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In Today's Wrap-Up:
- 1. Two Cents: What Do the Democrats Actually Consider "Fair Game"?
- 2. Our Most Highly Decorated Living Veteran: Kerry "a Man of Benedict Arnold Qualities"
- 3. Headlines and Highlights from HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE
- 4. Final Swift Boat Ads: Anti-Kerry Vets Deliver Final, Devastating Blow to John Kerry
- 5. Jihad Watch: Domestic Violence and Honesty about Islam
- 6. Capital Briefs: Ground Game Preview
- 7. Bush Really Is Winning the War on Terror
- 8. Political Roundup from Bob Novak and John Gizzi
- 9. From PAGE 3: Republicans Likely to Pick Up Senate Seats
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1. Two Cents: What Do the Democrats Actually Consider "Fair Game"?
Much has been made the last two days of John Kerry's decision to mention Mary Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, and point out the fact that she is a homosexual. Many people were outraged, and rightfully so. John Kerry had no business using such a non sequitur to score points and hurt the Bush/Cheney campaign at the expense of an opponent's child, regardless of her age. I thought Lynn Cheney put it best when she stated, "Now, you know, I did have a chance to assess John Kerry once more and now the only thing I could conclude: This is not a good man. Of course, I am speaking as a mom, and a pretty indignant mom. This is not a good man. What a cheap and tawdry political trick."
Some of my friends -- friends who pay attention to politics -- agreed that Kerry's remark was inappropriate, particularly because a candidate shouldn't use an opponent's child to make a political point and that Ms. Cheney's sexuality should be a private matter, but they don't understand why so many Bush-backers see this as a type of "outing" since "everybody" knows Dick Cheney has a gay daughter.
Problem is that many, perhaps most, people probably didn't know about Mary Cheney. And Kerry, Edwards, and the DNC knew that.
That may sound like a foreign, nonsensical notion to many of you reading this, but consider that you likely are more in-touch with political news than the average voter. Being so, you've heard about the Cheney's daughter before. However, most Americans don't pay that much attention to politics until just before the election.
Doubtful? Consider this -- During the final fight against the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance "Reform" Bill, one of the many great arguments against it was its unfair limitation on "electioneering" and "targeted" communications (read: commercials) 30 days before a primary election and 60 days before a general election. The assumption was (correctly so, I believe) that most voters don't pay much attention to elections until shortly before they vote -- say, within 30 or 60 days before a primary or general election. This was a major reason the bill was labeled the "incumbent protection act."
So, how did Democrats respond to this obvious dirty trick? They said that since VP Cheney has talked about Mary's homosexuality before and since she's a grown woman, she's "fair game."
Kerry's campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill said this on Fox News: "She seems to be very proud and open about her sexuality, her parents seem to be very proud of her. It comes up, there are a lot of questions here about gay marriage, and she is someone who is a major figure in the campaign. I think it's fair game and I think she has been treated very respectfully."
Oh, is that so?
John Kerry seems to be very proud and open about his Vietnam days. It comes up, there are a lot of questions about his service (before and during Vietnam), and he is someone who is a major figure in the campaign. I think it's fair game.
I wonder how Kerry and rest of the Democratic Party would have reacted if President Bush had mentioned:
--the questions surrounding Kerry's Purple Heart medals;
--the controversies about his Silver and Bronze stars;
--the mystery surrounding Kerry's discharge from the Navy;
--Kerry's anti-American speech before the Senate;
--Kerry's throwing away his medals;
--Kerry's meeting with the enemy in Paris during Vietnam.
The list goes on and on.
Do you suppose the Democrats would have gone ballistic or just shrugged it off? It's "fair game," right?
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2. Our Most Highly Decorated Living Veteran: Kerry "a Man of Benedict Arnold Qualities"
Col. George E. "Bud" Day is America's most highly decorated living veteran officer. He served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, receiving more than 50 combat awards and the Congressional Medal of Honor.
What he wants now is to stop John Kerry from being elected President.
Day traveled from his home in Florida to Washington, D.C., last week to participate in the filming of two new ads by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. In one of the spots, he directly addresses Kerry: "How can you expect our sons and daughters to follow you, when you condemned their fathers and grandfathers?"
In the early 1970s, when Kerry was meeting with America's Communist enemies in Paris and falsely claiming to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that U.S. forces in Vietnam were committing war crimes on a day-to-day basis, Day was a POW, languishing in a North Vietnamese prison.
During his five-plus years of captivity he was brutally tortured. Now he is one of several former POWs featured in Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, a documentary about the effect of the anti-war movement on American POWs in Vietnam. The film, which portrays John Kerry in an unsympathetic light, will soon air in part on 62 broadcast stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, despite loud protests from the Kerry camp. Many of the company's stations are in swing states.
HUMAN EVENTS Assistant Editor David Freddoso interviewed Day October 13 on his decision to publicly oppose Kerry.
Read the interview here: humaneventsonline.com
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3. Headlines and Highlights from HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE:
"JUST RELEASED: BRAND NEW EPILOGUE TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING 'UNFIT FOR COMMAND'"
John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi, authors of "Unfit for Command," have just finished an exciting new epilogue to their blockbuster book.
This brand new chapter, not available in print, looks at how Kerry has had to change his story in response to evidence presented in this book.
The conclusion to "Unfit for Command" is FREE: members.humaneventsonline.com
"KERRY'S WRONG ON THE ECONOMY, TOO"
Just as he has in stump speeches all year, John Kerry used Wednesday's final presidential debate to paint a wildly inaccurate portrait of U.S. economic performance under President Bush. "The American middle-class family isn't making it right now," he claimed. The economy, as Kerry falsely depicts it, is in the worst shape it's been in many, many years. Bush, he claims, has the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover and the worst growth record since World War II.
But the hard facts refute Kerry's doom-and-gloom demagoguery: humaneventsonline.com
"GIVE THE PEACE PRIZE A CHANCE"
I've always wanted to win a Nobel Peace Prize, but I've never been willing to kill enough people to get one. If you too have ever felt this way, then I have great news for you. In addition to the usual category of Peace Prize Winner (bloodthirsty Warmonger taking a breather), recent trends indicate that the Nobel committee may be favoring a second flavor of Peace Prize Winner: Certifiable Nut Job. More: humaneventsonline.com
"KERRY'S TAX PLEDGE ALREADY ABLAZE"
The final two presidential debates have given Americans a clear picture of John Kerry's tax vision. It's not pretty. For starters, Kerry's statements and campaign manifesto undermine his pledge not to raise taxes on those who earn less than $200,000. This alone should warn voters that, for Kerry, tax hikes are not a last resort, but a first response. More: humaneventsonline.com
"HOW MANY ILLEGAL ALIENS WILL VOTE THIS YEAR?"
Even though there are an estimated 8 to 15 million illegal aliens now living in the United States, not one state in the Union requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. When Alamance County, N.C., Sheriff Terry Johnson told county commissioners this month he plans to go after illegal aliens who registered to vote, not everyone applauded. More: humaneventsonline.com
"PROBE: 46,000 NEW YORK CITY VOTERS ALSO REGISTERED IN FLORIDA"
At the request of Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, the Justice Department has initiated an investigation following a report that 46,000 New York City voters are also registered to vote in Florida and that as many as 1,000 may have already voted in both states in the same election. Not surprisingly, these twice-registered New York voters are overwhelmingly Democratic, 68% to only 12% registered as Republicans. More: humaneventsonline.com
"MEDIA BEND OVER BACKWARDS TO HELP KERRY"
It is hard to know whether media bias is getting worse or whether the mainstream media are just getting caught more often because of alternative sources of news like Fox News, talk radio and a growing number of Internet sites. Twenty years ago, CBS News and Dan Rather might have been able to continue to bluff their way out of the forged documents scandal because the other members of the big-three broadcast networks were unlikely to press the issue. The biggest mistake of Dan Rather and CBS News was in not realizing that it was not 20 years ago any more. humaneventsonline.com
"HATING AMERICA'S SUCCESS"
Tens of millions of immigrants have voted with their feet to slough off prior allegiances and join the boisterous experiment that makes "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" its official goal. The result has been an astounding success.
There is, of course, a dark side to this extraordinary success too, and it includes envy, fear, and resentment. Ultimately, however, the rants, shouts and insults fade away, defeated by America's serving as a benign force on the world stage and its accomplishments in enabling its citizenry's pursuit of happiness. More: humaneventsonline.com
You can read these and many other columns at www.HumanEventsOnline.com
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4. Final Swift Boat Ads: Anti-Kerry Vets Deliver Final, Devastating Blow to John Kerry
This poignant new Swift Boat ad began airing October 14th, 2004 as part of a $3.1 million ad buy in Colorado, New Mexico, and Ohio, as well as on nationwide cable outlets.
Check out this great ad: humaneventsonline.com.edgesuite.net
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5. Jihad Watch: Domestic Violence and Honesty about Islam
"My father said, 'O.K., beat her.' I'd never been beaten like that in all my life. My uncle and cousins were all beating me...They broke my head, and I was bleeding."
These are the words of Ellaha, a 19-year-old Afghan girl whom the intrepid New York Times pundit Nicholas Kristof encountered in a detention center for women in Kabul. Her crime was trying to flee Afghanistan rather than accept an arranged marriage to her cousin.
In Kristof's narrow and inextricably partisan little world, this, like everything else, is George Bush's fault: "The entire jail" where Ellaha is incarcerated, he notes, "is a kaleidoscope of woe. It's been two years since President Bush declared that in Afghanistan, 'Today, women are free.' But that's news to the inmates."
Women do have a decidedly better situation in the new Afghanistan than they did under the radical Muslim Taliban regime: many have resumed their educations, and even some employment opportunities have opened up for them. But evidently Kristof and the Times expected Bush to wave his wand and remake Kabul into Manhattan, with burqas magically transformed into mini skirts and tongue piercings.
Read this week's entire Jihad Watch: humaneventsonline.com
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6. Capital Briefs: Ground Game Preview
If the turnout for competing post-debate rallies in Arizona Wednesday is any indicator, President Bush may be building greater enthusiasm among his base than Sen. John Kerry, which is critical to the all-important effort to turn out the vote on November 2.
Following the debate at Arizona State University, Kerry addressed a rally at the Tempe Town Lake, where 10,000 supporters cheered him. President Bush, meanwhile, went to the Phoenix baseball stadium, Bank One Ballpark, where he was greeted by 44,500 chanting supporters. Said Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.): "There has never been an event like that in the history of our state--not only the numbers, but the enthusiasm."
Read all our regular Capital Briefs: humaneventsonline.com
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7. Bush Really Is Winning the War on Terror
If you believe the mainstream media, you would think President Bush had completely bungled the War on Terror, mired us in an unwinnable conflict in Iraq, and made our country less safe than we were before.
But the facts tell a dramatically different story.
Get a FREE chapter of the new book by Richard Miniter (author of "Losing Bin Laden") titled "Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror" here: humaneventsonline.com
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8. Political Roundup from Bob Novak and John Gizzi
EVANS & NOVAK: A reporting trip to Florida finds that it promises to be as hotly contested in 2004 as it was four years ago. Bush has a problem in Florida with base motivation. We found many voters who prefer Bush to Kerry and support the Iraq war, but are not enthusiastic about the President and do not intend to vote for either candidate. Kerry does not have this problem. His supporters--more accurately described as Bush's opponents--are motivated to vote. The Democratic Party apparatus is highly motivated and dedicated to maximizing turnout, especially among black voters. For this purpose, the Kerry campaign plans to take advantage of the early voting (new to Florida) that begins October 18. Rep. Kendrick Meek (D.), Kerry's state chairman, is devoted almost wholly to turnout. Among Cubans, Bush also has problems. Estimates from one Cuban community leader in Miami have Bush earning 70 to 75% of the Cuban American vote. Considering Bush needed over 80% to win Florida in 2000, this is bad news. Bush has disappointed many Cubans, and there is no Elian this year to drive voters. Cubans, however, have one of their own on the GOP ticket: Senate candidate Mel Martinez. Martinez will boost Cuban turnout, but may not be able to bring Bush back to 80% among that demographic. Martinez is hitting his opponent Betty Castor hard over Castor's alleged inaction when a suspected terrorist, now arrested, was in employ at the University of South Florida. These ads are hurting Castor, but they are vicious enough that they could backfire, as attacking female candidates often does.
Read the rest of Bob Novak's weekly analysis here: members.humaneventsonline.com
JOHN GIZZI'S POLITICS 2004: "There are second acts in life," Ronald Reagan was fond of saying, noting that he had first won elective office at middle age and became President less than a month before his 70th birthday. So it is with dentist Bill Current, who after a career that has included stints as Gaston, N.C., Republican chairman and president of the North Carolina Dental Society, has become the Republican nominee for a seat in the state House of Representatives at age 70. He's trying to succeed fellow conservative Republican Patrick McHenry, who is giving up the seat to run for Congress. Current faces Democrat Shirley Wiggins. Democrats now have a thin 62-to-58 margin in the state house. To understand what kind of a lawmaker Current will be, voters need only look at his background in local politics. In 1968, when members of the Tarheel State GOP were still numbered almost in single digits, Current was organizing ten counties in the area for Republican Rep. (1966-68) James Gardner, who narrowly lost the governorship that year (and who, at the GOP national convention earlier that year, had made one of the seconding speeches for Reagan in his maiden presidential effort. North Carolina was the only other state besides California to give Reagan a majority of delegates in that tentative, late-starting campaign.) Four years later, Current was an active volunteer and donor to Republican Jesse Helms in the first of the former TV commentator's five winning Senate races. Current was also a delegate to the 1984 convention that re-nominated Reagan.
Read more political news from Gizzi: members.humaneventsonline.com
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9. From PAGE 3: Republicans Likely to Pick Up Senate Seats
With two weeks to go before voters go to the polls in 34 states to choose U.S. senators, prospects are good the Republicans will make a net gain of 3 seats. Such a gain would increase their Senate majority from the current 51 to 49 (when Independent Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont is counted with the Democrats) to 54 to 46.
The Republicans appear poised to pick up seats in five states where Democratic incumbents are retiring--Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina -- while they appear likely to lose only two seats held by GOP retirees--Illinois and Colorado.
In addition, the GOP should retain hotly contested seats in Oklahoma and Alaska (where appointed Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski will win a term of her own).
Here is the state-by-state analysis: humaneventsonline.com
And Finally...
Those of you who read the print version of Human Events know that we've been running the great political cartoons of Sam Ryskind. He is a truly gifted artist and cartoonist. I've added a link to his site to Human Events Online and I urge you to check him out.
You can see his stuff here on The Ryskind Sketchbook: homepage.mac.com
Later,
Chris Field
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