GREAT NEWS: Kerry focusing on Edwards

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Monday July 05, 2004 · 11:29 AM PDT

2004/07/05 · 11:29

VP UPDATE: ABC News has learned that last-minute attention has focused at least in part on Senator John Edwards. Some Democrats have been doing a last-minute review of his records over the holiday weekend.

from ABC

VP is Probably NOT Gephardt

KingGeorgetheLesser

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Monday July 05, 2004 · 10:04 AM PDT

2004/07/05 · 10:04

From a wonderful diary below, a really good clue:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/7/5/122719/5934

Top Democratic leaders from the would-be VP's home state have been alerted of Kerry's decision.

Why would leaders from Gephardt's state be notified? There is simply no reason, except to create endless opportunities for leaks.

This could be evidence that Graham has gotten the nod, or another senator.

#1 reason Kerry hasn't picked Gephardt

KingGeorgetheLesser

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Sunday July 04, 2004 · 10:17 PM PDT

2004/07/04 · 22:17

He hasn't picked anyone.

I defy anyone with knowledge of the Kerry decisionmaking process on any major issue going back twenty years to find a decision made before the last possible moment. For recent examples, look at the national mayors' meeting in Boston and his decidion to fire Jim Jordan.

So, cheer up! Gep hasn't been picked yet.

VP - Bob Graham

KingGeorgetheLesser

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Saturday July 03, 2004 · 3:52 PM PDT

2004/07/03 · 15:52

Florida newspaper is reporting that everyone around him has been instructed to be completely silent.

Story here.

Now why is that?

What do you think? Is Bob Graham acceptable? Read More

Kerry-Dean!!!!!!

KingGeorgetheLesser

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Friday July 02, 2004 · 7:24 AM PDT

2004/07/02 · 07:24

ABC The Note:

JK AM
RESIDENCE

:30 a.m.-- Meet with Jim Johnson
:40 a.m. -- MBC joins meeting via phone
:45 a.m. -- Sasso joins meeting via phone
:48:a.m. -- Biden calls
:05 a.m -- Howard Dean arrives in rear.
:50 a.m. -- Breakfast with Howard Dean; THK joins
:00 a.m. -- Friendly wave to NYT/ABC pool at front window
:00 a.m. -- Service creates diversion; Dean exits through rear
:20 a.m. -- Daily bitch session with Rosenblith
:30 a.m. -- Call Gephardt
:50 a.m. -- Call Edwards
:52 a.m. -- Call Vilsack
:01 a.m. -- Biden calls
:10 am -- Call Durbin
:11 am -- Biden calls
:10 a.m - RTG
:15 a.m. -- Depart residence enroute DCA
:30 a.m.-- JOHN KERRY ARRIVES WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT

Enroute: -- Rural American policy briefing
11:00 a.m.-- JOHN KERRY ARRIVES DULUTH INT'L AIRPORT,
NOTE: -- Turn clocks back one hour to adjust to Central Daylight Time.
NOTE2: -- Press will hold at airport; Kerry holds on plane.

:04 a.m. -- MBC calls Brooke Brower and Ron Fournier.
:06 a.m. -- Noted Now flashes "KERRY PICKS DEAN"
:07 a.m. -- AP flashes "BULLETIN -- KERRY-DEAN"
:15 a.m.: -- Kerry emerges from plane with Vice Presidential nominee Howard Dean. (Service will keep O'Connor out of the shot).
:23 a.m. -- John King throws phone down; complains that ABC broke ANOTHER major story.

OK, Ok, they are joking, but we can dream, can't we?

Seriously, ABC links to a DMR story about Vilsack that ups the odds on him.

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040702/NEWS09/407020340/1056/NEWS09

VP: Reading Tea Leaves

KingGeorgetheLesser

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Friday July 02, 2004 · 6:41 AM PDT

2004/07/02 · 06:41

Kerry has released his schedule for much of next week.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/kerry/articles/2004/07/02/kerry_schedules_key_3_day_tr ip_amid_vp_rumors/

A day after a Monday barbecue at the 90-acre Pennsylvania farm of his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Kerry will outline ''his vision for responsible leadership" in speeches in Pittsburgh and Indiana -- a fairly broad theme that leaves room for a running-mate announcement. In recent weeks, by contrast, Kerry has focused somewhat narrowly on issues like health care, job creation, and national security.

Kerry is scheduled to discuss ''his plan to restore America's values to the White House" during stops in Cleveland and Cincinnati on Wednesday, and then speak in Wisconsin on corporate responsibility Thursday before heading to New York City for a star-studded concert fund-raiser that night and an appearance on CNN's ''Larry King Live." He will be at fund-raisers next Friday and will spend the night in Boston.

Responsible leadership? Sounds like Nunn, Clark or Gep. Restore American values? Sounds like Edwards. Read More

Why the F--- John Edwards?

KingGeorgetheLesser

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Thursday July 01, 2004 · 11:42 AM PDT

2004/07/01 · 11:42

Because he came in SECOND? I just don't get it. This site contains posts from some very smart people, but it seems like really lockstep thinking on Edwards.

For all his faults, Kerry appears to be immune to this mob-like mentality. No, I am not for Gep or Vilsack. I just don't get this huge support for a guy who didn't fare all that well in the primaries.

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Kerry Campaign Floating Trial Balloons on Dailykos.com?

KingGeorgetheLesser

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Thursday July 01, 2004 · 11:31 AM PDT

2004/07/01 · 11:31

Saw the Franklin Raines diaries below and wondered whether there was any better spot on the web to gauge reaction to possible VP candidates than this here site.

Keep your eyes open. We may get the "news" first.

Of course, Kos knows the IP addresses so maybe he can keep a lookout for all of us.

Drudge: Hillary Clinton as VP?

KingGeorgetheLesser

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Wednesday June 30, 2004 · 8:20 AM PDT

2004/06/30 · 08:20

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED JUNE 30, 2004 11:18:25 ET XXXXX

VICE PRESIDENT HILLARY; SPECULATION INTENSIFIES IN WASHINGTON

Official Washington and the entire press corps will be rocked when Hillary Rodham Clinton is picked as Kerry's VP and a massive love fest will begin!

So predicts a top Washington insider, who spoke to the DRUDGE REPORT on condition he not be named.

"All the signs point in her direction," said the insider, one of the most influencial and well-placed in the nation's capital. "It is the solution to every Kerry problem."

Bush = Hitler dammit

KingGeorgetheLesser

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Monday June 28, 2004 · 1:54 PM PDT

2004/06/28 · 13:54

Bush has started an illegal war which has killed all these people without any regard for international law. And then he runs an ad making us look like Nazis. The gall.

I'm not going to take it anymore. I've already gotten my whole family to protest this stuff (by casting a vote to get rid of him).

I'm now convincing my coworkers. F/911 has been very helpful in that regard. In a weird way, people have begun to believe the wilder theories about Bush more than the basic, more reasonable ones. I don't get it.

Has anyone else had that experience?

The Roe Effect

KingGeorgetheLesser

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Monday June 28, 2004 · 6:36 AM PDT

2004/06/28 · 06:36

http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005277

Interesting essay/analysis on the WSJ's website.

It argues that liberals will lose in the next twenty years or so, because we are aborting more of our children, who would, presumably, share the same values.

All this while the fundies/Catholics are having more children to further their ideology.

I am not a consequentialist, but it is remarkable if true.

Look Deeply in George and Dick's Eyes

KingGeorgetheLesser

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Friday June 25, 2004 · 1:26 PM PDT

2004/06/25 · 13:26

They know. They're going to lose. So "f--- yourself" and "Let me finish. Let me finish. May I finish?"

Polls, commentary, web surfing. None of that discloses the story told by the sweet look & smell of desperation.

Happy days lie ahead. Read More

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