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WASHINGTON - Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) suggested Saturday night that Republicans may attempt to suppress black voter turnout to help President Bush (news - web sites) to victory in November. "What they did in Florida in 2000, they may be planning to do in battleground states all across this country this year," the Democratic presidential nominee said in remarks prepared for delivery to the Congressional Black Caucus (news - web sites). "Well, we are here to let them know that we will fight tooth and nail to make sure that this time, every vote is counted and...

ATLANTA, GA – Ralph Reed today issued the following statement on Al Gore's remark in the September 13 issue of the New Yorker magazine that the President's faith is "the American version of the same fundamentalist impulse that we see in Saudi Arabia." "Former Vice President Al Gore's comment comparing the President's devout Christian faith to that of extremists and terrorists seeking our destruction was reckless and irresponsible. Attacks on a candidate’s faith have no place in the public discourse. I call on Senator Kerry to repudiate and renounce this statement by one of his top surrogates as unbecoming of...

Former Vice President Al Gore has compared President Bush's Christian faith with fundamentalist Islam, saying it emphasizes "vengeance" and "brimstone." In an interview with the New Yorker, Gore, who says he's a Southern Baptist, expressed disdain for Bush's public declaration of his faith. SPONSORED LINKS Hot Political Gear Buy Kerry, Bush, and other election 2004 t-shirts, bumper stickers, hats, buttons, and more! Great selection, fast delivery. CafePress.com Wall Street Journal Online - Free Trial Get expert political news coverage from this leading subscription news site. From constant updates to exclusive online columns, we have the news that matters most to...

Sounding a favorite theme of the loony left, Sen. Jay Rockefeller today blamed America for making Muslim terrorists attack us. In the most fascinating response so far to the Senate Intelligence Committee's new report blasting the CIA for failures on Iraq, the Democrat fat cat said: "We have fostered a deep hatred of Americans in the Muslim world, and that will grow. As a direct consequence, our nation is more vulnerable today than ever before." His comment was obviously a potshot at the Bush administration but failed to note all the terrorist attacks on the United States during the soft-on-terrorism...

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/181422_robert09.html Veteran gets rude welcome on Bainbridge Friday, July 9, 2004 By ROBERT L. JAMIESON JR. SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST Think about the Seattle area -- Bainbridge Island to be exact -- and you think scenic views and liberal-minded tolerance. At least the killer views are still there. The bucolic island's deep reputation for civility got a gut check this week during the annual Grand Old Fourth of July celebration. That's when Jason Gilson, a 23-year-old military veteran who served in Iraq, marched in the local event. He wore his medals with pride and carried a sign that said...

July 2, 2004 -- A SHOCKING image of a blood-spattered President Bush devouring a headless child is causing an uproar. The drawing by sculptor Richard Serra, based on a painting by Goya, is being used to promote pleasevote.com, billed as "a call to vote the Bush administration out of office." It appears on the back cover of The Nation's July 5 issue. Ironically, Serra, a past recipient of NEA grants, was once praised by First Lady Laura Bush in a White House press release about one of his pieces at a Texas museum. His "Tilted Arc" once graced (or...

MADONNA today compared US President George Bush to deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The 45-year-old pop star said the two men were "alike" because they both behaved "in an irresponsible manner". Madonna made the comments during an interview in which she tried to draw a line under her wild days, vowing to be "part of the order, not the chaos, of the world". Madonna's current Re-Invention tour carries a strong anti-war message and her recent video for the song American Life was clear in its opposition to the Iraq conflict. In the final scene of the video, a President Bush...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 Washington, DC-RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie issued the following statement in response to comments made today by John Kerry supporter George Soros comparing prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison to the terror attacks on 9-11. “Abu Ghraib was bad and the soldiers involved are rightly being punished, but for Democrats to say that the abuse of Iraqi fighters is the moral equivalent of the slaughter of 3,000 innocent Americans is outrageous. Their hatred of the President is fueling a blame America first mentality that is troubling.”

Washington (CNSNews.com) - In remarks to hundreds of cheering liberal activists Wednesday, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond singled out Republicans as enemies of black Americans and compared conservatives to the terrorist Taliban who once ruled Afghanistan. "Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side," Bond told a cheering audience. "They've written a new constitution for Iraq and ignore the Constitution here at home. They draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics. Now they want to write bigotry back into the Constitution." Bond's remarks came at an opening...

Editor's note: Michael Ackley's columns may include satire and parody based on current events, and thus mix fact with fiction. He assumes informed readers will be able to tell which is which.More than a coincidence? Thanks to C-Span, many Americans were able to see the whole of President Bush's speech on Iraq last week. Then they were able to hear comments from other viewers, as the public affairs station provided separate numbers for pro-Bush and anti-Bush callers. It went something like this: First anti-Bush caller: "I'm appalled ..." Second anti-Bush caller: "I'm appalled ..." Third anti-Bush caller: "I'm appalled ..."...

A Republican state Senate challenger claims he was harassed, sworn at and spit on before a campaign luncheon last week by backers of his Democratic incumbent opponent. Falmouth businessman Tim Duncan said the incident occurred outside a Plymouth country club, where he said 75 to 100 backers of Sen. Therese Murray (D-Plymouth) confronted him. ``People began rocking the car, spitting on the windshield and shouting profanities at me, my wife and children,'' Duncan said. Several in the crowd waved copies of a Falmouth building permit he had taken out, shouting, ``We know where you live,'' Duncan said. ``It was pretty...

Did anyone else catch the POS O'Malley last night and this morning on the news runs? In a nutshell when asked what he thought about the Terrorists wanting to strike in the US this summer, he ended his little tirade by saying that al Qaeda is using the fact that President Bush is in office as a their recruiting tool. He also suggested that keeping President Bush in Office was the aim of Terrorists who are trying to attack inside the US.Why this idiot is still in office is beyond me. This guy is as far left and anti-American as...

He never mentioned Nicholas Berg. Or Daniel Pearl. Or a single person killed in the World Trade Center. Nor did former Vice President Al Gore talk of any soldier by name who has given his life in Iraq. And he has the audacity to condemn the Bush administration for having ``twisted values?'' Gore spent the bulk of a speech before the liberal group MoveOn.org Wednesday bemoaning Abu Ghraib and denouncing President Bush's departure from the ``long successful strategy of containment.'' Yes, the very same strategy that, under Gore's leadership, allowed al-Qaeda operatives to plan the horror of Sept. 11 for...

He never mentioned Nicholas Berg. Or Daniel Pearl. Or a single person killed in the World Trade Center. Nor did former Vice President Al Gore talk of any soldier by name who has given his life in Iraq. And he has the audacity to condemn the Bush administration for having ``twisted values?'' Gore spent the bulk of a speech before the liberal group MoveOn.org Wednesday bemoaning Abu Ghraib and denouncing President Bush's departure from the ``long successful strategy of containment.'' Yes, the very same strategy that, under Gore's leadership, allowed al-Qaeda operatives to plan the horror of Sept. 11 for...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 Washington, DC-"Unfortunately for angry Democrats like Tim Johnson, Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy, terrorists aren't responsible for the deaths of U.S. soldiers, their commander-in-chief is. Thanks to the President's strong and principled leadership, the Taliban is on the run and women in Afghanistan are now able to attend school, hold jobs and participate as full citizens of their country. "We can only assume that Tom Daschle and Stephanie Herseth's silence on this issue means they agree with Senator Johnson. If they do not they should repudiate these comments immediately. This kind of political hate...

Former United States President Bill Clinton today slammed what he called the “unilateral” foreign policy of the Bush administration. Clinton told an audience of about 1,000 Brazilian business and political leaders that the United States needed more international partners to fight terrorism. “Rather than taking a unilateral path, we need to strengthen international organisations,” said Clinton. “We need more international partners.” He was speaking in Sao Paulo at the inauguration of an academic institute founded by former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who led the country from 1995-2003. “In Iraq, we should have let the United Nations inspectors finish their...

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 The enemy within By Joseph Farah © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com With his latest best-selling book, my colleague Michael Savage has come up with a term that describes the real threat to America – "The Enemy Within." There are some other terms I could use to describe Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and the senior senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy – traitors, leaders of the blame-America-first crowd, immoral cowards, treacherous appeasers to name a few. But recognize that Kerry and Kennedy are not part of a loyal opposition within our country. They are leaders of a disloyal enemy...

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco rejected Republican demands Thursday that she apologize for her strong condemnation of President Bush, as raw nerves over Iraq collided with raw politics on Capitol Hill. Republican leaders accused Pelosi of taunting the troops, inspiring the enemy and putting American lives at risk by telling The Chronicle on Wednesday that Bush is an "incompetent leader'' who lacks the judgment, experience or knowledge to make good decisions. Pelosi stood her ground, telling reporters that "the emperor has no clothes." With the violence in Iraq threatening to overshadow all other issues in the coming...

A guy supporting that Missouri billboard. Dem. operative.

I‘D TRADE a Bush defeat for an Iraq victory any day. I say this because not a day goes by without me receiving a barrage of e-mail from readers asserting that I’m — just like everyone else on the right — allowing my “partisanship” for Bush to color my views on the war, the media, my dog, my reason to live, whatever. The truth is more like the other way around: Right now, I support Bush because I am such a partisan for winning in Iraq. Of course, I would support Bush over Kerry even if we weren’t at war,...