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Another keynote speaker, David Orr, who chairs the Environmental Studies program at Oberlin, drew laughter and applause when he snuck into his slide-show a political cartoon of Vice President Cheney strumming a banjo against the backdrop of oil rigs, singing “this land is oiled land, this land is mined land...
That's impressive--for a Democrat. But Kerry's fund-raising operation pales in comparison to the colossus that is the Bush-Cheney re-election effort. Bush raised a record-setting $132 million in 2003. Ken Mehlman, campaign manager of the President's re-election effort, says that his team "still has its goal of raising $170 million" by this September's Republican Convention in New York City, but no one will be surprised if they clear closer to $200 million. So far they have been frugal, says Mehlman, striking good cash-up-front deals with vendors. Indeed, the cash...
...does the Bush team raise all that money, and where does it come from? First, there are the well-heeled big donors who give $2,000 apiece. The Bush-Cheney campaign wrangles them through its Rangers--fund raisers who are required amass at least $200,000 (that is, they round up 100 people who will give $2,000 each). The system is so well-organized that each fund raiser is assigned a number, and that number is put on donors' checks. If the fund raisers make their quotas, they get benefits like a visit to Bush at his ranch...
After giving Council of Economic Advisers Chair N. Gregory Mankiw a noogie for favoring exporting American jobs, George Bush will add a new disincentive: Next time, it’s Twister with Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz...
...freedom-loving American, I would gladly back the mission to Mars if the first person to go were President Bush. I am quite certain that we won't be able to find Vice President Cheney, or I would insist that he go too. Colleen Stone Merced, Calif...