Primary Dolor: Reality Check Edition

February 03, 2004 07:02 AM

· Bush's approval rating is below 50 percent for first time; Kerry leads Bush 53 percent to 46 percent according to USAT/CNN/Gallup Poll. [USAT]

· Front-runner Kerry is criticized by Dean for missing Medicare votes and Edwards for supporting NAFTA and being close to lobbyists. [WP] and [NYT]

· Today is judgment day for Edwards; Clark and Lieberman still playing "Let's Pretend." [WP] and [NYT]

· Kerry crowned 'ABB' by some voters; Party leaders could endorse following a primary sweep today. [WP] and [NYT]

· Bush doesn't forget his conservative base. [WP] and [NYT]

· Electability is the deciding factor. Rep. James Clyburn: "Black folks to a much greater degree want to see Bush out of the White House. Black people aren't crazy. They're looking for somebody they think can win in November." [WP]

· Lieberman concedes a market correction: "I was irrationally exuberant." [WP]

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What Part Of NEVER AGAIN Don't We Understand?

SHAME.

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One day, God willing, my grandchildren will click open their history textbooks and read about the Central American migrant internment camps. They'll learn about sick kids, locked in cages, kept hungry and dirty and cold for weeks on end, and they'll be horrified.

"Bubbie," they'll say, "how could this happen in America? How could there be toddlers sleeping on the ground without blankets, without soap or toothbrushes to clean themselves?"

"I don't know. I wish I had done more. I'm ashamed," I'll say. We will all have to answer for this atrocity. But some of us will have to answer more than others. Not just the archvillains like Stephen Miller and John Kelly, but the people who kept right on doing their jobs, even as those jobs morphed into defending concentration camps.

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