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...truths to the American people. Yet Kerry has not requested a single sacrifice from Americans making less than $200,000 a year. He promises victory in Iraq without sending any more American troops. He promises more health insurance and lower taxes. He promises energy independence without pain. On the stump, he calls for a broader prescription-drug benefit for senior citizens but has nothing to say about Medicare reform...
...movie-star son George has helped raise money, but could Nick Clooney's celebrity be as much a liability as an asset in the race for Kentucky's conservative Fourth District? "[It's] Hollywood vs. the Heartland," business consultant Geoff Davis bellows on the stump. The charge of being an outsider doesn't stick easily to former newscaster Clooney, whose family has lived in the area for five generations. But if Davis brands him as too liberal on social issues, Clooney may feel like an outsider come Election...
...Born to Stump Bruce Springsteen leads a pro-Kerry tour...
...legitimate question, but it presumes that the players on the Vote for Change tour--Springsteen, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Dixie Chicks, Dave Matthews Band and 11 more--are planning to become stump speakers. "You don't stand up at a rock show and lecture people unless your name is Gandhi," says R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck. "We're musicians, not politicians. We get that." MoveOn.org the liberal political-action committee that is presenting Vote for Change, has tried to get the performers on message with a series of talking points, but there's little evidence to suggest that the briefings stuck...
Bush's real nemesis may have been moderator Jim Lehrer, whose questions kept much of the debate strictly focused on Iraq. The President came armed only with the brilliantly succinct paragraph he uses on the stump to defend the war: The world is better off without Saddam, progress is being made, Kerry is a flip-flopper who sends mixed signals. It usually takes Bush no more than two or three minutes to deliver these lines to tumultuous applause. But he had 45 minutes to fill last Thursday, and there was no applause. Simple truths became simplistic evasions. He used "mixed...