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Anti-war activists at a liberal gathering booed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday for opposing a set date for pulling U.S. troops from Iraq. Facing down the jeers, Clinton said Democrats need to have "a difficult conversation" about the war. Another potential presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry, spoke to the group later in the day and offered an emphatically anti-war appeal. Kerry, who was widely criticized as the party's standard-bearer in 2004 for being too cautious in his criticism of the war, said Tuesday that politicians "cannot have it both ways." In remarks that could have been aimed at Clinton,...

I put it as plainly as possible: In the interests of national security, President Bush should fire Karl Rove. And, with enormous energy and enthusiasm the johnkerry.com community responded in less than 24 hours to our "Fire Rove" petition. But, still the President refuses to act. We need to keep the pressure on the President and the Republicans in the House and Senate. We need you to recruit your friends and neighbors to sign our Fire Rove petition today to show that Americans will not tolerate White House dirty tricks that compromise our national security. http://www.johnkerry.com/firerove It's time for the...

Sometimes when its late at night, I like to look back on election night. I love to go over to DU and relive the pain and sorrow they went through. Call me crazy, but I love to watch the pain they go through during those hours. It just so happens that DU's archives are still open. All the way back ti Nov 2nd. Watch as they feel they are going to win the election (early exit polls), all the way to total melt down - when they know it’s lost. Its such a good feeling. I think everyone on this...

Jeff Gannon A Voice of the New Media The voice goes silent. Because of the attention being paid to me I find it is no longer possible to effectively be a reporter for Talon News. In consideration of the welfare of me and my family I have decided to return to private life. Thank you to all those who supported me.

MIDI - ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH All I want for Christmas is just two red states Just two red states...yes, just two red states All I want for Christmas is just two red states And then I'd have a Merry Christmas With New York liberals I play well...same with fruits and nuts in California But in all those flyover states, my staff said, "John, we warned ya" All I want for Christmas is just two red states Just two red states...yes, just two red states All I want for Christmas is just two...

What did Newsweek know — and when did the magazine know it?

Breaking -- Kerry Administration in disarray... More to follow...

Friends, Pardon the vanity post - but it is election day. Right now, I feel sick. I am sick at the prospect of a two-faced shonk called John Kerry winning leadership of the Free World. I'm sick that here I am on the other side of the Pacific Ocean and can do precious little to stop him. My nausea is eased by the knowledge that there are thousands of Americans, good men and women such as yourselves, who are rugging up and preparing to fight the good fight one last day. It comforts me to know that you realize that,...

BOSTON - It was the campaign that seemed to have everything. A rented mainframe computer and a sophisticated telephone voter list when typewriters and index cards were still common. A legion of eager volunteers, including a bike-riding boarding school student named Caroline Kennedy. Plenty of cash, celebrity supporters and a compelling first-time candidate: John Kerry. But in the end, the 1972 Democratic campaign for Congress in the Fifth District of Massachusetts, stretching from the gritty old mill towns of Lawrence and Lowell to the upscale suburbs of Lexington and Concord, lacked one big thing: voters. Mr. Kerry lost to his...

The Republicans put together a near flawless convention last week and two national polls show the president with an 11-point national lead. Newsweek has it Bush 54% to Kerry 43% and Time has it Bush 52% Kerry 41%. The convention was a huge success, and these polls show a legitimate bounce, but it’s very unlikely that President Bush can sustain such a lead. If he does, the Electoral College Scoreboard will be irrelevant as the numbers nationwide will be reflected in the states and President George W. Bush would win in a landslide.

It's hard to criticize John Kerry these days. Apparently, every criticism of him is unfair. At least, we're not supposed to criticize his time in Vietnam -- or even what he's said about Vietnam more recently -- because that would be a "smear" (even when the Kerry campaign admits, as it has regarding Kerry's Christmas-in-Cambodia claims, that he hasn't been telling the truth). That he served in Vietnam 35 years ago, we're told, tells us all we need to know about his character.