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Okay, I'd just like to know how FReepers weigh in on who should adorn the cover of TIME at the end of the year, or who you think they will pick.

So it's come to this: I'm John Kerry's last defender. Two pieces of conventional wisdom emerged from last week's election. (1) Republicans owe their victory to anti-gay marriage initiatives and a massive values divide; and (2) John Kerry was a lousy candidate. Both are wrong. David Brooks has fairly dispensed with the first trope, I'll tackle the second. Writing in the Progressive, Matthew Rothschild complains that Kerry "never could give a decent speech." Since November 3, other Democrats have seconded this notion, and more. In Salon, Farhad Manjoo called Kerry "a pretty poor candidate"; Alexandra Pelosi went one further, pronouncing...

Sorry for the vanity.. ;) The liberal media is cutting John Kerry off at the knees right now.. listening to Kearns-Goodwin, Beschloff, Crawford on Imus this morning.. They are tearing him apart.

So who has a capture of Teresa H(ic)K after the Poodle's comment about Marrying up? I missed the debate and wish I could've seen that one!

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry casts a shadow on the tarmac as he throws around a baseball before boarding his plane in Cleveland, Ohio, October 9, 2004. REUTERS/Jim Young US ELECTION

President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are within a quarter-mile of each other Wednesday as they both campaign in Iowa, a state where polls show them neck-and-neck in the race for the White House. The two's paths almost crossed in Davenport, a city that some political experts say provided Democrat Al Gore the ballots he needed to capture the state with a margin of less than 5,000 votes in 2000.