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To: LindyBill who wrote (41228)	4/28/2004 3:15:51 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

In case you wondered what is happening on the left blogs. Here is one that can turn a phrase. The nation must be kinky - The American Street blog President Clinton, due to the efforts of guys like Richard Scaife Mellon, became the most investigated president in history. If I recall correctly, the suicide of Vince Foster was investigated by 3 or 4 different agencies or investigators who reached the same conclusions. Tens of millions of taxpayer's money was thrown into these efforts and a few associates got convicted. Clinton was convicted of telling a lie in court about an extramarital affair, which most of the nation thought was his private business. Today, we have a commission investigating the 9-11 disaster, another investigating why the Iraq WMD intel was wrong, a special prosecutor investigation a possible botching of a terrorist ring prosecution, a special prosecutor has just been appointed to investigate computer file theft by GOP Senate staffers and another is tracking down the leaker that blew the cover of Valerie Plame. There's more special prosecutors investigating Bush and the GOP than investigated Clinton. No outsiders are pushing this stuff as Mellon did. And fresh questions are being raised about other things, like unauthorized use of military funds on things related to the buildup to our attack on Iraq, that may require more special prosecutors still. All but one are related to botch jobs in the war on terrorism. Which has earned the majority of the nation's trust of Bush's leadership in foreign policy. I can only conclude the nation is tolerant of a blowjob or two but they're absolutely eager to take it up the butt, repeatedly. Who knew?

To: LindyBill who wrote (41228)	4/28/2004 10:49:07 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793914

HWL, LB!!! That article was good.... Do these people own mirrors? Evidently not!!! <gggggggg>

To: LindyBill who wrote (41228)	4/28/2004 10:56:24 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

Hewitt - The papers did not report Kerry's WMD waffle from Hardball last night, focusing instead on Kerry's attempt to revive media interest in President Bush's national guard service. All of the accounts --in the Boston Globe, Washington Times, USA Today and Los Angeles Times to name a few-- dutifully report Kerry's teeth-grinding on the national-guard-medals-Vietnam-Cheney's-deferment stone, but the impression that comes across is exactly the opposite of what Kerry must be hoping for. He's already a tired, faded candidate hoping to arrest a slide by shopping tired, faded non-controversies. This is America. We don't watch reruns anymore, and the Guard non-story was old when it had its first rerun in winter. Kerry thinks the medals controversy and his military records controversy are about Vietnam, when in fact they are about his lack of forthrightness. Kerry is at best a dissembler, and the criticisms he has absorbed in the past few weeks are about his inability to answer even simple questions with direct answers. The exchange with Chris Matthews on WMD was a classic example of Kerry's reflexive retreat to ambiguity and dependent clauses. His staff must have warned him about this, but he cannot stop layering on exceptions and conditions and asides and parentheticals.