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The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com Bush readies 'significant speech'By Bill SammonTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished October 5, 2004 President Bush, stung by the erosion of his lead over Sen. John Kerry in post debate polls, has abruptly scheduled a major speech for tomorrow in hopes of halting Mr. Kerry's momentum.     In a rare, last-minute alteration to the presidential schedule, Mr. Bush has scrapped a planned talk on medical liability and instead will give what the White House called a "significant speech" about the two central issues of the campaign -- the war on terrorism and the economy.     The president is said to be eager...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — The White House yesterday slammed CBS anchorman Dan Rather for offering President Bush campaign advice and for relying on the "feelings" of a Bush critic to impugn his military record.

A defensive Dan Rather suggested last night that although he may have used forged documents in a CBS report criticizing President Bush's military service, the "thrust" of his report was true.      "Those who have criticized aspects of our story have never criticized the heart of it, the major thrust of our report," he told viewers on "60 Minutes." "George Bush received preferential treatment to get into the National Guard and, once accepted, failed to satisfy the requirements of his service." [snip]House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi lashed out at Republicans for going after CBS.     "The Republicans' latest attempt to intimidate...

The President's hardworking National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice spoke about and took questions on the Global War on Terror's war of ideas, addressing the efforts the Bush Administration has taken to lead the world toward values and understanding that will bring a just and lasting peace, at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C. today. Dr. Rice counseled Americans to be 'less critical of every twist and turn' in Iraq. Retiring Senator Zell Miller, D-GA, will deliver the keynote address at the GOP Convention. Dr. Condoleeza Rice talks with Sean Hannity (radio link) on military transformation. The First...

LOS ANGELES -- President Bush yesterday defended his decision to wait five minutes before leaving a Florida classroom upon learning of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a move that was criticized last week by Sen. John Kerry.     "I think it's easy to second-guess," Mr. Bush said on CNN's "Larry King Live." "What's important is how I reacted when I realized America was under attack.     "It didn't take me long to figure out we were at war," he added. "It didn't take me long to develop a plan that we would go after al Qaeda. We went into action very quickly."...

[snip]"This is Bush's idea of an optimistic campaign?" he said. "The president has his back against the wall, so now he invokes September 11 in his ads."     He added: "If you ever wanted proof that the Bush campaign has reached the point of desperation, now we have it."     But Mr. Kerry himself injected September 11 into the campaign last week by accusing the president of responding too slowly to news of the terrorist attacks. Specifically, the Massachusetts Democrat slammed Mr. Bush for remaining in a second-grade classroom in Florida for five minutes after learning the news.     The Bush ad was...

I recently finished reading Bill Sammon's "Misunderestimated". It's a microbiography of President George W. Bush's FIRST TERM. I don't want to give away more of storyline than necessary, so let's just say Mr. Sammon describes a confrontation that occured when President Bush appeared in Washington State. If it were simply a solitary event, one might say it was one of those things. But if you start to think about how many violent protests have occured, how much venom is spewed forth at President Bush and the American conservatives in general, it leaps from anecdotal to a broad pattern of violence,...

The British government yesterday bolstered President Bush's assertion that Iraq sought uranium from Niger, casting further doubt on former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV's claims to the contrary.     The conclusion was reached by Robin Butler, who once was Britain's top civil servant, in a major report on prewar intelligence that came five days after the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reached a similar conclusion in its report.     Taken together, the British and U.S. reports appear to undermine Mr. Wilson's criticism of Mr. Bush, which led to a criminal investigation of the White House and made the retired diplomat a media...

The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Bush makes blocked judges a key issueBy Bill SammonTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished July 12, 2004 President Bush has decided that excoriating Democrats for blocking his judicial nominees is a potent political strategy that he will exploit in both the presidential race and congressional elections.     The Bush campaign thinks the Democratic ticket of Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards is particularly vulnerable on this issue because Mr. Edwards sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee.     "It's just another example of how they stand out of the mainstream," said Mathew Dowd, the Bush campaign's chief strategist. "They stand out...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com GOP quick to ridicule selectionBy Bill SammonTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished July 7, 2004 President Bush's re-election campaign moved swiftly yesterday to define Sen. John Edwards as a liberal lightweight who was chosen to be Sen. John Kerry's Democratic running mate only after a Republican, Sen. John McCain, refused.     Even as Mr. Kerry stepped to the microphone to announce Mr. Edwards as his vice presidential pick, the Bush campaign began airing a TV ad showing President Bush being enthusiastically endorsed by Mr. McCain, who had been courted repeatedly by the Massachusetts Democrat.     "He has led with great moral clarity...

President Bush's supporters think Saddam Hussein's trial will remind Americans of why the president ousted the Iraqi dictator by force and will put into context the failure to find weapons of mass destruction.     After being pilloried for more than a year for not discovering stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons, which was a main rationale for war, Bush supporters are quietly relieved by the prospect of a public trial that will examine the full scope of Saddam's brutality.     "As people are reminded of what Saddam Hussein's regime was like -- the danger he posed not only to the people of...

South Korea and Hungary, whose citizens have recently been killed in Iraq, on June 22 refused to cancel troop deployments to the terror-racked nation, prompting praise from President Bush. "What's important for the Iraqis to know is that the world stands with them as a free society emerges," Mr. Bush said in a joint Oval Office appearance with Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy. Responding to the beheading of South Korean businessman Kim Sun-il by insurgents, Mr. Bush called on South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun to carry out the planned deployment of 3,000 troops to Iraq. "I would hope that President...

<p>President Bush's re-election campaign is ridiculing what it calls "John Kerry's coalition of the wild-eyed," which includes filmmaker Michael Moore and former Vice President Al Gore. The campaign has compiled a collection of video clips featuring angry Democrats and over-the-top ads by MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy group, to showcase what it calls the "rage" of the left.</p>

<p>President Bush plans to spend tomorrow night in an Ankara hotel where a bomb exploded yesterday, and then travel to a second Turkish city, Istanbul, where another bomb killed four persons.</p> <p>White House officials said the bombings would not deter Mr. Bush from attending a summit in Turkey, where he plans to challenge NATO members to train Iraqi security forces after next week's transfer of sovereignty.</p>

<p>HENDERSON, Nev. -- Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday opened up a new line of attack against John Kerry, saying the pro-tax economic plan of the senator from Massachusetts would return America to the "malaise" of the Carter era.</p> <p>Mr. Cheney mocked Mr. Kerry's "misery index" as a tortured throwback to the inflation and soaring interest rates of President Carter's term.</p>

Misunderestimated is meant to serve as a seemingly unique purpose: amid the sea of raging screeds attacking President George W. Bush, this book is meant to be a balanced, polite and positive look at the past two years of George W. Bush’s presidency. It is a mission Bill Sammon accomplished with skill and verve. In a larger sense, however, the book is a stinging indictment of a press that is less and less content to simply report the news, favoring instead to put each story “in context.” Due to the overwhelmingly liberal nature of the fourth estate, this has amounted...

Misunderestimated by Bill Sammon is available from the FrontPage Magazine Bookstore for $22.95.Misunderestimated is meant to serve as a seemingly unique purpose: amid the sea of raging screeds attacking President George W. Bush, this book is meant to be a balanced, polite and positive look at the past two years of George W. Bush’s presidency. It is a mission Bill Sammon accomplished with skill and verve. In a larger sense, however, the book is a stinging indictment of a press that is less and less content to simply report the news, favoring instead to put each story “in context.” Due...

<p>President Bush yesterday said the United States will not turn over Saddam Hussein to Iraq's interim government without assurances that the former dictator will remain behind bars.</p> <p>"We want to make sure that he doesn't come back to power," Mr. Bush said during a press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzi in the White House Rose Garden.</p>

<p>President Bush's re-election campaign has begun a concerted effort to divide the Democratic Party by forcing its congressional candidates to either embrace or reject Sen. John Kerry's liberalism.</p> <p>"This is one of the huge stories of the campaign," said Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman. "You're going to see a lot of efforts by Republican candidates and by the campaign to ask where people stand."</p>

<p>Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, left Washington for the final time yesterday after a moving state funeral in the National Cathedral, where he was remembered as the man who defeated Soviet communism and restored America's belief in itself.</p>