Posted on 09/21/2004 9:37:47 PM PDT by sissyjane
>>From Wednesday's edition of the New York Times:
Michael D. McCurry, a former press secretary to President Bill Clinton who recently signed on as an adviser to Mr. Kerry, told reporters traveling with Mr. Kerry that the campaign was trying to determine who in its ranks had been in contact with Mr. Burkett. Mr. McCurry said that Mr. Lockhart had approached Mary Beth Cahill, Mr. Kerry's campaign manager, in the last few days to tell her that he had had a brief telephone conversation with Mr. Burkett. Ms. Cahill, he said, told Mr. Kerry, who did not think anything needed to be done in response.
Mr. McCurry said that he believed that the only other contact was a telephone conversation between Mr. Burkett and former Senator Max Cleland of Georgia, a prominent Kerry supporter among veterans.
Oh, how I hope John Kerry's response to Cahill was, "Uh, Mary Beth, why on earth was Lockhart wasting his time talking to that guy? Didn't I hire old Bug-Eyes to, you know, help with the campaign's message?"
Oh how I suspect it wasn't.
Another interesting bit from that story:
"I think, as a practical matter, that anything about Bush's record has become about the CBS documents," said Mark Penn, a Democratic pollster. "It is hard to generate a story about Bush's record that isn't regurgitating how Dan Rather apologized for those documents."<<
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