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Tonight we'll talk to fmr. Colorado Senator & presidential candidate Gary Hart (a cat
who was calling for a Homeland Security department before calling for a Homeland
Security department was cool) about the latest terror threat warning and his new book
"The Fourth Power: A Grand Strategy for the United States in the Twenty-First
Century"...Sounds positively Kissingerian to me folks.
Newsday columnist Marie Cocco, who wrote a piece this week on Kerry's bid for
disillusioned Republicans, will be here to chat about undecided and cross over
voters...She'll go toe to toe with Briefing subscriber & Wall Street Journal guy John
Fund...
Ret. General Barry McCaffrey is back from Afghanistan and Pakistan where he toured
around those countries at the behest of U.S. Central Command...We'll get a firsthand
account from the front line of America's war on terrorism..
Remember that ad spot we promised from David Shuster yesterday? It's back! We'll roll
it and then get reax from GOP ad gal Kim Alfano and Dem consultant/uber-blogger Joe
Trippi (http://joetrippi.com) who has a new book out titled "The Revolution Will Not
Be Televised" in which Joe describes being part of an actual online funeral for a real
person...No joke...That's not actually the whole book but certainly one of the more
unique episodes in Joe's life...It's a great book I'm reading on the Metro ride home..
Btw, the blog is still up and running so check it out and shoot us an e-mail when the
spirit moves you http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086
I love this little sugar plum...Remember the Kerry-Edwards Wendy's restaurant photo op
last week?? According to the Mid-Hudson News Network, a Kerry campaign aide had called
a very upscale eatery at the tony Newburgh Yacht Club the night before and ordered 19
haut cuisine dishes to be picked up at the same time as the Wendy's photo-op. The real
lunch was shrimp vindaloo, grilled diver sea scallops, prosciutto-wrapped stuffed
chicken - all prepared by a Culinary Institute of America-trained chef. (Mid Hudson
News) http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/Archive/KerryEdwards_menu-31Jul04.htm
Today's food eating tip: To avoid brain freeze when you're drinking a milkshake, keep
the straw away from the roof of your mouth. To lessen the already headache-inducing
effect, press your tongue or your thumb up there.
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Briefing from Washington, DC
Cocco Backgrounder: Kerry eyes disillusioned GOPers...The Democratic nominee hopes to
find support among Republicans upset with Bush
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpcoc023915257aug02,0,7512534.column?coll=ny-news-columnists
Fund Backgrounder: Patriotic Liberalism...Will all the flag waving work for Democrats
this year? http://opinionjournal.com/diary/
Missouri OKs gay marriage ban...Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved a
constitutional amendment Tuesday to ban gay marriage, the first such vote since the
historic ruling in Massachusetts last year that legalized same-sex weddings there.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5592789/
Protests planned for Bush...Two groups announced Tuesday that they plan to protest at
today's President Bush rally at LeClaire Park along the Mississippi River in
Davenport. (Quad City Times)
http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1032469&l=1&t=Local+News&c=2,1032469
Democrat John Kerry, in a veiled swipe at Vice President Dick Cheney, said that he
won't dole out special favors to corporations if elected president..."My vice
president of the United States will never meet secretly with polluters who want to
rewrite the environmental laws," the presidential nominee told a cheering crowd packed
into a hockey arena Tuesday. (AP)
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/sns-ap-kerry,0,4492204.story?coll=ny-prezelection-headlines
Democrats rolled out a "Bush truth squad" Tuesday to state the facts as they see them
and challenge the president's assertions at every turn of the campaign. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040804/D848EB7O3.html
Clinton pushes for Kerry on Letterman...He had a copy of his book for Letterman's son,
Harry http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5595563/
Gen. Tommy Franks on Iraq war and WMDs...The man who led the U.S. wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq, retired Gen. Tommy Franks, tells NBC's Jim Miklaszewski what was going on
behind the scenes. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5594577/
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday defended a top aide who was severely
criticized by Gen. Tommy Franks, the top U.S. commander in the Iraq war...In an
interview with The Associated Press, Rumsfeld called Undersecretary Douglas Feith
"without question one of the most brilliant individuals in government." (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040803/D8481F700.html
$1.9 billion of Iraq funds go to U.S. contractors...CPA criticized for sloppy record
keeping, violating its own rules (The Washington Post)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5595163/
Wash Post Analysis on latest Terror Threat: Old data, new credibility
issues...Questions arise over age of terror threat information
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5595134/
State Rep. Russ Carnahan appeared to squeak out a victory over newcomer Jeff Smith on
Tuesday to capture the Democratic nomination for the congressional seat now held by
retiring U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/Election+2004/42064BEC7F9E496D86256EE6001F4A13?OpenDocument&Headline=Carnahan+holds+top+spot%3B+Bitter+campaign+winds+down+to++phot
Springsteen Joins Anti-Bush Concert Tour...The rocker will be among more than 20
artists performing shows in nine battleground states in October. They hope to raise
money for Democratic campaign efforts and to sway voters toward Kerry. (Los Angeles
Times)
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/la-080404artists_lat,0,6381297.story?coll=ny-politics-bigpix
Lennon vs. McCartney, Jagger vs. Richards, Simon vs. Garfunkel . . . rock 'n' roll has
a rich history of feuding band members....Now politics has split the Electras,
presidential contender John Kerry's '60s prep-school group. (The Boston Herald)
http://news.bostonherald.com/election/view.bg?articleid=38491
Officials in Indiana and Washington say they're dumbfounded by a statement U-S
Representative Katherine Harris of Sarasota made about a terrorist plot to blow up a
power grid in Indiana. (AP)
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-80404harris,0,7701258.story?coll=sfla-news-florida
'Sopranos' won't be back until 2006...HBO is hoping for 13 episodes rather than 10
(MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5498556/
Food Corner: Miang Kam Sauce
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36907-2004Aug3.html
Opinion/Editorial
Pat: A non-believable ticket http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39799
Terry: Read Kerry's Lips...One of the most dramatic segments in John Kerry's speech at
the Democratic National Convention seemed at first listening to be a ringing
re-affirmation of a traditional American principle.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=4707
Trippi: The parties march toward extinction...Whether they win or lose in 2004, the
mainstream political parties must change or die http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5591533/
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