Presidential Debate 3 ctd

1. Anything to get elected - Edwards remark on Christopher Reeve: I'm not making this up. I couldn't. This is John Edwards on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: ``If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.''
   In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Hope is good. False hope is bad. Deliberately raising for personal gain false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable. (wapo)(charles krauthammer, townhall)
2. Dr. Charles Krauthammer is a paraplegic (endeavor.med.nyu.edu)
3. Australian op-ed mistaken attacks on Krauthammer: Master race? What, as in Nazi? Adams must have had a good chuckle penning that line, given that Krauthammer is a Jew. Then there's the bit about Krauthammer being one of the "most hawkish of the Bush chickenhawks." Piggy wants us to picture Krauthammer as the archetypical armchair general, hiding comfortable and safe behind a desk while others march off to die. Actually, Krauthammer wouldn't be much use on a battlefield. He's a paraplegic. Fact is, he's not even a Republican. As Piggy could have found out if he cared as much about truth as he does for the sound of his own voice, Krauthammer is a Democrat. And not just any Democrat, either, but Walter Mondale's former speechwriter. (bunyip.blogspot)
4. Krauthammer bio (washingtonpost)
5. Tommy Franks for Bush: "I know a commander in chief when I see one and there's only one on the ballot" (yahoonews)
6. Winning over Samarra (freedomstruth.blogspot)
7. Military letter from Iraq (vodkapundit)
8. Poll: GIs, Families Trust Bush Over Kerry (yahoonews)
9. Soldier: God is in this place: Just like the Vietnam War, the public thinks we are losing, but just like the Vietnam War, we in truth are winning. We have won every conflict, every skirmish, every fire fight but the media wants the great American people to believe this is a losing cause. It isn't....
   Today I was able to go to church, it was held at the base theater. With a laptop computer, a one eye (projector), two speakers and a microphone the chaplain played some praise music. I sat there and watched--watched the Marines, Soldiers and Sailors walk in and greet each other, all different ranks from the a Navy Captain all the way down to a Marine Private, and all perfect strangers but all brothers and sisters. As I listened to the music, I began to notice, an awesome presence. God was in this place. I have been in a church where I felt the presence of God but not like this, I fought back the tears. Can't have the young warriors see a Marine Captain cry. Overtaken by His Presence, I began thinking about all the info you all see on the news and what the newspapers tell you about this place. I was wrong, God is in this place. (lauraingraham)
10. Clintons ruined U.S. Vaccine Industry: What all this did was screw up the whole private sector mechanism of manufacturing and distributing vaccines. In 2001, the private sector cost of immunizing children with the 20 recommended doses of vaccines was $600 per child. The government price was just $400 per child, with the vaccine makers swallowing the difference. What has this achieved? Vaccination rates for two-year-olds have stagnated at about 74% for the past several years while adult rates are significantly lower, and with the profit margin squeeze to practically zero, some manufacturers have simply said, "We're not making the stuff anymore. It doesn't make sense. We've got this government program that tells us the maximum we can charge, regardless what it costs to make, we're going to be threatened with lawsuits the first time somebody gets sick for whatever vaccine. Screw it!" (rushlimbaugh)
11. Dignity of Whitehouse - Loathsome remarks about Mary Cheney (nypost)
12. John Kerry first marriage (Joseph Curl, Washington Times)(moveonnow.org)
13. Kerry's divorce papers: A ticking time bomb (worldnetdaily)

Other

• Heinz Kerry reports nearly $2.3 million income, $800,000 in taxes: Heinz Kerry, who is tied for last on Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans, paid $628,401 in federal taxes in 2003 and $171,670 in Pennsylvania state taxes on a total federal adjusted gross income of $2,291,137. Most of the income was from investment dividends.
  She also reported $2.78 million of tax exempt interest income from state, municipal and public entity bonds.
  According to the Kerry campaign, Heinz Kerry was responsible for more than $4.6 million in charitable contributions distributed primarily by the Heinz Family Foundation, which she created with her late husband, Sen. John Heinz.
  She and her husband file separately. Earlier in the year, Kerry released 2003 tax returns showing he had paid federal taxes of $102,152 on adjusted gross income of $395,338. (apwire)
• A President's Prayer: Montana logger in tears (McCaslin, washingtontimes)
• Leveling the media playing field: Is The New York Times a liberal newspaper? "Of course it is." – Daniel Okrent Public editor, The New York Times (joseph perkins, san diego union tribune)
• A British newspaper finds a late-term conspiracy between country's largest abortion provider and a Spanish clinic. (christianitytoday)
• Guardian UK attempt to spam Ohio Clark County voters (timblair.spleenville)
• Archive on voter fraud (billhobbs.com)
• Saddam bankrolled Palestinian terrorists (scotsman)
• DNC Voter Fraud: If Drudge has it right, then the Kerry-Edwards campaign is going to do its damnedest to turn our fine nation into a banana republic. (vodkapundit)
• Why This Lifelong Jewish Liberal is Voting Republican (command-post.org)
• Ted Koppel bested by Swiftvet O'Neil: When Koppel asked O'Neil to respond to the villagers who he, in an overstatement, said backed Kerry's claims, O'Neil -ever the trial lawyer- did what I did not think possible. He laid Koppel on the canvas.
  O'Neil held up his book and read the part where he claimed there was only one VC soldier. THEN he held up the Boston Globe biography of John Kerry and he read the part where IT said there was only one VC solder... Then in a coup de grâce, John O'Neil held up John Kerry's own AUTObiography and read the part where Kerry himself says he was glad there was only one VC soldier because he was not sure what would have happened if there had been "2, 5 or 10 of them." (wizbangblog)