Monthly Archives: August 2004

So Kerry is shuffling the deck chairs a bit, adding former Clinton spokesperson Joe Lockhart, among others, to his campaign Dream Team. Joe Lockhart? Let’s be serious: can anyone actually imagine Kerry, or his senior advisors, suddenly interrupting a staff meeting to declare: “We’re screwed! Get Joe Lockhart on the horn — he’s the only […]

I’m pleased to announce the public launch of a new project: Campaign Truth 2004! The intent of Campaign Truth is to provide a portal where bloggers and other interested folk can gather links to information which sheds light on where the candidates stand on issues in the 2004 Presidential Campaign. By harnessing the collaborative power […]

Overheard at Kerry campaign headquarters: “OK, so what the hell do we do now?” “How about Plan B?” “That was Plan A, moron.”

Jeff Jarvis has been one of the few voices criticizing the blogosphere for our participation thus far in the 2004 campaign. Jeff is a stand-up blogger (and person, I assume, although I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting him in ‘real’ life), but I think he’s missing the boat slightly when he says he’s “been […]

I remain rather puzzled by the fact that the Kerry campaign has not posted an official announcement of the FEC complaint they allegedly filed last Friday. The fact that it cannot be found on the Kerry-Edwards site has led me to suspect that perhaps it wasn’t actually filed after all. So, to attempt to clarify […]

From The Paper of Record: The Republicans, in an e-mail message to reporters, listed several Democrats who they said showed connections between Democratic 527 groups, Mr. Kerry’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Among them were Zack Exley, the former organizing director for MoveOn.org’s political action committee who now works for Mr. Kerry’s campaign; Jim […]

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Exterminate: Function: transitive verb: to get rid of completely usually by killing off From The Stakeholder, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Weblog: Exterminate DeLay Getting a little carried away, aren’t they?

TRUTH LAID BEAR EXCLUSIVE!!! MUST CREDIT TTLB!!! Glenn Reynolds targeted by VRWC, plans to flee country! DEVELOPING!!!

Although some folks might not believe it, as a blogger, I do exercise judgement in what I publish. And as it turns out, over the weekend, I decided to hold off on publishing a story after having some doubts as to whether it was genuinely newsworthy or not. Fast forward to this afternoon, and the […]

So FEC Chairman Bradley Smith just told John Kerry to sit down and shut up: Kerry, 60, a four-term Massachusetts senator, alleged last week that the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth illegally coordinated its activities with President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign. Smith, a Republican, said members of the group are exercising their constitutional right […]

WaPo editorial, this morning: Mr. Kerry’s conflicting statements about where and when he was in Cambodia remain troubling. He has backed away from repeated claims that he spent Christmas Eve 1968 in Cambodia, a memory that, he said in a 1986 Senate speech, is “seared — seared — in me.” This does not undermine Mr. […]

There’s been a growing call for Kerry to authorize release of his military records by signing a “form 180”, without which the DoD is prohibited from providing them to the public (even in response to a FOIA request, is my understanding). I’ve got another, simpler request for the Kerry campaign: post the actual FEC complaint […]

This was a very smart move by Bush: Bush Denounces Ads by Outside Groups And Kerry, by his very dumb move of making 527’s an issue, has walked right into it. Kerry’s falling into the swamp on Vietnam, so let’s see, what’s an even worse issue where his party is in an even more indefensible […]