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October 05, 2004
We're Being Challenged Like Never Before...
While all eyes will soon be on tonight's vice-presidential debate, there are still opportunities to revisit that disastrous performance that George Bush so kindly treated us to last Thursday. Thanks to Bo for sending me a link to this five-minute-long mp3 of Bush debate responses edited together. Lots of pauses and uhs and ums....but it actually doesn't sound that different from the unedited debate audio! My new favorite Bush quote from the evening: "How can I follow this guy?". Good question, George!
My man Jesse Lee over at the DCCC put together another video montage, this time without any audio contributions from yours truly. "Miserable Failure" is a really effective clip that intersperses Bush debate bits with Washington Post "reality check" facts that contradict just about everything Bush says. What makes the video so powerful is not just the fact checking, however, but also the instrumental version of Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia" that serves as the underlying soundtrack. That song's mournful, minor-key moodiness really brings out the tragic desperation in Bush's stammering responses. And after a while, it starts to seem really sad that this incompetent and confused man who doesn't seem to know what he's doing is up on a national stage, struggling to come up with words and explanations that don't even make sense. Lots of us tend to hate George Bush at this particular moment, and for good reason...but perhaps in ten or twenty years he will be this tragic Nixon-like figure that is more worthy of pity than anything else.
Speaking of the DCCC, they just started a Majority Makers 'War Room' contest to help raise money to be used on behalf of Democrats who find themselves in toss-up U.S. House races. I signed up as a Majority Maker fundraiser a couple of weeks back but now I'm really eager to start up my fundraising drive, 'cause if I raise more money than anyone else, I get a free trip to D.C. to spend Election Day/Night in the Democratic National Headquarters. I know people are probably very tired of political donation solicitations at this stage in the game, but please help me out if you can....right now I'm in second place and this thing only runs through Sunday night!! Here's the URL where you can donate $5, $10, $25, $50, or really, just whatever you can afford:
http://makers.democraticaction.org/page/mm/tubacity
Donations to the DCCC can actually make much more of a difference than presidential or Senate race donations....I'll write more about that and the DCCC's strategy later this week, but until then, please help a brother out while helping make Nancy Pelosi the new Speaker of the House!!
Posted by Tim at October 5, 2004 06:29 PM
Comments
Obviously I'm a little late on this thread, but good luck man!
Posted by: jesselee at October 7, 2004 06:16 PM