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During an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer in September, Hillary Clinton was unable to name her "number one accomplishment" as Secretary of State. When she gave her answer, she turned to her tenure as the junior Senator from New York, saying: "As [a] senator working across the aisle on issues like getting better health care for our veterans. You know, this is just the silly season. I am looking forward to eventually debating on that stage whoever they finally nominate once they get around to doing that." What exactly were Hillary's accomplishments as a U.S. Senator? As reported by Washington...

Medford, Oregon - It's obvious that John Kerry loathes the United States Military. Kerry's obsessive attacks on the US Military's handling of Saddam Hussein's massive stockpiles of explosives and ammunition borders on treason in this writer's opinion. This is just one more act of animus by a candidate who should never be allowed to command the military forces of the United States of America. Today the truth is known about Kerry's lies concerning 380-tons of explosives near Baghdad. Today, Friday, October 29, 2004, US Army Major Austin Pearson appeared before a press conference in the Pentagon. He provided personal, first-hand...

To:       Interested PartiesFrom:   Bush-Cheney '04 CommunicationsDate:    10/14/04Re:       Civics 101: John Kerry's Thin             Senate Record Last night, President Bush said John Kerry "introduced 300 some bills and he's passed five," meaning just five of Kerry's bills became law.  Kerry responded by claiming, "I've actually passed 56 individual bills that I've personally written."  Nineteen years is long enough for most senators to learn how a bill becomes a law, but John Kerry and his campaign seem to need a civics lesson.  A bill does not become a law until it passes the Senate, passes the House, is reconciled by a conference committee, passes...

The oddly missing element from this year's presidential campaign is any discussion of the most important two decades of John Kerry's public life — those he served in the U.S. Senate. His record is undistinguished liberalism, so unremarkable or productive that he found only 70 words out of 5,161 in the convention speech he used to define himself to address almost 20 years in the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. In his career there, he has sponsored only eight bills that passed Congress, an Associated Press study found. Five were ceremonial, two concerned fishing and marine research and one gave grants...

DO-NOTHING SENATORKerry Offered Small Bills, But Little Change___________________________________________“I’ve actually passed 56 individual bills that I’ve personally written. And in addition to that, they’re not always under my name. There’s amendments on certain bills.” (Sen. John Kerry, Third Presidential Debate, Tempe, AZ, 10/13/04)OH REALLY? THE RECORD SHOWS OTHERWISE:Kerry Has “A Short List Of Laws That Bear His Name.”  “Asked what he has accomplished during his 19 years in the Senate, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry gives a lengthy answer but has a short list of laws that bear his name.” (Nedra Pickler, “Kerry’s Senate Career Marked By Investigations, Not Legislation,” The...

What Is There To Debate? Posted September 30, 2004 By J.B. Williams Let's face it, Presidential debates rarely provide any real insight into the hearts and minds of the candidates. Debate rules and guidelines are designed so that handlers can script the appropriate responses in advance, the moderators are never moderates, and consequently, the American people would rather watch their favorite (scripted) realty TV show, which is far more real. We seldom need a debate to know what any sitting President thinks. In Bush's case, does anyone really wonder where he stands on anything? Whether you agree with him or...

As the 2004 presidential campaign has played out, starting from the beginning of Democratic primary season to the present, I have been fascinated to observe the shifting positions of Senator John Kerry, in particular on the most important issues facing America today - the war on terrorism in general and the war in Iraq in particular. With just six weeks remaining until the election, I am at a loss as to articulate the Senator's position with respect to Iraq. Apparently, so too is the Senator himself. If we want to understand Senator Kerry's true position on Iraq, I believe we...

Let the record show that the 2004 presidential election unofficially ended in New York City last month at the Republican convention. Because since then, whenever I listen to John Kerry now, I smell something terrible. It's the smell of desperation - and it stinks worse than a rancid bottle of Heinz 57. You wouldn't have to know that President Bush leads Kerry in the latest Associated Press poll, 51 percent to 46, to know these are desperate times for the Kerry camp. No, you simply have to turn the TV on and see what else Kerry's people are doing now...

“I’m John Kerry and I’m reporting for duty.” Those were the words that opened the dog and pony show that was John Kerry’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. As Kerry has told us ad nausem, he served in Vietnam. What he hasn’t told us could be compiled on a list that would make Santa Claus’ “naughty and nice” list look like a Post-It Note. Let’s first expose the fact that John Kerry was not the enthusiastic patriot he portrays himself to be.As the liberally biased media start to rehash President Bush’s National Guard record, let’s demand some straight...

Just a couple of weeks ago most of the people I know in Manhattan or in Litchfield County where I spend my weekends were convinced that this fall's election was between Bush and Anybody But Bush. And it was no contest. Anybody was in the lead and certainly deserved to win. But they drew the line at Zell. Thank goodness or we wouldn't have had anything to argue about. Miller was awful, a couple of the men declared, while the women around the table nodded in agreement. He was so angry, they said angrily, as if deeply felt, righteous indignation...

"John Kerry ran out of credibility when he voted against funds to support the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with critical supplies like body armor and ammunition. His indecision, vacillation and lack of leadership on the War on Terror are troubling to veterans and to all voters. It's no wonder the Democratic leader in the Senate is running ads showing him embracing the President's leadership in the War on Terror." Steve Schmidt, Bush-Cheney '04 Spokesman John Kerry's Own Party Is Criticizing His Approach To The War On Terror In An Effort To Distance Himself From John Kerry, Senate Minority...

John Kerry's dovish record on missile defense.IT IS NO EXAGGERATION to say the future of national missile defense (NMD) hinges on November's presidential election. This past July, Boeing engineers loaded the first ground-based missile interceptor into a silo at Fort Greely, Alaska; and according to the Washington Post, "five more are due for installation by mid-October." President George W. Bush predicts the system will become operational before 2005. The next administration can either speed or slow this program, depending on how generously it funds NMD research and development. And the contrast between President Bush and Massachusetts senator John Kerry on...

Suddenly, the presidential race has devolved into a debate about young John Kerry's actions in Vietnam. First, Kerry made his military service the central theme of the Democratic convention. Now some anti-Kerry veterans have issued a book and television ads that impugn that record. Kerry's strategy was not hard to understand. In normal times, the Democrats' strong suit — domestic policy — counterbalances the GOP's advantage on national security issues. With the country at war, however, national security trumps. So Kerry promised a "more effective war on terror," and he labored to make the case, as columnist E.J. Dionne put...