Although I do not like Bill Clinton and never will, I do hope that his surgery is succesful.
+While I do not like to give any to the pedophile Michael Jackson, it now appears that there are more victims and they are coming forward. There is also a book by a Jackson associate that details imporper conduct with a former employees son.
Once before I noted that there has always been a cover up of Michael's actions by family, friends, lawyers, and employees.
WorldNetDaily: Michael Jackson's pedophilia exposed
+Items from the Kerry Spot on National Review online.
WEREN'T YOU WITH THAT OTHER MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRAT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT?
Who is John Sasso, Kerry's newest hire?
"In the 1988 Democratic primary campaign, Senator Joe Biden is forced out of Democratic race for plagiarising Neil Kinnock. Dukakis campaign manager John Sasso admits distributing the video which reveals Biden's plagiarism and is sacked, leaving the Dukakis campaign in hands of untried academic Susan Estrich."
Roger Simon has a fuller account:
In September, 1987, Dukakis was running for president and Sasso was not only his campaign manager but a person Dukakis considered “like a brother.”
One of Dukakis’ chief rivals and a man neck-and-neck with him in fundraising was Joe Biden, senator from Delaware.
Sasso found some dirt on Biden. At the Iowa State Fair, Biden used some of the same words in a speech that Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labor Party, had previously used. It was not exactly a felony and Biden previously had given Kinnock credit. This time Biden had merely forgotten the rule that if you steal from one person it's called plagiarism and if you steal from many it's called research.
But when Sasso got his hands on a videotape of the Kinnock speech and a videotape of the Biden speech, Sasso figured he had a way of damaging Biden.
Sasso put the two tapes together on one tape and leaked the "attack video," as it came to be known, to the New York Times, NBC and the Des Moines Register. All three published the story. None revealed its source.
The story immediately snowballed. Other Biden character flaws were discovered (he had inflated his academic record and had insulted a voter in New Hampshire) and Biden withdrew from the race.
But one question still remained: Who had leaked the attack video?
At first, Biden thought it was the Paul Simon campaign and then suspicion turned to the Dick Gephardt campaign.
Eventually, attention turned to the Dukakis campaign.
Here, Sasso made his fatal error. He denied being behind the Biden attack. And Dukakis denied it, too.
Eventually, Sasso went to Dukakis and came clean. Dukakis held a news conference and apologized, saying he had no idea that Sasso had done it. He was reluctant to fire Sasso, the most important figure in his campaign. But this just kept the snowball rolling and Dukakis was forced to dump Sasso.
All of which led to one of the more esoteric jokes of the 1988 campaign: Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Gary Hart, Joe Biden and Mike Dukakis are all on a cruise ship when it hits an iceberg and begins to sink.
Carter says: "Women and children first!"
Nixon says: "Screw 'em!"
Hart says: "Do you think we have time?"
Biden says: "Do you think we have time?"
Dukakis says: "Did you hear what Joe Biden just said?"
YEARS FROM NOW, THIS WILL BE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
Bob Novak nails it:
On the Republican convention's last day, word spread about Kerry's newest tactic: going to Springfield, Ohio, for a midnight rally targeting both Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for missing combat in Vietnam. That puzzled the president's strategists, who figured Kerry would want to close the door on investigation of his own combat record. He instead delivered a glancing blow at Cheney's student draft deferments 40 years ago and then, in a meandering stump speech, drifted from health care to Iraq and back to health care. His late-night audience, in the picturesque Ohio town square, seemed anesthetized...
After windsurfing at Nantucket, Kerry addressed the American Legion convention in what had been billed as an attack on his Swift boat veteran detractors. Instead, he delivered a quiet critique of Iraq war policy, which was unenthusiastically received by the Legion. That was followed by Thursday night's speech in which Kerry attacked his opponents "who refused to serve" in Vietnam — that is, Bush and Cheney.
A midnight rally in Springfield, Ohio, is nothing like an acceptance speech at Madison Square Garden, but the unfair comparison was not flattering to Kerry. Bush delivered a conservative speech to a conservative party but also as a war president. After shocking his supporters earlier by saying he would still vote for Bush's war resolution, Kerry in Ohio Thursday night declared the president "misled America into Iraq." The Democratic nominee continues to define himself.
If Kerry doesn't recover in the coming weeks, the late night rally in Springfield will be remembered as his "Dean scream" moment.
NOTE CONCLUDES CHAOS IN CAMP KERRY
ABC News' The Note:
Are John Kerry's chances of winning the White House imperiled by the fact that there were more frustrated-blind-quote-driven, sausage-making-process-oriented stories from inside his campaign this weekend than there have been cumulatively about the Bush campaign this entire cycle?
Think of that stark fact as more a symptom than a disease — although it is both.
It has caused no amount of "how-could-that-be?" head shaking within the tight-knit circle that runs the president's re-election campaign that the details of Saturday's Bill Clinton-John Kerry tutorial phone call could leak so fast and so fully.
And as the Bush campaign just laughs and laughs and laughs behind their poker faces at how easily they have banished the economy, health care, poverty, jobs, and the chaos in Iraq from the national debate, the biggest danger for Kerry right now in the wake of the president's Swift post-New York lead is that the left will give up on him.
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