9/1/2004:   Georgia Sen. Zell "Benedict Arnold" Miller: The Democrats can't be trusted to protect his "most precious possession", his family.
They can, on the other hand, be trusted to wage peace, to finance education, to build domestic tranquility and provide for the common defense, protect their jobs, their environment, not send them into unnecessary wars, .... etc. But don't take Zell's word for it. Really. Just don't. Because you can bet ole Zell's golden parachute will come from the political currency he just racked up with the GOP favored businesses and power structure. You don't think he expects to get re-elected, do you?

Republican Party: Dick Cheney brings experience.
Experience at running a company into the ground, at violating SEC rules to bilk investors and rig stock prices for personal gain, at building political favors by steering no-bid contracts to his former company which still pipes millions of dollars into his war chest and his personal finances, experience at guiding a miscreant almost-President into domestic and foreign policies that have nearly dismantled America's resources and foreign relations, experience at using people's fears to control them,... etc.

Dick Cheney: Cheney pointed to Kerry's vote for the war against Iraq, but a subsequent vote against a spending bill for military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, implying that Kerry "flip-flopped."
Kerry did, however, support an alternative measure that would have tied the spending bill to rolling back tax cuts for the wealthy. The trillions of dollars that Bush gave to the wealthiest 1% of the U.S. population combined with ineffective domestic jobs policy and a multi-billion dollar war against a country that had not made one single offensive move towards the U.S. has driven our country's economy into the ground and pushed more people into poverty than this country has seen since the Great Depression.

Dick Cheney: "People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal and his great hair. I say to them: How do you think I got the job?"
By directing Halliburton to funnel millions into Bush's compaign, by having huge political clout with the Bush family's favorite industry, big oil, and by having the good fortune to not die of a massive, guilt spawned. well-deserved heart seizure.

Dick Cheney: "It is the story of this country that people have been able to dream big dreams with confidence they would come true, if not for themselves, then for their children and grandchildren."
Unless you're dying of a disease that stem cell research could have cured. Or you or your children are gay and are treated as second class citizens. Or you get sent to fight in a war you know to the very bottom of your soul is not only needless but wrong, and you die before you have a chance to have children.

Dick Cheney: "In Iraq, we dealt with a gathering threat and removed the regime of Saddam Hussein."
The threat of what? Tainted falafels? Because there was NO THREAT of military or terrorist action from Iraq. We went there to protect Bush's political currency, not because Iraq posed any threat whatsoever to the U.S. or its interests.

I'll stop quoting Cheney for now. Because at this point there're so many things I could pull from the transcript of Cheney's speech at the GOP convention that right now I want nothing more than to kick him in the nuts until Lucky Charms fly out of his mouth. Asshole.

Jeffrey Toobin: "Cheney has an unusual demeanor for a politician. He is low-key in a really profound way. I counted two sentences about domestic policy and about 40 minutes about terror and Iraq. That's a bet that the public shares those priorities. I don't know if it's right or not.
Oh, Jiminy Christmas on a Ritz Cracker, Jeffrey! Of COURSE it's not right. It's smoke and mirrors, it's "ignore that country- wrecking asshole behind the curtain" distractionary rhetoric. There are millions of people sinking below the poverty line in the U.S. that could really not give a rats ass about Iraq. They want JOBS and they want an administration that's going to protect their jobs and focus on giving them an economic policy that's going to bring more and better jobs.

9/1/2004:   Protesters had gathered near Ground Zero and had begun marching peacefully down Fulton Street near St. Paul's Church when a large contingent of police, including some in riot gear, surrounded them.

9/1/2004:   Quote of the Day

Ah, George Bush. The Little Spark Plug That Couldn't.