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BUSH BEAT

Can we count on a Bush win?

The share of Americans who say they approve of the job Bush is doing inched over the 50% mark to 51% according to the Gallup Poll. No president who was at or above 50% at this point in an election year has lost.

The poll finds the presidential race essentially tied: Bush leads Kerry 48%-46% among likely voters; independent Ralph Nader has 3%. The difference between Bush and Kerry is within the poll's error margin of + or - 4 percentage points.

New Bush ad

"Victory" is the title of the new Bush TV ad. The ad points out that in 1972 there were 40 democracies attending the Summer Olympics. Today, there are 120 democracies in Greece. The ad of course points out that there will be two more democracies at the Olympics, Iraq and Afghanistan. The message is that hope will defeat hatred.

Bush ad leaked

Fox News mistakenly ran a Bush ad that is not scheduled to air for several days. This has given the Kerry campaign a chance to begin to counter the ad before it even runs.

The ad references Kerry’s promise to reform the intelligence system, a narrator says:

“Oh, really? As a member of the intelligence committee, Senator Kerry was absent for 76 percent of the committee's hearings. In the year after the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Kerry was absent for every single one.

"That same year," the ad says, "he proposed slashing America's intelligence budget by $6 billion. There's what Kerry says, and then there's what Kerry does."

Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said that Kerry had "insulted" the intelligence community by saying that the country had better information in Paul Revere's day. "This ad focuses on the disconnect between John Kerry's rhetoric and his record," he said.

 Just POlitics

Kerry befuddled

White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett let Sen. John Kerry have it in an interview with the Washington Times regarding Kerry’s state of mind when 9-11 hit. Kerry has created a lingering story in the press when he criticized President Bush for continuing to read to school children after being informed that America was under attack -- lifted from Michael Moore’s movie, "Fahrenheit 9-11.”

Bartlett referred to Kerry’s account of what he did during 9-11 from his interview with Larry King on his show:

"We watched the second plane come into the building," Kerry said on "Larry King Live."

"And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon. “

"And then word came from the White House they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate," he added. "And so we immediately began the evacuation."

President Bush was recently asked about his response of continuing to read to the school children on Larry King Live:

"I think it's easy to second-guess," Bush said. "What's important is how I reacted when I realized America was under attack.

"It didn't take me long to figure out we were at war," he added. "It didn't take me long to develop a plan that we would go after al Qaeda. We went into action very quickly."

Bush states that he has no regrets about his decision to continue to read:

"I was collecting my thoughts," Bush explained on CNN. "I was sitting with a bunch of young kids, and I made the decision there that we would let this part of the program finish, and then I would calmly stand up and thank the teacher and thank the children and go take care of business."

Presidential Debates

This year, Jim Lehrer of PBS will moderate the first debate between President Bush and Sen. Kerry scheduled for Sept. 30.

Charlie Gibson, co-anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America," will host the second debate tentatively set for Oct. 8.

Bob Shiefer, CBS's chief Washington correspondent, will lead the third debate slated for Oct. 13, at Arizona State University.

Gwen Ifill of PBS will moderate the vice-presidential debates.

'Pivotal’ manufactured moment

Orlando Sential columnist Kathleen Parker’s editorial on Kerry’s ‘Christmas in Cambodia Pivotal Moment’ is a must-read. The article was picked up and run by the PasadenStarNews. Here is an excerpt: [LINK TO FULL EDITORIAL]

“If Kerry didn't fabricate, he exaggerated. Or misspoke. Or got confused. Or something. But whatever the differences among versions, the story is part of a larger narrative that may matter more than the details.

It is a story of naked ambition and grandiosity, the narrative of a self-absorbed man who always needed to be best and first, whether captain of the boat in Vietnam or winner of the debate in school. Who, when accidentally knocked off his snowboard as an adult fumed, "I don't fall down.'

He's the sort of man who thinks to take a movie camera to war to document himself for uses now known to be political; who willingly exploits his heroism in ways real heroes never do; who builds a career on disgust toward a war he later characterizes as the crowning achievement in a life that seems more risumi than real.”

Battling in Oregon

"The world is unstable right now. The marketplace is unstable and because of the way we've behaved in Iraq and because we've pushed our allies to our side and because we're not doing the kinds of things necessary to build the global effort with respect to terror, the instability adds about $10 dollars to the barrel for the price of oil," Sen. John Kerry said.

Kerry’s attacks continued against President Bush while both were campaigning in Oregon. This is the second case of both candidates being in the same state at the same time. The last time was in Iowa just ten days ago.

"Government is supposed to make choices on your behalf," Kerry said. "Government is not supposed to make choices that favor just the powerful special interests, the people with the money who can go to Washington and have access average people can't have."

Kerry offered those words in response to the Congressional Budget Office report that Bush’s tax cuts had favored the reach over other classes of individuals.

For his part, Bush portrayed Kerry as anti-exports and world trade. While Bush was in Oregon he announced a $15 million public works project to deepen the Columbia River from 40 feet to 43 feet. This would enable greater exports of commodities and manufactured products from Oregon ports.

Olympic politics

A new Bush television advertisement, to run on national cable and more than 250 health clubs in the last two weeks of August, is timed to coincide with the Olympics in Greece.

It points out that with the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there are "two fewer terrorist regimes" and two more free nations at the Olympics.

IPW Press Release

For Immediate Release
For further information contact:
Roger Wm. Hughes
515-205-8975
sixstrategies@wmtel.net

What does Linda Eddy of Webster City, Iowa have in common with Norman Rockwell and Roy Lichtenstein? All of them are featured in the latest exhibit at the Arizona State University Museum of Art. The museum is offering a special exhibition of Democracy in America: Political Satire Then and Now.

"It is an honor to be chosen by Arizona and to have them judge that my artwork meets the caliber of all these great artist. I hope that in some way that it will help bring recognition to the new digital art form that I believe that I am helping to pioneer," said Linda Eddy.

Eddy has been selected to display six giclee prints (pronounced: zhee-klay) for the Democracy in America exhibit.

Linda Eddy is the political cartoonist for Iowa Presidential Watch, an uncoordinated federal PAC – iowapresidentialwartch.com. She was born and graduated from Forest City and is also a graduate of Drake University where she received a degree in graphic design.

Arizona Museum Director Marilyn Zeitlin commenting on the exhibit said, "Voting is the ultimate opportunity for us to express our opinions about who represents us, but art – beautiful, caustic, simple or searing – often frames or reflects those opinions. The election is on everyone’s mind, and, with the presidential debate coming to Arizona State University, we felt this was a special opportunity to add some perspective to the whole political process."

Democracy is designed to inspire visitors to become fully engaged in the democratic process and will coincide with the last round of presidential debates scheduled to be held at ASU on Oct. 13. The exhibition will kick off with a "Super Tuesday" party from 5 to 8 p.m., Aug. 31 to welcome back ASU students.

Other artist in the exhibit besides Linda Eddy include: Eric Avery, Russell Barnett Aitken, Jim Budde, Enrique Chagoya, Colin Chillag, Sue Coe, Dan Collins, Robbie Conal, William Coupon, Honoré Daumier, Arthur Habegger, Heide Hesse, William Hogarth, John Haddock, Charles Howe, Benito Huerta, Peter Kuper, Carolyn Lavender, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Litt, Leopoldo Mendez, Thomas Nast, Mark Newport, Luo Xiao Ping, James Poppitz, Alfred Quiroz, Lynn Randolph, Michael Rich, John Risseeuw, Mike Ritter, Norman Rockwell, Barb Ross, William Sartain, Julian Schnabel, Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, Paul Szep, Einar and Janex de la Torre and Betty Wells.

(For full details of the Arizona State University Museum of Art press release go to: http://herbergercollege.asu.edu/news/newsreleases/2004/asuam_democracy_081104.htm

or you can link to the release at www.iowapresidentialwatch.com here:
http://www.iowapresidentialwatch.com/pages/Press.htm

There is a brief bio, photo of Linda Eddy, and the 6 exhibit cartoons here:
http://www.iowapresidentialwatch.com/LindasFineArt/Prints/Prints.htm