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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (471294)	10/5/2003 10:48:06 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

The Florida senator had a disappointing fund-raising quarter, which ended Tuesday, and senior staffers are leaving the campaign. Graham's goal was to raise $15 million-$20 million, but he's raised only about $5 million so far. Advisers said Graham was trying to decide whether to drop out of the race or dramatically cut his staff and focus on fewer states. nytimes.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (471294)	10/5/2003 10:50:28 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

liberal demohacks will fall off like flies: Lt. Gov., GOP Conservative Advance in La. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 10:25 a.m. ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- An Indian-American running as a conservative Republican and the Democratic lieutenant governor advanced to a runoff in the Louisiana governor's race Saturday after finishing first and second in an open primary. With 97 percent of the votes counted, former Bush administration official Bobby Jindal had picked up a commanding 33 percent of the vote, while Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco held off two fellow Democrats in a close battle for second, garnering 18 percent. She was trailed by Attorney General Richard Ieyoub at 16 percent and one-time Congressman Claude ``Buddy'' Leach with 14 percent. Jindal had 433,570 votes, followed by Blanco's 242,969 and Ieyoub's 218,931 with all but 105 precincts reporting. Jindal and Blanco will face off in the runoff Nov. 15, and the winner will become the next governor. Incumbent Gov. Mike Foster has served two terms and is barred from running again. The results of the primary signaled a change in this conservative Deep South state, where white males have dominated politics and have been elected governor for generations. Underscoring the change, Blanco told cheering supporters in the Cajun town of Lafayette: ``This is a new day for Louisiana. You have a Cajun woman against an Asian-American, and I'm telling you, it speaks to the whole nation.'' Blanco, 60, is a veteran of Louisiana politics, serving two terms as lieutenant governor after previously serving on the public service commission. Jindal, 32, the son of Indian immigrants, is a protege of Foster and a former assistant secretary in President Bush's Department of Health and Human Services. His youth and ethnicity were expected to work against him in a state where former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke once scored a majority of white male votes in a statewide run. But Jindal's impressive resume -- Rhodes Scholar, high-level state and federal jobs -- became a neutralizing factor. ``I'm not a politician, but I am a problem solver,'' Jindal told a cheering crowd at a hotel in downtown New Orleans. ``I'm confident that the step we've taken to leave behind the politics of old is going to continue.'' On key issues -- economic development, education, health care -- most candidates promised little change in this slow-growth state where elections often turn on personalities. Jindal appealed to Louisiana's conservatives in radio ads extolling the Ten Commandments and deriding liberals and gun control, while promising fiscal sobriety and few initiatives. Frequent mention of this Catholic convert's faith helped shore up support. In addition, Jindal has the strong backing of Foster, who made Jindal secretary of the state Department of Health and Hospitals at the age of 24, then appointed him head of Louisiana's university system. Watching the returns Saturday night in the governor's mansion in Baton Rouge, Foster, said: ``Now people will really begin to take us seriously as a decent bunch of people.'' Like three of the four leading Democrats, Jindal promised to put more energy into attracting industry. In addition, both Jindal and Blanco promised to make Louisiana even more friendly to business by decreasing taxes. Turnout was projected to be high and lines were reported at many polling places on a sunny Saturday across the state. The unusual Saturday primary date is part of a long populist heritage in Louisiana and is designed to give as many people as possible an opportunity to vote. Louisiana is one of three states with a regular governor's election this year, along with Mississippi and Kentucky.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (471294)	10/5/2003 10:57:15 AM
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news.independent.co.uk

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (471294)	10/5/2003 11:50:46 AM
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clarkmyths.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (471294)	10/5/2003 12:21:38 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Abject Stupidity, clark's analysis of the Iraq War As posted by Westi, #reply-19372455 All the ten Dwarfs analysis of the rebuilding of Iraq.samo samo Abject Stupidity URL:http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004111 Sunday, October 5, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT This is the informed opinion of Washington Democrat Norman Dicks, just back from visiting Iraq, as expressed to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at a House hearing last week on the Bush Administration's request for $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan. Given most reporting on these subjects of late, his optimism struck us as news. Speaking of his visit to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Congressman Dicks said: "That should be a model for the rest of the country, Mr. Secretary. I mean, I was so impressed with the level of detail and involvement and interaction that the 101st is having with all these people in those three provinces. I think that that should be the model. If we follow that, and if we can give those generals the resources necessary to keep up their effort, I think this--I think we can do this." He was referring to the Army's 101st Airborne Division, under the command of Major General David Petraeus. Mr. Dicks isn't the only Democrat impressed with the coalition's progress in Iraq. Georgia Representative Jim Marshall came back from a visit and wrote an op-ed for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last month in which he accused the media of reducing the chances of success in Iraq by publishing only the bad news. He repeated this view in the Washington Post Wednesday. "Our news coverage disproportionately dwells on the deaths, mistakes and setbacks suffered by the coalition forces," he wrote. "Democrats should carefully avoid using the language of failure. It is false. It endangers our troops and our effort." We'll let readers decide what to make of the fact that CNN recently had Mr. Marshall appear in a point-counterpoint segment with its very pessimistic Baghdad bureau chief, Jane Arraf. Republicans at Monday's House hearing also spoke up about the reality of life in Iraq based on what they had seen with their own eyes. Texan Henry Bonilla: "Some of us who were in Iraq got to see firsthand the reality, which is the glass is really more than half full, not half empty." Washington's George Nethercutt: "As one who has just come back with the delegation, I think the plan has worked remarkably well."And Kansan Todd Tiahrt told the following story: "A week ago on Tuesday, as I was coming into the Capitol, I heard an ABC News report on the radio on Iraq. The news radio report said there was chaos in the streets, there was limited water, sporadic power--the criminals ran in the streets and the Iraqis resented our presence. In my trip over the weekend I found that to be totally false." We suppose it's possible that the U.S. military and Iraqis sold all of these politicians a bill of goods during their visit to Iraq. Then again, their views echo those of nearly everyone who has visited Iraq, as opposed to those who merely read the papers or watch TV. The security problem in Iraq is serious, and Americans are at risk, but there is also enormous political, economic and security progress being made. The House hearing, by the way, received very little coverage. That is in sharp contrast to blanket coverage given the six-hour grilling Mr. Rumsfeld received at the Senate last month, when West Virginia's Robert C. Byrd and others all but declared the war in Iraq to be lost. Not every American can go to Iraq to see for himself what is happening there. Which is all the more reason for the press to report what Members of Congress are saying after their visits--even if it's good news.