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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (18964)	10/15/2004 12:14:57 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Kerry surges and Wall Street shrugs In a tightening presidential race, analysts are ready to embrace whoever wins. October 14, 2004: 9:50 PM EDT By Yuval Rosenberg, CNN/Money NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A strong showing in the three presidential debates has helped John Kerry climb in the polls, but has it given him a bounce on Wall Street too? While Wall Street would likely still prefer a Bush win, Kerry's improved standing has forced investors to contemplate having the Democratic candidate in the Oval Office.

To: American Spirit who wrote (18964)	10/15/2004 12:18:54 AM
From: jim-thompson	Respond to of 27181

Kerry is Stolen Honor and Thurlow is a hero for being strong enough to open his mouth and set the record straight. We all know some of the many things Kerry has gotten caught in and this is just one more to the list..... Stolen Honor is what Kerry is all about!

To: American Spirit who wrote (18964)	10/15/2004 12:50:37 AM
From: jim-thompson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Stolen Honor should be a good documentary. I don't know if I will watch it though, since I pretty much know most of the lies and half-truths that John Kerry has been caught in.

To: American Spirit who wrote (18964)	10/15/2004 7:39:04 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Respond to of 27181

Confirming Rasmussen, Zogby has Bush up by 4%: story.news.yahoo.com Politics - Reuters Reuters Poll: Bush Opens Four-Point Lead on Kerry By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) opened a four-point lead on Democratic Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) the day after the final debate between the White House rivals, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Friday. Bush led Kerry 48-44 percent in the latest three-day tracking poll, which included one night of polling done after Wednesday's debate in Tempe, Arizona. Bush led Kerry, a senator from Massachusetts, by only one point, 46-45 percent, the previous day. An improvement in Bush's showing among undecideds and a strong response from his base Republican supporters helped fuel the president's rise. "The good news for the president is that he has improved his performance among the small group of undecideds," said pollster John Zogby, who found 6 percent of likely voters are undecided. "Nearly a quarter now say that he deserves to be re-elected, up from 18 percent in our last poll." Zogby said the difference between Kerry's 79 percent support among Democrats and Bush's 89 percent support from Republicans also should be "worrisome" for Kerry in such a tight race. "Kerry needs to close the deal with his fellow Democrats," Zogby said. Both candidates headed to the swing state of Nevada in upbeat mood on Thursday after their final debate and renewed their battle during separate appearances in Las Vegas over who was best suited to lead the middle class to prosperity. The focus of the race now turns to less than a dozen crucial battleground states, with Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin and Iowa -- where Bush and Kerry are running neck and neck -- all certain to see plenty of the candidates down the stretch. The new tracking poll found Bush pulling into a tie with Kerry among Catholics and women voters, and moving slightly ahead with young voters. Kerry still holds a solid lead among seniors. The poll of 1,220 likely voters was taken Tuesday through Thursday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. The rolling poll will continue through Nov. 1 -- the day before the election. A tracking poll combines the results of three consecutive nights of polling, then drops the first night's results each time a new night is added. It allows pollsters to record shifts in voter sentiment as they happen. The poll showed independent candidate Ralph Nader (news - web sites), blamed by some Democrats for drawing enough votes from Al Gore (news - web sites) to cost him the election in 2000, with the support of 1.1 percent of likely voters.

To: American Spirit who wrote (18964)	10/15/2004 9:30:14 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

as. Good news and very good progress with foreign policy by the Bush administration. This has just got to make you so happy to know that a country such as Russia is on the Bush side in the war against islam terrorists. Right? Russian Ships to Join NATO Anti-Terror Patrol in Mediterranean Roger Wilkison VOA News Oct 14, 2004 english.epochtimes.com Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld talks with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov as they arrive for a reception in Poiana Brasov, which is hosting the informal NATO meeting of Defense Ministers. (Susan Walsh/AFP/Getty Images) POIANA BRASOV, Romania - Russia is sending naval vessels to join NATO warships conducting anti-terrorism patrols in the Mediterranean Sea. NATO defense ministers and their Russian counterpart have promised to boost cooperation in fighting terrorism. NATO officials say two Russian warships will join the alliance's naval patrols in the eastern Mediterranean within a few weeks. The NATO operation was set up just after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States, and its aim is to monitor shipping throughout the Mediterranean and intercept vessels suspected of being linked to terrorists. Although the Russian move has been discussed for several months, final agreement on Moscow's support for the operation was reached only recently. The school siege at Beslan, in southern Russia, which resulted in more than 330 deaths, has given a new impetus to Moscow's cooperation with NATO. The alliance says working together to fight terrorism is the main item on the agenda of the NATO-Russia Council, which was set up two years ago to enhance cooperation between the old Cold War foes. Russia has been wary of what it considers NATO's unwarranted expansion into areas of former Soviet influence. Seven Eastern European countries, including the three Baltic nations once occupied by the Soviet Union, joined NATO this year, and Russia is still uncomfortable with having its former adversary on its border. But Sergei Ivanov told reporters that he is satisfied with the way the NATO-Russia Council is working and is pleased with the growing military cooperation between Russia and NATO. "If we talk about the exclusively military area, then the practice of joint exercises, joint meetings, has become routine, we have exercises at the moment which are happening in a routine way, in parallel or one after the other," he said. But the Russian defense minister, in a sign that there is still friction between Moscow and the West, rejected western criticism of his country's policies in Chechnya. He also repeated Moscow's pledge to launch pre-emptive strikes against suspected terrorists outside Russia's borders.

To: American Spirit who wrote (18964)	10/15/2004 9:52:47 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Kerry Evades Questions About Ties to Terrorist Iran Wes Vernon Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004 WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kerry’s campaign Thursday was accused of avoiding sticky questions about Iranian influence on his presidential bid. "Do I think they're running out the clock until after the election? Absolutely I do," responded Bob Jenevein, attorney for a top figure in the Student Movement Coordinating Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI). In answer to a question from NewsMax.com, Jenevein said the Kerry-Edwards campaign was stalling on signing any deposition acknowledging that Hassan Nemazee, a New York investment banker, had "provided the campaign with advice and/or insight on matters relevant to Iran and U.S.-Iran relations." Nemazee is listed as a member of the board of American-Iranian Council, which SMCCDI says favors "eventually normalization of relations with Iran," a state sponsor of terrorism. The attorney said Kerry’s campaign told him that even though he had sought since July to put the Democrat nominee’s foreign policy adviser Rand Beers under oath about Nemazee's relation to the campaign for the White House, Beers would not be available until Nov. 10, 8 days after the election. "That is unacceptable," Jenovein told NewsMax. SMCCDI has alleged Nemazee has used his position to advance the interests of Iran’s Islamic regime. Jenevein represents SMCCDI Coordinator Aryo Pirouznia. Nemaze had filed a $10 million suit against Pirouznia charging defamation of character and denying that he has served as an agent for the Iranian government. Pirouznia has counter-sued, and his attorney's effort to put Kerry’s campaign under oath is a part of that legal battle. Nemazee himself has been scheduled to provide a deposition on Monday in New York. NewsMax has attempted without success to elicit comment from Kerry’s campaign on this. We were put in touch with an assistant to Beers, Greta Lundeberg, who refused comment and referred NewsMax to the campaign's press office. That phone went unanswered. A "fact sheet" issued by Jenevein cited reports from the mainstream media and from Kerry’s campaign itself that Nemazee had raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the senator's race. John Corsi, who co-wrote the best seller "Unfit for Command," which contradicts many of Kerry's claims about his stint in Vietnam, reiterated at today's news conference that Kerry’s campaign had been backed by pro-mullah groups that are funding terrorists attacking U.S. troops in Iraq. SMCCDI has cited Kerry's comment in the first debate with President Bush, where the candidate made the following statement regarding Tehran and nuclear weapons: "I think the United States should have offered the opportunity to provide [Iran with] nuclear fuel, test them, see whether or not they were actually looking for it for peaceful purposes. If they willing to work a deal, then we could have put sanctions together." Corsi compared that to handing a 5-year-old child a stick of dynamite to “see what happens." Or, he added, perhaps something similar to the mistake the U.S. made in the 1930s in selling scrap metal to the Japanese, only to have them shoot it back at us at Pearl Harbor. In his most recent letter to Beers and Lundeberg of the Kerry campaign, attorney Jenevein urged them to "confirm under oath what you have already confirmed on the record with a reporter." The reporter in question was investigative journalist Ken Timmerman, who was also at the news conference at the National Press Club. Timmerman said he had warned Nemazee against joining the board of American Iranian Council, telling him that freedom-loving Iranians would regard him "as a traitor" to their struggle. SMCCDI’s "fact sheet" notes that Nemazee nonetheless is on the council’s board. As for SMCCDI Coordinator Pirouznia, he told the news conference that he had "no agenda against John Kerry" or for President Bush, that his only interest was in securing freedom for his native land and keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of the radical mullahs who rule it.