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too late!

We are in the midst of WWIII and you don't get it yet. These people want us all dead and they don't care how they do it.

John Kerry doesn't understand it. He thinks more European than American.

40 years ago a French woman that I worked with told me that ''the communists are not so bad'' but she was living here and raising her children here, not in France.

These radical muslims are far worse than the communists. They will kill you just to kill you. This war is much more important than you realize. It is our future or the end of civilization as we know it.

Yes, I am trying to scare you. I am trying to scare you so that you will wake up and protect yourself from what is coming.

By Wake up America!

DREAM WORLD

Do you think that Hussein distroyed the WMD's that he killed three thousand of his own people with. Three thousand Sept 11 th.
(They could get one hundred thousand)

By Wake up America !

Reading the media ''endorsements


Justifications for backing Kerry fall flat

Reading the media ''endorsements'' of John Kerry is like having lunch with a woman who wants to tell you about her great new boyfriend. She spends seven-eighths of the time bitching about the old boyfriend -- cocky, hot-headed, insensitive, never wants to listen, never gonna change -- and in the remaining few minutes tries to come up with the new guy's good points:

''Mr. Kerry himself is not a compelling candidate. But this year he offers a --''

Yes?

''-- a respite, a pause for reappraisal.''

That's The Economist, pining for a quiet night in.

''What the Republicans tar as waffling strikes us as --''

Hmm. What is le mot juste?

''-- flexibility.''

That's my Sun-Times colleagues, looking for a man they -- or, at any rate, Jacques Chirac and Kofi Annan -- can mold.

''According to the Almanac of American Politics, Kerry is 'more respectful of economic free markets' and more inclined to an expansionist foreign policy than --''

Than Ronald Reagan?

''-- than other liberal Democrats.''

Oh, well. That's the Des Moines Register, arguing that he doesn't seem like a wimp and a loser if you put him in a room full of even bigger wimps and losers.

''We have misgivings about Kerry's ability to connect with ordinary people. We were frustrated by his long-winded explanations --''

But?

''His zigs and zags reflect his digestion of new information and his arrival at new insights.'' Honestly, sighs the Virginian Pilot, he only comes over like a snooty windbag because he's so much smarter than us.

''Mr. Kerry's description of the war as a 'diversion' does not inspire confidence in his determination to see it through. But Mr. Kerry has repeatedly pledged not to cut and run from Iraq --''

You're right, says the Washington Post, he has a commitment problem, but we'll work that out after the wedding.

Meanwhile, Andrew Sullivan in the New Republic sounds like some blousy torch singer sitting atop the piano in a Jazz Age cabaret doing one of those laundry-list songs ruefully adumbrating her lover's faults: ''His record is undistinguished, and where it stands out, mainly regrettable. He intuitively believes that if a problem exists, it is the government's job to fix it. He has far too much faith in international institutions, like the corrupt and feckless U.N., in the tasks of global management. He got the Cold War wrong. He got the first Gulf War wrong --''

If he were Jane Monheit on her excellent new CD, he'd conclude:

''I love him because he's --

I don't know --

Because he's just my Bill.''

But, in this case, the point seems to be:

''I love him because he's --

I don't know --

Because he's just not Bush.''


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Bush Comes Down Hard on Kerry

THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
Bush Comes Down Hard on Kerry
Campaigning in the Midwest, he says the question before voters is: 'Who do you trust?'

GREEN BAY, Wis. ?— President Bush unleashed a barrage of criticism at Sen. John F. Kerry on Saturday, portraying him as a weak and indecisive leader who cannot be trusted to combat terrorism abroad or foster prosperity at home.

''In less than 72 hours, the American people will be voting, and the decision comes down to: Who do you trust?'' Bush told supporters at a rally here, a line he repeated later in Minnesota. ''I offer leadership and resolve for a time of threat and a time of challenge.''
The president said Tuesday's election was ''one of the most important'' in U.S. history because its outcome would ''set the direction of the war against terror.''

Moving to end the campaign on an upbeat tone even as he pressed his case against Kerry, the president also struck an unusually personal note as he spoke of his faith, his upbringing and how the lessons of Sept. 11 transformed him as a leader.

Bush made no mention of the broadcast Friday of a new videotape of Osama bin Laden, portions of which were aired on the Arabic-language Al Jazeera satellite television channel, just four days before the U.S. election. But he spoke repeatedly and passionately of the continuing dangers posed by terrorists.

Vice President Dick Cheney tackled the Bin Laden issue head on while campaigning in Nazareth, Pa., saying the newly released statement was a ''reminder that we are engaged in a global war on terror,'' a war that he said Bush was more capable of prosecuting.

The issue also remained a key topic of conversation behind the scenes.

Before the president left his hotel suite Saturday morning in Columbus, Ohio, where he had staged a rally the night before with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, he conducted a video-conference with top national and domestic security aides to discuss, among other topics, the Bin Laden videotape.

White House aides and Bush campaign officials also continued to accuse Kerry of inappropriately criticizing the president for failing to capture the terrorist leader.

''You can judge people by how they react to events as they unfold during the campaign,'' said White House communications director Dan Bartlett. ''His first instinct was to attack the president.''

On the campaign trail, the president reminded voters of the threat of terrorism while also seeking to contrast his leadership style with that of his Democratic rival.

''America will need strong, determined, optimistic leadership, and I'm ready for the job,'' Bush said.

Earlier in the day, the president used his final weekly radio address before the election to deliver another broadside, suggesting that the Massachusetts senator misunderstood the nature of the war on terrorism and portraying himself as a resolute commander willing to do ''whatever it takes'' to protect America and its people.

Before leaving Green Bay, Bush ordered his motorcade to stop at Lambeau Field, home of the city's beloved Packers ?— evidently to score another point against Kerry, who this year called the football facility ''Lambert'' field.

''It's nice to be at Lambeau Field,'' a smiling Bush said as he emerged from his limousine and walked over to greet a small group of supporters. ''It's good to be at Lambeau,'' he repeated, emphasizing the second syllable.

Of the states he visited on Saturday ?— Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Florida ?— the president carried only Florida four years ago. His campaign has made a major effort to carry Wisconsin and Minnesota this year, and to a lesser extent, Michigan.


By Sen. John F. Kerry