The Credit Card Presidency: As A career marketer, Verbal Jazz does have to admire the fundraising tactics of the Bush Campaign. That they work so effectively means that either the Bushies have a well-oiled machine or that the people that give them money are the same that would fall for a charismatic preacher on late night television. The most recent Bush stop was in the backyard Verbal Jazz. Actually, more importantly, the backyard was really that of presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry (Verbal Jazz works from the assumption that the Bush administration has no interest in this website whatsoever). While here, Bush sought to paint Kerry as a "tax-and-spend Democrat" who is against "tax relief." The kind of "tax relief" that Bush talks about is relief for those who are busy choosing between the yellow and black Hummer. Verbal Jazz calculated last year that his own "tax relief" was somewhere around $60: that doesn't even buy me a pair of running shoes, although I could buy 4-5 books with that. Bush is the real president of the credit card generation: it's not tax-and-spend, or fiscal responsibility, but buy weapons, weapons and more weapons now while expanding government ($1.5 Billion for enforced pre-Cana?) and let someone else pay for it later on down the line. Perhaps we'll need bake sales for those bombers after all.

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