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| 2004
Presidential Campaign |
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| The
Good, The Bad, The Dirty-'Toon |
| The
Real Man-by Paul Krugman |
| To
understand why questions about George Bush's time in the
National Guard are legitimate, all you have to do is look
at the federal budget published last week. No, not the
lies, damned lies and statistics — the pictures.
By my count, this year's budget contains 27 glossy photos
of Mr. Bush. We see the president in front of a giant
American flag, in front of the Washington Monument. |
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| Dear
American People-by John Kaminski |
We
now face a daunting task. An unpleasant and possibly fatal realization
now confronts all of us in our daily lives.
Many of our most powerful leaders need to be arrested for numerous
and continuing crimes against humanity. |
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| The
Broken Promises of George W. Bush: Rhetoric vs. Reality |
| President
Bush made a lot of promises during his 2000 presidential campaign.
The record shows it was all talk. |
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| WHERE
IS THE OUTRAGE? |
Because
of the capitulation of the Press Corpse, and the abdication
of its historic role, tens of millions of Americans are dangerously
ill equipped to make a truly informed choice in the voting booth.
Where the
hell is the outrage? We’ve just had three benign debates,
all shamefully limited in scope and embarrassingly bland in
content. But that’s par for the course in the world of
politics. |
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| All
the President's Spin |
| Bush’s
White House has broken new ground in its press relations strategy,
exploiting the weaknesses and failings of the political media
more systematically than any of its predecessors. The administration
combines tight message discipline and image management –
Reagan’s trademarks – with the artful use of half-
or partial truths and elaborate news management – Clinton’s
specialties – in a combination that is near-lethal for
the press. |
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| Bush
& the L-Word-By Nat Parry
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| Over
the past four years, one of the most powerful U.S. media taboos
has been against calling George W. Bush’s pattern of false
statements lies. Among Washington journalists, the l-word is
casually applied to people who have gotten in the way of the
Bush Dynasty – from Bill Clinton and Al Gore to more recently
John Kerry and now Richard Clarke – but almost never to
Bush. |
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| How
can Kerry beat Bush? Just the facts, man-By Mark Drolette
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| You've
got to hand it to the Republicans (if they haven't taken it
already): they're aces at playing the fear card. According to
an Associated Press poll as reported by Will Lester, "Americans
today are as fearful of becoming a victim of terrorism as they
are of losing their job or having their home burglarized." |
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| Voting
official seeks process for canceling Election Day over terrorism-BY
ERICA WERNER |
| The
government needs to establish guidelines for canceling or rescheduling
elections if terrorists strike the United States again, says
the chairman of a new federal voting commission. Soaries was
appointed to the federal Election Assistance Commission last
year by President Bush. |
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| Exclusive:
Election Day Worries-By Michael Isikoff |
| American
counter-terrorism officials, citing what they call "alarming"
intelligence about a possible Qaeda strike inside the United
States this fall, are reviewing a proposal that could allow
for the postponement of the November presidential election in
the event of such an attack, NEWSWEEK has learned. |
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| Bush
Camp Could Gain From A Postponement-by Joe Conason |
| For
the first time since the Civil War, government officials in
Washington are talking about the possible cancellation of a
Presidential election. While such discussion is entirely speculative—at
least for the moment—it is doubly disturbing because those
same officials are simultaneously predicting the circumstance
under which the election might be "postponed": namely,
another catastrophic attack by Al Qaeda. |
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| All
The Unreported Bush Scandals-by Tom Wieliczka |
| Proof
of UNreported Bush Scandals by The Media CorpSE vs how the media
jumps all over Democratic problems |
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| The
Pinocchio presidency-A former diplomat says it's time to blow
the whistle on the Bush administration's blatant lies.-By Joe
Wilson |
| In
these perilous times the president should be held accountable
for his stewardship. He should run on his record. But what do
we see from him and his campaign? First, a political ad that
desecrates the memories of our dead at the World Trade Center,
using flag-draped bodies as political props. Now we see an ad
that racially profiles olive-skinned men as terrorists while
mendaciously suggesting that the Democratic candidate and war
hero John Kerry is soft on terrorism. Some have rightly made
the connection between that ad and the infamous Willie Horton
ad of the Bush/Dukakis campaign of 1988, an ad that exploited
racial fear, but a better comparison might be with the negative
ad run against triple amputee and Vietnam veteran, Max Cleland.
In that one Cleland was made to appear as part of a trio whose
other members were Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. When
not running nasty ads, Bush's attack dogs are busy launching
vicious attacks on the characters of those who would dare to
point out where this administration has failed the American
people. |
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| THE
STATE OF FASCISM |
War
is peace, slavery is freedom, aggression is compassion, economic
devastation is wealth, immorality is piety - The state of fascism
has never been stronger.
The clampdown on freedom is in full effect. The un-auditable
electronic voting machines are in place in key electoral states,
and in each machine in strategic districts will be a "glitch"
this glitch (which is legal) will hand surprise victories to
key republicans in order to sway the key electoral votes necessary
to achieve a total presidential election theft once again for
the forces of evil. |
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| Retired
Officials Say Bush Must Go |
| A
group of 26 former senior diplomats and military officials,
several appointed to key positions by Republican Presidents
Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, plans to issue a joint statement
this week arguing that President George W. Bush has damaged
America's national security and should be defeated in November. |
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| In
corner, then oval, offices-by David Lazarus |
| If
Americans want to obsess about the pasts of the two presidential
candidates, it seems to me that there's much more to be gained
by looking at each man's record not in the military, but in
the private sector. |
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| Diebold
Wines and Dines Election Officials-By: David Corn |
| At
a time when there is much controversy over electronic voting
and some election experts are raising concerns about the integrity
of such voting, should the leading manufacturers of electronic
voting machines be wining and dining state and local officials
responsible for conducting elections? Well, they are. |
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| Take
Us to Our Leader-by Mark Drolette |
| The
hordes of Americans who marched in protest of the Iraq war last
year represent a potential movement of great strength, that,
if led by an articulate, charismatic leader and identified by
a clear common cause, can exert formidable pressure on national
leaders to begin shaping this nation into the kind of America
many of us would like it to be. |
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| Four
harsh years-by David Lazarus |
| "It's
been an extremely disappointing period for our economic well-being,
" said Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan
Brookings Institution in Washington. "On balance, President
Bush's policies have done more harm than good." |
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| Bush's
Withdrawal From the World-By Ronald D. Asmus |
Harry
Truman must be turning over in his grave.
The planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Europe and Asia that
President Bush announced this week, if allowed to stand, could
lead to the demise of the United States' key alliances across
the globe, including the one that Truman considered his greatest
foreign policy accomplishment: NATO. |
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| Bush-Cheney
adviser on Catholics resigns-BY Carol Eisenberg |
| The
top adviser to the Bush- Cheney campaign on Catholic outreach
resigned yesterday in an effort to shield the campaign from
a soon-to-be-published story detailing a 1994 sexual harassment
accusation by a female student that led to his ouster at Fordham
University. |
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| Bush
/ Cheney Fascism Failed America-By Mike Hersh |
| Let's
check the record. This "President" and his administration
lost the election, but benefited from five family friends in
black robes willing to throw out votes in favor of expedience
and partisanship. Since this judicial coup, nothing has knocked
the Bush Junta from its fascist trajectory. |
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| Will
Clarke Provide the Spark?-by Mark Drolette |
| Millions
of us yearn for the breakthrough revelation that will finally
open the eyes of those who have yet to see Bush and his administration
for the scoundrels they are. Will Richard Clarke’s claims
lead to that magical moment? |
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| A
Bush Win Would Complete the Hat Trick – White House, Legislative
and Judicial-August 13, 2004-by Dan Gougherty |
| While
our country has suffered through what history will surely rate
as one of the most corrupt and dishonest administrations, Bush
has not had the opportunity to appoint someone to the nation's
highest court. For whatever reason, perhaps a guilty conscience
from Bush v. Gore, none of the current justices has decided
to hang up the robe. According to court watchers, the three
most likely candidates to retire are Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor
and John Paul Stevens. |
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| Rat
in a Drain Ditch, Caught on a Limb-by Mark Drolette |
| It’s
been a long, dark, strange trip these past three-plus years,
but rejoice, dear readers: Bush is toast! How can this be, you
ask, and how can one be so sure? Read on, and be ye comforted:
Find out why the Bushman goeth come November. |
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| On
the Issues |
| Parody
Site of Bush Campaign Issues |
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| Campaign
Money |
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| Report
links Iraq deals to Bush donations |
| Companies
awarded $8 billion in contracts to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan
have been major campaign donors to President Bush, and their
executives have had important political and military connections |
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| Bush,
Kerry to spend almost half-billion |
| Bush
and Democratic nominee-to-be John Kerry are on track to spend
nearly a half-billion dollars vying for the White House this
year, making it the most expensive presidential race in history.
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| Pioneers
Fill War Chest, Then Capitalize |
| For
achieving their fundraising goals, Pioneers receive a relatively
modest token, the right to buy a set of silver cuff links with
an engraved Lone Star of Texas (Rangers can buy a more expensive
belt buckle set). Their real reward is entree to the White House
and the upper levels of the administration. |
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| The
Buying of The President |
| Campaign
Contributions, Financial Disclosure Statements, Soft Money Committees
(527s), Political Action Committees, Other Documents-Bush Cheney |
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| Follow
The Money The Institute on Money in State Politics |
| Articles
on Campaign Financing |
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| Who
Bankrolls Bush and his Democratic Rivals? |
| Enron
Corp., the Houston-based energy firm that touched off a financial,
legal and political scandal when it declared bankruptcy in December
2001, remains the top career patron of President George W. Bush,
whose prolific fundraising in 2003 shattered all previous records
for candidates. Enron's employees and political action committee
have given more than $600,000 to Bush over the course of his
political career, according to a new Center for Public Integrity
book, The Buying of the President 2004 (HarperCollins). |
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| Campaign
Methods |
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| Truth
vs. Lies-By Norma Sherry |
| Separating
truth from lies, or as the spinmeister's might refer to it as
the new ''morality'', becomes more difficult with each new sunrise.
Considering there is so much spinning going on, being passed
around via email, and being picked up as truth by the so-called
liberal media, I thought it was high time to set the record
straight on just some of the issues. |
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| FACT
CHECK: Swift Boat Veterans for Bush |
| Very
important information here about the people who are trying to
divert the issue away from "Where was Bush in '72?",
to, "Is Kerry Lying about his Heroics?" |
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| The
lies of John O'Neill: An MMFA Analysis |
| For
the past several weeks, John E. O'Neill has lied repeatedly
about himself, his organization, and his book. He's lied about
being a Republican from Texas, lied about his political involvement,
lied about his ties to the Nixon White House, lied about his
campaign contributions, lied about his co-author, and lied about
the makeup of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT), the anti-Kerry
group he founded. |
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| Lawyer
Advising Vets Quits Bush Campaign-By SHARON THEIMER-Associated
Press Writer |
| One
of President Bush's top lawyers resigned from his campaign Wednesday,
a day after disclosing that he had given legal advice to a veterans
group airing TV ads challenging Democrat John Kerry's Vietnam
War service. The guidance included checking ad scripts, the
group said. |
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| Military
documents cast doubt on Kerry critic's version of combat, published
report says |
| Military
records appear to contradict claims by a vocal critic of Sen.
John Kerry that the Democratic presidential candidate lied about
coming under gunfire during a mission in Vietnam, according
to The Washington Post. |
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| Kerry:
Bush Lets Groups Do 'Dirty Work' |
| Sen.
John Kerry accused President Bush on Thursday of relying on
front groups to challenge his record of valor in Vietnam, asserting,
"He wants them to do his dirty work." |
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| Friendly
Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad-By Kate Zernike and Jim
Rutenberg |
| The
strategy the veterans devised would ultimately paint John Kerry
the war hero as John Kerry the "baby killer" and the
fabricator of the events that resulted in his war medals. But
on close examination, the accounts of Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth' prove to be riddled with inconsistencies. In many cases,
material offered as proof by these veterans is undercut by official
Navy records and the men's own statements. Several of those
now declaring Mr. Kerry "unfit" had lavished praise
on him, some as recently as last year. Records show that the
group received the bulk of its initial financing from two men
with ties to the president and his family - one a longtime political
associate of Mr. Rove's, the other a trustee of the foundation
for Mr. Bush's father's presidential library. A Texas publicist
who once helped prepare Mr. Bush's father for his debate when
he was running for vice president provided them with strategic
advice. |
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| Volunteer
links anti-Kerry flier to GOP-By Pete Yost |
| A
volunteer for John Kerry said Friday he picked up a flier in
a Bush-Cheney campaign office in Gainesville, Fla., promoting
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group the Bush campaign has
insisted for weeks it has no connection to. Bill Shilling, a
Kerry volunteer in Gainesville, says, "I think this whole
thing attacking Kerry's war record is a diversion by Bush-Cheney
from the real issues of the campaign." |
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| Vietnam
Vet Says Has No Proof for Claim Kerry Lied |
| A
veteran who disputed Democratic presidential candidate John
Kerry's Vietnam war record acknowledged on Sunday he had no
proof to back his charge that Kerry fabricated the reports of
enemy fire that won him two medals. |
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| Navy
Commander, Journalist, Backs Kerry on Vietnam |
| An
American journalist who commanded a boat alongside John Kerry
in Vietnam broke a 35-year silence on Saturday and defended
the Democratic presidential candidate against Republican critics
of his military service. |
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| Kerry
Served, Bush Swerved-August 26, 2004-By Mark Drolette |
| Since
Vietnam service is now the issue on the front burner, let's
get down to brass tacks: where the hell was George W. Bush?
Where was Dick Cheney? While we're at it, where was Donald Rumsfeld,
or Paul Wolfowitz? Where were any of these chicken hawks? |
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| One
Dirty Trick Too Many? Commentary by Donald A. Collins-August
20, 2004 |
| From
the 2001 book “Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George
W. Bush Presidential,” anyone who could read was privy
to the way Karl Rove’s brain works, amorally and analytically
to only one end: Win an election by any tactic necessary regardless
of how it might affect the citizenry. Rove is finally and definitively
caught with his fingerprints all over this vicious, and frankly
stupid, attempt to discredit the military record of a combat
veteran, at the same time his candidate is refusing to disclose
his record. |
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| Kerry
Coverage: Conservative Bias?-by Michael Tomasky |
The
larger story here is clear: John Kerry volunteered for the Navy,
volunteered to go to Vietnam, and then, when he was sitting
around Cam Ranh Bay bored with nothing to do, requested the
most dangerous duty a Naval officer could be given. He saved
a man's life. He risked his own every time he went up into the
Mekong Delta. He did more than his country asked. In fact he
didn't even wait for his country to ask.
George W.
Bush spent those same years in a state of dissolution at Yale,
and would go on, as we know, to plot how to get out of going
to Southeast Asia. On that subject, here's a choice quote. "I
was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order
to get a deferment," Bush told the Dallas Morning News
in 1990. "Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose
to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes." |
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| Saudi
envoy promised Bush a drop in oil prices ahead of election |
| Saudi
Arabia's ambassador to the U.S. has promised President George
W. Bush the Saudis will reduce oil prices before this November's
election to help the U.S. economy, according to Bob Woodward,
author of a new book about the Iraq war. |
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| Suppress
the Vote?-By Bob Herbert |
| State
police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters
in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd "investigation"
that has frightened many voters, intimidated elderly volunteers
and thrown a chill over efforts to get out the black vote in
November. The officers, from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement,
which reports to Gov. Jeb Bush, say they are investigating allegations
of voter fraud that came up during the Orlando mayoral election
in March. |
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| Drawing
A Line In The Sand: Bush & The Election-Opinion-Glen Yeadon |
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There
is good reason for the concerns of citizens about Bush stealing
another election. Indeed, there already is an abundance of
evidence that they already are well advanced in stealing the
second election. Clearly
Bush and the Republican Party no longer believe in democracy
and detest elections.
The greatest
concern among voters as the election approaches is the Bush
administration may cancel the election by declaring a red
alert or declaring martial law because of a potential terrorist
attack.
The Bush regime is guilty of instilling this fear in the voters
by issuing terrorist warnings of an impending attack.
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| Vanishing
Votes |
| On
October 29, 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote
Act (HAVA). Hidden behind its apple-pie-and-motherhood name
lies a nasty civil rights time bomb. |
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| Your
Vote Doesn't Count When ... |
| At
the end of the twentieth century, in the most contested and
interesting election in modern history, the only outcome that
mattered is that America learned the hard, ugly truth about
the so-called "right to vote." You're no better off
than a peasant in a banana republic -- your vote does not count. |
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| Thousands
of U.S. Felons Wrongly Denied Vote, Groups Say |
| Tens
of thousands of former felons could be illegally denied their
right to vote in this year's U.S. presidential election in November
because of bureaucratic bungling and misinformation, activists
said on Monday. |
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| Terror
Alerts Knock Democrats Off Balance-By RON FOURNIER |
| The
information was obtained in the past 36 to 72 hours, officials
said Sunday, increasing anxieties about a potential strike.
The Bush administration let a 24-hour news cycle pass before
making clear that most of the intelligence, while recently obtained,
was three or four years old. |
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| A
Clockwork Orange Alert?-By Christopher Dickey |
| The
timing of the arrests in Pakistan and the alerts in the United
States continue to raise questions about the politics of terror.
Further fouling the conspiratorial air was an article that appeared
earlier in July in The New Republic, reporting that the Bush
administration was putting all sorts of pressure on the Pakistanis
to do just this: nab high-profile members of Al Qaeda before
November or during the Democratic convention. An official in
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was quoted
saying “the last 10 days of July deadline has been given
repeatedly by [U.S. official] visitors to Islamabad.” |
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| Stooping
Low to Smear Kerry |
| Cheney
said in 1989 that he didn't go to Vietnam because "I had
other priorities in the '60s than military service." While
Kerry risked his life, Bush got himself into the National Guard. |
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| Bush
campaign accents the negative |
| Scholars
and political strategists say the ferocious Bush assault on
Kerry this spring has been extraordinary, both for the volume
of attacks and for the liberties the president and his campaign
have taken with the facts. |
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| Democrats
launch 'Truth Squad'-BY MARY DELACH LEONARD |
| Rep.
Richard Gephardt is headlining a group of prominent Democrats
who are crying foul at alleged Republican untruths that have
left them shocked. "This president is not telling the truth,"
he said, accusing President Bush of distorting his administration's
record on the economy, education, national defense and foreign
policy. "For George Bush the truth hurts, and the American
people deserve better." |
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| Conservatives
try to get Nader on ballot |
Two
conservative groups have been phoning people around Oregon this
week, urging them to attend Ralph Nader's convention Saturday
in hopes of putting Nader's name on Oregon's presidential ballot.
The groups make no bones about their goal - to draw votes away
from Democrat John Kerry and help President Bush win this battleground
state in November. "We disagree with Ralph Nader's politics,
but we'd love to see him make the ballot." |
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| ELECTION
2004: GOP lends eager hand to Nader's Mich. effort |
| Michigan
Republicans agree with Democrats that a vote for Ralph Nader
for president is a vote for George W. Bush. So Republicans are
helping the independent gadfly by collecting signatures to put
his name on the November ballot. |
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