Perspectives 2004; It was a year of Passions--a heated election, a movie about Jesus and a team from Boston. A look back in cartoons and quotes.

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"I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004."

Pat Robertson, predicting on his "700 Club" program in January that Bush would win the presidential election because "he's a man of prayer and God's blessing him."

"Today I hope we can begin the healing."

Sen. John Kerry, conceding defeat in the presidential election.

"Well, you know, I'm electable if you vote for me."

Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, after a panelist in a Des Moines, Iowa, debate told him that many Democrats didn't believe he was electable.

"As I was telling my hus--as I was telling President Bush."

Condoleezza Rice, at a dinner party hosted by New York Times Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman and his wife, Times reporter Felicity Barringer.

"Yeeaagh!"

Presidential hopeful Howard Dean, in a much-ridiculed (and remixed) outburst to supporters after his third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.

"If we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States."

Vice President Dick Cheney, at an...

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