AltWeeklies Wire
What Is the City of Springfield Hiding?new
Unlike other Illinois cities, Springfield officials refuse to release data on the racial and sex breakdown of city employees.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
1001 Things to Hate About the Conventionnew
One reason to hate the convention is that the Swift Boat story got knocked off front pages just as it was starting to backfire. And then there are the other 1,000.
New York Press |
New York Press Staff |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Mean Mr. Millernew
On Wednesday night Zell Miller was mainly pissed off that John Kerry is not more like Wendell Willkie, so clearly he's not too choosy about his topic.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
Fog of War: Swift Boat Vet Weymouth Symmes Speaksnew
Weymouth Symmes, the Missoula-based treasurer of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, published his own account of Swift boating in Vietnam in April 2004. Strangely enough, John Kerry emerges from that book unscathed.
Missoula Independent |
Robin Troy |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
Bland on the Runnew
John Kerry needs to inspire if he wants to beat the Great Miscalculator.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: What's with Zell Miller?new
Dan Kennedy's media log critiques the RNC, Fox News, and alleged Democrat Zell Miller's speech.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Osama Bin-Who?new
This entire convention is an orgy of grief and fury over the attack that smashed a vertical city of people just four miles south of the speakers' podium, and yet the name of Osama bin-Laden has not been uttered. Not once.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Students to GOP - Stop Exploiting 9/11new
Students from Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School march to Ground Zero on the third day of the RNC to protest what they see as the Bush administration’s use of September 11 for propaganda.
Boston Phoenix |
Kevin Ford |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Romney — Not Ready for Prime Timenew
Massachusetts Governor (and 2008 presidential hopeful) Mitt Romney's speech Wednesday evening was the biggest moment of his political career. And he blew it.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
GOP Action Heroes: Arnold, Rudy, John McCain and the Bush Twinsnew
Although protesters keep assailing the president with verve and unexpected wit — I’m especially partial to Billionaires for Bush’s mocking chant “Four more wars!” — many New Yorkers view the election with a sense of impending doom tinged with big-city snobbery.
L.A. Weekly |
John Powers |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
War Party: John Kerry Gets His Marching Orders in New Yorknew
In convention speeches, the Republicans are, rather boldly, assuming full ownership of what wiser folks assume is the inevitable disaster of the Iraqi war.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
Why Democrats Shouldn't Panic — Yetnew
What we've learned so far from speakers at the Republican convention is that George W. Bush, by contrast to John Kerry, exhibits firm, resolute, determined leadership. But none of the speakers has particularly cared to discuss Bush’s actual record.
L.A. Weekly |
Harold Meyerson |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
Streets of Rage: How Bush and the GOP Mobilized Half a Million Peoplenew
All week, people have invoked George W. Bush's name in anger and ridicule in documentaries, art shows, poetry readings, even die-ins, all part of the convulsion of creative dissent that his presidency has unintentionally unleashed.
The Village Voice |
Tom Robbins and Jennifer Gonnerman |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
Tags: Karl Rove, World Trade Center, peace, arrests, Protesters, police, New York City, rally, bicyclists, Soho
Follow the Bouncing Zell: A Report on His Zig Zagsnew
One of Zell Miller's favorite lines is "To thine own self be true." Which, judging from the congressman's darting to and fro on every issue from the Civil Rights Movement to the Bush family, just goes to show he's every bit the ping-pong ball that Rudy Giuliani accuses John Kerry of being.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry and Mara Shalhoup |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
Learning from the Anti-anti-Bush Protestersnew
The right wingers on the side of Seventh Avenue may have been missing the point, but they were also showing up some real weaknesses in the antiwar left's own rhetoric.
Metroland |
Miriam Axel-Lute |
09-02-2004 |
Commentary
Tags: Protesters, RNC
