Kerry Steps Up Attack on Bush's Economic Record (Reuters)

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Kerry Steps Up Attack on Bush's Economic
Record

Kerry Steps Up Attack on Bush's Economic
Record 08/28/2004 09:28 AM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 28 2004 1:39PM GMT

Kerry Hits Bush Economic Record, NASCAR
'Photo Op' (Reuters)

Kerry Hits Bush Economic Record, NASCAR
'Photo Op' (Reuters) 02/16/2004 02:36 PM
Reuters - White House hopeful John Kerry, firmly in command of the Democratic race and a runaway favorite in Wisconsin, set his sights on Monday on George W. Bush's economic record in a state that has lost 75,000 jobs since the president took office.

Bush to Outline Economic Plan, Attack
Kerry (Reuters)

Bush to Outline Economic Plan, Attack
Kerry (Reuters) 09/08/2004 10:02 PM
Reuters - President Bush on Thursday will promote his proposals for boosting the U.S. economy and criticize Democrat John Kerry's economic prescriptions, the Bush campaign said.

Kerry Attacks Bush's Record on Defending
Homeland (Reuters)

Kerry Attacks Bush's Record on Defending
Homeland (Reuters) 05/26/2004 07:48 PM
Reuters - Democratic White House challenger John Kerry accused President Bush on Wednesday of being more interested in election-year photo opportunities than providing funds to defend against another Sept. 11-type attack.

Berger, Under Attack, Steps Aside as
Kerry Adviser (Reuters)

Berger, Under Attack, Steps Aside as
Kerry Adviser (Reuters) 07/20/2004 07:51 PM
Reuters - Former national security adviser Samuel Berger, under investigation for removing classified documents from the National Archives, stepped aside on Tuesday as an informal adviser to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

Kerry Mocks Bush's Reaction to Economic
Figures

Kerry Mocks Bush's Reaction to Economic
Figures 09/07/2004 02:24 PM
Senator John Kerry said today that the president has tried to sugarcoat some clear signs that the country is on the wrong path.

Bush to Outline Economic Plan, Attack
Kerry

Bush to Outline Economic Plan, Attack
Kerry 09/09/2004 02:00 AM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 9 2004 5:16AM GMT

Kerry Sharply Criticizes Bush's Record
on the Economy

Kerry Sharply Criticizes Bush's Record
on the Economy 09/15/2004 01:01 PM
Senator John Kerry lashed out at the Bush administration today over tax policy, jobs, the economy and health care.

Kerry Knocks Bush's Record (Los Angeles
Times)

Kerry Knocks Bush's Record (Los Angeles
Times) 07/26/2004 05:21 AM
Los Angeles Times - BOSTON — Sen. John F. Kerry headed into the Democratic convention Sunday delivering a starkly negative assessment of President Bush's leadership, saying that another four years of his administration would produce economic hardship at home and more hard feelings abroad.

Kerry Steps Up His Attack on Bush Over
Iraq

Kerry Steps Up His Attack on Bush Over
Iraq 09/23/2004 05:49 PM
Senator John Kerry said today that conditions were so bad that the elections in Iraq planned for January were in jeopardy.

Democrat Kerry Slams Bush's 'Excuse
Presidency' (Reuters)

Democrat Kerry Slams Bush's 'Excuse
Presidency' (Reuters) 09/15/2004 06:11 AM
Reuters - Democratic candidate John Kerry unleashed a harsh indictment of President Bush's economic stewardship on Wednesday and urged his Republican rival to take responsibility instead of playing the victim.

Kerry Questions Bush's Honesty on Health
Care, Iraq (Reuters)

Kerry Questions Bush's Honesty on Health
Care, Iraq (Reuters) 09/14/2004 12:24 PM
Reuters - Democratic candidate John Kerry on Tuesday sought the upper hand in his battle over character and leadership with President Bush, by questioning his Republican rival's honesty on issues from health care to Iraq.

Kerry Mocks Bush's 'Itsy Bitsy' Campaign
Slogan (Reuters)

Kerry Mocks Bush's 'Itsy Bitsy' Campaign
Slogan (Reuters) 07/31/2004 03:40 PM
Reuters - Democratic White House challenger John Kerry mocked President Bush's new "turning the corner" campaign slogan on Saturday and said he offered voters more than "little itsy bitsy" sound bites.

Kerry: Bush's Iraq Choices Costing
Americans at Home (Reuters)

Kerry: Bush's Iraq Choices Costing
Americans at Home (Reuters) 09/08/2004 11:04 AM
Reuters - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry on Wednesday challenged President Bush's decisions before and after the Iraq war and linked the $200 billion cost of the war to economic woes in the United States.

Kerry Files Suit Vs. Ads Challenging His
War Record (Reuters)

Kerry Files Suit Vs. Ads Challenging His
War Record (Reuters) 08/20/2004 06:15 PM
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry asked the Federal Election Commission on Friday to force Republican critics to withdraw ads challenging his military service, and accused the Bush campaign of illegally helping coordinate the attacks.

Kerry Chides Bush Over Record High Gas
Prices (Reuters)

Kerry Chides Bush Over Record High Gas
Prices (Reuters) 05/18/2004 06:12 AM
Reuters - With the retail price of gasoline topping $2 a gallon for the first time, Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry on Tuesday chided President Bush for failing to offer hard-hit consumers any help.

Bush Declines to Condemn Attack Ads on
Kerry (Reuters)

Bush Declines to Condemn Attack Ads on
Kerry (Reuters) 08/12/2004 11:53 PM
Reuters - President Bush praised John Kerry's military service as honorable on Thursday but declined to condemn ads from Vietnam veterans who questioned the Massachusetts senator's military record.

Economic Signs Are Pointing Up, but
Bush's Ratings Are Not

Economic Signs Are Pointing Up, but
Bush's Ratings Are Not 05/22/2004 02:25 AM
Despite a big rebound in hiring, President Bush has been unable to translate the economic improvement into political benefit.

Economic Signs Point Up; Bush's Ratings
Do Not

Economic Signs Point Up; Bush's Ratings
Do Not 05/21/2004 11:22 PM
Despite a big rebound in hiring, President Bush has been unable to translate the economic improvement into political benefit.

Kerry to Attack Bush Troop Withdrawal
Plan (Reuters)

Kerry to Attack Bush Troop Withdrawal
Plan (Reuters) 08/18/2004 08:46 AM
Reuters - Democrat John Kerry on Wednesday planned to attack Present George W. Bush's plan to withdraw 70,000 American troops from Europe and Asia as a threat to national security that could blunt the war on terror, campaign aides said.

Economic Growth Swells Trade Deficit to
Record $46 Billion

Economic Growth Swells Trade Deficit to
Record $46 Billion 05/12/2004 02:22 PM
The U.S. trade deficit expanded in March as a strong economy stoked demand for foreign-made goods and oil prices surged.

Bush-Kerry: Some Economic Issues

Bush-Kerry: Some Economic Issues 09/26/2004 08:48 AM
(This is also my Sund ay column in the San Jose Mercury News.) You may have been convinced by now that the 2004 presidential election's main issue is Vietnam: who did or did not serve, and in what way. But for Silicon Valley and the nation, the choice between President Bush and John Kerry ought to include some attention to -- gasp -- current affairs and America's future. With that in mind, I'm planning to use this space for several more weeks to discuss how the candidates see some of the key economic and technology-related issues facing us, as well as my take on those topics. First, let's look at the Bush and Kerry positions on globalization, the federal budget and competition. Because these are only brief summaries, I strongly encourage you to visit the campaign Web sites -- www.georgebush.com and www.johnkerry.com -- for more details. Be informed before you vote. More...

Kerry Links Iraq War, U.S. Economic Woes
(AP)

Kerry Links Iraq War, U.S. Economic Woes
(AP) 09/08/2004 04:32 PM
AP - Democrat John Kerry sought to link the Iraq war to U.S. economic woes on Wednesday, calling President Bush's move against Baghdad a "catastrophic choice" that so far has drained $200 billion in needed resources at home.

Bush, Kerry Economic Budgets Exceed
$1T (AP)

Bush, Kerry Economic Budgets Exceed
$1T (AP) 09/24/2004 02:04 PM
AP - President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry have starkly different economic priorities with a common thread: price tags exceeding $1 trillion that could pump already huge deficits skyward over the next decade.

Fudging the facts on Bush's end-of-life
record

Fudging the facts on Bush's end-of-life
record 03/22/2005 04:44 PM
Under a law signed by Gov. George W. Bush, doctors in Texas can cease life support for a patient regardless of the family's wishes. Scott McClellan just won't admit it.

the Salon article about Bush's service
record

the Salon article about Bush's service
record 09/03/2004 10:29 AM
George W. Bush's Missing Year

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Bush's Campaign to Intensify, With
Emphasis on His Record

Bush's Campaign to Intensify, With
Emphasis on His Record 02/15/2004 02:23 AM
President Bush's political advisers will seek to discredit John Kerry and promote the president's record and character.

Bush or Kerry? Let's turn our attention
to economic issues

Bush or Kerry? Let's turn our attention
to economic issues 09/26/2004 07:01 AM
SiliconValley.com Sep 26 2004 10:32AM GMT

Apple's Jobs advising Kerry on economic
issues

Apple's Jobs advising Kerry on economic
issues 05/01/2004 11:44 AM
Apple CEO Steve Jobs and billionaire investor Warren Buffett are advising Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on economic issues, according to Bloomberg...

Bush's Poll Position Is Worst on Record
(washingtonpost.com)

Bush's Poll Position Is Worst on Record
(washingtonpost.com) 04/12/2005 05:56 AM
How rough has it been? Bush has the lowest approval rating of any president at this point in his second term, according to Gallup polls going back to World War II. 4/11 .. Bush’s Poll Position Is Worst on Record

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Accusations exchanged over Bush's
military record (USATODAY.com)

Accusations exchanged over Bush's
military record (USATODAY.com) 09/10/2004 05:19 AM
USATODAY.com - President Bush's advisers accused his Democratic rival Thursday of orchestrating new accusations about Bush's National Guard service.

Democrats Open Convention, Faulting
Bush's Record

Democrats Open Convention, Faulting
Bush's Record 07/26/2004 10:50 PM
With two former presidents and one almost-president, the Democratic National Convention began with promises for the future and glances to the past.

Media failed to find facts behind Bush's
service record

Media failed to find facts behind Bush's
service record 09/09/2004 06:49 PM
Media failed to find facts behind Bush's service record .. a look at how the media .. months

suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-banal11.html
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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

New Reports Attack Bush's Overtime Rules
(AP)

New Reports Attack Bush's Overtime Rules
(AP) 07/14/2004 05:07 AM
AP - Disputing Bush administration estimates, a labor-backed think tank said Wednesday that new federal rules will remove overtime protections for at least 6 million U.S. workers.

Did the White House release forged
documents about Bush's service record?

Did the White House release forged
documents about Bush's service record? 09/09/2004 04:24 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Charles at Little Green Footballs presents a persuasive argument that the memos recently released by the White House about President Bush's National Guard service are forgeries.

I opened Microsoft Word, set the font to Microsoft’s Times New Roman, tabbed over to the default tab stop to enter the date “18 August 1973,” then typed the rest of the document purportedly from the personal records of the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian.

And my Microsoft Word version, typed in 2004, is an exact match for the documents trumpeted by CBS News as “authentic.” The spacing is not just similar—it is identical in every respect.

(Background: CNN reported that "the White House, without comment, released to the news media two of the memos, one ordering Bush to report for his physical exam and the other suspending him from flight status." Here are PDF copiesof the memos the White House released.)

I think the documents are indeed forgeries, but who made them? Could it be a White House dirty trick to make the Democrats look bad? Are there real documents that these forgeries are based on that are even more damning about the President's behavior? I'm sure there's more news to come. Link (Thanks, Bob!)

UPDATE: Eric sez: If you weren't reflexively looking for the interpretation of events that reflected most poorly on Bush, you might have noted that the White House did not release those records, they merely passed along without comment copies that had been sent to them by CBS.

UPDATE:David sez: "Saw your post on this on BoingBoing. Fark.com had a couple big discussions today about the potential forgeries (here and here ).

Someone posted the two images (White House released and Word generated), so I fired up an image editor and had a look. While the font character spacing are very similar, most typography experts in the threads agreed that the original had type-write like characteristics (number 8 slightly high on the line, etc.) that would be hard to reproduce in Word. More importantly, the superscript "th" which caused most of the interest is not in the same position in the two images (see attached superimposed comparison).

It's possible that the original was generated on a typewriter with a proportional width Times New Roman font wheel or ball (available at the time), with the same common margin settings as Word uses by default. The superscript used in Word is artificially generated (smaller font size, elevated baseline), whereas the typewritter superscript "th" would need to be carved in the same space as other characters, which is why it appears lower. David Schwab

Berger Steps Down As Kerry Adviser (AP)

Berger Steps Down As Kerry Adviser (AP) 07/20/2004 06:23 PM
AP - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger quit Tuesday as an informal adviser to Democrat John Kerry's presidential campaign after disclosure of a criminal investigation into whether he mishandled classified terrorism documents.

AP: Berger Steps Down As Kerry Adviser
(AP)

AP: Berger Steps Down As Kerry Adviser
(AP) 07/20/2004 04:12 PM
AP - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger, the subject of a criminal investigation over the disappearance of terrorism documents, stepped aside on Tuesday as an informal adviser to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

Berger steps down as Kerry adviser

Berger steps down as Kerry adviser 07/21/2004 11:14 AM
Berger's gone .. resigned

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