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I’m writing this e-mail about your post today, Was John Kerry AWOL, rather than submitting a comment because of the length. I agree with Michael Ashbury’s assessment and have tried unsuccessfully to get others, including discussion groups on the SwiftVets website, excited about this. I believe this may be due, in part, to some confusion, even among vets, over the terminology associated with reserve service, e.g., active, inactive, ready, and standby. Nevertheless, I believe this may be the real "smoking gun" that most worries the Kerry campaign. Thus, they have resurrected the tired old "Bush was AWOL" smear as a...

"Bush served his country without pay" The following is a post written by a regular reader of this site known to those who visit the comments section as "Oak Leaf". He is an active reservist with over twenty years of service that includes both the National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve. He has extensive experience in personnel programs management and has served on the faculty at a senior service college. Air Guard Service Without Pay When George W. Bush joined the Texas Air National Guard, a component of the US Air Force, he entered into a six year statutory service...

Dear CBS 2 Viewer,   Thank you for taking the time to email us at CBS 2 CHICAGO.  We appreciate hearing from our viewers and value your comments and concerns.   In light of the questions about the original 60MINUTES Wednesday report, CBS News states that it will redouble its efforts to continue reporting aggressively on all aspects of the story, in an effort to resolve those questions.  This week's 60 MINUTES interview with Ms. Knox was part of that effort.               The CBS News report was based on a preponderance of evidence:  many interviews, both on and-off-camera, with...

It is totally unfair of Fox news to submit us to listening to Juan Williams twice in one evening. He never says anything different but the Dem talking points. He's on O'Reilly right now.

Yesterday's short, odd, late-morning behavior of the Bush Reelection Contract has now more than corrected itself. As can be see by this graphic of price over the entire lifespan of the contract up to the moment, things are unfolding as we might more or less expect them to. So what happened yesterday? Why did price suddenly plunge, moving to an effective market prediction of below-50% reelection likelihood in a few minutes? And why, indeed, did price recover and resume its current upward trend? I thought the sudden internet appearance of the beheading video might have caused a panic. Others suggested...

Unsafe at Any Speed From our department of curiously timed stories comes a gem from CBS. In the wake of their exposure for using forged documents in their recent attack on President Bush's guard service, the 'Tiffany Network' asks Kerry Campaign: What Went Wrong? But certainly not everything has gone wrong for the Democrats, as they recently succeeded in assuring that US Soldiers in Iraq who are Florida citizens will not be able to vote for Ralph Nader for president. Less than 11 hours before Secretary of State Glenda Hood is supposed to certify the ballots for 67 counties -...

Forget the political conventions. When history books are written, bloggers' real contribution to the 2004 election may well turn out to be in providing leagues of amateur sleuths to fact-check political controversy. For the last 24 hours, the Internet has been abuzz with bloggers' claims that the memos about President Bush's time in the National Air Guard publicized by CBS were actually a hoax. Keepers of online journals around the country have been analyzing the memos in excruciating detail, comparing the notes' typography to the technical specifications of early 1970s typewriters. The result? It's too early to say whether the...

To begin, I promise I was thinking about the Newsweek poll before I saw CrushKerry’s warning to watch out for the oversampling of Republicans. But I think that point is worth examining further. As CrushKerry observed, GOP respondents outweighed Democratic respondents in the poll, 374 to 303. With 300 Independents noted,that works out to 38.3% Republicans, 31.0% Democrats, and 30.7% Independents of the 977 total from the three. But the Newsweek poll states that 1,188 respondents were polled, with 1,088 Registered voters. And while the press release takes 20 pages to print and read, Newsweek doesn’t say, exactly, how those...

AP Turns Cheers Into Boos, And Now Everybody Knows Their Name My Northern Alliance colleague and fellow RNC blogger Hindrocket from Power Line notes a horrendous example of media bias that should shock anyone who reads the news. The Associated Press, one of the primary resources of the mainstream news media, deliberately reported false news regarding Republican reaction to Bill Clinton's emergency bypass operation to make GOP supporters and George Bush look petty and mean-spirited: WEST ALLIS, Wis. - President Bush (news - web sites) on Friday wished Bill Clinton (news - web sites) "best wishes for a swift and...

BEN THERE It's not October, but the Kerry campaign is playing perhaps its final card for a surprise with the help of Dan Rather and "60 Minutes." On Wednesday, stories began breaking that Ben Barnes, the former speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and former lieutenant governor, was breaking his off and on silence and telling how he pulled strings to get a then-young George W. Bush into the Texas National Guard. Barnes has consistently told reporters for years that no Bush family member ever directly contacted him for assistance in getting the young Bush into the Guard, but...

‘It’s Clobberin’ Time,’ Shouts Frustrated Nominee Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry’s frustration with the group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth reached the boiling point this weekend when the Massachusetts senator grabbed one of its members by the neck and throttled him. Mr. Kerry was making a campaign speech in Oakland, California when the throttling incident occurred. According to eyewitnesses at the outdoor rally, Mr. Kerry spotted a swift boat veteran in the audience carrying a sign reading “Unfit for Command” and within moments the nominee’s face turned beet red, a vein in his forehead throbbing ominously. Mr. Kerry...

NEW YORK -- Thousands of anti-Bush protesters were packing the street in front of Madison Square Garden, near the corner where a gigantic outdoor TV was broadcasting the Fox News network, when the roiling mass of humanity to my Democratic left began chanting. From where I stood like the lazy reporter I am, safely off to the side and in the shade, it looked like the fat guy in the hot plastic devil head started it. But I could be wrong. It could have been the kid who had taped his mouth shut, symbolizing the supposed cruelty of Republicans who...

I just listened to the O'Reilly radio program hosted by Judge Napolitano. For the entire hour, Judge Napolitano in logical argument laid out the case why Kerry made Viet Nam scrutiny a part of his campaign. He spoke about Kerry's Purple Hearts and the Cambodia fairy tale. He said that the Swift Boat Veterans have every right to present their case. He spoke about Bob Novak's column and the article in the WSJ blasting Kerry's Viet Nam experience and the fact that the DNC was letting out their lawyers to attack the Swift boat Veterans. He pointed out that Kerry...

After watching The Beltway Boys and News Watch on FNC, I think maybe we should be glad that the Main Stream Media is ignoring the Swift Boat story. Both shows pointed out that by the MSM refusing to acknowledge the charges against Kerry, word is being passed on the Internet and by word of mouth.

Pics From Bush in Santa Monica Today I went to the Bush fundraiser in Santa Monica today. Here are some pictures and a short report. I got there to 31st and Ocean Park Blvd about 2pm. The gathering was officially scheduled to start at about 3 and go until 5pm. Here's the scene as I arrived: Not a lot of people at first, but it eventually grew to a couple hundred. Everyone was in good spirits and I quickly grabbed one of the signs my wife and I had helped make the night before at a sign-making party at the...

I have been impressed by the power of this group. I am asking everyone to please contact MSNBC and ask that John O'Neill be asked back again. He was never allowed to answer questions between Chris Matthews badgering him and Hurley speaking over him. Please write to Hardball@MSNBC.com Also, does anyone know who are the advertisers of Hardball so we can also contact them.

I just checked Amazon.com. The delivery of my copy of UNFIT FOR COMMAND is scheduled for October 4. It seems to be the publishing company underestimated the demand for this book. Have any of you been promised an earlier delivery time?

A couple of things to keep in mind as we watch the Swift Boat ad and wonder about its impact on the campaign: First, no one on the Bush campaign will touch this with a ten-foot pole. Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt told NRO last week, "The Bush campaign never has and will never question John Kerry's service in Vietnam." Christine Iverson, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said, "It is important to remember that we have never and will never question John Kerry's service in Vietnam. The Democrats may try to claim otherwise, but that is not the case."...

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