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August, 2004 Entries


August 31

    • Laura, please ground your daughters later this evening
    • MAKE! IT! STOP!
    • AAAAAHHHHH-NULD!!!!
    • Michael Steele, who is supposed to be good
    • I'll see your McPeak, and raise you a Franks
    • A doctor takes on ambulance chasers
    • Who are the advertising geniuses who came up with this one?
    • Chaos outside?
    • Good and Pawlenty
    • Who's in - now who's out?
    • Comparing Kerry and Giuliani's health
    • New York Daily News: Moore 'mugged' at Garden
    • Kerry camp shakeup coming?
    • The eyes and ears of the Kerry Spot are everywhere
    • Bush counters the "we can't win" gaffe
    • Remember when this race was Kerry's to lose?
    • More on the band-aids
    • NYC coverage of Rudy's speech
    • Back rocking and rolling in a second...

August 30

    • Rudy wrapup
    • Two thoughts from Kaus
    • Ru-dy! Ru-dy! Ru-dy!
    • Wednesday, Zell will whack Kerry's Senate record
    • How to pay tribute to 9/11
    • Carville memo: Bush has made 'unmistakable' gains in August
    • Jimmy Carter's friend has entered the building
    • McCain is on...
    • Terry McAuliffe, upset about delegate band-aids
    • It's out of context, but Dems won't care
    • NYPD Sergeants endorse Bush
    • Poll is tied, but internals are moving for Bush?
    • What did McCain just do?
    • Blogging live, from the media center
    • Off to Turtle Bay
    • More Hagel
    • Hagel Highlights
    • Off to meet Chuck Hagel, shortly...
    • Iran's Mullahs: Hey, get a load of this, another Democrat wants to negotiate!
    • Kerry in 1971: 'We will not readily join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars'
    • Bob Novak finds a blunt southerner
    • Die, Bush-McCain ticket rumor, die!
    • The long and short of it
    • Missed opportunity
    • Raspberry offers a column, warning Kerry campaign
    • Major Garrett, on the version in Kerry's Eulogy
    • Myers interview with Schachte
    • George Allen
    • Live from New York...

August 28

    • Seven point shift in Time poll?
    • Wondering about Florida's Democrats...
    • Somebody in the Kerry camp want to explain this?
    • Giving us the runaround

August 27

    • A backlash against the Swift Boat Vet ads? Where?
    • An update on 'Unfit for Command' sales
    • Kerry on Boorda
    • Teresa Heinz Kerry: Criticizing Kerry hurts troops in Iraq
    • Teresa Heinz Kerry: Criticizing Kerry hurts troops in Iraq
    • A poll showing Bush up in Pennsylvania?
    • More interesting stuff from the Hotline
    • Democrats have "white knuckles" over GOP conventions?
    • Most overlooked story of the day?
    • Two counterarguments on econ growth
    • You Ask, Kerry Spot Answers
    • Rich Lowry will love this argument
    • Bad economic numbers
    • More discussion of Brinkley
    • Who do Veterans prefer? It's not even close
    • A Swift Boat damage assessment on Kerry
    • Bush leads in OH, WI, and MO
    • O'Neill in the Wall Street Journal
    • Schachte interview with Novak
    • Oh, Dougie, what have you wrought?
    • Bush says he doesn't think Kerry lied about Vietnam

August 26

    • The Frozen Tundra of... Lambert field?
    • Poll roundup
    • Thinking about the new Swifty ad
    • The Bush suit on 527s
    • New Gallup poll
    • More from Racicot and Mehlman
    • Bush campaign conference call on 527s
    • That big news is out: Swift Boat Vets for Truth Ad #3
    • Conference call coming...
    • Rassmann got a purple heart, too? On the same day?
    • John O'Neill faces WashingtonPost.com readers
    • Where the Holes Are
    • Where is Bush spending his ad money?
    • Worth noting on the Los Angeles Times poll
    • Kerry taking down ad featuring McCain
    • How John Kerry wrecked American society's Vietnam truce
    • Battleground Poll shows oh-so-slim Kerry lead
    • Pelosi and Kerry
    • Bush & McCain, 527 chess?
    • A bit more McCain
    • GOP: You wanna rumble, 527-style? Then let's rumble!
    • Set the VCR
    • Fabrizio analysis
    • Questions for Kerry
    • The impact of the Swifties, so far
    • Who wrote Kerry's combat reports? Kerry?
    • A properly exciting, yet vague news tease
    • Contrast
    • McCain to 'express displeasure' to Bush over Swift Boat Vet ads
    • Take note of Hugh
    • Chapter Twelve: The paperwork of doom
    • What the poll said about the Swifties
    • Exhibit A on why we shouldn't listen to entertainers
    • Insert appropriate dramatic music here

August 25

    • A look at Cleland's appearance today
    • Things to notice in the Corner
    • How the AP is playing O'Neill in Cambodia
    • Bush campaign statement on Ginsberg
    • Another document - but was it based on Kerry's report?
    • Was O'Neill in Cambodia?
    • Wednesday's must-read, Part Two
    • Wednesday's must read, part one
    • Ginsburg quits Bush campaign
    • Great stuff in the NY Post
    • Kerry's most extensive Swifties comments yet
    • Headline, I'd like you to meet story. Story, headline.
    • What's going right for Bush these days
    • Front page news in the New York Times, now and forever
    • Evidence the Swift Boats were under fire that fateful day - but when?
    • Photo op
    • Rubin pulls back on Kerry's 'probable' Iraq war position
    • Ah, a much better response than Form 180
    • When I said do a T.V. interview, I didn't mean Jon Stewart

August 24

    • A barking dog who's been kind of quiet lately...
    • A campaign finance expert on Fox News right now...
    • Hey, where is 'Air National Guardsmen For Truth'?
    • Best of the Web, day two
    • So is attacking Bush's military record inappropriate or not?
    • Bush's travels, pre-convention
    • What Kerry said at the Swift Boat dedication
    • Bush wins Iowa! Well, the state fair at least
    • The 'mother of all backlashes' continues
    • Some notes from the Nexis archives
    • Kerry phoned a Swift Vet? 'Why are all these guys opposed to me?'
    • A bridge too far
    • How common is this sentiment?
    • More Kerry strategy
    • Kerry's strategy today
    • Another what-it-all-means piece
    • Kerry's bad month
    • This is big.
    • An op-ed on Kerry in Cambodia

August 23

    • Getting to the bottom of things in a mere 4900 words
    • Gallup: Bush up a tiny smidgen in Florida
    • The Kerry Spot: You hear it here first
    • Kerry called Bob Dole this morning
    • Not to be rude to Rood, but wait a minute...
    • Bring... it... on... No, wait, make... it... stop...
    • What's in Kerry's unreleased records?
    • The word in Republican circles
    • Did Bush call for end of Swift Boat ads?
    • And then in 1992, Blumenthal trashed Bush's war record
    • Yeah, a zinger like that, it's gonna leave a mark
    • The Democratic veep candidate, on the side of my milk carton
    • About those overtime rules
    • Logic problems
    • Co-chair of Wisconsin Veterans for Bush denounces ads
    • Yes, the Left questioned Bob Dole's medals in 1996
    • The first Purple Heart, in a nutshell
    • Comparing witnesses
    • BusinessWeek: Why are we talking about Vietnam? John Kerry, of course
    • Hillary to head Kerry's 'Truth Squad'?
    • Kerry's newest ad on the Swift Boat Vets

August 22

    • Smile, Tad, smile
    • Bob Dole doesn't need two hands to smack you around, punk
    • Oh, sure, Rood was close enough
    • The Democrats' mantra: Every vote counts, in multiple states, even
    • The scoop on Hardball
    • The Newsweeklies weigh in
    • Line apparently missing from Oliphant column
    • Last night's Capital Gang, and points to concede
    • So much this morning on Swift Boat Vets

August 21

    • Finding 'Unfit for Command'
    • Poll roundup
    • The upcoming MoveOn.org counterpunch
    • About that infamous Florida flyer
    • 'Hey, can the widely-disliked Swifty give us a ride to Cambodia?'
    • A lurking pro-Kerry piece - HERE
    • Not quite the truth in the diary?
    • Meeting with North Vietnamese while in the Naval Reserve
    • So where's the evidence of collusion?
    • The Swift Boat Vet impact

August 20

    • Poll notes
    • Mother of all backlashes, huh?
    • Piecing together the Kerry team's reaction
    • Two items worth noticing
    • Hugh hints of more to come
    • 13 vs. 264, but all 264 could be lying
    • The repeated lie that drives Kerry Spot nuts
    • Looking at the Times piece on the Swift Vets

August 19

    • Round two is incoming...
    • The Dobbses chat about the Swift Boats
    • The Swift Boat Vets: Worth spending Kerry campaign cash on
    • Thurlow gives the 411 on the Navy paperwork
    • More thoughts on Kerry's Swift Boat response
    • Analyzing Kerry's counterattack
    • On Hewitt at 7
    • VFW reception
    • Go away, DNC redshirts, go away
    • I give them the truth and they think it’s Zell
    • Front Page post story blows it
    • Poll interpretation
    • Expectations for Kerry on the stump
    • Could Kerry win a few of Colorado's electoral votes?

August 18

    • How do you get a Purple Heart without taking enemy fire?
    • Is McGreevey hurting Kerry in New Jersey?
    • Yup, Kerry should have reacted to the book sooner
    • Not the reaction Kerry wanted at VFW
    • For the number crunchers...
    • More old Kerry statements on redeployment
    • Dales says, this is no time to panic
    • Kerry VFW speech response-a-thon
    • Quick response from Bush team
    • Kerry rips health care plan that VFW praised
    • Swift Boat Vet ad having impact?
    • Some good, some bad in the Note
    • Cute note in the Times
    • Campaigning during the GOP convention?
    • Blue state turning purple?
    • Kerry's flip-flop Olympics
    • Kerry, on troop movements, a whole two weeks or so ago
    • Kerry, selling multilateralism to the Vets
    • The Boston Globe covers the Cambodia story
    • Scripps Howard begins Kerry’s political obituary
    • Kerry, close to stepping into the trap

August 17

    • John O'Neill, one step ahead
    • Guess who's back, back again
    • Warning, illogic levels reaching critical mass
    • The Bush camp's take on economic numbers
    • Cambodia story watch
    • Dean joke
    • The Kerry team reaction to Bush troop moves
    • Kaus nails it
    • About those closed intelligence hearings...
    • And he invented the Internet, too
    • Kerry's taste in women

August 16

    • The Note hints which campaign is being more effective
    • Short thought on Florida & Ohio
    • 9/11 families that actually LIKE Bush
    • She's Fonda giving money, apparently
    • An analysis of Kerry's CIA hat story
    • Happy photo of Iraqis and Americans
    • Kerry on hunting
    • MoveOn.org v. Swift Boats
    • News roundup
    • Hewitt's en fuego
    • Look out for those kite-surfing plumbers
    • Kerry's little-noticed late-Friday release
    • Pssst! Teeming millions!
    • Corzine running in New Jersey?
    • Two bits of news from the Bush camp
    • Kerry's donations lack info

August 15

    • Ύ through 'Unfit for Command'

August 13

    • Blogging interrupted
    • An economic argument to keep in mind
    • Doublespeak
    • Health Clubs, Economy, and Laura Bush
    • Bounces and polls
    • Conference call with Mehlman and Dowd
    • Game, set, match
    • I feel a great disturbance in the voter turnout force
    • Drudge says Brinkley writing story explaining 'Christmas in Cambodia'
    • Bush on Swift Boat ad
    • Dems working overtime to keep Nader off ballot
    • No Kerry fallout from McGreevey, Dems say
    • And now, from the White House, your daily dose of ominous
    • Bush's Olympic ad
    • No convention broadcast for Rudy? Or McCain?
    • A brief look at New Jersey

August 12

    • Gallup: Bush 50, Kerry 47
    • McGreevey resigning?
    • IRAQ BEATS PORTUGAL!!!
    • Kerry, lies, and exaggerations...
    • Another moment of praise for Kerry Spot readers
    • McCain mocking Teresa on Imus
    • Kerry up 20 in New Jersey?
    • Kerry! O'Neill! Dick Cavett! The rumble starts Sunday!
    • Overspin, and signs everybody needs a vacation
    • Huge GOP turnout in Colorado this week
    • Redeem the Vote
    • More fun with crowd estimates
    • Lanhy Davis, help the Kerry camp doesn't need
    • Kerry response on 'sensitive'
    • Good news for Kerry in Florida
    • Cheney live
    • Edwards seeks doctors, to do more than chase ambulances
    • It's 'be nice to Bush' day at the NY Times
    • Praise from ABC's The Note, for the Kerry Spot and its readers
    • Kaus urges Kerry to promise return to normalcy
    • Kerry's Embroidery
    • Kerry camp upset about Iraq quote
    • A detailed look at Kerry's posts and Cambodia

August 11

    • Kerry shifts on Cambodia story
    • As John McLaughlin would say, 'WRONG!'
    • The 11 minute videotape resurfaces
    • McCain's gentle criticism of Kerry
    • Somebody's lyin...
    • Don't mess with young W. on the rugby field
    • Shamelessly repeating praise of the Kerry Spot
    • Catholics for Kerry: 'George W. Bush is the anti-Christ'
    • Cheney reacts to Kerry statement
    • The weirdest single bit of campaign news this year
    • Jeez, are any Gore voters pulling the lever for Kerry this year?
    • Drudge says Kerrys had a spat
    • Kerry fundraising email refers to Swift Boat Vets
    • Expert Vivisection of Kerry’s gay marriage views
    • ABC News on O'Neill/Corsi book
    • Kerry and Acheson
    • Poll on the Swifties
    • No Gore voters for Bush? Anywhere?
    • ABC's The Note: Kerry's race to lose?
    • GOP helping Nader in New Hampshire?
    • More McCain
    • Nuanced? Or Just Plan Nonsense?
    • The Kerry counter-offensive
    • Bush's newest ad
    • The consistency of nuances
    • Ignore the reports of assassination plans, it's all political
    • USA Today on Bush and Arnie
    • New York Times columnist on nuclear terrorism
    • More on the swifties, pro and con

August 10

    • Plug in the Powerline
    • Incoherent criticism from Stanny Turner
    • Beers reaction to Bush
    • McCain on Bush today
    • Did a Kerry staffer really say this?
    • This poor woman
    • Bush reaction to Kerry
    • A few new nuggets on the Swifties ad
    • The man on Swift Boat Vet coverage
    • This… is Nightline reaction
    • A bit more on Goss
    • The real deal on Kerry's human props
    • A few lighter notes
    • Laura Bush on stem cell research
    • Backlash against musicians for Kerry?
    • Kerry's recent statement on the war
    • Schedules
    • Bush, Goss, intelligence, and the campaign trail
    • The Times (Washington, not New York) on the Cambodia story
    • Flaws of Kerry, flaws of Bush
    • Rassman defends Kerry

August 09

    • Bush lied, people died... and Kerry would do the same
    • Where in the world is John Forbes Kerry?
    • Kerry: I read 4 or 5 papers a day
    • El Rushbo cites the Kerry Spot
    • Kerry and the gun-owner vote
    • Kerry, AIDS, and pharmaceuticals
    • Nightline will look at Swift Boat Vet ad
    • Michael Kranish, the Globe, and the campaign book
    • USA Today editors slam Kerry on Iraq
    • Swift Boat Vets letter to TV stations
    • Swift Moves
    • Which polls get results different from the rest?
    • Bush's so-called gaffe
    • No troop aid for President Kerry?
    • Pennsylvania looking better for Bush?
    • Brownstein on the Swift Boat Ad
    • The Bush team on stem-cell research
    • The slant of coverage to come?
    • Another version of Cambodia story
    • Kerry's USA Today op-ed
    • Interesting electoral survey
    • Sparks, on why Kerry will lose
    • David Brock goes after Kerry Book author
    • USA Today tidbits
    • DNC hitting back against Swift Boat Vets

August 06

    • More Letson
    • Lewis Letson explains Kerry's wound
    • Did the Globe drop the ball?
    • How the ad is playing in Oklahoma
    • FEC dismisses complaint against Fahrenheit: 9/11
    • Conversing with Larry Elder
    • Live blogging, from NRANews.com
    • Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia
    • Two ideas
    • Kerry's endless promises
    • Boston shifting from brilliant to dud
    • Krauthammer explains the no bounce
    • Looking at Bush's stump speech
    • Job numbers blah
    • A Kerry critic backs off... Wait, maybe not!
    • Zogby predicts no bounce for Bush
    • Bush and the football joke

August 05

    • Bush, Kerry, and corn
    • Kerry threatens TV stations over Swift Boat ad
    • Like that old anti-drug ad: I learned it from watching you!
    • A kindler, gentler war on terror
    • Kerry aide reacts to Swift Boat Vet ad
    • The RNC on the Swift Boat Vet ad
    • Kerry and Giuliani spar over Bush reaction
    • Kerry gets bounce in NJ
    • Jobless claims down
    • McCain on the Swift Boat Vet ad
    • A mini-scoop
    • Talent on Swift Boat Vet ad
    • Kerry on the $87 billion
    • Kerry's faulty history
    • Well, that settles things
    • Where the Swift Boat ad is running
    • How much coverage of Swift Boat Vet ad?
    • The Times and 527 attack ads for Kerry
    • 'The most devastating ad' ever?
    • Kerry's fears about Irish immigration
    • Kerry got to Iowa late
    • The Manchurian Candidate & the Idiot Vote

August 04

    • The tired argument about 'diverting resources'
    • Bush team on Kerry's budget numbers
    • Bad adjoining headlines on Google
    • Broder tough on Kerry
    • Teresa, Hell, and tradition
    • More from John and John's book
    • Kerry's CEOs: A gang of outsourcers?
    • Looking at the new Kerry/Edwards book
    • Good economic headlines
    • Kerry talking outsourcing right now
    • Where are the Kerry Republicans?
    • Franks, defending Iraq war decision
    • Kerry and Terror Alerts
    • The Post on Kerry's budget numbers
    • Left hand, right hand
    • The Swift Boat Vets book
    • Dueling headlines
    • Davenport Day
    • Political mainstays?

August 03

    • The Economic Policy Institute's definitions
    • Unfortunate headline
    • More disputing of crowd sizes
    • A skeptical voice on Kerry's crowds
    • Touche
    • Teresa on terrorism
    • A lengthy post on wages, jobs and the economy
    • Shmuley and me
    • Bounces, ground games and ad buys
    • Changing tactics, campaign spending
    • More from Bush campaign conference call
    • Dowd: Bush campaign expects no GOP convention bounce
    • Conference Call with Ken Mehlman and Matthew Dowd
    • British intelligence hears of attack in early September
    • A note about those crowd sizes...
    • Football jokes
    • Morris on Kerry's convention
    • So now the debates are the big deal, huh?
    • Brooks on the Dem's 'military worship session'
    • Kerry's convention and terrorism alerts
    • Mixed Economic News
    • And yet, he's still voting for Kerry
    • Terror warnings and politics

August 02

    • Analyzing Bush's ads
    • Kerry team reacts to poll results
    • Teresa: Bush administration is hell
    • Pataki: Dean's an embarrassment
    • WashPost/ABC Poll: Kerry up 2 among likely voters
    • Kerry: Liberal or moderate?
    • Nancy Reagan endorses Bush
    • Kerry and Bush on homeland security
    • Not the Post poll, but another one
    • Gillespie on Kerry
    • Medal of Honor letter for Bush
    • Cameron: Post shows little bounce
    • ABC poll samples in recent history
    • All a matter of perspective, I guess
    • Time dishes on Bush's second term plans
    • Overlooked economic news
    • Terrorism and elections
    • Good news for Kerry in Post poll?
    • Kerry disagrees with Dean
    • About that Edwards appearance on Charlie Rose
    • Comparing Massachusetts senators
    • Oddities in the Newsweek poll
    • Hewitt on terror & the campaign
    • Kerry and Vietnam, Part 2,765
    • More from, and on, Gallup results
    • Moran on the phantom bounce
    • Gigot on Kerry's speech
    • Paranoia? Blame shifting?
    • Teresa: Unfamiliar with a bowl of chili?
    • Checking in with the Iowa political markets
    • This world we live in
    • Kerry's secret policies
    • The Dean quote
    • Bush: Kerry's 'Me-Too' Policies
    • Bounce spins

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