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To: Road Walker who wrote (237666)	6/17/2005 12:33:58 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571400

JF, And once again I have to say that the majority of people remain in the middle There is no "middle." We all believe in something. It's just what you choose to emphasize over anything else. Ever hear of the 16PF? Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (237666)	6/17/2005 4:39:55 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571400

You probably posted this one already....I'm way behind in my reading of the thread........but I thought it was worth posting again: ******************************************************* Dear MoveOn member, Yesterday, Congressman John Conyers delivered 560,000 petition signatures to the White House—including more than 360,000 from MoveOn members—demanding that President Bush address smoking-gun evidence of deception in the Downing Street Memos.1 After holding nearly four hours of hearings about the Downing Street Memos on Capitol Hill, the Congressman went over to The White House accompanied by a dozen leading Democrats. They marched solemnly towards The White House gate as swarms of media clicked, filmed and shouted questions. As they approached the gate to White House grounds a lone, young Bush staffer met the delegation—he literally trembled when Conyers said they had come to deliver the signatures of 560,000 Americans demanding the truth about Iraq. The White House staff refused Conyers entrance to see the president but accepted the petitions.** MoveOn members made a huge difference here—shooting up the number of petition signers at a critical time in the drive to bring attention to the Downing Street Memos. And thanks in part to your pressure and Congressman Conyers' high profile hearings andpetition delivery, the media has finally begun to cover the scandalous Downing Street Memos—we counted 1,600 news stories in Google today. The Seattle Times, Denver Post, Boston Globe, CNN, ABC and hundreds of other media outlets have been forced to report on the memos.2 Howard Kurtz, media columnist for The Washington Post, wrote about the surging coverage of the Downing Street Memos, noting that: A wide range of critics, including the ombudsmen of the NYT and WP, says the press bobbled the ball on the Downing Street Memo. The memo may not be the slam-dunk about the Bush administration fixing intelligence that its supporters believe—the British author cites no specifics as proof—but it was a newsworthy and provocative development, as the press is belatedly realizing.3 Now the press is taking notice because they couldn't ignore it anymore. You played a big role here. Thanks so much for everything you do.