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ALL IN THE NAME OF ENFRANCHISEMENT By now most Americans have heard that John Kerry plans to undertake a "preemptive" legal strike against Republicans during this election cycle. His justification for flooding every key battleground state in the union with thousands of lawyers, is to say that Democrats need to stop the Bush political machine before it can disenfranchise people, like it did in Florida four years ago. http://tampatrib.com/nationworldnews/MGBN1ZHOOZD.html http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0884144.html Kerry is DEEPLY concerned that many liberals, and black liberals in particular, may not have their votes counted due to the shenanigans of all those despicable conservatives out there, who...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John Kerry, bracing for a potential fight over election results, will not hesitate to declare victory Nov. 2 and defend it, advisers say. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency. In short, the Democratic presidential candidate has a simple strategy for Nov. 3 and beyond: Do not repeat Al Gore's mistakes. The Democratic vice president prematurely conceded the 2000 race to George W. Bush, then had to retract his concession after aides said Florida wasn't lost. He never declared victory, an omission Kerry's advisers --...

The decision of Sinclair Broadcasting to air an anti-Kerry documentary in late October is a nightmarish recipe of "creeping fascism, state propaganda, Big Brother and brainwashing." So says the unhinged Molly Ivins, giving voice to the outrage felt by her colleagues in the news media. Liberals are positively panicked at the idea that somewhere, on some station, at some late date, someone will say something negative about John Kerry without a moment for balance on the other side. Let's be blunt: Welcome to our world, liberals. You're all for propaganda and brainwashing when it's Dan, Peter, Tom & Co. spinning...

AP: Bush Faults Kerry for Scare Tactics 19 minutes ago By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE - President Bush (news - web sites) on Monday accused Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) of "shameless scare tactics" by suggesting that the president would jeopardize Social Security (news - web sites) for older Americans and bring back the military draft for young people.

Fifteen minutes before the second televised Presidential debate, on the night of Friday, Oct. 8, the stoic voice of anchor Brit Hume came over the Fox News Channel’s control-room intercom. "Do you know about this Mark Halperin memo?" he asked the room full of producers, who were hunched over the dials and standing before a tall bank of flickering TV screens. "Can we talk about it on the air? It’s on Drudge. It’s all over Drudge." In a leaked memo, Mr. Halperin, the ABC News political director, had suggested that the network should be more critical of President Bush than...

www.JB-Williams.com Written by: JB Williams ©2004-10-12 Let’s pretend for a moment that Good and Evil both exist on earth. That issues aren’t only a matter of one’s perspective, but that real facts exist and they don’t have a side. That “gray area’s” are just mind bending attempts to justify the unjustifiable. That America is not divided along socio-economic lines, but rather by opposing forces with very different agenda’s. Let’s pretend that we no longer have the luxury of walking the tightrope of indecision, or sitting on a politically correct non-committal fence, void of moral or ethical conviction. Let’s pretend that...

Listening to John Kerry in the debates, one could be forgiven for thinking that his running mate is Ronald Reagan. He has invoked Reagan's name more often than that of John Edwards. And he has mostly done it in the context of foreign policy, suggesting that his approach to the world will be Reaganesque. This is a grotesque example of political body-snatching, as dishonest in its way as, say, David Duke invoking Martin Luther King Jr. to bolster his civil rights credentials. "I'm going to run a foreign policy that actually does what President Reagan did, President Eisenhower did, and...

In a letter to U.S. Attorney Gregory Van Tatenhove today, the National Legal and Policy Center, a national ethics watchdog organization, called for an investigation into a promise made by Congressional candidate (KY-4) Nick Clooney to retain the staff of Rep. Ken Lucas if Clooney was elected. The letter documented that the Clooney campaign subsequently procured political and financial support from the Lucas staff.

WASHINGTON -- It was a mistake for John Kerry to spend four days at the Democratic convention establishing his connection to Vietnam. But it was oddly appropriate. More than any other politician of our time -- including John McCain, who spent five and a half years in a Vietnam prison camp rather than four and a half months on a Swift boat -- Kerry has been haunted and shaped by Vietnam. Kerry in turn has been one of the most important shapers of the meaning of Vietnam for the rest of the country. Over the course of his three decades...

Just clicked on this upcoming film advertised on Drudge: http://www.citizensunited-interactive.org/c41.11/

TALLAHASSEE - As they did in the presidential election four years ago, Florida courts are likely to have a role in the outcome of this fall's contest. Unlike 2000, when the legal action erupted after ballots were counted, this time courtrooms are filling long before voters head for the polls. Today, legal heavyweights with lengthy partisan pedigrees converge on the state Supreme Court in a fight over Ralph Nader's ballot status. The issue is ``preserving ballot integrity,'' says The Ballot Project, which wants Nader erased. That step could ``muzzle the voice of independent voters,'' counters the Reform Party of Florida....

Are there any freepers up to the challenge of getting 543,895 flyers distributed over the next 70 days? That's only about 8000 per day. We can take pledges right here on this thread. How many flyers do you pledge to pass out over the next 70 days? Can We Count You In? - This might make the difference in several states as well as the overall popular total. Download and Distribute - it's that easy. You can either print them on your own or take them elsewhere to be copied or printed. If you aren't able to do this -...

Voters rush past Keyes, favor Obama Democrat even finds fans among conservativesBy Bob Secter August 21, 2004 Alan Keyes said it would be an uphill climb when he agreed this month to be the emergency candidate for Illinois Republicans in the U.S. Senate race, but he may not have realized just how steep the ascent will have to be. The nation's first Senate contest featuring two major party African-American candidates is beginning in lopsided fashion, with nearly two-thirds of voters indicating support for Democrat Barack Obama and less than one-quarter backing Keyes, according to a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll. The poll...

Limiting jury awards in lawsuits is one way to lower insurance costs nationwide, both in health care professions and for small businesses, said Marvin Scott, a Republican candidate seeking to defeat incumbent U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind. in November. "I want to make sure that we have tort reform. What happens too often is that we don't have enough limits on what people can sue for. Indiana does and so does four other states, but when costs are averaged out nationwide, it makes insurance costs higher," Scott said Wednesday in Terre Haute. While in Terre Haute, Scott toured Doughmakers, a...

O'Reilly Debunks Springsteen's 'Nonpartisan' Claim "Blue collar" multi-millionaire rock n'roller Bruce Springsteen is organizing a concert tour dedicated to defeating George Bush in November. But in an op-ed piece in Thursday's New York Times, "the Boss" tries to paint the move as a break with his apolitical past, claiming, "Personally, I have always stayed one step away from partisan politics." Not so, says Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly, who treated his audience last night to a laundry list of Springsteen's anti-GOP activities. • "The Boss" has "consistently pushed left wing defamation books at his concert and associated with radical...

For Bush, every penny countsLarry Kudlow Bush and Kerry are in a virtual dead heat according to the Iowa Electronic Market -- a winner-take-all futures market with a great track record of picking the victors in November. At midweek, Bush was trading at 50.5 cents and Kerry at 49.9 cents. Kerry had taken a small lead going into the Democratic National Convention, his first lead of the year in the Iowa market. But Bush pulled ahead by the convention's halfway point. Looks like the Boston con game -- "We're not really left liberals who believe in soaking the rich, high taxes,...

(See article from Talon News Service after commentary below) This is very disturbing. If this article is truly representative, it indicates that some real work needs to be undertaken in order to counteract the effects of Moore’s 9/11, and other Left-wing propaganda on our service personnel. The Left did the same during VN, and succeeded then in finally undermining the spirit of our forces, and our nation as a whole. One idea might be to make links exposing Moore as the lying, treasonous, buffoon that he is widely available to service personnel on the internet. This might include the new...

This business with National Security Adviser Sandy Berger has made me come to the conclusion that my vote is worth nothing if nothing comes from this secret document stealing. If the Bush administration and the GOP are not willing to peruse this issue to its conclusion in an aggressive manner then my vote will not be cast. There is no need to continue fooling myself that my vote counts if the people at the top let thing slide for the "In crowd" while enforcing the laws on the flunkies in our society (flunkies = citizens). I have had my fill...

Wow! Thank God for the electoral college. Those founding fathers really knew what they were doing. Had the Constitution called for direct election of the president of the United States, a clearly mentally unstable man would be sitting in the Oval Office right now. That's my conclusion after watching, listening to and reading Al Gore's speech to the Moveon.org-New York University crowd this week. The man is unhinged. He's deranged. He's unbalanced. He had better get out of New York as quickly as he can because, as Ralph Kramden would say, "Bellevue is calling." Here are some of the descriptives...

Today, the Department of Labor released its latest report on state-by-state employment data for April 2004. Highlights: --Over the past year, the unemployment rate has fallen in 47 states. --Non-farm payroll employment increased in 45 states in April. --Over the past year, employment has increased in 44 states. The latest state-by-state data are consistent with recent job growth nationwide. In the past 8 months, over 1.1 million new payroll jobs have been created. Over 800,000 new jobs have been created in 2004 alone. If the current pace of job growth for 2004 continues, over 2.6 million jobs will be created...