Election Recycling: Their Big Flamboyant Lie Edition
• Bushjets to EU, NATO summits with expectation of announcing international commitment to Iraq; advisors hope new tone is established. [ WP and WSJ ]
• Bushinterviewed for 70 minutes regarding CIA leak; not under oath. [ WP and NYT ]
•Supreme Court rules in favor ofCheney,likely ensuring energy meetings will not be exposed before November; partisan bickering heats up. [ WP and NYT and WSJ ]
• Kerrymoves to the middle; DLC leader terms him "a pragmatic centrist in theClintonmode."Kerry: "George Bushtalked about being a uniter, not a divider. But he's been the greatest divider as a president in the modern history of this country." [ NYT ]
• Bush, Kerrypromise spread of broadband;Kerryreceives endorsement ofIacocca,former supporter ofBush: "This is a huge for us politically in terms of how business leaders perceive the parties." [WP and NYT and NYT and USAT ]
•Voters turn on Iraq: 54% judge it as mistake, according to USAT/CNN/Gallop poll.Dowd: "The fact that people feel that way doesn't make them feel better aboutKerryor worse about us." [ USAT ]
• Ron Reagansharpens criticism ofBush: "My father didn't knowGeorge W. Bushfrom Adam" and "When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly."Reaganadvisor says Republicans aren't worried because they haveMichael Reagan.[ WP ]
• Gore: "This lie about the invented connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq was and is the key to justifying the current ongoing constitutional power grab by the president. So long as their big flamboyant lie remains an established fact in the public's mind,President Bushwill be seen as justified in taking for himself the power to make war on his whim."Terry Holt: "This is just one of the faces ofJohn Kerry'sDemocratic Party. The anger and vitriol of this attack is so out of step with what voters need in this election. The former vice president's series of rants fits with the whole tenor of their effort to attackPresident Bush."[NYT and WT ]
•Massachusetts Democrats change rules, denyingRomneyright to choose successor shouldKerrywin.Romney: "That's a sweetheart deal." [NYT ][ AP Photo/Charles Dharapak ]