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Boston.com / News / Politics /
Presidential candidates / john kerry /
Healey calls for Kerry to resign

Boston.com / News / Politics /
Presidential candidates / john kerry /
Healey calls for Kerry to resign 06/17/2004 07:04 AM
How does anyone get away with missing 88% of their votes? .. call for Senator Kerry to resign his position .. Boston Globe

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"Boston.com / News / Politics /
Presidential candidates / john..."

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Boston.com / News / Politics /
Presidential candidates / Kerry refuses
to release more records

Boston.com / News / Politics /
Presidential candidates / Kerry refuses
to release more records 04/20/2004 03:19 PM
"Kerry refuses to release more records." .. military service record .. Boston Globe .. Kerry'

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Boston.com / News / Politics /
Presidential candidates / Kerry disputes
allegations on Cambodia

Boston.com / News / Politics /
Presidential candidates / Kerry disputes
allegations on Cambodia 08/18/2004 10:40 AM
"Kerry disputes allegations on Cambodia." .. The Boston Globe .. still contends

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Boston.com / News / Politics /
Presidential candidates / Dean bid shows
signs of ending

Boston.com / News / Politics /
Presidential candidates / Dean bid shows
signs of ending 02/15/2004 05:23 AM
ready to quit .. Boston Globe

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: PROS AND
CONS OF JOHN KERRY'S TOP TWENTY
VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: PROS AND
CONS OF JOHN KERRY'S TOP TWENTY
VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES 05/29/2004 06:07 PM
PROS AND CONS OF JOHN KERRY'S TOP TWENTY VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

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Boston.com / News / Boston Globe /
Opinion / Op-ed / John Kerry's shifting
stands

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe /
Opinion / Op-ed / John Kerry's shifting
stands 02/13/2004 07:16 AM
Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / John Kerry's shifting stands .. Jeff Jacoby

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Boston.com / News / Boston Globe /
Opinion / Op-ed / Speak for yourself,
John Kerry

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe /
Opinion / Op-ed / Speak for yourself,
John Kerry 08/17/2004 12:59 PM
Boston Globe: Speak for yourself, John Kerry .. this explicitly pro-Kerry oped .. Joan Vennochi

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:: John Kerry for President - John
Kerry's Official Naval Records ::

:: John Kerry for President - John
Kerry's Official Naval Records :: 04/22/2004 04:00 PM
Kerry camp posts military records online. Bush camp checking his parents attic for his .. docs of his Vietnam service record .. this gentleman's record .. 120 pages of records .. his

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Tossing A Verbal Egg At Dick Cheney's
Military Record, Sen. Frank Lautenberg
Blasted The Vice President Wednesday As
The "Lead Chickenhawk," Who Squawks
About John Kerry's Vietnam War Record
Despite Never Serving Himself

Tossing A Verbal Egg At Dick Cheney's
Military Record, Sen. Frank Lautenberg
Blasted The Vice President Wednesday As
The "Lead Chickenhawk," Who Squawks
About John Kerry's Vietnam War Record
Despite Never Serving Himself 04/29/2004 07:47 AM
squawking .. You go

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"John Kerry's Monstrous Record on Civil
Liberties: The Man from Beacon Hill's
"New War" on the Constitution "

"John Kerry's Monstrous Record on Civil
Liberties: The Man from Beacon Hill's
"New War" on the Constitution " 08/17/2004 09:24 PM

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe /
Opinion / Op-ed / I watched Kerry throw
his war decorations

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe /
Opinion / Op-ed / I watched Kerry throw
his war decorations 04/27/2004 05:26 PM
"I watched Kerry throw his war decorations." .. Thomas Oliphant: .. account

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Boston.com / News / Boston Globe /
Living / Arts / Historian's 'Duty': PR
for Kerry?

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe /
Living / Arts / Historian's 'Duty': PR
for Kerry? 04/29/2004 08:41 PM
Boston.com: Historian's 'Duty': PR for Kerry? What kind of a historian is Douglas Brinkley anyway? .. lefty columnists .. Alex Beam

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New York Daily News - News & Views
Columnists - Lloyd Grove's Lowdown:
Kerry's head for politics

New York Daily News - News & Views
Columnists - Lloyd Grove's Lowdown:
Kerry's head for politics 08/18/2004 02:56 AM

Iowa Presidential Watch: 2004 election
Democrat candidates caucus, primary
national campaigns news

Iowa Presidential Watch: 2004 election
Democrat candidates caucus, primary
national campaigns news 09/17/2004 06:35 AM
conservative site IowaPresidentialWatch.com .. Iowa Presidential Watch

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"President Bush Said On Thursday That He
Did Not Believe Senator John Kerry Lied
About His War Record, But He Declined To
Condemn The Television Commercial Paid
For By A Veterans Group Alleging That
Mr. Kerry Came By His War Medals
Dishonestly (Free New..."

"President Bush Said On Thursday That He
Did Not Believe Senator John Kerry Lied
About His War Record, But He Declined To
Condemn The Television Commercial Paid
For By A Veterans Group Alleging That
Mr. Kerry Came By His War Medals
Dishonestly (Free New..." 08/27/2004 03:50 PM

A Veteran Who Testified To John Kerry
About Atrocities He Committed In The
Vietnam War Is Now Claiming That The
Democratic Presidential Candidate
Coerced Him To Tell Tales

A Veteran Who Testified To John Kerry
About Atrocities He Committed In The
Vietnam War Is Now Claiming That The
Democratic Presidential Candidate
Coerced Him To Tell Tales 09/15/2004 03:40 PM
And the hits just keep on comin'

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Boston.com / News / Politics /
Conventions / Surveillance targeted to
convention

Boston.com / News / Politics /
Conventions / Surveillance targeted to
convention 07/19/2004 04:26 AM
Surveillance cameras planned for Dem convention; linked to Washington .. unprecedented video surveillance in Boston .. :

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Boston.com / News / Politics / To Dean,
a Bush image is fodder

Boston.com / News / Politics / To Dean,
a Bush image is fodder 11/10/2003 11:37 PM
Dean to use images of Bush in flight suit. It would be a waste of tax dollars for that photo-op to go unused .. Boston Globe

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Stolen Honor: A documentary exposing
John Kerry’s record of betrayal

Stolen Honor: A documentary exposing
John Kerry’s record of betrayal 08/27/2004 01:41 PM
Stolen Honor: A documentary exposing John Kerry's record of betrayal .. website for the new documentary .. POWs

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:: John Kerry for President - Remarks of
Senator John Kerry on Security and
Strength for a New World ::

:: John Kerry for President - Remarks of
Senator John Kerry on Security and
Strength for a New World :: 05/30/2004 08:37 PM
Remarks of Senator John Kerry on Security and Strength for a New World .. openly threatening the Saudi regime .. Seattle speech .. Today's speech .. speeches

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Death of a Salesman - Can John Kerry
sell John Kerry? By William Saletan

Death of a Salesman - Can John Kerry
sell John Kerry? By William Saletan 01/28/2004 08:43 AM
Senator Kerry has a personality and bearing that is likely all but unbearable in the West .. Will Saletan:

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"AL GORE REMINISCED ABOUT PULLING
TOBACCO, and John Kerry has fond
memories of his farmboy youth: The
presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee told about 100 gathered at a
western Wisconsin dairy farm that he
empathized with the plight of rural..."

"AL GORE REMINISCED ABOUT PULLING
TOBACCO, and John Kerry has fond
memories of his farmboy youth: The
presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee told about 100 gathered at a
western Wisconsin dairy farm that he
empathized with the plight of rural..." 07/05/2004 02:41 PM

Web servers of presidential candidates

Web servers of presidential candidates 11/07/2003 07:45 AM
Penguins for President? .. Vote Democrat Linux!

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Boston.com / News / Nation / Veteran
retracts criticism of Kerry

Boston.com / News / Nation / Veteran
retracts criticism of Kerry 08/06/2004 09:55 AM
Veteran retracts criticism of Kerry .. The Boston Globe .. reports

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Democratic presidential candidates
prefer PCs

Democratic presidential candidates
prefer PCs 11/05/2003 12:09 PM
Democratic presidential candidates were asked one very important question last night at the Rock the Vote debate in Boston: Mac or PC? Of those that answered the audience question, Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean said PC, Former U.S...

Should we pay attention to the
Democratic Presidential candidates on TV
(or anywhere)?

Should we pay attention to the
Democratic Presidential candidates on TV
(or anywhere)? 01/22/2004 02:13 AM

Flip on the television these days and instead of an entertaining comedy one will often find news coverage of the Democratic Presidential primaries.  Should we pay attention to the speeches and commentary?  Perhaps the Web Age has relieved us of the need to sit and watch these men in real time.

Let's look at http://www.deanforamerica.com/, for example.  A quick read of the "on the issues" section is more informative than 100 hours of TV coverage.  Here are some things that I noticed...

His "job creation plan" (under "economy") proposes to make sure that broadband Internet access is "available" in rural areas.  Given that it is already possible to get two-way high-speed satellite Internet at a reasonable cost ($70/month, a touch more than the $50/month that urbanites pay for cable modems) anywhere in the Lower 48 and has been for several years, this presumably means that Dean wants to subsidize politically powerful people who live in underpopulated farm states.  So basically Dean wants to shovel more money from people who live in cities to people who live on farms... just like every other American politician.  Dean doesn't propose to invest in anything new, e.g., a wireless Internet infrastructure.

Dean has an extensive section on K-12 education.  Whenever a federal politician talks about what he is going to do for America's schools you can be sure that he is lying.  The federal government pays only about 7% of the cost of K-12 education in this country and therefore has almost no control over what happens in our classrooms.  Pity the poor teacher in her classroom.  She has to answer to the vice-principals and principal of her school.  She has to answer to the superintendent of her city or county.  She has to answer to a skyscraper full of bureaucrats in her state's central education administration.  And then all of them have to answer to the federal U.S. Department of Education, all of whose employees answer in turn to their Secretary who answers in his or her turn to the President.  There are more layers of management above a K-12 teacher than above an assembly-line worker at GM or Toyota, which makes sense until you reflect that it takes $billions in capital investment to build a car whereas plenty of brilliant people were educated at their parents' kitchen table.  Honest politicians generally start from the position that the federal Department of Education should be abolished.  Then they show up in Washington and find that this isn't political acceptable so they try to curb its growth.  The dishonest ones make a lot of promises about what they are personally going to do, sitting at their desk in the White House, for a kid in a classroom in Peoria, whose school is almost entirely funded by local taxpayers.

On foreign policy Howard Dean complains that the Bush Administration has "disengaged" from meddling in the 55-year-old war between the Arab nations and Israel.  His proposed solution?  "The Israeli government will have to work to improve the living conditions of the Palestinian people".  This is a tough goal given that the Palestinians have a 5% annual population growth rate; the Israelis would have to somehow generate more than 5% annual GDP growth among the Palestinians, many of whom are illiterate (a 5% annual GDP growth rate is something that we Americans are unable to achieve for ourselves, despite the fact that we have almost unlimited capital and a well-educated citizenry).  The U.S. meanwhile will "have to take responsibility with its international partners for helping the Palestinians establish a middle-class democratic society in which women fully participate in economic and political decision-making."  (See http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/20 01793273_honorkilling17.html for a story on women's status within present-day Palestinian society.)

Under Energy/Clean Air, Dean says "To reduce oil consumption and global warming emissions, Governor Dean believes we should increase the average fuel economy standard to approximately 40 miles per gallon for all automobiles, including SUVs and minivans."  This might have some effect on the environment circa 2020 but it doesn't do anything to discourage people from driving their 2004 model year monster SUVs.  An economist would chuck all of Dean's complex proposals in favor of a $10/barrel tax on oil, a $20/barrel tax on imported oil, and some sort of tax on pollution.

It would appear that a thoughtful voter could easily write off Howard Dean as a non-entity after spending 30 minutes at his Web site.  And perhaps this process can be repeated for the other candidates.  Are there any Dean supporters who would care to use the comments section to note brilliant ideas from the Howard Dean campaign that I've overlooked?  And would one have been more likely to discover these ideas watching Dean on TV rather than looking at his Web site?

Boston.com / News / Nation / Kerry
questions Bush's wartime leadership

Boston.com / News / Nation / Kerry
questions Bush's wartime leadership 08/07/2004 03:52 PM
straddle the fence .. Kerry's response .. From

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George McGovern on the Democrat
Presidential candidates [nyt]

George McGovern on the Democrat
Presidential candidates [nyt] 11/07/2003 05:28 AM
sees similarities

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Do the Democratic presidential
candidates have what it takes to lead?

Do the Democratic presidential
candidates have what it takes to lead? 01/24/2004 10:22 AM
OpinionJournal - Jack Welch .. leadership

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Democratic presidential candidates offer
help for Michigan's Internet voting

Democratic presidential candidates offer
help for Michigan's Internet voting 12/18/2003 03:21 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Dec 18 2003 3:10AM ET

Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington
/ Veteran claims misquote on Kerry;
Globe stands by its story

Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington
/ Veteran claims misquote on Kerry;
Globe stands by its story 08/07/2004 02:09 PM
Okay PINCH, we'll take your word for it -- your fella DIDN'T flack for DIP! .. saying

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Telegraph | News | Pentagon to check
Kerry war record

Telegraph | News | Pentagon to check
Kerry war record 09/07/2004 03:14 AM

Telegraph | News | Pentagon to check
Kerry war record

Telegraph | News | Pentagon to check
Kerry war record 09/06/2004 11:00 AM
one Tory rag from across the pond .. open an inquiry .. KJC

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A Must-read Perspective: Why The
Democratic Presidential Candidates
Should Write off Dixie in 2004

A Must-read Perspective: Why The
Democratic Presidential Candidates
Should Write off Dixie in 2004 11/17/2003 06:58 AM
give up on the South .. Thomas Schaller

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American Presidential Politics

American Presidential Politics 01/09/2004 09:47 PM
OK, it's time to start talking some politics here ... American Presidential politics. I'm a proud Canadian and obviously Canadian politics is important to all of us, but as a spectator sport it's boring and amateur. Chrétien, Martin, those right-wing wingnuts from the prairies ... they're all playing in the CFL of politics. Sorry, but the NFL is where the pros play: Bush, Rove, Dean, Clinton (both of 'em), Grover Norquist ... deep benches on both sides (unfortunately, the Republican bench has been deeper than the Dems for a while now); that's the game I watch. That's what I'd like...

U.S. Presidential Politics and Self-Rule
for Iraqis

U.S. Presidential Politics and Self-Rule
for Iraqis 02/19/2004 11:33 AM
The administration's urgency to install a government in Iraq reflects more concern for U.S. politics than Iraqi democracy.

The Software Politics Of 2004's
Presidential Race

The Software Politics Of 2004's
Presidential Race 07/05/2004 07:33 AM

Presidential Politics Divide Silicon
Valley

Presidential Politics Divide Silicon
Valley 04/11/2004 10:21 PM
New York Times Apr 12 2004 2:52AM GMT
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