As I’ve blogged before, I like Tom Daschle. He’s my Senator and was truly one of the few politicians I actually had a lot of respect for during the days I was covering them. But the upcoming race against John Thune appears to be affecting his public discourse already. According to the Rapid City Journal, […]
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Sure, it’s a long way between now and November. But Iraq and everything appears to be taking its toll. Even here, where Bush won big in 2000, the latest poll shows less than half rated Bush favorably. Moreover, his favorable rating dropped from 58 percent in August, a drop of 11 percent in six months. […] Here’s part of the reason I talk about being vastly outnumbered. My legislature recently passed a resolution “recognizing the substantial public contribution of gun shows.” Among other things, it states gun shows not only “provide an invaluable community-based opportunity” for “law-abiding citizens” to exercise their constitutional rights, they “aspire to be wholesome family events that […] “I know in my heart and my brain that America ain’t what’s wrong in the world.” Donald Rumsfeld to the Munich Conference on Security Policy. That’s true. But what’s wrong with America is Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney and Aschroft and that’s why we’re perceived to be what’s wrong in the world. I’m not quite sure where I’m at on Kerry. My preference would be the impossible dream of Kucinich and I tend to favor Dean because he’s been outspoken on and against the Iraq war from the outset. Still, I see some outfit called Vietnam Veterans Agasint John Kerry (to which I refuse to link) is […] |
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