Monthly Archives: September 2004 «

 

One Jackson takes on another

Posted by: ST on September 30, 2004 at 12:29 am » Comments Off

No, Michael isn’t suing Janet … HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson spoke out yesterday against black self-victimization: Jesse Jackson and other black political leaders spread a message of victimization that leads most blacks to vote Democratic, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said Wednesday. The HUD secretary, who is black, said he has advised President [...]

 

Encouraging news out of Najaf and Samarra

Posted by: ST on September 30, 2004 at 12:11 am » Comments Off

A story you likely won’t see on the cover of the NYTimes. This is also a rant about slanted media coverage of the war in Iraq: ”Samarra is a beaming success story over here,” writes Lt. Col Jim Rose, a Tennessee Marine whose parents live in Old Hickory. ”We were getting ready for a take-down [...]

 

Confession time

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2004 at 11:50 pm » Comments Off

I’ve a bit of a confession to make, as I sit here doing what bloggers do best: pajama blogging. Here goes: I watch Zell Miller’s RNC speech about two times a week. Ok. There, I said it. Why? you ask? It gets me motivated and inspires me. There’s just something about hearing a seasoned southerner [...]

 

Agent Orange

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2004 at 8:44 am » 2 Comments

Now just how will THAT look at the debates tomorrow night? Can you say “heavy powder make-up” and “subtle camera lighting” anyone?

 

Swings states swinging to the President

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2004 at 8:40 am » Comments Off

This is encouraging. So is this. We’ve still got a long way to go, though. Maybe Al Gore can help John “The Comeback Kid” Kerry rise in the polls again. He’s trying, anyway.

 

Flipping out – over a Gallup poll?

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2004 at 8:36 am » Comments Off

Yes. Apparently some liberals find Gallup biased towards Republicans – now that polls show the President with an 8 point lead over Kerry: This year’s USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup polling on the presidential race is coming under attack from liberal critics who say Gallup’s methods produce results that are biased in favor of President Bush. Gallup says [...]

 

Guess they’d rather hug Bush

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2004 at 8:32 am » Comments Off

Apparently Mr. Kerry isn’t a popular guy to be hanging around if you’re a Democrat in some states: Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle hugged President Bush from one end of South Dakota to the other this summer. In his own campaign commercials. The brief embrace might seem an odd claim on re-election for the man [...]

 

FoxNews kicking bootie

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2004 at 8:29 am » Comments Off

I absolutely love it! For the first time in its history, Fox News Channel beat the combined competition in primetime during the third quarter of 2004, with major headlines of the summer including the national political conventions and a brutal string of hurricanes. According to Nielsen Media Research, Fox News averaged 1.8 million viewers, while [...]

 

Al Gore tells Kerry how to debate Bush

Posted by: ST on September 29, 2004 at 8:26 am » Comments Off

Yes. You read that right. Al Gore, the man who lost the debates to George W. Bush in 2000, is telling Kerry how to debate W. He’s playing the “Bush is a skilled debater” card too, just to lower the expectations for Kerry a bit. Ah, the games they play!

 

Brave Iraqis continue to line up for security duty

Posted by: ST on September 28, 2004 at 3:07 pm » Comments Off

Such a touching story. We’re rooting for you, Iraq.