“One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.” YearsMayLongPresidentWonderBreakEconomyFourEconomicElectionCrisisTrackArguingCampaignsPresident ObamaFour YearsRight TrackEconomic CrisisSurrogatesAmerican Economy Author:Jon Meacham
“I had been secretary of state for eight years, attorney general for four years, lieutenant governor for four years, and governor for four years - I had all these friends around the country - so I thought I could gin up a campaign not for me but against George W. Bush, against his war, against his economic policies, and against his education policies.” YearsWarCountryStatesFourEconomicPolicyEightCampaignsFour YearsGovernorsSecretaryAttorneyGinEconomic PolicyLieutenants Author:Don Siegelman
“The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Flo from the Progressive Insurance ads.” ChoicesFourBillsCampaignsParksProgressiveAdsEleanorRosa Author:Conan O'Brien
“The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.” ThinkingYearsWellsHas BeensTwoRaceFourCostPercentCampaignsPresidentialFour YearsPresidential Campaign Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“John Kerry went duck hunting and he's doing that to fulfill his campaign pledge to hunt down the ducks and kill them wherever they are! Kerry did pretty well; he came back with four ducks and three Purple Hearts.” WellsHeartThreeFourCampaignsHuntingDucksHuntsPurplePledgeJohn KerryDuck HuntingPurple Heart Author:David Letterman
“Campaign analysts say that Dean has produced the most innovative web site in this year's presidential race. I particularly like today's blog, which consisted of the sentence 'I hate myself,' typed four billion times. In Dean's case, this may be the first instance where the actually entity represented by the web site has crashed more often than the site did.” YearsFirstsMayTodayHateRaceCasesFourI HateSentencesBillionsCampaignsInstancePresidentialEntitySiteInnovativeBlogsDeanAnalystsHate MyselfI Hate Myself Author:Dennis Miller
“I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things are going downhill quickly, but Obama's new campaign slogan is 'Are you better off than you were four days ago?'” IfsKnowsWantFourHeardStreetsWallNewsCampaignsFarmersBetter OffSlogans Author:Bill Maher
“The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.” PoliticalFourNewsAdvantageClintonAccessCampaignsDataRevelationsBelongingVotersSoftwareOld FashionedControversyCoverageBad NewsConfidentialGlitches Author:Melissa Harris-Perry