Virginian-Pilot Endorses Kerry

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Friday October 22, 2004 · 8:14 AM PDT

2004/10/22 · 08:14

Virginia is a red state and although the popular belief is that N. VA is the Democrats territory the southern part may be as well. I've noticed a lot of support for Kerry in the Hamptonroads area. I hope this election year VA turns blue.

The Virginian Pilot endorsed John Kerry:

A course change: The Virginian-Pilot endorses John Kerry

George W. Bush oiled the troubled waters of his 2000 election by promising to govern as a unifier and a compassionate conservative.

Four years later, the nation is more bitterly split than ever. That is because the president abandoned the middle ground of the Republican Party in favor of its ideological edge.

He discourages internal dissent, equates disagreement with disloyalty and presents the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as an unassailable justification for whatever course the administration takes.

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Wednesday October 20, 2004 · 1:50 PM PDT

2004/10/20 · 13:50

This is a problem that I've noticed before. All this talk about supporting the troops but actions do speak louder than words. Rather the numbers speak louder than the president's rhetoric:

Oct 20, 2004

WASHINGTON - Nearly 1.7 million military veterans have no health insurance or access to government hospitals and clinics for veterans, according to a report Tuesday from a doctors' group that favors federally financed health care. The Bush administration disputed the numbers.

The number of uninsured veterans jumped by 235,000 since 2000, meaning they are losing health insurance at a faster rate than the general population, said Physicians for a National Health Program, which advocates a universal national health insurance program. About 45 million Americans have no health insurance, including 5 million who lost coverage during the past four years, according to the Census Bureau.

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Friday October 08, 2004 · 11:35 AM PDT

2004/10/08 · 11:35

Let's hope the judge reverses Glenda Hood's instructions.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Oct. 8, 2004 -- The Florida Democratic Party accused Secretary of State Glenda Hood of violating federal law when she told elections supervisors across the state that they should reject incomplete voter-registration forms.

Hood's office told counties they should disqualify voters who failed to check a box confirming they're U.S. citizens, even if they signed an oath on the same form swearing they are. She and other state officials have maintained that state and federal laws require the box to be checked.

Cheney Suggests Iraq - 9/11 Link

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Thursday October 07, 2004 · 7:22 PM PDT

2004/10/07 · 19:22

On January 9, 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney did an interview with Rocky Mountain News. The interviewer, M.E. Sprengelmeyer, was a reporter with the 101st in Iraq. He goes on to ask Cheney about a possible Iraq - 9/11 link.

Read below to see what he said in the interview. Read More

FBI Cover-up to Sep. 11, 2001?

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Saturday September 18, 2004 · 8:53 PM PDT

2004/09/18 · 20:53

I searched for this here but didn't come up with anything. This was reported back in May 21, 2002.

Apparently, an FBI agent who was on the Moussaoui case had concerns about other agents hampering the investigation. She wrote a letter to FBI director Robert Mueller regarding this.

Dear Director Mueller:

I feel at this point that I have to put my concerns in writing concerning the important topic of the FBI's response to evidence of terrorist activity in the United States prior to September 11th. The issues are fundamentally ones of INTEGRITY and go to the heart of the FBI's law enforcement mission and mandate.

Apparently, she felt this problem was deeply rooted in the FBI:

To get to the point, I have deep concerns that a delicate and subtle shading/skewing of facts by you and others at the highest levels of FBI management has occurred and is occurring.

One of her concerns regarding pre-9/11:

1) The Minneapolis agents who responded to the call about Moussaoui's flight training identified him as a terrorist threat from a very early point. The decision to take him into custody on August 15, 2001, on the INS "overstay" charge was a deliberate one to counter that threat and was based on the agents' reasonable suspicions.

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Wednesday September 15, 2004 · 4:22 PM PDT

2004/09/15 · 16:22

It is truly amazing how bold this administration can get despite all its failures. It starts from the devastation of 9/11 to the intelligence failure in Iraq and everything in between. Such as? Such as the record $400 billion deficit, the millions of unemployed, growing poverty, the thousands of soldiers who have died (and civilians), escalating health care, neglect of the environment, Abu Ghraib scandal, and flip-flops. Yes, flip-flops:

Remember when our decisive president:

was against homeland security before he was for it?
said we didn't find WMD before we did?
was looking for Osama dead or alive then not concerned about him?
supported manadatory caps on carbon dioxide before he opposed it?
opposed the creation of an independent 9/11 commission before he supported it?
stated we will win the war on terror after he said we can't win it but before he told our troops we were winning it?

...and so many more that the title of flip-flopper in chief fits him well.

Doesn't this spell failure? Or rather, it defines failure. And to think that no one was held accountable for this disaster. Yet, Bush/Cheney have the audacity to say, 'Vote for us again!' Read More

Need Your HELP

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Tuesday September 14, 2004 · 8:21 PM PDT

2004/09/14 · 20:21

I've been doing some research on groups that endorse Kerry/Edwards. Here are two from moms that need support:

1. Mothers Opposing Bush

Here is an ad they need help in getting some air time featuring Edie Falco from the Sopranos: Speak Out

2. Moms for Kerry - they are trying to organize a nationwide rally Oct. 30 & need participants. This site has a write-to-editors project on issues that mothers care about.

If any of you can help these people keep the fight going to get America back on track please help them out. Read More

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