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To: gamesmistress who wrote (32554)	3/1/2004 11:00:16 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

It's A Bore! March 1. 2004 Posted at 6:10 AM, Pacific hughhewitt.com Most Americans were either watching the Oscars or watching "The Passion of the Christ" yesterday. Very, very few watched the debate between the final four of the Dems. Even though the debate got a little sparky, the race to the left is over, and now it is just dreary covers of Howard's greatest hits. USA Today has a story on how dull the Super Tuesday contest is in New York. The Los Angeles Times has a story on how dull the campaign is in California. Ever since Dean blew up, the campaign has been dull because John Kerry is dull, as well as arrogant, tedious in speech and predictable in every way. Mickey Kaus told us that Kerry would turn out to be a stiff. Mickey knows his stuff. Now the Democrats are stuck with Kerry, and the rank-and-file are already yawning. Things are looking better and better in Iraq, with an interim constitution agreed upon, oil production up to nearly pre-war levels, casualties declining and the Shiite majority on the same page as Bremer and the U.N. as to elections. President Bush has acted decisively --again-- this time in Haiti. And John Kerry can't even handle a softball on God and America. And The Lord of the Rings won everything. And baseball is around the corner. (Priorities & Frivolities Robert Tagorda is the latest in a long-line of would-be Hugh Hewitt Show baseball correspondents, but his blog --superb on politics and war-- seems light on the Indians' surprising strength heading into the '04 campaign. If RT can supply us with a compelling case for the Tribe as sleeper of the new season, then the job may be his. Not that it is much of job. After The Elder's miserable collapse in the position, the program's baseball credibility plummeted.) So things look pretty bad for the Dems, even as they clutch silly polls showing Kerry neck-and-neck with the president. Really: Sharpton and Kucinich are still sucking air out of every room; Terry McAuliffe is still an albatross around the party's neck; Kerry's spent every dime crushing Senator Cherub, but the Cherub's wings still beat; and the President will be jetting around California this week collecting a few million more with which to display Kerry's newly minted, National Journal-certified "most liberal man in the Senate" title. Then there's a piece, "A Shameful Past," by Laura Bartholomew Armstrong in today's OpinionJournal.com. The subtitle is "Don't play the Vietnam card with me, John Kerry," and the author reveals that she is "the daughter of Lt. Col. Roger J. "Black Bart" Bartholomew, a First Cavalry rocket artillery helicopter pilot who was killed in Vietnam on Thanksgiving Day 1968, when I was eight years old." Mrs. Armstrong is also "a U.S. Marine widow," and a journalist, and she can write. What she wrote this morning blisters Kerry and his ilk for their real record on the military, and it makes for compelling reading as does her take on Kerry's anti-war radicalism. This is the first of many first-person blows that will shatter the Kerry rhetoric of a "band of brothers." I wrote about the real feeling of what seems to be a huge number of veterans and currently-serving military in the WeeklyStandard.com last week, and Ms. Armstrong's compelling statement today is proof that Kerry's radical days will not be easily pushed off the table by an elite media eager to absolve Kerry. I'd like to see who wants to tell Mrs. Armstrong to sit down and keep quiet, and that she can't raise these issues. Super Tuesday is a Super Snooze because, beneath all the Kerry lectures and media handicapping, is a widely-shared recognition that the economy is sound and growing, the world still extremely dangerous, and the president the right guy to be leading the country now and for the next four years.

To: gamesmistress who wrote (32554)	3/1/2004 11:00:39 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

India...???? What did India contribute to the Iraqi war???? Zippo!! They're not even a member of the Coalition of the Billing..... And I'm talking about other nations citizens, not the politicans who are bought..... When polled, and they have been, I don't believe there is a single nation whose population supports us and most are against us in a big way. I believe US News published some surveys a month or so ago...