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June 28, 2008 Doubts over Irish soldier's Afghan death

Backed by local Massachusetts politicians, Senator John Kerry and Congressman William Delahunt, the Durkins are pursuing their own investigation and ...

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Source: Times Online, UK


June 28, 2008 Blurt or ploy?

The strategy paid dividends in 2004, when President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and others argued that John Kerry was soft on terrorism. ...

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Source: Toledo Blade, OH


June 28, 2008 The meteoric rise of Barack Obama

What caught my eye though was a five page special feature titled Obama's Ascent - described by TIME as "the story behind America's only Black Senator and ...

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Source: Fiji Times, Fiji


June 28, 2008 Obama, Clinton unite in NH - McCain's turf

Bush won the state in 2000, but Democrat John Kerry beat him there in 2004. In 2006, popular Democratic Gov. John Lynch won re-election as Democrats took ...

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Source: Arizona Republic, AZ


June 28, 2008 McCain, Obama court Hispanic voters

His Democratic rival John Kerry won 53 percent, down from the 62 percent former Vice President Al Gore got in 2000. This year, immigration reform, ...

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Source: The Associated Press


June 28, 2008 Obama to Visit Europe, Mideast

Republican attacks during the 2004 presidential campaign against Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's national security credentials were seen as key factor in ...

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Source: Wall Street Journal


June 28, 2008 Report Shows Lawmakers Heavily Invested in War

Several members who earned the most from defense contractors have plum committee or leadership assignments, including Democratic Sen. John Kerry ...

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Source: Lincoln News Messenger, CA


June 28, 2008 Northeast braces for home heating oil increases

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who heads the Small Business panel, warned of an impending crisis in the Northeast, which is more reliant on oil heat than other ...

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Source: Boston Globe, United States


June 28, 2008 Can Obama win any former confederate states?

Plouffe predicted that if Obama holds the states Democrat John Kerry won in 2004 plus Iowa, adding either Virginia or North Carolina would put him at "game, ...

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle,  USA


June 27, 2008 Pick a Meme, Any Meme

In 2004, John Kerry, they said was a "flip-flopper." This, too, was relatively effective, and was once again parroted by the media. ...

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Source: Huffington Post, NY


June 27, 2008 Inventing a Country-Club Muslim Marxist

While this unwholesome phase of the election cycle is known universally as "Swift-boating" — named after the defamatory media blitz against John Kerry four ...

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Source: Yahoo! News


June 27, 2008 Norquist: Obama is 'Kerry with a tan'

... activist Grover Norquist told the Los Angeles Times Friday that likely Democratic presidential nominee Barrack Obama is "John Kerry with a tan. ...

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Source: United Press International


June 27, 2008 Vets say Pickens backed off $1 million bet

Kerry, a US senator from Massachusetts, offered to meet with Pickens, who turned him down because "none of the material Kerry or the crewmen provided was ...

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Source: United Press International


June 27, 2008 Vets Say Billionaire is Going Back on His Word

The group had organized a media campaign -- books, television ads and speaking engagements -- to refute presidential hopeful John Kerry's claims about his ...

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Source: ABC News


June 27, 2008 Commerce Official Tapped For SBA

"The SBA needs strong leadership to fill the shoes left by Steven Preston," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Small ...

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Source: New York Times, United States


June 27, 2008 Obama Hires New Religious Affairs Adviser

... University before heading to Harvard Divinity School, has also informally advised Sen. John Kerry and Democratic Party chair Howard Dean in the past. ...

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Source: Washington Post, United States


June 27, 2008 Leaders must be free to change their minds

This was Sen. John Kerry's fate in the last presidential election. How dare he change his mind on the Iraq invasion in the light of new information? ...

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Source: Knoxville News Sentinel, TN


June 27, 2008 Your Name Your Email Address Recipient's Email Address

Bob Shrum, a key adviser to both Al Gore and John Kerry, treasures a brightly-colored scarf he only wears on election nights. He calls it his lucky scarf ...

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Source: Newsweek


June 26, 2008 Mayor Menino denies snub of John Kerry

By Dave Wedge Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday insisted his decision to skip the Democratic state convention two weeks ago was not a snub to Sen. ...

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Source: Boston Herald, United States


June 26, 2008 Political Punch

His lead nationally, and double digits in some key states, is not hugely different from where Sen. John Kerry stood four years ago at this point in the ...

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Source: ABC News


June 25, 2008 Commerce official picked to lead SBA

Sen. John Kerry, who chairs the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, said the panel will review "Baruah's record carefully to make sure ...

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Source: Bizjournals.com, NC


June 25, 2008 Jon Stewart Skewers Obama on Public Financing

... NPR, and PBS peddling their lies about John Kerry's Vietnam war record. Yes, even the venerable "serious" news hosts Jim Lehrer and Tim Russert gave the ...

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Source: Yahoo! News


June 25, 2008 Question Taken at the Briefing

The Washington Times this morning published Senator John Kerry and Gordon Smith's article calling for the lifting of a ban on immigration into the US for ...

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Source: Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung), Germany


June 25, 2008 Study: Media Bias Can Net Mistakes At The Ballot Box

... that among voters who get most election news from Fox, 70 percent supported President Bush, compared with 21 percent for Democratic rival John Kerry. ...

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Source: Science Daily (press release)


June 25, 2008 An inspired idea — keep religious endorsements out of politics

... they warned parishioners that a vote for the pro-abortion rights John Kerry would render them as unworthy of Communion as he was pronounced to be. ...

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Source: Edmond Sun, OK


June 25, 2008 Mo. Sen. McCaskill emerging as key Obama supporter

"John Kerry never landed an airplane outside of Kansas City or St. Louis," McCaskill says of her party's 2004 presidential nominee. ...

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Source: The Associated Press


June 25, 2008 Congress pressing Bush to block, reverse Iraq oil deals

Y., John Kerry, D-Mass., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., want the United States to dam negotiations on contracts the senators claim will, in part, ...

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Source: United Press International


June 25, 2008 Will Obama's name help a Republican senator?

Oregon is a Democratic-leaning state that voted for Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry in 2004 by eight percentage points. ...

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Source: CNN


June 25, 2008 Obama's money

Such tactics worked, of course, in the 2004 "swift-boating" of Sen. John Kerry, whose aides complained he lacked the money to respond effectively. ...

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Source: Louisville Courier-Journal, KY


June 25, 2008 From the Wire

"John Kerry never landed an airplane outside of Kansas City or St. Louis," McCaskill says of her party's 2004 presidential nominee. ...

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Source: AlterNet, CA


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