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To: LindyBill who wrote (64481)	8/26/2004 2:22:00 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

also saying the swift boat vets are smearing Kerry is a carryover from Kerry several months ago when he started using the words that Bush was out to smear him. He has used the words in his campaign since day one and carried it over to the Swift boat veterans. Just like he is back in 1970 doing damage to the veterans reputation. But hey, he has clinton folks working with him and his best was to smear anyone that even came close to him. Look at all the woman who complained about Bill's advances , he tried to destroy their reputation now Kerry is trying to the same thing with private investigators on each of the men.

To: LindyBill who wrote (64481)	8/26/2004 2:22:59 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793958

Forced Wisecrack of the Day. By Ann Althouse blog ABCNEWS.com reports this reaction from Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt to Kerry's proposal that there be weekly debates between the candidates: There will be a time for debates after the convention, and during the next few weeks, John Kerry should take the time to finish the debates with himself. This election presents a clear choice to the American people between a President who is moving America forward and a Senator who has taken every side of almost every issue and has the most out of the mainstream record in the U.S. Senate. A developing wave of revulsion. By Ann Althouse David Carr (in the NYT) reports, amusingly, on the disgust New Yorkers are feeling about the approaching Republican conventioneers. The best quote is from The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash: They can say that they won't even know we are here, but they will. We will plunk down our garment bags in their hopelessly trendy hotels, standing out like Good Humor men in our summer-weight khaki suits while all those hipster squirrels scramble for our tips. ... They needn't worry. The contempt is mutual." I also liked this, from Details editor Daniel Peres: I don't want to see a lot of bad Men's Warehouse suits and a lot of badly parted hair walking around my neighborhood. All Republicans part their hair the same way. Note the assumption that all Republicans are not only repulsive, but male. Or do Republican women have Trent Lott hair too? The article also contains an interesting comparison between the way power operates in in New York and in Washington, which is connected to the feelings of mutual contempt. The theory is that Washington power is all about what position of power you hold, but New York power is less "hierarchical" and more "dispersed": In New York, you can be powerful through physical beauty or controlling access to a trendy place. The notion seems to be that people who have succeeded playing one city's power game find it quite unsettling to share physical space with the set of powerful persons produced by the other city's game.