The other day someone asserted quite definitively that Bush was not going to win the next election. I thought this was optimism, but after having talked to my class today (exercise: define "patriot" as "anyone who speak their mind against government policies" or "anyone who acts, for political good or ill, accroding to their sense of the nation's good." Audience: a Bush family picnic). I am beginning to understand that Iraq might as well be called Waterloo. Even a student who self-identified as conservative said that she was becoming disillusioned with Bush.

Item 2: The other night I was playing volleyball in the sand courts at the Catholic Student Center, when a hit when flying wide toward the little stream that runs by Mowatt drive. Fortunately it was deflected from its damp course by a bit of shrubbery. I cheered, "Yay, Bush!." Realizing the faux pas, I followed with, "That may be the first time I've ever uttered those two words together. The point is not that this was particularly funny, but that everybody laughed.

Is 2004 the year of Dean? And let's be honest, even if it were Leiberman against Bush, wouldn't we vote Leiberman?