Bush, filling in at an emergency supply distribution center, loads a man's truck with bottled water, and thanks him for "coming by." The sentiment is admirable, surely, but couldn't someone have mentioned to Bush that these people didn't come to see him?

Russia gets on board, with what I view as a tremendous boost for the global war on terror.

Keyes gets the vote from Christ.

Joe Klein makes a great point that I completely missed in the less-than-logically-organized critique of the Swifties that I wrote about a week ago:

These are heartfelt gripes, perhaps, but wrong on the merits. Kerry's protest was not only honorable, it was accurate. The war in Vietnam was an unnecessary disaster, entered into under false pretenses—the fabricated Gulf of Tonkin incident—and fought because of a mistaken intellectual theory: that the Vietnamese national liberation movement was part of an international communist conspiracy to overwhelm Asia.

Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune argues that Alan Keyes wouldn't make it in Washington because he "shows no aptitude for verbal finesse, media management, coalition building and other skills he'd need." No word on whether or not he appreciates the irony.

13% of Gallup's most recent respondents feel that President Bush is too liberal. Too liberal!

Christ in heaven.

Kerry discovers a new slogan:

"Sen. John F. Kerry, under pressure from Democratic leaders to draw sharper contrasts between himself and George W. Bush, launched a series of blistering attacks on the president Monday, saying the W in his opponent's name stands for 'wrong... wrong choices, wrong priorities, wrong direction for our country.'"

Jimmy Carter admits that he "probably" owes his presidency to Robert Redford. Across the country, conservatives knowingly nod their heads.

Lee Kalcheim op-eds in the NYT about "The Latest Poll," which includes these facts and figures:

• 60 percent of households that fly flags think America can do no wrong 26 percent of the time.
• 98 percent of people who are hearing-impaired like 50 percent of what they hear from Mr. Bush.
• 63 percent of single women over 50 think John Kerry is too tall for his own good.
• 100 percent of Spanish-American War veterans are dead.
• 50 percent of the electorate think that polls are misleading, inaccurate and inconclusive. The other 50 percent agree 30 percent of the time with 40 percent of the results.

Bush finally tells us why "frivolous medical lawsuits" are a bad thing:

"Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."

New CNN/Gallup puts Bush up by 2. (Or by 7, if you use the LV numbers.) Seems the Democrats have to get back to work on the GOTV efforts.

That said, most people seem to agree that accuracy is a bit stretched at the moment:

"Aides in both campaigns said the most accurate measure of the race would not come until sometime this week, when voters return from their Labor Day vacations and memories of the Republican convention start to fade."

A neat picture, which might be titled "Enormous George."