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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A top House Democrat called for a swift U.S. withdrawal from Iraq on Thursday amid a White House counteroffensive against allegations that the Bush administration misled the country over prewar intelligence. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer spoke with Sen. John Kerry -- the Massachusetts Democrat who lost to President Bush in last year's election -- beginning by asking about the president recently quoting Kerry's prewar comments on Saddam Hussein. "I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a threat, and a grave threat, to our security," the president quoted Kerry saying,...

(Correction: Following the certification of Ohio's election results, Bush defeated Kerry by nearly 119,000 votes. Also clarifies reference to exit polls in 17th graph.) Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Following an Election Day prediction that Democratic candidate John Kerry would win more than 300 electoral votes and the presidency, one of America's most well known polling firms continued the job Wednesday of explaining its flawed projection. Shawnta Watson Walcott, communications director for Zogby International, joined a group of liberal Democrats at a faux congressional hearing focused on whether fraud influenced the Nov. 2 outcome. "... it has become increasingly clear that...

EXETER - Several local community action groups, including Democracy for New Hampshire, the Seacoast Progressive Alliance and True Majority sponsored a civic action event at Phillips Exeter Academy on Sunday. The main speaker was award-winning author and nationally recognized environmental and election-protection activist Harvey Wasserman. "It may sound corny but I feel people should try to leave the world a better place than what they saw when they came in," said Herb Moyer, one of the event’s primary organizers. "I believe in fairness, I believe in keeping our environment healthy, I believe that people should be actively engaged in keeping...

There is an ugly set of accusations and counter-accusations going on between Sen. John Kerry and an author who claims that the 2004 presidential election was stolen. In Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them), Mark Crispin Miller argues that a conspiracy of GOP officials, voting-machine companies, and shadowy political operatives created, in the words of Miller's publisher, "a new Republican electoral strategy...not one overwhelming fraud but thousands of little ones" that gave the election to George W. Bush. Last Friday, Miller took to the left-wing...

Where were you in '62? Remember the movie, "American Graffiti?" That's similar to the title of this DUmmie THREAD, "Where were you on November 2, 2004?" However, instead of fond nostalgia for the past, in the DUmmies case it is yet another NIGHTMARE. This is why it is FUN to read their memories of not-so-long ago. As usual, the DUmmie nightmare of Elections Past is in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, suddenly thirsty for that champaign that Susan Estrich was copiously guzzling down that November day, is in the [brackets]: Where were you on November...

Still angry, Kerry supporters nationwide try to change Ohio elections Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - Still angry a year later, John Kerry supporters across the country are donating money to an effort to overhaul elections in the state they blame for costing them the White House. A New Mexico retiree who became incensed after reading last fall about pre-election directives by Ohio's secretary of state gave $100. A substance-abuse counselor in Maine who suspects Ohio-made electronic voting machines were tampered with to give President Bush the victory contributed $25. /snip The four constitutional amendments on Tuesday's ballot in Republican-dominated Ohio...

My, my! An entire year has gone by since President Bush's election victory. Enjoy this from DU: LittleClarkie (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-02-05 03:09 AM Original message Only two hours into November 2nd, and already on my third crying jag F***, f***, F***, f***, f***. And you? texpatriot2004 Wed Nov-02-05 03:12 AM Response to Original message 1. Yeah, it's hard. I think the mind knows anniversary dates. texpatriot2004 Wed Nov-02-05 03:12 AM Response to Original message 2. It was horrid last year. I wailed like a wailing, grieving woman. LittleClarkie Wed Nov-02-05 03:33 AM Response to Reply #2 7. I did...

Tue, Nov 2, 2004 Observer-Dispatch ZOGBY Utica pollster John Zogby said polling results indicate Sen. John Kerry will defeat President Bush in today's election. "I think we're looking at a Kerry victory," Zogby said Monday night. Zogby expects a very large turnout among young voters, with at least 55 percent voting in today's election. Among voters ages 18 to 29, polls indicate that 0 percent are undecided, Zogby said. He believes that group will give Kerry the edge. Kerry will get 64 percent of those votes followed by Bush with 35 percent and third-party candidate Ralph Nader with just 1...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - John Edwards came downstairs and found 5-year-old son Jack on the floor, arranging toy trucks in a column. "What are you doing?" the former North Carolina senator asked. "Making a motorcade," came the exuberant reply. A year after Democrats John Kerry and Edwards lost the White House election, young Jack still may think about the heady days of last fall. His father, however, has moved on - without a Secret Service escort. -He is traveling the country, trying to rally college students to the cause of fighting poverty in the U.S. -He is presiding over a...

Excerpts of remarks as prepared for delivery Kerry speaks from his heart and conscience on Iraq:

Internet Users Push 2004 Kerry Doc into Top 10 The Film John Kerry Refuses to See, Now one of the most Downloaded Docs of all Time More than fourty thousand people have downloaded clips from the as of yet unreleased film about John Kerry's 2004 Political Campaign. Internet movie site iFilm says this makes the Kerry doc one of the top 10 most downloaded documentaries of all times.New York (PRWEB) October 21, 2005 -- John Kerry has said he refuses to watch the film documenting his 2004 failed bid for the White House, but clips from the critically acclaimed...

The ghost of elections past is haunting Massachusetts. His name is John Kerry. The other day, Senator Edward M. Kennedy called Kerry an ''able, gifted, and talented political leader" and said that if Kerry runs again for president, ''I will support him." Kerry should value that kind of public loyalty, because privately it is hard to find in Massachusetts. Some Bay State Democrats who were part of team Kerry are eager to forget about the 2004 campaign and openly wince when they hear his name. Hillary Clinton already has a hold on many hearts. But like an old boyfriend who...

House and Senate Democrats have asked the authors of a sharply critical analysis of their party's strategic election weaknesses to brief them on their political proposals in preparation for the 2008 presidential campaign cycle.The 70-page report, "The Politics of Polarization," by two veteran Democratic strategists who worked in the Clinton White House, takes the party and former presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, to task for being weak on national security and cultural issues. It also criticizes them for championing a liberal agenda that has driven centrist, married and religious voters into the Republican column.

BOSTON --A new documentary about Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign, warts and all, is making the rounds in New York and Washington. But its leading man has no plans to see it. "I lived it," the Massachusetts Democrat told reporters with a laugh on Tuesday. "I think I know what happens." "Inside the Bubble," shot by two filmmakers given extensive behind-the-scenes access, includes lengthy scenes in which a press assistant goes on an expletive-laced tirade as he tries to arrange to have a pony placed in the room of another Kerry aide as a surprise birthday gift. Kerry is also...

10/9/2005 John Kerry’s Winning Strategy “Go long!” Our friends at Newsmax recently sent out an email alert that deals with, among other issues, a new behind-the-scenes documentary about the ‘04 Kerry campaign. This film looks hilarious, in large part because it was originally intended to reveal the winning strategy behind Kerry’s White House run. Here are some delightful details: It may surprise you, but both John Kerry and Ted Kennedy believe Kerry is the frontrunner for the Democratic nod in 2008. If the pair had any prayer of this, their hopes have been dashed with the release of a new...

The liberals' hope that Democrats can win back the presidency by drawing sharp ideological contrasts and energizing the partisan base is a fantasy that could cripple the party's efforts to return to power, according to a new study by two prominent Democratic analysts. In the latest shot in a long-running war over the party's direction -- an argument turned more passionate after Democrat John F. Kerry's loss to President Bush last year -- two intellectuals who have been aligned with former president Bill Clinton warn that the only way back to victory is down the center. Democrats must "admit that...

<p>I counted six more on my 20-minute commute this morning. Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers, I mean. This would be unremarkable in my blue state except that we are now some 11 months past the presidential election. Children have been conceived and born since John Kerry conceded. What's going on here? Don't these cars know the election's over?</p>

Filmmaker sues Kerry over documentary By MARYCLAIRE DALE Wednesday, October 5, 2005 Posted at 6:14 PM EDT Associated Press Philadelphia — A filmmaker has sued Senator John Kerry and a onetime campaign aide, saying they defamed him as they sought to block the broadcast of an anti-Kerry documentary during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. The lawsuit, filed this week on behalf of producer Carlton Sherwood and a Vietnam veterans group, is the latest salvo in the battle over the documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal. The film contends that Kerry's antiwar activities when he returned from Vietnam caused further...

Evidence of Sulzberger’s panic came almost immediately after the Presidential election. On Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004, a strange article was written by a columnist at the Globe, Alex Beam, in which Justice Judith Cowin was blamed for the Democratic loss. This is the first paragraph in its entirety: “I was intrigued to learn that, after all the crocodile tears were shed for John Kerry's wrenching electoral loss, the name on everyone's lips was not Margaret Marshall, but . . . Judith Cowin.” So who is Judith Cowin? And how could she help Pinch Sulzberger escape blame for the Democratic loss?

Inside the Bubble, a documentary that promises to reveal how the Kerry campaign lost the 2004 election, has restored a bit of campaign-season buzz to Washington. The Drudge Report called the film a "devastating behind-the-scenes look." Lloyd Grove promised despair among Kerry loyalists and snickering from Hillary's followers as the doc revealed the Massachusetts senator, who still hopes to run in 2008, as boobish and flailing. Democrats e-mailed preview clips and weighed how much exposing the underbelly of a Democratic campaign would hurt the party. Defensive quotes from Kerry staffers about the film suggested they had something to hide. Titillating...