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This is an attempt by ABC to make it appear as though they’ve covered the swift boat charges – but notice Ted warning John O’Neil “we are only going to talk about the Silver Star controversy” – that’s only a small part of what the swifties claim makes Kerry UNFIT!

If one quarter of the things alleged against Kerry were true of a republican candidate instead, the election would have been declared a mere formality. John Kerry’s campaign and the “fake but accurate” press are not going to let the real story of Kerry’s record be known. We, in the pajama jihad’s wing, better get ourselves in gear and start writing, talking and shouting from the rooftops the atrocious, egregious record witch John Kerry is running away from.

If this story is true (after Jason Blair / Dan Rather we have to ask) tonight we should see once again - who am I, why am I here admiral, John Kerry. The plethora of advice continues to pour in like money in the movie version of the Titanic. Kerry is getting more advice than the graduate going for that first job interview. Except in the case of Kerry we have a man with over 25 years in the public eye. If he still not loose this late in the game, he should loose on that account alone.

The worst thing that Kerry supporters could have done to him was give him what he apparently is always asking for. If we know anything about Kerry so far is that he is unable to stay on massage, ergo Kerry the flipper. It is highly unlikely that all of the advice that has been pouring in has not been contradicting at least in nuance if not in fact. Indeed, there is nothing more riddle with nuance than advice. The Bush camp could not have asked for more assistance from the main stream press than this one – go on and on (at length) telling Kerry how he can beat Bush.

Kerry - He listens, he’s open minded, he does not rush to judgment and (my favorite) he will go to the UN.

Bush – I will not ask for a permission slip to defend the country. I could not trust the word of a madman; given the choice I will defend America every time.

Kerry – The cold war negotiator at the table sifting thru the numbers.

Bush – Either you are with us or you are with the terrorist.

The more we see Kerry the better his ambassador credentials look.

Kerry is a good talker.

President Bush told America’s confessor Bob Woodward that he did not ask his father for advice on Iraq. That could be spun negatively in a number of ways not lost on 60 Minutes - Did Mr. Bush ask his father for any advice? “I asked the president about this. And President Bush said, ‘Well, no,’ and then he got defensive about it,”

I would argue however that if anybody knew how Bush 41 felt about Iraq, Bush 43 already must have known. Why would Bush 43 put his father in the untenable position of advising him as his father on the one hand and as a former president in the other. As his father his instinct would have been to protect his son But as a former president Bush 41 knows his son’s duty is to the nation above all else.

Had president Bush asked his father for advise on Iraq this campaign would not be about how Kerry cant listen to his gut instinct but about how president Bush did not listen to his own father. Hardly the image of a commander in chief. See Rooney’s - 'If I were Bush Speechwriter' for a taste of what we would have been advisin Kerry to attack Bush with.

For a definitive, uncompromising, exhausting answer on whether or not the Memos are forgeries go here - http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/newcomer/index.htm

My take is that Dan Rather recalcitrant attitude vis-à-vis his Memos come from watching too much television.

Rather watches OJ get away with murder, Michael Jackson sleep with children unmolested, Coby Brian have rape charges retracted, and figure what’s a little fraud compared to these guys. What? I’m Dan Rather! Why can’t I engage in wonton duplicity? It’s not like I’ve killed anybody.

That shameful Rather interview last night reminded me of Newt Gingrich's mother... Connie Chung asked a question that Gingrich's mother deemed inappropriate to answer on national television when Chung leaned forward and asked her to "whisper the answer in her ear".

What CBS seems to be saying is that the “preponderance of the evidence” trumps the introduction of fake documents; witch purport to prove what to Rather/CBS is a slam dunk.

Rather’s tenet seems to be now - if I believe something, that’s enough to go on the air. Dam the evidence full smear ahead.

Of course Tenet is no longer at the CIA. Rather than submit to the rules, Rather seeks to exempt himself from them. I think Rather's days at CBS are numbered.