Word: cheneyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weeks ago, even Kerry's stepson Chris Heinz had ventured, "We may need someone with stronger credentials on foreign policy." Bush, campaigning in Edwards' state, compared his running mate with Edwards with a withering one-liner that showed how rough his team is planning to play: "Dick Cheney can be President...
That comparison could come back to haunt Bush, given how sharply Cheney's numbers are falling these days. Asked in the TIME poll who would make a better President, Edwards or Cheney, nearly 47% of the registered voters surveyed answered Edwards, while only 38% preferred the Vice President, who wields more influence than any other Vice President in memory, and who came to the job with more impressive credentials than the Governor of Texas, having already been a member of the House Republican leadership, Secretary of Defense and White House chief of staff...
However eager Kerry and Edwards are to stoke the idea of Cheney as an overreaching force of darkness, Edwards has yet to make much of an impression at all. Nearly 55% of registered voters say they know little or nothing about him, and nearly half--49%--say they're not sure whether the impression they do have is favorable or not. That's a situation the Kerry campaign set out to rectify last week, with a new $17 million advertising blitz in 20 states, including its first buy of ad time in Edwards' home state of North Carolina...
...country has had since the 1930s," says Gene Sperling, an economic adviser to Kerry. "Most Americans have a higher standard for economic growth." Republicans say Democrats are ignoring all the hopeful signs. "What you've got is folks who are searching for negative statistics," says Ken Mehlman, the Bush-Cheney campaign manager...
...week, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued its much anticipated report on the intelligence that led the U.S. into war. The report offers a blistering critique of the CIA for exaggerating the threat of Saddam Hussein's illegal weapons. Among its conclusions: in 2002, two months after Vice President Dick Cheney claimed Saddam was pursuing nuclear and smallpox weapons, the CIA pumped up its assessment of both threats based on unsupported or nonexistent intelligence and on analysis that was "at minimum, misleading." The report quotes the CIA's highest-ranking analyst as saying she instructed her underlings to write a "speculative...