JUST IN: WAPO publicizes Conyers DSM public forum on Thursday

[BigBearJohn]

Democrats Looking for a Road Map to Downing Street

By Terry M. Neal
Washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 14, 2005; 10:26 AM

Democrats this week are escalating their efforts to highlight the so-called "Downing Street Memo."

Rep. John Conyers Jr. (Mich.), the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has scheduled a public forum for Thursday on the subject. And 104 House Democrats have signed a letter written by Conyers to President Bush asking him for a detailed response to the memo.

After struggling during his failed presidential bid last year to stake out a clear and compelling position on the nation's most pressing issue -- Iraq -- Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) has come out swinging. A senior aide close to Kerry said this week that Kerry is circulating a letter about the memo among Democratic senators before sending it to Bush. The aide predicted that Kerry would make the letter public in the next few days.

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SOURCE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/14/AR2005061400563.html?nav=rss_politics

[liberal N proud]

1. That took a long time! NOT.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. We can gain advantage by TALKING about the "memo", but

we have to be careful??? The memo isn't news??? :wtf: The "issue" has "kinda" been handled??? :wtf:



<snip>Erik Smith, a former longtime adviser to former House minority leader Richard A. Gephardt, said that although there are "cracks in the president's Teflon," most voters are turned off by suggestions that he purposefully lied to make the case for war.

"I think that the party can get an advantage talking about it, but it has to be done very carefully," said Smith, who has studied research of voter perceptions last year while at the liberal Media Fund. "The research found that you couldn't make the argument that there was malevolence involved, that the president intentionally lied to get to war. You can make the argument that there was thorough planning, and you can make lots of arguments about mishandling. But saying that he purposefully put people in harm's way was not a credible argument."<snip> (emphasis added by me) HE DID TOO!!!!!!!

<snip>Similarly, Dane Strother, who advises numerous congressional and gubernatorial candidates, said: "I'm not sure is news. People know he lied. Paul O'Neill said that Bush planned on attacking Iraq all along in his book two years ago. haven't showed themselves to be very vulnerable. . . . They forge ahead anyway."

I called the White House on Friday to ask about the memo and was transferred to the National Security Council, where spokesman Fred Jones told me "that issue has already kind of been handled" -- a reference to Bush's answer to a single question, with no follow up, at a news conference earlier in the week.<snip>


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[EVDebs]

3. Both Ben Bradlee and Bob Woodward have naval intell backgrounds

so their Operation Mockingbird credentials are intact.

Ben Bradlee
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbradleeB.htm

Bob Woodward
www.webcom.com/ctka/pr196-woodward.html

During Watergate, the CIA and military both WANTED Nixon out of office for their own selfish reasons. This bit of serendipity proved helpful to progressive interests back then.

Now, however, these CIA and military interests WANT Bush to stay in office, again for their own selfish reasons.

M$M needs to wake up and smell the coffee, soon.