Author Archives: David Terrell

New Republic’s Noam Scheiber says the “security mom” phenomenon is bunk, and he’s got a convincing set of numbers from public polls. He even gets CBS’s Kathy Frankovic to note that Bush’s lead among women in her post-convention poll, which … Continue reading →

The Washington Times has a story about Kerry supposedly saying pre-emptive action in Iraq was ok in 1997: During a 1997 debate on CNN’s “Crossfire,” Sen. John Kerry, now the Democratic presidential nominee, made the case for launching a pre-emptive … Continue reading →

BEYOND BELIEF: I’m going to wait till after next week’s national security debate to make a final assessment of John Kerry on the war, but this statement by Joe Lockhart about Ayad Allawi is just vile: “The last thing you … Continue reading →

Poll shows conclusive results: Klingons Support Kerry. Find Bush’s Iraq War “dishonorable”.

“It scares me when a president says he won’t support stem-cell research because it goes against God,” Ventura said. “I have news for you. If you’re waiting for God to cure Alzheimer’s, then we are going to be waiting a … Continue reading →

Dan Froomkin, author of the the Washington Post’s White House Briefing, is soliciting suggestions for the presidential debates, for one or other candidate, at NiemanWatchdog.org. My question: Mr. President, before the Iraq War, you named Jay Garner as the postwar … Continue reading →

Salon interviews Sy Hersch. This is a dynamite must-read. Is there someone who is the Henry Kissinger in this administration? Oh, believe me, I pray for one [clasps his hands and looks beseechingly upward]. Wouldn’t it be great if the … Continue reading →

An old but good article on the number of links the current administration has to people who have behaved badly in the past. Sigh. Reading this stuff makes me think of the recent case of Sandy Berger, and makes me … Continue reading →

Swift Boat Memories Robert Lambert, a man who doesn’t plan on voting for John Kerry and was offended by his conduct in 1971 still says they were under fire during the incident during the Bronze Star incident.