"Where were their fatigues?" Asked Jim Hightower

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commenting on the spread in Vogue of the Bushettes, surrounded by acres of silk dresses made by fashion designers.

If the war is right, they should enlist to send a message. But if they are not in fatigue, they are still sending a message.

He was part of the "warm up" in the St. Paul Labor Day picnic, before John Edwards' appearance. Also speaking - Garrison Keillor. What an orator; what a speaker. I wish that I could remember everything that he said.

Those successful people, he said, did not achieve their success on their own. They benefited from what others, before them, did in shaping our country. So why can't they pay their fair share of taxes to benefit the next generations? When did the Republicans become so ungrateful?

Right now, he said, the campaigns are about ghosts: the Vietnam War, gay marriage..... But if Bush will win, we will all feel it in our pockets. The privatization of Social Security and of Medicare, the elimination of the progressive income tax policy, the loss of dignity by seniors, creating two tiers of them in how they are being treated.

Cheney chose this day to visit St. Paul, too. At the State Fair. How dare he, asked Walter Mondale, the Vice President of Halliburton, to come here on Labor Day, of all days?

Cheney exacted his revenge. While his plane was getting ready to take off, all other aviation activity halted in the area, and John Edwards was stuck above the skies of St. Paul before his plane could land.