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John Kerry would be President, the Senate and/or the House would likely be under Democratic control, and the current Supreme Court nominee most certainly would not be a Fascist.

John Kerry sees America as an occupier, not a liberator. Critics pounce on that, “aren’t you aware,” they sneer, that President Bush has used the term “occupiers”?

Sen. John Kerry, who called for Karl Rove to be fired over allegations that he revealed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame, outed a genuine undercover CIA agent just this past April - even after the Agency asked that his identity be kept secret.

…even though John Kerry and Richard Lugar did the same thing…

Senator John Kerry got in trouble during his pitifully failed Presidential campaign in 2004 for lying and waffling. So today, ahead of President Bush�s prime time speech he warned that for the President it was time "tell the truth to the American people.�

Next, caught in his own illogic and abdication of leadership, Kilgore tries to wriggle out by (lamely) claiming that he “supported the [2002] transportation referendum” that would have raised $5 billion through higher sales taxes to pay for new roads and Metro. Say what? Is Jerry Kilgore saying (to paraphrase Republican criticism of John Kerry on Iraq) “he supported the tax increase before he opposed it?” Is Kilgore flip-flopping yet again? Does he simply have no clue what he’s talking about? Or does this so-called “Conservative” now support raising taxes to pay for transportation after all? I’m sure that all of these possibilities will be music to Virginians’ ears!

This is the bombshell issue John Kerry said he would "raise," but never did.

It was mainly on blogs that readers first encountered speculation that U.S. President George W. Bush wore a listening device during his first debate against Democrat John Kerry. The White House, forced to respond, called it a laughable, left-wing conspiracy theory.

But McCain made a crucial decision to alter the relationship in 2004. Courted hard by John Kerry as a potential running mate, McCain said no. He decided he wanted to be president and that it was unlikely he would ever get a Democratic nomination — and implausible that he could win as an independent. His one shot was as a Republican.

Now that the world knows that John Kerry and George Bush had almost similar grades in college, I say it isn't really that bad. Overall, both men averaged a C during their whole college careers. Both men received a few D's in some of their classes--with Kerry getting more D's than Bush which was surprising to me. They both struggled as freshmen and that's understandable. I remember that I too had a difficult time focusing on studies during my freshman year. The transition from high school was one factor, plus there were all those distractions that were just plain distracting for any red-blooded young man. But then Bush and Kerry pulled their grades up, as I did, as the years went along. Yes, theirs weren't good grades, but I still say it's not bad compared to the grade inflation rampant in many colleges these days. Yes, even in seminary there are profs who are known for grade inflation.

Apparently, Dana Milbank, working as a “journalist” for a corporate newspaper (owned by the late Philip Graham) that figures large in the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird (Graham: “you could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple of hundred dollars a month”), and is coincidentally a member of Skull and Bones should not come as a surprise. It should also not come as a surprise the CIA and the intelligence community boast a long list of bonesmen, including Bush Senior and John Kerry (see the Millegan article, linked above).

As Lessig writes, "so that the reality of November 3 doesn’t distort the views of where we are today", I want to record my endorsement for John Kerry. (Which is also my enblogment, as invented by Lessig, and pressed ahead by Dave Winer.)

Goldberg, who was renounced last summer after making a lame double entendre about George W. Bush at a John Kerry fund-raiser, told Air America's "Politically Correct" host David Bender: "My party abandoned me. There's no other way to say it: they put their tails between their legs and they ran. I've closed my eyes to the party. I haven't turned my back on them, but I no longer feel comfortable saying that I feel like I'm represented by them. Until people can stand up for what's right in the face of whatever is flying at you, nothing is going to change."

And one of many crucial points to draw from this is: this should be an apolitical topic. If you call yourself a progressive, and you don't know what the Port Huron statement is; or anything about John L. Lewis; or indeed who John Dewey himself was--how can you successfully argue your position? There are thousands of young Democrats who voted for John Kerry and supported his stance against the Vietnam war who never heard of William Westmoreland or the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

At this point, I don’t think there’s any doubt that Warner will run for President in 2008. I can’t see Warner being able to get through a Democratic presidential primary, frankly. We’re talking about a Party that nominated John Kerry and followed that up by handing the reigns over to Howard Dean.

The probe is related to an appearance last October by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and several black leaders, including U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek of Miami, the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Now this is interesting. Even given my previous criticism of John Kerry, I think I’m going to have to give him a bit of credit for recently taking a stand on the Downing Street Memo. I particularly have to concur with his dismay over the media blackout concerning the media blackout on the memo, and his question of whether the reality of what the Downing Street memo says can break through the combination of media silence and American ignorance/apathy.

It is important to note that John Kerry has not mentioned the memo until now, over a month later, nor has he helped inform people via the internet. It appears that the momentum on this information is so overwhelming that John Kerry feels he will now be exposed as a do-nothing bush supporter/collaborator if he doesn’t say something. Also this shows that John Kerry knew damn well what was happening on the internet after the stolen election- he just decided not to say anything about the huge discrepency between exit polls and results and instead left the country during the election challenge)

He also sites an article from the Washington Times which reports that top Amnesty International officials supported John Kerry. Taranto comments:

During the second Presidential debate, John Kerry looked into the camera and pledged “No new taxes,” as did his opponent’s father in 1988—because, as the challenger, he felt he had to do so. About the same time, USA Today reported that American households are already about $500,000 in debt to meet future Social Security, Medicare, and other government commitments with no means to pay for them.

With this week's revelation that Mark Felt is "Deep Throat" I was of course reminded of Nixon's efforts to get John Lennon and Yoko Ono kicked out of the United States in 1972, and of the birthing of the Nixon White House's John Kerry-bashing devil baby, John O'Neill. I thought that linking those two topics might provide a kind of mental salve, for those of us who lived through Watergate and are remembering the outrage, as well as for those of us struggling to endure Dubya's second term.

John Kerry announced Thursday that he intends to present Congress with The Downing Street Memo, reported by the London Times 1 May 2005. As reported by NewsMax, the memo purports to include minutes from a July 2002 meeting with Tony Blair, in which Blair ostensibly said that President Bush’s Administration “fixed” intelligence on Iraq in order to justify the Iraqi war. In an interview with the Standard Times, Kerry said: “It’s amazing to me the way it escaped major media discussion. It’s not being missed on the Internet, I can tell you that.”

Pinocchio Dan Rather wrote an article about this in Newsweak some time ago. Hanoi John Kerry was promised a Purple Heart if he would rant about the fairy tale and get Howie Dean involved..

I don't begrudge Howard Dean his craziness. It's nice that the DNC had reached out to people with mental illness, though in a surprising turn of events, I'm not sure they meant to put one in charge. John Kerry got 3 million less votes that W. Who does Dean imagine voted for Bush? Who does he think he is insulting with his 'never made an honest living in their lives' comment? If Bush got a majority of the votes, then Dean is accusing the majority of the country of making a dishonest living. He doesn't hate America though, right?

John Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain, Howard Dean.

The top leadership of Amnesty International USA, which unleashed a blistering attack last week on the Bush administration’s handling of war detainees, contributed the maximum $2,000 to Sen. John Kerry’s presidential campaign.

Also, Joe W. “Chip” Pitts III, board chairman of Amnesty International USA, gave the maximum $2,000 allowed by federal law to John Kerry for President. Mr. Pitts is a lawyer and entrepreneur who advises the American Civil Liberties Union.

They gave the maximum amount allowed by law to John Kerry and even gave money to Ted Kennedy and one of their board members advises the ACLU.

Additional commentary on AI(and John Kerry) at Scared Monkeys

Now, often while there may be a time frame correlation between certain events and the national mood at the time, I realize that this doesn't necessarily mean the two are related. However, if you take the time to review dates and refresh your memory with what was happening in the world at the time, expecially when so many different polls seem to have a similar answer, than it is possible to assume perhaps these events may have a relation to the answers in these polls. So, I decided to check out possible effects from the events of Sept 11th and the...

When George W. Bush signed up with the Texas Air National Guard, not only did he have a stateside berth, but he also said "don't send me to Vietnam". When John Kerry joined he said "send me". Proof? See Bush's statement and signature by clicking right here and here.

Former Presidential Candidate and current U.S. Senator John Kerry seems to be perfecting his stump speech for 2008 by appearing before friendly educators and seniors. And he seems to have learned a valuable lesson in 2004: America is a religous country. On Tuesday, he spoke with about 75 seniors in New Bedford, MA. The Standard Times reports his money line:

May 17th 2005 7:41pm my household gets a call from one of Mr. John Kerry’s fundraisers (The friends of John Kerry to be exact). Now at this point in time I was seething over the recent passing of HR1268 with the lovely RealID attached (which went through 100-0 because it was a damn military/tsunami aide bill… $80 some-odd billion!), and had a bit of a rant planned for them.

Anyway - it comes to my attention today that John Kerry is going to make some noise on Monday about this.

If Amnesty truly "does not support or oppose any government or political system" as they claim, then its leader would not have contributed the maximum amount possible to John Kerry's presidential campaign.

The idea of "red states" and "blue states" is so seductive because it makes political analysis so very easy. But the truth is seldom so simple. It's funny that those who sneer at President Bush because he insists on seeing some things in black and white are so willing to see America as red and blue. While some places are pretty damn blue (and I'm sure there's a ward as conservative as mine is liberal somewhere deep in the heart of Texas), America is, for the most part, varying shades of purple. Did you know that 600,000 voters in New York City voted...

Back during election season I signed up with an organization called Vote Pair. They said their purpose was to “not allow our flawed and undemocratic Electoral College system to nullify your right to have your vote count just because you live in a “safe” red or blue state.” Of course they then proceeded to explain how people in different states could swap votes to ensure John Kerry won the presidency. The scheme works like this. A person who lives in a “red” state but wants some third party candidate to win registers...

Note to Howard Dean: This from the party of John Kerry, Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Teddy Kennedy. Then this:

(Note to Howard Dean: This from the party of John Kerry, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Jay Rockefeller and Teddy Kennedy?!)

I seem to remember the "Good Old" Party attacking John Kerry, a Vietnam Veteran, for not voting to provide body armor for our troops overseas. His vote was definitely a protest vote for the administration's lack of information about from where funding for the war was coming. Yet, now Republicans have the gaul to not provide the thousands and thousands of troops returning home from receiving adequate health care for their service to our nation. Talk about some thanks.

The fine profile of John McCain in the most recent issue of The New Yorker contains the surprising – or maybe unsurprising – information that John Kerry delegated the task of turning McCain to none other than Warren Beatty. There is something deeply wrong with a party whose presidential ticket requires the midwifery of someone like Beatty, whose claim to fame, when all is said and done, is fabulous hair and a deftness at bedding starlets. What would have come next? Would President Kerry have dispatched Dennis Hopper to ease tensions across the...

I’m getting tired of seeing medical blowhards aggrandizing themselves with their self-important opinions regarding public figures. In recent months we’ve seen someone who may or may not have been John Kerry’s treating physician for one of his Purple Heart wounds reveal his memories of the treatment and, further, offer his opinion that Kerry is lying about the incident; a psychiatrist who has never met or interviewed George Bush has published a book claiming to offer accurate, but very unflattering, medical diagnoses of Bush, and...

Bush doesn't deserve to appear before the military. It's like the executioner gloating over the condemned. Bush doesn't know a damn thing about combat, its terror, its carnage, or the courage it demands. Bush got the country club ticket out of Vietnam from his rich-ass family, and he couldn't even finish that. And his underlord muckrakers have the audacity to distract from this and allege John Kerry might not have deserved ALL THREE of his Purple Heart medals, nevermind that Bush thinks Purple Heart is just some tax write...

but on the other hand, the filibuster lives, the bush social security plan has met an ignominious end, the 'culture of life' is on life support after the schiavo mess, and people are coming to realize that iraq was a bad idea, two years too late. maybe people are realizing that whether or not john kerry or howard dean are their kind of guy, and are 'progressive', it doesn't matter, but the people in charge right now, they're hell bent on heading backwards, and nobody really wants to head backwards. so maybe there is hope.

Known for lobbing softball questions at current President George W. Bush, elite press core official “Jeff Gannon” came under scrutiny by democrats and fellow press core members, who discovered his real name is James Dale Guckert with a checkered past and possible agenda. Was “Jeff Ganon” fed questions by the Bush administration to use as talking points at White House briefings or just a man trying to overcome his past and pursue a career as a journalist? Additional segments include a man who tries to prove to his girlfriend that he is no...

A shift in the polls What a difference a couple of weeks make. Polling during and just after the Republican National Convention, Time and Newsweek have George W. Bush ahead of John Kerry 52 percent to 41 percent. Post-convention polls...

Veterans of the TV series “Love Boat” joined ranks with tobacco-chewing, beer-swilling Bass Boat Veterans in a news conference that criticized Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. Along with the much-publicized Swift Boat Vets, the Love Boat Vets and Bass Boat...

Why do you think Bush talks about christianity so much, why does John Kerry talk about being in touch with the working class when he cant even read the balance in his bank account because the number is so high. Thank God the founding fathers had some sense and make our goverment a struggle in which it is very hard to drasticly change anything, to bad that has slowly been eating away at. Eventualy this country will fall into entropy and fall like all the others before it, but I imagine it will be a fairly fun ride on the way there.

Its been one hundred and twenty-one days since John Kerry promised to sign his 180. MR. RUSSERT: Would you sign Form 180? SEN. KERRY: Yes, I will. And suddenly… During an interview with the Boston Globe, Kerry was asked if…

There are basically two stories on what liberals and Democrats need to espouse. Either might conceivably produce a majority movement and party. Both cannot; the competing messages simply cancel each other out. We saw the effects in 2000 and 2004 of Al Gore and John Kerry trying to take a dollop of each.

It may come as no surprise, but my take on this article is that John Kerry has officially decided to run in 2008. Here are my assumptions: 1) His complete war records are less than complimentary 2) If he does run, he has to release them since that was a big issue during the last campaign and he promised to do so on Meet The Press 3) What better time to bring them out than when the media is focused on judges and Bolton 4) This gives time for damage control and will make them "old news" by 2008 and 5) If he's NOT running, there's no reason...

"Better late than never was our reaction to Joan Vennochi's Boston Globe column on Tuesday. More than 100 days after he promised to do so, Sen. John Kerry has signed the form authorizing the Defense Department to release his military records. Somewhere, John O'Neill and his fellow Swift Boat veterans are doubtless smiling. "

How John Kerry lost the election really isn't that complicated and dovetails with MY's post on Lessons Learned. Kerry can't be the candidate against unjust wars (see: Going Upriver) and also be the candidate who supported the invasion of Iraq (if only it was done properly.) In voting to pass the authority to go to war to Bush, Kerry made a political-calculus-error that proved to be his undoing. Evil genius Rove zeroed in on this, completely neutered Kerry on the topic (remember him pressing Kerry on whether he would take his vote back), and...

The Bush administration is conducting an internal review of its failed counter-terrorism efforts. The funny thing is - except for just completely giving up on bagging Osama bin Laden - the administration's new plan will most likely be the same plan that John Kerry fought for on the campaign trail and that Democrats in Congress are trying to implement through legislation (a poor substitute for dynamic executive leadership, but it's clearly having an effect).

But we also know that she will have a better campaign strategist working for her than John Kerry ever did, and that guy will be out for payback and will never let what happened to Kerry happen to her.

I also thought it’d be nice to share this letter written by Senator John Kerry the day after Dae Sahn Sunims death.

But in truth doesn't the fault primarily lie with our illustrious media? The same media that accepted the propaganda that led us to the Iraq quagmire. That gave the Swift Boat Vets all the free PR they could ask for to slander and lie about John Kerry's military career. That time and time again has dropped the ball regarding, or simply ignored, stories of Bush's deceits and Republican scandals like Gannongate, Valerie Plame, The Medicaire Prescription Drug Boondoggle, the Downing Street Minutes, Tom Delay's ethics, ad infinitum.

Roscoe notes that John Kerry said that he signed his Form 180, before he didn't.

If you believe John Kerry should have produced real evidence to support his claim of war hero status instead of simply attacking the honor of decorated veterans and POW’s who called him a traitor, you are once again right. But if you think America should reject a traitor for President, you are a right-wing radical...

"Though the younger Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer last year each gave the Bush campaign $2,000 (and John Kerry nothing), and the company's political action committee gave 54 percent of its donations to Republicans ($5,000 to Bush, nothing to Kerry), the company says it backs candidates regardless of party."

- PoliPundit wonders if John Kerry really signed his SF-180 form. Tempus Fugit says the signing of the form does not necessarily mean the public will get access to Kerry's military records.

Yes, I was one of the ones who was so scammed. I knew most of George Bush�s domestic policies were appalling, especially in the context of our ever-more-outsourced, ever-more-deteriorating economy � but today�s fern-bar Democrats, in their infinite scorn of the blue-collar class and the poor, could not trouble themselves to offer anything better. Hence I reasoned that neither party would substantially alter the domestic socioeconomic status quo. And I therefore voted for George Bush � for one reason and one reason only: national defense. I believed...

Following is a brief background on Mrs. John Kerry. She hates being called that, by the way. According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4 million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money?

One would think that at this point, Art would realize he'd just taken the legs out from under his own belief in the liberal indoctrination of teachers. But no, he seems to think he's won the argument. He throws in a great deal of rant about John Kerry, for good measure. (You see, the problem with Kerry and his followers is that they lack sufficient honesty. Unlike, you know, Bush.) And he seems to think calling me a zombie is a particularly clever insult. Gee, I hope that nickname doesn't stick.

"John Kerry, having lost the election, retreats with a pained grimace to the cold reaches outer space. "Never have I been more orange or more depressed."