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To: Neeka who wrote (77)	4/5/2006 1:03:05 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 908

Liberal Bloggers Say Election is 'More Depressing' Than 9/11 CNS News ^ \| 5 Nov 2004 \| Nathan Burchfield (CNSNews.com) - Bloggers on the liberal Democratic Underground website have overwhelmingly labeled Nov. 3, 2004, the day after Election Day, "more depressing" than Sept. 11, 2001 in a poll of online members. Seventy-two percent of poll takers said they believed the day Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) conceded defeat in the presidential election was more tragic than the day more than 3,000 Americans were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and on a hijacked plane that crashed in a Pennsylvania field. One member, "Big Blue Marble," said "I have lived 61 years, lost my parents and my sister plus many many pets and this is the darkest day of my life." (Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...

To: Neeka who wrote (77)	4/5/2006 1:08:59 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 908

Notice the VILENESS of the FIRST SENTENCE of the Associated Press’ Jennifer Loven---Who is married to a former Bill Clinton staffer and Kerry Campaign employee Roger Ballantine: Bush Starts Planning Second Term Yahoo ^ \| 11/4/03 \| Jennifer Loven WASHINGTON - His second term secured, President Bush (news - web sites) is reaching out and asking the 55 million people who voted to oust him from office to get behind the ambitious agenda he's laid out for the next four years. The work of making good on a raft of tough-to-keep campaign promises begins Thursday, when Bush sits down with his Cabinet for their first such meeting since Aug. 2. In a quietly jubilant victory speech Wednesday that came a full 21 hours after the polls closed, Bush outlined the goals he plans to start work on immediately and pursue in the next four years, a period he termed "a season of hope." He pledged to keep up the fight against terrorism, press for stable democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan , simplify the tax code, allow younger workers to invest some of their Social Security withholdings in the stock market, continue to raise accountability standards in public schools and "uphold our deepest values and family and faith." Other items include reforms to the nation's intelligence community, halving the record $413 billion deficit, expanding health care coverage, a constitutional ban on gay marriage and moving "this goodhearted nation toward a culture of life." "Reaching these goals will require the broad support of Americans," Bush said as he asked Sen. John Kerry's disappointed supporters to back him — even though many of his proposals are anathema to those who opposed his re-election. "I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust," he said. "When we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America." Bush also has pledged a full-court press with Congress, where a continued GOP lock on both houses makes getting his wishes granted easier, but not guaranteed for a lame-duck president. The disputed 2000 election left Bush without a mandate, but he governed as if he had one. The White House made clear Wednesday that it believes that mandate did not elude Bush this time, when he became the first presidential candidate since 1988 to win a majority of the popular vote, 51 percent. "President Bush ran forthrightly on a clear agenda for this nation's future, and the nation responded by giving him a mandate," Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) said, introducing Bush. Even before the election, aides started work on a new budget, and the administration is preparing to ask Congress for up to $75 billion more to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and operations against terrorism. The figure indicates the wars' costs, particularly to battle the intensified Iraqi insurgency, are far exceeding expectations laid out early this year. Another sticky item could be a Supreme Court appointment, with Chief Justice William Rehnquist (news - web sites), 80, suffering from thyroid cancer. Time and energy also will be consumed dealing with the inevitable rash of Cabinet departures, likely to include at least Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Health and Human Services (news - web sites) Secretary Tommy Thompson. Still, Bush is sure to spend the remaining days of his first term and much of his second dealing primarily with the same issues that have dominated the last three years — the anti-terror battle, the war in Iraq and the economy. In Iraq, where more than 1,100 American soldiers have died and a violent insurgency continues, Bush must seek to fulfill his pledge to turn the country into a model democracy for the Arab world and bring U.S. troops home. He campaigned on a claim of superior ability to lead there, but without describing precisely how he would accomplish either goal. But first, some time for rest after a grueling, bitter campaign. After the Cabinet meeting, Bush was headed to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland for a long weekend.

To: Neeka who wrote (77)	4/5/2006 1:18:31 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 908

Jennifer Loven--poisonous Associated Press "news" article Economy, Terror Frame Bush-Kerry Debate (AP / Jennifer Loven Alert -Bias Level Alpha) Associated Press ^ \| 10-08-04 \| JENNIFER LOVEN JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer Loven is married to former Clinton appointee Roger Ballantine--who at the time this article was written was working for the Kerry campaign----No conflict of interest there, of course] ST. LOUIS - A lackluster unemployment report, troubling terrorism developments and fresh questions about President Bush's rationale for invading Iraq frame the second face-to-face encounter Friday night between Bush and John Kerry. Only the debate's moderator and the 15 to 20 people chosen to ask questions know what topics will be raised during the town-hall session at Washington University. Kerry has momentum from polls showing he gained from his performance in the first debate while Bush goes in on the defensive. The president watched tapes from the first debate as aides sought to avoid a repeat of the scowls that contributed to negative reaction to his appearance. "I don't think the American people are going to choose a president on the basis of facial expressions," senior Bush adviser Karen Hughes told CBS's "The Early Show" on Friday. "But as the president joked the other day, hearing that litany of misrepresentations from Sen. Kerry did kind of make him want to make a face, and I think he'll be conscious of that tonight." Kerry, criticized as times for what some call a stiff and aloof manner, will try to build on favorable impressions from the debate in Miami. The Massachusetts senator holds a slight lead nationally over Bush in an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Thursday, reversing Bush's advantage from mid-September. "He just he needs to do tonight what he did a week ago," Democratic Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri told "American Morning" on CNN, "let people know who he is, his plan for America, his fresh start for Iraq, what he wants to do to get this economy invigorated, his energy plan, his environmental plans. He's going to do all that tonight." Although voters cite Iraq as a major concern, the economy consistently ranks at the top. The unemployment report — the last to be released before Election Day — provides fresh fodder for the campaigns. Unemployment held steady at 5.4 percent but job creation was lower than expected. Bush cast the addition of 96,000 jobs as proof his tax cuts have bolstered the jobs market and the economy overall while Kerry pointed out that the country has lost jobs overall under the Bush administration, a first since the Depression. On the day the report came out, Bush's campaign unveiled an advertisement for national cable networks that touts "nearly 2 million jobs in just over a year," resulting in "nearly 2 million more people back working," and "nearly 2 million more people with wages." Kerry called the number "disappointing" and contended that even the jobs that have been created under Bush pay less and offer fewer benefits than those that have been lost. "The president does not seem to understand how many middle-class families are being squeezed by falling incomes and spiraling health care, tuition and energy costs," he said in a statement. Hard sparring over Iraq on the eve of the debate offered a preview of the discussion to come. A final report from the chief U.S. weapons hunter in Iraq concluded that Saddam Hussein had no stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons, had no programs to make either them or nuclear bombs, and had little ability — or immediate plans — to revive those programs. The findings contradicted Bush's main rationale for going to war, and Kerry charged the commander in chief with purposely exaggerating the evidence used to justify the war. He also ridiculed the administration for shifting now to another explanation. "You don't make up or find reasons to go to war after the fact," Kerry said Thursday in Colorado. Bush not only insisted that going to war was right, but he turned the tables to say Kerry was the one not being candid. Dredging up remarks by the Massachusetts senator from two years ago on the threat Saddam and his purported weapons posed, Bush said at a campaign rally in Wisconsin: "He's claiming I misled America about weapons when he, himself, cited the very same intelligence about Saddam weapons programs as the reason he voted to go to war. ... Just who's the one trying to mislead the American people?" Kerry's campaign accused Bush of altering Kerry's statement to suit his own political purposes and omitting from those remarks Kerry's caution against rushing to war. Terrorists struck again Thursday night in a series of coordinated bomb attacks that killed scores of tourists at an Egyptian resort. [Notice that Loven will NOT say that Jews-Israelis wewre killed. And will not say muslims did the killing.] Both men arrived in St. Louis on Thursday night, with no public appearances scheduled before the nationally televised debate. The town-hall format, with both candidates perched on stools but prohibited by lengthy rules from approaching one another, is more casual than the first debate. Kerry was headed to a rally in St. Louis after the debate; Bush was doing the same in nearby Ballwin, Mo. Their third and final debate is Oct. 13 in Tempe, Ariz., and will focus on economic and domestic policy.