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Hardball airs tonight at 7, 11 & 2 am and 4, 8 & 11 pm et
Tonight we do the full hour with North Carolina Senator John Edwards and see if he's
got what it takes to bring regime change to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW...Call it the
"Matthews Primary"...Live from Harvard's Kennedy School of Goverment...We'll have a
lot of audience participation and hopefully re-visit the legacy of Bill Clinton in
addition to Iraq, the economy, class warfare etc...
I think you'll come away pleasantly surprised by tonight's hour of action packed
political parry and thrust...
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing from Washington, DC
"K Street," HBO's new series, should try some comedy. Howard Mortman explains.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/978609.asp
President Bush, annoyed by what he considers the "filter" of news reporting, will seek
to go around the press on Monday through television outlets that do not routinely
cover the White House. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20031013/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
Officer: Saddam 'recently' in Tikrit..Saddam Hussein has been hiding in his hometown
Tikrit and is believed to be exerting influence within the resistance that has been
killing American soldiers, a U.S. officer said Monday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/934483.asp
U.S. wants elections by Dec. 15...The United States has proposed giving the
U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council barely two months to draw up plans for
elections and a new constitution, according to a draft U.N. resolution obtained by NBC
News. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/965704.asp
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards accuses President Bush of caring more
about tax cuts than health insurance for children in a new campaign commercial set to
air Wednesday night in two early voting states. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031008/ap_on_el_pr/edwards_ads_2
Faceless attackers appeared to be escalating their campaign of violence in Iraq, with
military officials on Monday reporting six attacks that killed two U.S. soldiers and
wounded nine other coalition troops. The bloodshed came a day after a deadly car bomb
explosion outside the Baghdad Hotel in the Iraqi capital killed at least a half-dozen
bystanders and wounded dozens more. (MSNBC) http://msnbc.com/news/870749.asp?0dm=N11PN
Alarmed by the number of suicides among soldiers in Iraq, the Army has asked a team of
doctors to determine whether the stress of combat and long deployments is contributing
to the deaths. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-10-13-army-suicides-usat_x.htm
U.S. senators on Sunday predicted narrow approval of President Bush's $87 billion Iraq
spending package but not until the reconstruction funding is examined further, a
leading Democrat suggested. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3599855
President Urged to Take Control...A key Republican lawmaker told President Bush on
Sunday to take control of his fractious foreign policy team and plans for Iraq's
reconstruction, as one Democrat deepened his criticism of the administration's
arguments for going to war (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17479-2003Oct12.html
Violence in Iraq spreads to north...Attacks in Kirkuk blamed on newcomers (The
Washington Post) http://msnbc.com/news/979309.asp?0sl=-13
Probe Focuses on Month Before Leak to Reporters...FBI Agents Tracing Linkage of Envoy
to CIA Operative (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13696-2003Oct11.html
Dennis Kucinich, self-described urban populist and liberal four-term congressman, is
formally launching his bid for the White House, a long-shot candidacy against eight
rivals for the Democratic nomination. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20031013/ap_on_el_pr/kucinich_2004
When Al Gore announced last December that he would not run for president in 2004, few
people were as well positioned as Senator Joseph I. Lieberman to become the
standard-bearer for the Democratic Party. (The New York Times)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=68&e=1&u=/nyt/20031013/ts_nyt/liebermanthecentristinthemiddleofthepack
Democrat Joe Lieberman, hoping to jump-start his presidential campaign with a fresh
attack on White House policy, is promising to ensure that upper-income Americans pay
more taxes than they did before President Bush's record-breaking tax cuts. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20031013/ap_on_el_pr/lieberman_2004
Education Law May Hurt Bush...No Child Left Behind's Funding Problems Could Be '04
Liability (The Washington Post) http://msnbc.com/news/979595.asp?0cv=CB10
With a recovering stock market and improving economic indicators, Iraq is now the more
pressing political problem for President Bush's reelection, according to senior Bush
sources. (NY Daily News)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/126427p-113164c.html
Four Internet Web sites operated by two extremist Jewish groups have been included by
the State Department on its list of "foreign terrorist organizations" - the first time
the list has been extended to include Internet sites. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20031010-112733-8086r.htm
'Ghettopoly' Called Offensive...Group: Retailer should apologize (Newsday)
http://www.newsday.com/news/yahoo/nyc-nyghet133493706oct13,0,1184163.story?coll=ny-newsaol-headlines
Opinion/Editorial
Katrina: Meeting the Dalai Lama http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?pid=989
Wanna read something funny? Monday Morning Monologue:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/monday.html
Novak: Gen. Clark flails under fire
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak13.html
Ilana: No rights for animals! http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35022
Hitchens: A cleric's call to arms...Grandson of the ayatollah advocates U.S. invasion
of Iran http://msnbc.com/news/976673.asp?0dm=C16SO
General Amnesty...Why do liberals swoon for a guy in uniform?
http://slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=2089569
Pat: Does America need a recall? http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35054
Novak: Clinton gives Kerry a boost
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak12.html
Will: Iraq's oil revival won't happen overnight
http://www.suntimes.com/output/will/cst-edt-geo12.html
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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