Tangled Up in Red and Blue Edition.(U.S. current events, 2004)

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Here are some haunting images of 2004 we wish we could forget: almost daily attacks on American soldiers and Iraqi innocents, hostage beheadings, Abu Ghraib atrocities. Not to mention Bush's first-debate scowls, Kerry in the Teletubbies NASA suit, soaring deficits, TV-pundit overload, serial hurricanes in Florida, the endless Peterson trial, Bernie Kerik's Ground Zero love nest. Two bright spots: the Red Sox finally won and hockey never started.

George W. Bush +

Voters thought the country

was on the wrong track and re-elected him

anyway. Congrats on confounding the CW.

Dick Cheney =

His crocodile tears over Kerry's

reference to gay daughter helped pull Bush

over the finish line. Cheer up, Chipper Dick!

John Kerry -

Being the un-Bush wasn't enough...

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