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What you must believe to be a Democrat: 1. Drug addiction is a disease that should be treated with compassion and understanding...unless the addict is a Conservative talk show host. 2. The United States should be subservient to the United Nations. Our highest authority is not God and the U.S. Constitution, but a collective of tinpot dictators (and their appeasers) and the U.N. charter. 3. Government should relax drug laws regardless of the potential for abuse, but should pass new and unConstitutional anti-gun laws because of the potential for abuse. 4. Calls for increased security after a terrorist attack are...

February 22, 2004INTERNET AD ATTACKIn Politics, the Web Is a Parallel World With Its Own RulesBy JIM RUTENBERG T was a sharp video attack, jarring in a political season that has been unusually short on negative advertising. A woman, sitting at a keyboard, seeks information about Senator John Kerry on the Internet. She unearths all sorts of scandalizing tidbits. “More special interest money than any other senator. How much?’’ she says.The answer flashes on the screen: $640,000. “Ooh, for what?’’ she says, typing out ‘‘Paybacks?’’ and then reading aloud from the screen, she says, ‘‘Millions from executives at HMO’s, telecoms,...

<p>In a new video message being sent to millions of people, President Bush's re-election campaign casts Sen. John Kerry as a tool of the special interests he regularly denounces.</p> <p>The spot, titled "Unprincipled," has the flavor of a political campaign ad but is customized for the Internet users who were receiving it Thursday night. An advance copy was provided to The Associated Press.</p>

WASHINGTON, D.C. The George W. Bush campaign launched its first Web video Thursday attacking Democratic frontrunner John Kerry. Called "Unprincipled, Chapter I," the video features an Internet search engine with the words "John Kerry" being typed into the header. Kerry's Web site pops up and the viewer hears Kerry making a speech in which he says, "I have a message for the influence peddlers and special interests. We're coming, you're going." "Sounds good," the female voiceover says as the words "special interests" are typed in the search engine. A Washington Post article appears and the voiceover says, "More special interest...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a new video message being sent to millions of people, President Bush's re-election campaign casts Sen. John Kerry as a tool of the special interests he regularly denounces. The spot, titled "Unprincipled," has the flavor of a political campaign ad but is customized for the Internet users who were receiving it Thursday night. An advance copy was provided to The Associated Press. The one-minute spot depicts a woman surfing the Web. She finds a clip of Kerry, the Democratic front-runner, railing against "the influence-peddlers and the special interests. We're coming, you're going!" Kerry declares. The woman...

<p>February 13, 2004 -- President Bush's campaign last night fired its opening shot against Democratic front-runner John Kerry — an e-mail attack video that paints him as an "unprincipled" toady to special interests. The video — sent to 6 million Bush fans and posted on Bush's campaign Web site — shows Kerry's name being typed into an Internet search engine and goes to what looks like Kerry's own campaign Web site.</p>

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — Republicans attacked Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts on an array of fronts Thursday, the beginning of what party officials said would be an attempt to undercut Mr. Kerry's reputation at a time when he is riding high from repeated victories in primaries and caucuses. On Thursday night, Mr. Bush's campaign posted on its Web site an advertisement-style video juxtaposing Mr. Kerry's promises to stanch the influence of lobbyists in Washington with news articles about large numbers of donations to Mr. Kerry from lobbyists. The video gave a hint of the television advertising war to come between...

<p>In a new video message being sent to millions of people, President Bush's reelection campaign casts Senator John F. Kerry as a tool of the special interests he regularly denounces.</p> <p>The spot, titled "Unprincipled," has the flavor of a campaign ad but is customized for the Internet users who were receiving it last night.</p>

<p>There is a principle in logic that states once a contradiction has infected an argument, anything can follow. Another way of putting it is that once a viewpoint has contradictions in it, nothing reasonable can be expected from it, except by accident.</p>

Whatever It Is, They’re Against It David C. Stolinsky, M.D. Wednesday, May 14, 2003 I don't know what they have to say, It makes no difference anyway. Whatever it is, I'm against it. – Groucho Marx in “Horse Feathers” Total negativism is an appropriate attitude for Groucho’s zany version of a college president. His ridiculous dance in an academic robe still makes us laugh. But negativism is not an appropriate attitude for citizens of a republic. It is still less appropriate for leaders of a great nation. And it’s not at all amusing. When a small child learns he can...