decision not to send in material for Cheney to go into the Oregon Voters’ Pamphlet, feeling it was enough to have President Bush’s photo and biography in the booklet and not spend the $1,000 to place Cheney in [...]

Jon Stewart got all up in Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson’s collective grill on Crossfire.
Thankfully some gracious soul has posted a torrent for the cableless among us.
John Kerry should send Jon on tour with John Edwards. Three Jo(h)n’s together can’t possibly lose.

Billy Beane is full of all kinds of good sense. The Oakland A’s declined an option on Jermaine Dye’s contract.

Dye batted .265 with 23 homers and 80 RBIs last season, and the A’s decided the oft-injured slugger wasn’t worth his $14 million mutual option for 2005. He will receive a $1.5 million buyout.

When Dye wasn’t [...]

Under George Lakoff’s interpretation of politics this paragraph by Jonathon Alter reaches beyond inane pop psychological pap.

The only way Dick Cheney held off John Edwards’s frisky assault on this theme was to sound like a stern dad laying down the law. But the cultural moment for blind allegiance to the paterfamilias might have passed. “Father [...]

ABC Nightline traveled to Vietnam in order to investigate the Swift Boat Smears.
Turns out Nightline was not the first with this idea:

Back in Tran Thoi, villager Nguyen Van Khoai said that about six months ago he was visited by an American who described himself as a Swift boat veteran and told him another American from [...]

Drudge has caused a minor firestorm on the right by hacking up quotes from a manual on election monitoring produced by the DNC. Drudge claims that the DNC has encouraged monitors to allege voter intimidation “pre-emptively”.
The DNC has posted the offending section of the manual in its entirety. Any but blinkered wingers will see the [...]

Howard Kurtz is often wrong. However his debate retrospective does have one highlight.
Talking about the postgame game:

Here’s a perfect example of spin. Stephanopoulos said Bush had been especially effective on education, immigration and faith. He then cited some areas where Kerry was strong. Here’s what appeared in a Kerry/Edwards email:
“ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: ‘I thought Senator [...]

The Polish Defense Minister claims to have plans for a late-2005 withdrawl of the 2,500 Polish troops currently in Iraq.

Szmajdzinski said a mission of 2½ years in ‘’such difficult conditions” was a major challenge for a former Warsaw Pact army that is still ”reaching new capabilities and introducing new equipment.”
”It is enough,” he [...]

Thomas Friedman is back writing for the New York Times.
Prior to the war, I had allowed Mr. Friedman’s writing to help develop my opinion on Iraq.
I was wrong. He was wrong.
Now I am right, and Mr. Friedman is finally right.
He has become, as they say, shrill:

No, alas, while the Bush people applied [...]