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Hardball airs tonight on MSNBC at 7, 11 & 2 am est and 4, 8 & 11 pm pst....
As you've no doubt heard by now Hardball comes to you live from Harvard's Kennedy
School of Government with a full hour of Democratic presidential candidate John
Kerry...One on One...Mano-a-mano, or is it Mano-e-mano? I forget...The two will tango
tonight over the nation's most pressing issues and we'll get his take on why he thinks
he's the guy to beat President Bush...Throw in a huge dollop of audience questions and
you never know what'll happen...Sounds exciting huh? Don't worry you can watch that
yawner Raiders-Chief game later...
Will Kerry pass the "Matthews Primary"? We'll see...
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing from Washington, DC
Boston Globe seven part Bio on Kerry:
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/
My buddy Mark Pfiefle took a shot at Graydon "G-Force" Carter in Friday's Post...
"I'm sure Mr. Carter never, ever carefully choreographs his ever-changing photo in his
monthly diatribe (also known as his 'Editor's Letter') against those he finds
distasteful."
-- Interior Department press secretary Mark Pfeifle, in a letter to Vanity Fair
responding to editor Graydon Carter's dig the previous month, after Interior requested
photos for a Vanity Fair feature be shot in a particular location. Pfeifle also added
that Carter's Manhattan office seems to be "devoid of any green plants."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38816-2003Oct16.html
A U.S. soldier and two civilians were killed after an American patrol was attacked in
the flashpoint Iraqi town of Falluja Monday, the U.S. military and witnesses said.
(Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=MA1TCVJHQXPRSCRBAE0CFEY?type=topNews&storyID=3648536
Reduction in U.S. Troops Eyed for '04...Gradual Exit Strategy Tied to Iraq's Stability
(The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46852-2003Oct18?language=printer
Former first lady Barbara Bush and mother of President Bush described Democrats trying
to unseat her son in the White House as a "sorry group" of politicians. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=3648287
Some Democrats are grumping about the fact that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking
the spotlight at a big political dinner in the key state of Iowa next month, when the
2004 Democratic contenders will be onstage. (NY Post)
http://nypost.com/news/regionalnews/8571.htm
Two prominent Democratic presidential candidates, Gen. Wesley K. Clark and Senator
Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, have decided to bypass Iowa's presidential
caucuses, angering some party leaders there and signaling what could be a very
different nomination battle next year. (NY Times)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=68&e=2&u=/nyt/20031020/ts_nyt/2topdemocratswillnotcontestiowascaucuses
Decisions by Democratic presidential candidates Wesley Clark and Joseph Lieberman to
forgo active campaigns in Iowa shakes up the race for Iowa's lead-off nominating event
of the 2004 campaign. (Des Moines Register)
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/22541820.html
About Face...Another videotape has emerged in the Wesley K. Clark collection of kind
words for the Bush administration (Time Mag)
http://www.time.com/time/election2004/article/0,18471,524422,00.html
Dean Sparks Debate on Party...Howard Dean's success raising money and mobilizing
voters has provoked a growing debate among Democratic and Republican strategists over
whether the former Vermont governor has the potential to become a "transformative"
political figure. (The Washington Post) http://msnbc.com/news/982424.asp?0dm=N21EN
Democrats begin running a television ad Monday criticizing the Bush administration for
leaking the identity of an undercover CIA officer whose husband criticized the
president's Iraq policy. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031020/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_ad_1
Campaign 2004: Time to Start the Tax-Position Tango (Howard Fineman)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/982189.asp
Democratic candidate Wesley Clark is making a new pitch for donations, inviting
Internet donors to his presidential campaign to predict the World Series champion with
their money pledge. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031020/ap_on_el_pr/clark_baseball_bucks_5
An assemblage of politically active Arab Americans gave former Vermont governor Howard
Dean repeated ovations Saturday at the windup of a two-day meeting that marked a clear
shift of allegiance from President Bush to his Democratic rivals. (The Washington
Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46756-2003Oct18.html
Discord in Bush team distressing allies, Congress (Fort Worth Star Telegram)
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/7051500.htm
Bush's News War...Fed up with the gloom-and-doom coverage of the conflict, the White
House is taking aim at the press (Newsweek) http://msnbc.com/news/982193.asp?0dm=N25JN
Alan Colmes has been called an on-air punching bag, a runt, wishy-washy, a milquetoast
and -- this one must really hurt -- a conservative at heart. (AP)
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/wire/sns-ap-ap-on-tv-foxs-liberal,0,609791.story?coll=sns-ap-tv-headlines
U.S. Troops Order Comfort, With Fries on the Side...Soldiers Looking for a Taste of
Home Make for a Booming Business at Iraq's First Burger King (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46700-2003Oct18?language=printer
California comic eyed for Senate...If Arnold Schwarzenegger can be elected governor of
California, can comedian Dennis Miller unseat Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer? (The
Washington Times) http://washingtontimes.com/national/20031019-115055-6362r.htm
President Bush on Monday personally condemned the Malaysian prime minister for his
statement that Jews rule the world, pulling Mahathir Mohamad aside at an international
economic meeting to tell him the remarks were "wrong and divisive," Bush's spokesman
said. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20031020/ap_on_re_as/asian_summit_malaysia
Opinion/Editorial
Terry reviews a recent Cher concert in DC: In the midst of a recent Cher concert at a
packed arena in Washington, D.C., massive TV screens flashed a clip of the star
declaring that if she wanted to take a certain pair of body parts from her chest and
implant them in her back it would be nobody's business but her own.
http://humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=2091
Katrina: Tear Down the Wall...Calling for lifting the Cuban embargo would be
politically savvy as well as right. http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7
Barnicle: A boy's field of broken dreams
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/128230p-114681c.html
Pat: Is it Bush vs. Dean? http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35166
Newt: The Candidate vs. the General...Did Wesley Clark bother to read his own book?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110004189
Geyer: Bush Sr.'s 'message' to Bush Jr.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/10/18/bush_srs_message_to_bush_jr/
Political humor: Monday Morning Monologue: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/monday.html
West: Anti-war elites http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20031016-085542-7510r.htm
More Pat: Is Bush Seeking a "Decent Interval"?
http://www.amconmag.com/10_20_03/buchanan.html
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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