Friday, March 26, 2004

March 26

The White House's defensive playbook against Richard Clarke's 9/11 claims seems now to be solely along the lines of attacking him for 'selling a book'. Bill Frist on the senate floor tonight said that Clarke should give up any profits from the book and suggested that he had changed his story.

Meanwhile, flush with unity from their $11m love-in last night, the Democrats have - quite understandably - had a go at Bush over his remarks at the correspondents' dinner.

The president's 'skit' about the inability to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq raised the hackles of Dems, including John Kerry who, according to the Post, noted: "George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them, and now he thinks that's funny?"

According to ABC's The Note, Howard Dean's endorsement of Kerry yesterday didn't extend to allowing the candidate access to Dean's 700,000-address email list.

A study by the Wisconsin Advertising Project at UWM finds that, taken in combination, TV ads thus far by the Bush campaign and by Kerry's team and other anti-Bush organisations together appear to be roughly on a par while there seems to be a consensus emerging on which are going to be the battleground states.







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