More than three decades later, that shouldn't be a big deal. What worries me more is the lack of honesty today about that past - and the way Mr. Bush is hurling stones without the self-awareness to realize that he's living in a glass house.

Op-Ed Columnist: Mr. Bush's Glass House

] The road map to peace was launched last year, envisaging
] a Palestinian state by 2005. The plan did not specify the
] borders of that state, but senior US officials said
] Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza had to come
] to an end.
]
] The US president, George Bush, has since said it would be
] "unrealistic" to expect Israel to remove large West Bank
] settlements - a statement interpreted by Mr Sharon as
] backing for his plan to keep large settlement blocs in
] any future deal with the Palestinians.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Israel not following 'road map', says Sharon

] Rhetorically, Bush has made the promotion of democracy,
] especially in the Middle East, a central theme of his
] administration. "This young century will be liberty's
] century," Bush said last month at the Republican National
] Convention. "By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a
] safer world."
]
] Last year, in a speech before the National Endowment for
] Democracy, Bush criticized past administrations for
] turning a blind eye to autocratic governments in the
] Middle East. "Sixty years of Western nations excusing and
] accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did
] nothing to make us safe -- because in the long run,
] stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty,"
] Bush said.
]
] But, with only tentative and belated exceptions, mostly
] involving Powell, the Bush administration has remained
] largely silent as Putin has slowly dismantled democratic
] institutions, including taking over or closing all
] independent national television channels, establishing
] dominance of both houses of parliament, reasserting
] control over the country's huge energy industry and
] jailing or driving into exile business tycoons who have
] defied him.

Bush's Words Contradict Agenda (washingtonpost.com)

] Matt Drudge is the founder, publisher, and tirelessly
] heterosexual editor of The Drudge Report, the Interweb's
] number one source of indisputably objective political
] news. Eschewing formal training and so-called
] investigating, this former CBS studio gift shop cashier
] has single-handedly reinvigorated modern journalism with
] his trademark blend of 100 point headlines, anthrax
] forecasts, and blow-by-blow updates on the all-important
] rumored exchange of Democrats' bodily fluids. Today Mr.
] Drudge happy to take your questions -- right here on
] ASK THE WHITE HOUSE.

I used to read Drudge regularly, until I decided that too many of his "exclusives" didn't have any evidence, and by the time you noticed, he was busy hyping some other unsubstantiated rumor.

I guess both campaigns have learned from Drudge, this election.

This is a great spoof.

Matt Drudge: Fair & Balanced Blogger - ASK THE WHITE HOUSE - WHITEHOUSE.ORG

] "What would you expect from a senator from
] Massachusetts?" Bush said, as a partisan crowd cheered
] the reference to Kerry's home state and its liberal
] leanings.

Steam would explode out of Rush Limbaugh's ears if Kerry similarly slammed a red state.

Salon.com News | Bush: Democrats make

] Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin, who got in trouble for
] derogatory comments about Islam, argued that it must have
] been God who selected Bush, since a plurality of voters
] hadn't. "Why is this man in the White House? The majority
] of America did not vote for him. He's in the White House
] because God put him there for a time such as this."

Heaven Sent - Does God endorse George Bush? By Steven Waldman

] There has indeed been a dramatic and dangerous rise in
] religious fundamentalism in the Muslim world. The problem
] is that under the Likud Doctrine, there is no space to
] ask why this is happening. We are not allowed to point
] out that fundamentalism breeds in failed states, where
] warfare has systematically targeted civilian
] infrastructure, allowing the mosques start taking
] responsibility for everything from education to garbage
] collection. It has happened in Gaza, in Grozny, in Sadr
] City. Mr. Sharon says terrorism is an epidemic that
] %u201Chas no borders, no fences%u201D but this is not the
] case. Everywhere in the world, terrorism thrives within
] the illegitimate borders of occupation and dictatorship;
] it festers behind %u201Csecurity walls%u201D put up by
] imperial powers; it crosses those borders and climbs over
] those fences to explode inside the countries responsible
] for, or complicit in, occupation and domination.
]
] Ariel Sharon is not the commander in chief of the war on
] terror; that dubious honour stays with George Bush. But
] on the third year anniversary of September 11, he
] deserves to be recognized as this disastrous
] campaign%u2019s spiritual/intellectual guru, a kind of
] trigger-happy Yoda for all the wannabe Luke Skywalkers
] out there, training for their epic battles in good vs.
] evil.
]
] If we want to see the future of where the Likud Doctrine
] leads, we need only follow the guru home, to Israel
] %u2014 a country paralyzed by fear, embracing pariah
] policies of extrajudicial assassination and illegal
] settlement, and in furious denial about the brutality it
] commits daily. It is a nation surrounded by enemies and
] desperate for friends, a category it narrowly defines as
] those who ask no questions, while generously offering the
] same moral amnesty in return. That glimpse at our
] collective future is the only lesson the world needs to
] learn from Ariel Sharon.

The Likudization of the World: The True Legacy of September 11

] 2004 Electoral Vote Animation
] May 24 - Present

This is really cool, although not great news for those of us who don't like Bush.

2004 Electoral Vote Animation

This is chimptastic! (word borrowed from k)

This site lets you drag and drop fragments of Bush speeches so that you can generate a Bush speech that's nearly as nonsensical as the real deal.

George W Bush Speechwriter

] Important Senate news today. Several new polls there have
] changed the outlook. Just going by the spreadsheet (i.e.,
] the current poll numbers), the Senate will be split 50-50
] as a result of a new poll in Oklahoma that now puts Brad
] Carson ahead of Tom Coburn (the former obstretrician who
] has admitted to performing abortions but now says
] abortionists should be executed). In addition, the
] spreadsheet says the Republicans will win the Louisiana
] seat, but since no Republican has ever been elected to
] the Senate by the people of Louisiana since direct
] elections of senators began in 1914, my best guess at
] this point is that the Democrats will actually have a
] majority in the Senate (counting Jeffords as a Democrat).
] This scenario was unthinkable 6 months ago.

This is the slickest electoral college map site.

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004