Presidential Race T-1

1. Kerry's Discharge Is Questioned by an Ex-JAG Officer: The "honorable discharge" on the Kerry Web site appears to be a Carter administration substitute for an original action expunged from Mr. Kerry's record, according to Mark Sullivan, who retired as a captain in the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps Reserve in 2003 after 33 years of service as a judge advocate. Mr. Sullivan served in the office of the Secretary of the Navy between 1975 and 1977 (Thomas Lipscomb, NY SUN)
2. Today's NY Sun article on Kerry's discharge status (beldarblog)
3. Thank you ACLU: Ex-Guantanamo Inmate claims Pakistan hotel bomb Abdullah Mehsud, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate who masterminded the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers, has claimed responsibility for a blast last week at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel, a journalist said on Monday. (lgf)
4. Did NBC Edit Out Kerry's Admission on Military Records?: Many readers have written us, expressing outrage that when NBC's Dateline rebroadcast Tom Brokaw's interview with John Kerry, which was previously shown on MSNBC, Kerry's admission that not all of his military records have been released was edited out. Other bloggers are accusing NBC of covering up Kerry's admission that he has repeatedly lied about making all of his records public. (powerlineblog)
5. MEMRI translates entire Osama video (powerlineblog)
6. Osama Casts His Vote (safire, nyt)
7. Kerry is criticized over Bin Laden poll: John Kerry was hit by an eve-of-election row today when it emerged his team took an opinion poll on the Osama bin Laden terror tape.
   "It's as though he doesn't know what he believes until he check the polls," claimed vice president Dick Cheney (thisislondon.co.uk)
8. The Media Lies: If President Bush is re-elected tomor row, the victory will have come de spite the best efforts of two erstwhile American journalistic icons — the Grey Lady of Times Square and Edward R. Murrow's Tiffany Network: The New York Times and CBS News. (nypost)
9. Study finds press pro-Kerry: Sen. John Kerry has gotten the white-glove treatment from the press, garnering more praise from journalists than any other presidential candidate in the last quarter-century, according to a new analysis of almost 500 news stories released today by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (washington times)
10. Angry over on-air remark, adviser threatens a ban : John Sasso, a senior adviser to John F. Kerry's presidential campaign, threatened to ban Fox News staff from the candidate's plane Friday night when Fox initially refused to apologize for a talk show host's comment that a new videotape showed Osama bin Laden with a Kerry button. (boston.com)
11. 'The liberal elite hasn't got a clue' - Tom Wolfe
    As a member of the Manhattan intelligentsia, novelist Tom Wolfe seems a lonely defender of George Bush's conservative values. But, he tells Ed Vulliamy, he's bewildered by a sex-mad society and tired of being lectured to at dinner parties. (guardian)
12. Is Kerry relevant to 2004 election?: In any event, what John Kerry says seems removed from the Democratic master plan to send Bush back to Texas. Few Democratic politicians think Kerry has proved a good campaigner, and obsessing over missing explosives supports that judgment. What counts for Democrats is fulfillment of the ground game to bring previous non-voters to polling places Tuesday (novak, chicago suntimes)
13. Demo-nization Of Bush Recalls 1984 Election: cf. Nixon didn't challenge fraud in 1960 election vs. Gore in 2000 (sfgate.com)
14. Cheney Makes a Quick Stop in Hawaii: Vice President Cheney flew all night to say aloha to Hawaiians and make a last-minute pitch for their four electoral votes, the first time since 1960 that anyone on a presidential ticket spared the time and money to campaign in the distant island state. (washingtonpost)
15. American Board of Rabbis blasts France over Arafat: In an unprecedented and extraordinary attack on France, the American Board of Rabbis has demanded a worldwide ban on French products. (bignewsnetwork)
16. Daschle death match is 1 of 9 tight races with the control of Senate at stake (sfgate)
17. Ohio judge rules against Republican vote challenge: Pro-Kerry Judge Dlott Married to Democrat Money Man: Here's a fascinating bit of news that explains a lot about all those rulings for Democrat vote fraud and against fair elections by Clintonista judge Susan Dlott. (newsmax)

Other

• Our Nomination for Quote of the Campaign
  ‘That’s a lie, John O’Neill! Keep lying, it’s all you do!... Lies!... That’s a lie! It’s another lie! That’s a lie! Absolute lie!... You’re just lying...It’s a pack of lies!... He just lied to you! He spews out this filth!... You liar!... You just spew lies!... I just hate the lies of John O’Neill. I hate lies...O’Neill’s a liar, he’s been a liar for 35 years...They lied!... Lies! Just tell me the initials, you liar! Creepy liar!...’
  -Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC’s ‘Senior Political Analyst’ to John O’Neill, spokesman for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - 'Scarborough Country' (lucianne.com)
• 'Foreign media are about as useful as lice' - Kerry aide: Ahead of tomorrow's American poll, Stephen Armstrong meets a Sky News team who are struggling with 8,000 other international journalists to gain access to candidates who see them as a waste of time (guardian)
• Brit Hume was a grade school pal of John Kerry (newsday)
• Ben Shapiro review of Ann Coulter "How to talk to a Liberal" (townhall)
• Recovering Liberals blog discussion: Many of us have never voted for a Republican before, especially for President, and it will be a peculiar experience indeed on Tuesday (rogerlsimon)
• CBS trolling for leftwing hit on Bush -- National Guard body armor (powerlineblog)