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Remember Wade Sanders? He was one of the "band of brothers"--Swift Boat veterans who supported John Kerry's presidential campaign and appeared onstage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Sanders was one of Kerry's nastiest surrogates. In August 2004, he likened the president to a "trapped animal." In September, he compared Karl Rove and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth chief John O'Neill to Josef Goebbels. He repeatedly referred to the president and his men as "chicken hawks," an especially nasty term because it is slang for a child molester as well as a derisive term for a nonveteran who favors a...

Stand back. Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy are facing off in a senatorial smackdown over the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Massachusetts' Sen. Ted has been pressing hard to bring the political opera to Boston - telling each potential Democratic presidential candidate it would be a nifty 70th-birthday present. Hillary is playing on Sept. 11 sympathies to bring the convention to New York. She's even recruited her husband to videotape a pitch - in which they had the chutzpah to include images of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Ted. Madame Senator says it's just "friendly competition, obviously." She tells The Boston...