Say it ain't so, Kerry....

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Thursday February 12, 2004 · 8:16 PM PST

2004/02/12 · 20:16

Funds went to Kerry, Cunningham, Hunter
By Marisa Taylor
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

February 12, 2004

A former San Diego defense contractor pleaded guilty yesterday to illegally giving two California congressmen and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry campaign contributions that his company later listed as expenses in Navy contracts.

Parthasarathi Majumder, the former chief executive officer of Science and Applied Technology, admitted circumventing campaign finance laws between 1993 and 1998 by using his employees and friends to funnel money to Kerry, who is the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, and to U.S. Reps. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Escondido, and Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon.

Majumder, 52, reimbursed the donors for their contributions and then recovered the money by billing the Navy. Read More

Torricelli was Kerry's bagman for the Osama bin Laden ads

Chicken Little

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Tuesday February 10, 2004 · 3:07 PM PST

2004/02/10 · 15:07

'Americans For Jobs, Healthcare & Progressive Values'

The Torricelli for Senate Committee kicked in $50,000.

You know the same Torricelli...

Presidential Democratic hopeful John Kerry is letting former Sen. Robert Torricelli raise money for him less than two years after the Senate formally rebuked Torricelli for his actions with a political donor.

Torricelli, whose rising political career collapsed in 2002 after his fund raising became the subject of criminal and Senate investigations, said Friday he is not seeking a formal position in Kerry's campaign but has raised money for it.

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DLC slams Dean again

Chicken Little

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Wednesday February 04, 2004 · 6:25 PM PST

2004/02/04 · 18:25

A Winning Day for Democrats

Yesterday's five presidential primaries and two caucuses, held in far-flung regions of the country, confirmed that Democrats are looking for a mainstream candidate who can build on the Clinton legacy and challenge George W. Bush with a strong critique and a positive alternative agenda.

All three of the day's "winners" fit that profile. They include the clear front-runner, Sen. John Kerry, who won Missouri, Arizona, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Delaware; his leading challenger since Iowa, Sen. John Edwards, who won South Carolina; and Gen. Wesley Clark, who won a photo finish with Edwards in Oklahoma. No matter which man Democrats choose as their nominee, they've already made a wise choice about the kind of party, and the kind of campaign against George W. Bush, they really want. Read More

George McGovern tells his side of the story

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Wednesday February 04, 2004 · 12:53 PM PST

2004/02/04 · 12:53

A Campaign Fiasco That Wasn't

By George S. McGovern
Wednesday, February 4, 2004; Page A23
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10795-2004Feb3.html

I had not expected to be involved in this year's presidential campaign. But almost daily my name is mentioned by some commentator, usually as a warning of what candidates should avoid. One gets the impression that the campaign of 1972 is the only one whose shortcomings are worth noting.

Is the central lesson of '72 that George McGovern lost everywhere except Massachusetts and the District of Columbia? If so, what is the lesson of 1984, when my friend Walter Mondale lost everywhere except Minnesota and the District? Is the lesson of these campaigns that Midwestern liberals can never reach the White House?

I don't think so. Mondale and his Minnesota mentor, Hubert Humphrey, who, like me, was defeated by Richard Nixon, were U.S. patriots of unquestioned integrity and ability. (They might say the same about me.) I wonder whether even a Jefferson or Washington could have defeated Ronald Reagan in 1984 or Nixon in '72. Any Democrat running against these heavily financed incumbent presidents would probably have lost (though some still think that the Democratic contenders Mondale and I defeated in winning the nomination would have been stronger than we were in the general election).

Isn't the big lesson of 1972 this: Beware a president whose campaign dishonesty got him expelled from office shortly after his landslide win? Is winning an election worth dishonoring the nation? Am I the one who should be ashamed about 1972? Read More

This is the guy that was duped

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Sunday February 01, 2004 · 4:04 PM PST

2004/02/01 · 16:04

The Dean campaign also tried to appeal to the numerous veterans in Arizona, which will hold its primary on Tuesday, by having retired Marine Corps General Joseph P. Hoar, who once headed US forces in the Persian Gulf region, vouch for Dean's leadership skills and question those of Kerry. The senator often touts his record as a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War; he has said that Dean lacks the experience to be commander-in-chief.
Hoar recalled testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on which Kerry sits, for a day and a half in August 2002, as the body weighed the impending prospect of war with Iraq.

"In that day and a half, Senator Kerry appeared for 20 minutes, asked two questions, and left. " by the administration, Hoar said. "There were plenty of us that spoke against preemption and the war in Iraq and the consequences of it. The insiders in the Senate went along with the president, because they were afraid to do otherwise."

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/dean/articles/2004/02/01/dean_assails_kerry_on_special _interests/

How to Hack an Election

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Saturday January 31, 2004 · 2:41 PM PST

2004/01/31 · 14:41

How to Hack an Election

Concerned citizens have been warning that new electronic voting technology being rolled out nationwide can be used to steal elections. Now there is proof. When the State of Maryland hired a computer security firm to test its new machines, these paid hackers had little trouble casting multiple votes and taking over the machines' vote-recording mechanisms. The Maryland study shows convincingly that more security is needed for electronic voting, starting with voter-verified paper trails.
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Why is the DNC helping Hillary fundraise???

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Friday January 30, 2004 · 8:32 PM PST

2004/01/30 · 20:32

I just received this message from the DNC. Why are they helping Hillary fundraise when she has 3 years left on her term???? I never saw the DNC send out mailing for any of the Dem candidates.

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BC: The Awesome Destructive Power of CPM

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Friday January 30, 2004 · 1:48 PM PST

2004/01/30 · 13:48

Taken from the Black Commentator

The Awesome Destructive Power of CPM (Corporate Power Media)

Howard Dean has joined the list of victims of U.S. corporate media consolidation. Dean shares this distinction with Dennis Kucinich and the people of the formerly sovereign state of Iraq, among many others. Dean was stripped of half his popular support in the space of two weeks in January while John Kerry - tied in the polls with Carol Moseley-Braun at seven percent just two months earlier - rose like a genie from a bottle to become the overnight presidential frontrunner. Both candidates were shocked and disoriented by the dizzying turns of fortune, and for good reason. Neither Dean nor Kerry had done anything on their own that could have so dramatically altered the race. Corporate America decided that Dean must be savaged, and its media sector made it happen.
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DLC: The Right Kind of "Populism

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Thursday January 29, 2004 · 7:56 PM PST

2004/01/29 · 19:56

Now even the DLC is stealing Dean's populist agenda and attributing it to Kerry and Edwards. Can anyone tell me why I should vote for Kerry or Edwards when they have this neo-con Democratic bullshit backing them????

The Right Kind of "Populism

If the decline of the once-invincible Dean campaign is one big story in the Democratic presidential nominating process, the other is the rise of two candidates, Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards, who were written off and left for dead by the "experts" long before the actual voting began.

As we've noted before, this development should not be all that mysterious. Sen. Kerry has the same qualities today -- a stirring biography, solid foreign policy and national security credentials, a deep mastery of issues, toughness and self-discipline, and an ability to attract all sorts of Democrats -- that made him the early frontrunner at the beginning of 2003. Sen. Edwards has combined an impressive array of new policy ideas, an optimistic tone, and a powerful speaking style into a message that appealed to voters far more than to jaded pundits. Both men have taken to heart former President Clinton's advice that successful challengers to incumbent presidents must provide both a reasoned critique of administration policies and a clear alternative agenda for the country.

But much of the fire that Kerry and Edwards have brought to the campaign trail is based on what some call "populism" -- a sustained attack on the special interests aligned with George W. Bush and the privileged individuals and corporations that have most benefited from his rule. It's important for Democrats to understand this particular kind of populist appeal, and what it does and does not mean, because populism is one of those words that mean very different things to different people. Read More

Why DNC won't let Dean Die (Poll)

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Thursday January 29, 2004 · 6:57 AM PST

2004/01/29 · 06:57

Because,they are not that crazy!!!

Kerry's Platform: This is why the DLC leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.

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Wednesday January 28, 2004 · 6:30 PM PST

2004/01/28 · 18:30

All ABB bets are off the DLC and Kerry can freak each other for all I care. Bush will win anyways with Kerry as a nominee. THEY ARE ALREADY TAKING THE WAR IN IRAQ OFF THE TABLE

Another Vote for Hope Over Anger

For the second week in a row, rank-and-file Democrats have spoken loud and clear: The Democratic Party is moderate, middle-class, and motivated by hope, not anger. Sen. John Kerry firmly established himself as the big comeback story of the nominating process. He won a second straight victory by following the path urged on Democrats by the original Comeback Kid, President Bill Clinton: showing the country not just what Democrats are against, but what they are for. Kerry's solid middle-class message and mastery of the issues once again lifted him to a big margin over Gov. Howard Dean in a state Dean was supposed to "own" and badly needed to win. Read More

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

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Monday January 26, 2004 · 8:22 AM PST

2004/01/26 · 08:22

You know we are in trouble when NewsMax is more accurate than CNN. Okay you can ignore the last part

Howard Dean's Real Enemies
Christopher Ruddy
Monday, Jan. 26, 2004
Howard Dean still doesn't know what hit him.

He looks punch-drunk. He was just hit by a two-by-four and has not yet recovered.

OK, his rant concession speech in Des Moines was just that - a rant.

It was over the top, unpresidential; Dean agrees to that. It was not so bad as to disqualify him from the presidency, however.

Let us also remember that Dean made the rant after the results of Iowa had been posted.

By then Dean already had been demolished by the Democratic hit machine.

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