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Mar. 26--WASHINGTON - The Democratic Party staged a giant lovefest yesterday to display how united they are behind John Kerry in the push to oust President Bush.Kerry stood with former Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, former Vice President Al Gore and all his major primary rivals in a significant show of force."Never has the Democratic Party been more united than it is today," Kerry said at a huge fund-raising dinner in Washington that was to put $11 million in Democratic coffers.For $1,000 a plate, donors ate barbecue family-style and gawked at Carter, Clinton and Gore. Hardly the...

Last night at the DNC "Unity Dinner" John Kerry boldly stated that the United States deserved "a truthful leader." And he said it with a strait face! After all the lies he has told... but he continues to attack President Bush on the credibility issue and in my opinion merely blackens his own credibility in the process. sidebar: I am thrilled to find out today that Richard Clarke's 2002 sworn testimony given to the U.S. House Intelligence Committee may be unclassified and used to nail his lying aye-double-ess!

Washington -- Returning to the campaign trail eager to cut a 40-to-1 money gap with the president, Sen. John Kerry Thursday night headlined a Washington fundraiser that brought together former presidents and former rivals, a carefully choreographed Democratic group hug to bring in $11 million for the party. It was an unusually strong show of unity for the normally fractious Democratic Party, but the shared desire to beat President George W. Bush squelched past differences. The presumptive Democratic nominee Kerry shared the stage former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and Clinton's vice president Al Gore, who had endorsed Howard...

WASHINGTON - For Democrats, there was only one problem with Thursday night’s Democratic National Committee unity dinner in Washington: one of the invited speakers totally outshone presidential candidate John Kerry. It came as no surprise that the star of the evening was former president Bill Clinton, who gave a virtuoso performance, reminding the crowd of why he is the only Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to win two terms in the White House. Vintage Clinton Clinton’s speech was folksy, anecdotal, full of scornful gibes at the Republicans, and rhythmic with the cadences of a Southern preacher — in other words, it...

<p>Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry returned from a nearly weeklong vacation yesterday to collect the endorsement of one-time rival Howard Dean and have the torch passed from former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, the last two Democrats to win the White House.</p>

Honor Roll for tonight: Staytrue, BillF, Angelwood, tgslTakoma, GunsareOK, BufordP, Trueblackman, sauropod and kristinn.An officer with the Federal Protective Service ordered the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic to stop addressing Democrats waiting across the street to enter the Democratic Party's Unity Dinner in Washington, D.C. tonight.Members of the D.C. Chapter had been peaceably assembled for two hours exercising their First Amendment rights with protest signs and their unaided voices. Apparently the litany of Democrat 'sins' grew too much for this officer to bear so he walked across the street to give a cease and desist order to the FReepers.I had...