While I'm away from the blog for a few days, I am providing you entertainment (or further irritation), in the form of a few cartoons chosen from this time of year in 2004.

As you may recall, we were on the eve of the reelection of George W. Bush to a second term. Depending on your feelings about him, one of his strongest character traits was his resoluteness. Less charitable analysts would view it as mulish stubbornness.