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To: LindyBill who wrote (52135)	6/30/2004 5:22:54 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793912

Somebody in the media is going to take this to court. They won't be able to resist. Kerry Rules Out Opening Records of 1988 Divorce Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:57 PM ET PHOENIX, Ariz. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Tuesday rejected any suggestion that he release records of his 1988 divorce, calling it old history that had nothing to do with anyone else. "I have no intention of doing that at all," Kerry said during a campaign stop in Phoenix, Arizona, when a reporter asked if he would release the papers from his divorce from his first wife Julia Thorn. In a U.S. senate race in Illinois, Republican candidate Jack Ryan quit his campaign last week after the Chicago Tribune and other media sued to have his sealed divorce records made public. The papers revealed that his ex-wife had accused him of asking her to have sex with him in front of strangers at a club. Kerry, who will try to unseat President Bush in November, said there was no reason for him to release his divorce records. "It's history, ancient history. My ex-wife and I are terrific friends, very proud of our children. We have stayed close through those years as an extended family," the Massachusetts senator said, adding, "It's none of anybody's business, period." Kerry is now married to Teresa Heinz Kerry.

To: LindyBill who wrote (52135)	6/30/2004 9:37:36 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793912

Super piece by Samuelson. Particularly this. <<Politics is increasingly a world unto itself, inhabited by people convinced of their own moral superiority: conspicuously, the religious right among Republicans; and upscale liberal elites among Democrats. Their agendas are hard to enact because they're minority agendas. So politicians instinctively focus on delivering psychic benefits. Each side strives to make its political "base" feel good about itself. People should be confirmed in their moral superiority. Polarization and nastiness are not side effects. They are the game. You feel good about yourself because the other side is so fanatical, misguided, corrupt and dishonest.>> After all this time it still boggles my mind how so many see "fanatical, misguided, corrupt and dishonest" only on the other side.