Q: Where are T-shirts which read “Protect Our Civil Liberties” considered to be “obscene”?
A: At Bush/Cheney campaign rallies.
Freedom is on the march around the world.

Four years ago today:

Bush 50%
Gore 40%
Nader 4%

Kerry’s numbers aren’t as bad as Gore was polling en route to winning the popular vote.

Consider the source, but if this is true it’s a disturbing insight into Bush’s mind:

The founder of the U.S. Christian Coalition said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of casualties, but the president told him, “We’re not going to have any casualties.”
. . .
“And I warned him about this war. I had deep misgivings about this war, deep misgivings. And I was trying to say, ‘Mr. President, you had better prepare the American people for casualties.’ ”
Robertson said the president then told him, “Oh, no, we’re not going to have any casualties.”

How divorced from reality does a person have to be to make Pat Robertson sound like the reasonable side in a discussion? This would be an example.

Who says President Bush doesn’t have international support? He just received a crucial endorsement . . . from Iran:

The head of Iran’s security council said on Tuesday the re-election of President Bush was in Tehran’s best interests, despite the administration’s axis of evil label, accusations that Iran harbors al-Qaida terrorists and threats of sanctions over the country’s nuclear ambitions.
Historically, Democrats have harmed Iran more than Republicans, said Hasan Rowhani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran’s top security decision-making body.
“We haven’t seen anything good from Democrats,” Rowhani told state-run television in remarks that, for the first time in recent decades, saw Iran openly supporting one U.S. presidential candidate over another.
“We should not forget that most sanctions and economic pressures were imposed on Iran during the time of Clinton,” Rowhani said of the former Democratic president. “And we should not forget that during Bush’s era — despite his hard-line and baseless rhetoric against Iran — he didn’t take, in practical terms, any dangerous action against Iran.”

Ha ha. No word yet who North Korean leader Kim Jong Il favors. I wonder how well that last line goes over with the warblogger crowd. What’s happened to the neocon domino theory? I thought if we took out one country’s weapons of mass distruction, they’d all be rushing to turn their WMD’s in. Ooops. And ooops.

Bush yesterday:

President Bush on Monday accused Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry of “shameless scare tactics” by suggesting that the president would jeopardize Social Security for older Americans and bring back the military draft for young people.
Bush, in an Associated Press interview, said of Kerry, “He’s trying to scare our seniors. It is wrong to try to scare people going into the polls.”

Cheney today:

Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday evoked the possibility of terrorists bombing U.S. cities with nuclear weapons and questioned whether Sen. John Kerry could combat such a threat, which the vice president called a concept “you’ve got to get your mind around.”
“The biggest threat we face now as a nation is the possibility of terrorists ending up in the middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever before been used against us – biological agents or a nuclear weapon or a chemical weapon of some kind to be able to threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Cheney said.

I’m glad Bush/Cheney are strong moral leaders who don’t use scare tactics to get voters to the polls.