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It seems rather unfair that you need to have Windows to play the mock ads. I understand downloading a WMP, but it plain says that it won't work on my machine, and it will never work until I get Windows! I hope the Europeans get 'em good....

philnwmi

Mar 22 2004, 11:12 PM

Why not include the articles title? Most people aren't going to bother clicking on links when they don't know the point of the site. It's great work, and could be improved by just adding the headline or one sentence summary.

Anonymous

Mar 23 2004, 07:58 AM

the ones I picked out to read, were all negative toward JRE.
:cry:

It makes me wonder if my feelings are correct and that this is the end of the line for him.

Bora

Mar 23 2004, 08:55 PM

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news...ggkkoing|Bora|Y

http://www.thehill.com/morris/032404.aspx

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader...004/8256812.htm

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_arti...6c8eaaf010f6b98

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4575461/

http://www.techcentralstation.com/032304A.html

http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=127&s...ontentid=252471

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=3342

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/0323200...siness/6805.htm

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...3230358/-1/NEWS

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?...RTICLE_ID=37703

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/presid...g_presidential/

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north257.html

http://cgi.`citizen-times`.com/ ...plate=columnist

Bora

Mar 25 2004, 07:45 PM

http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3620

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews...ics/8277310.htm

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews...rld/8271587.htm

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease....4-03252004`

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americ...sp?story=505081

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/24/iraq/

http://www.wral.com/news/2949632/detail.html

http://www.opendemocracy.net/other_content...-worlddiary.jsp

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=...id=222076&rfi=6

http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol35/vol3...MfumeWatts.html

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctime...mes/8271774.htm

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news...cal/8270263.htm

http://www.yankton.net/stories/032504/opE_...040325039.shtml

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=124...5&PAG=461&rfi=9

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0031324.cfm

Wee gordie

Mar 26 2004, 02:40 AM

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Article: Union Urges Democrats to Switch Parties
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Article: U.S. Vetoes U.N. Council's Yassin Measure
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Article: Text of Proposed Yassin U.N. Resolution
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Article: EU Leaders Pick First `Anti-Terror` 'Czar'
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Article: Palestinian Intellectuals, Officials Urge Restraint
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Article: Blair, Gaddafi Pledge to Fight Al Qaeda
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Article: White House to Delay Syria `Sanctions-Sources`
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Article: Daughter Barred From Pledge Hearing
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Op/Ed - Ted Rall

Article: SPANISH LIE
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Article: PIN THE TALE ON THE DONKEY
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Op/Ed - David Shribman

Article: CANDIDATES DEFINED BY THEIR RESPONSE TO CHANGE
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Op/Ed - William F. Buckley

Article: CLARKE'S PROBLEMS
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Note: I normally enjoy Buckley's column - this one I find oddly off center.
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Op/Ed - Maggie Gallagher

Article: 'UNDER GOD' QUESTION REACHES DEEPER THAN PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
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Op/Ed - New York Post

Article: VEEP TALK FOR KERRY & KERREY
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Article: RICHARD CLARKE'S SHIFTING STORIES
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Note: I don't enjoy "The NY Post very much - but I look at opposing views. I always find it interesting how teh media uses snippets of statements to bolster their position, be it right or left.
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Op/Ed - USATODAY.com

Article: Why promote U.S. parks only to cut key services?
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Article: Park Service Cutting Budgets Quietly
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Article: Poll: Voters Take 2004 Election Seriously
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Article: Chairmen of Political Parties Debate
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Article: Republican Voter Drive Heads to MTV
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excerpt: The `56-foot` `18-wheeler` featuring a soundstage, computer terminals and a multimedia center is part of the GOP's effort to register 3 million new voters by Election Day. Some 57 million Americans of voting age are not registered.
Turnout among 18- to `24-year`-olds in the 2000 election was about 42 percent, an `all-time` low since 1972, when the voting age was dropped to 18.
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Article: Bush Ad Assails Kerry's Economic Record
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Article: List of House Races
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Article: It's a Lobbyists' Paradise in Washington
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Article: Bush Ordered Plan to Confront Iraq
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Article: FBI's Mueller Warns of Terrorist Plots
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Note: I find it odd that we are sharing intelligence with countries that were or are considered supportive of terrorism. Isn't this a breach of our national security.
Make people afraid and you can do anything in the name of protecting liberties.
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Article: White House Asks 9/11 Panel to Meet Rice
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excerpt: WASHINGTON - The White House on Thursday asked the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to give national security adviser Condoleezza Rice another opportunity to talk privately with panel members.
The White House said, in a letter to the commission chairman and vice chairman from counsel Alberto Gonzales, that such a session would allow her to clear up "a number of mischaracterizations of Dr. Rice's statements and positions."
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Article: Credibility at Stake for Bush, Clarke
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Article: Clarke Revealed As Defender of White House
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Article: Bush Pokes Some Fun During Media Dinner
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Article: Bush Defends His Actions in War on Terror
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Article: Bush Administration Criticizes Tiffany
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Article: In a War of Words Over Numbers, Both Campaigns Have Problems
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excerpt: Peter R. Orszag of the Brookings Institution has looked at the ideas and plans and found both campaigns wanting. "The administration's budget is somewhere between misleading and dishonest," he said, "and I just don't have enough information from the Kerry side to render a judgment."
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Article: House Approves $2.41 Trillion Budget
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Article: Nasdaq Posts Biggest Gain in 9 Months
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excerpt: The rally snapped a `five-day` losing streak for `blue-chip` stocks, which fell to lows for the year on Wednesday. The Nasdaq had its second session of gains after closing at a 2004 low on Tuesday.
"There is just a little bit of a sense that things are oversold," said Evan Olsen, head of equity trading at Stephens Inc., of Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Article: Likely `al-Qaida` Tape Seeks Pakistan Coup
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Article: Kerry Says U.S. Deserves Truthful Leader
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Article: White House Plans to Mark NATO Expansion
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Article: US warns citizens of possible attacks after death of Hamas leader
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Article: US admits it is vulnerable, 30 months after September 11 attacks
excerpt: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declined to link the absence of terrorist attacks on US soil since September 11, 2001 to the success of Bush's declared war on terrorism.
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Article: 9/11 Commissioner Chides Clinton, Bush
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Article: US vetoes resolution at bitter UN meet on Israel
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Article: New Spain PM firm on troop pullout from Iraq in meetings with Blair, Powell
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Article: Democrats Press Overtime Issue, Stall Trade Bill
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Article: DeLay Must Step Aside if Indicted
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excerpt: Prosecutors are examining, in part, whether corporate contributions made to Texans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee formed in 2001 by DeLay, ultimately went to GOP state House candidates. That would be a violation of Texas campaign finance laws.
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Article: Details on Government Bunker
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Article: Report: Some Credit Helpers Hurt Consumers
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Article: U.N.: China Standard of Living Threatened
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Article: Fed Members Debated Wording of Pledge
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Article: Homeland Seeks 'Entertainment Liaison'
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Need a job? - excerpt: The Homeland Security Department has posted a job for a "liaison to the entertainment industry." The salary could be as high as $136,000, plus benefits.
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Article: Postage Stamp Prices Could Rise Sharply
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excerpt: Potter asked a joint `House-Senate` hearing on the future of the post office Tuesday to free $3 billion in postal funds from an escrow account and to remove a $27 billion obligation for the agency to cover military retirement benefits for its workers who previously served in the armed forces.
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Article: U.S. Files WTO Trade Case Against China
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excerpt: The action, the first case brought against China by any country since it joined the WTO in late 2001, is another step in the administration's effort to show it is taking action to deal with America's surging trade deficit with China, which last year hit $124 billion, the largest trade gap the United States has ever recorded with any nation.
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Article: Daschle: Bush Admin. Aims to Defame Clarke
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excerpt: Referring to the Bush campaign's attacks against McCain in the 2000 Republican primaries, he said, "I will never forget the distortions, the recklessness, and the viciousness of those attacks. They were wrong and they impugned one of our great patriots." McCain spent several years as a prison of war in Vietnam.
Daschle said Cleland, a triple amputee Vietnam war veteran, had his "reputation and patriotism smeared" in a losing campaign for `re-election` in 2002. His rival ran an ad including images of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and accusing him of voting against Bush's plan to create a new Department of Homeland Security.
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Teri S

Mar 26 2004, 09:25 AM

Thank you Bora and Wee Geordie!

Bora

Mar 27 2004, 09:08 PM

http://www.sfgate.com/`cgi-bin`/ar...DTL&type=movies

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...aker.a40e9.html

http://www.fresnobee.com/columnists/ellis/...4832c`.html

http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/art...itics/0dems.txt

http://www.wisinfo.com/newsherald/mnhlocal...813862844.shtml

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/presid...ise_record_11m/

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunne...cal/8291076.htm

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/21911.htm

http://www.`news-record`.com/news/...coop_032704.htm
North Carolina Democrats plan to honor departing U.S. Sen. John Edwards when they meet next month for their annual `Jefferson-Jackson` Dinner. The Democrats' gathering is scheduled for April 24 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Cary. For ticket information, call (919) `821-2777`.
A party spokesman said Edwards was planning to attend.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nati...0_senate27.html

http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2004...3272004/1300627

http://www.thederrick.com/stories/`032...6004`.shtml

http://www.`herald-sun`.com/durham...63463`.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115360,00.html

Bora

Mar 28 2004, 03:27 AM

This thread is becoming less and less about JRE in the news and more and more about Two Americas in the news. The "frame" has taken root:

http://www.`press-citizen`.com/new...04sundayqna.htm

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/e...ent/8277343.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/`wp-dyn&...-2004Mar27.html

Bora

Mar 28 2004, 03:35 AM

http://www.wisinfo.com/heraldtimes/news/ar..._15437639.shtml

Bora

Mar 29 2004, 12:24 AM

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/20...news/00lead.txt

http://sfgate.com/`cgi-bin`/articl...29/CAMPAIGN.TMP

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2709778

Bora

Mar 29 2004, 09:01 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/29/kerry.vp/

http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...942&cachetime=5

http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?o...order=0&thold=0

Bora

Mar 29 2004, 11:46 PM

These are good:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/politics...ign/30EDWA.html

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/busin...nal/8308180.htm

http://www.`herald-sun`.com/durham...64355`.html

http://cgi.`citizen-times`.com/ ...plate=columnist

Bora

Mar 30 2004, 09:37 AM

Please, if you are not too bored to actually check out the links I keep posting, copy the links and good excerpts onto more appropriate threads.

Bora

Mar 30 2004, 01:26 PM

http://dailysoutherner.com/articles/2004/0.../news/news4.txt

http://www.ctnow.com/news/elections/`l...orytop-fea`

http://www.palatkadailynews.com/pages/0330...02004/says.html

Bora

Apr 1 2004, 01:40 AM

James Taylor sang "The Way I Feel" and "Carolina in My Mind" before reporters were ushered out. After "Carolina" but not on camera, Taylor said: "It's way too early to say that song had anything to do with the prospects of John Edwards."
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/ar...hes_well_versed

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/...ics/8324289.htm

10 reasons for JRE for VP
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...dorf.979ed.html

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/...ics/8324289.htm

http://www.`herald-sun`.com/durham...64829`.html

http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/new....1401.1228.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselect...-win_x`.htm

http://www.dailyillini.com/news/1385

http://technicianonline.com/story.php?id=009292

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/...-m31`.shtml

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news...cal/8316798.htm

http://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/th...Republicans.htm

http://www.dailyvanguard.com/vnews/display...1/406a70de1f4f9

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/na...nes-nation`

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/`cgi-bin&#...59854`.html

http://www.weeklydig.com/dig/content/6248.aspx

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2...31/121352.shtml

http://www.amnews.com/public_html/?module=...918&format=html

http://onpointradio.org/shows/2004/03/2004...0331_a_main.asp

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/03...-0414`.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0401/`p0...-usgn`.html

Bora

Apr 2 2004, 01:25 PM

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cf...fm?ItemID=16699 Morning Edition's wakeup call

http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?ai...d=2004040201050 Post reporter: Either Bush or Kerry could clinch a win

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/...1184558,00.html Kerry needs a vice

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story...68375&ran=45218
They also said incorrectly that John Kerry launched the “Two Americas” campaign. It was actually former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/triangle/...4096c`.html It's Dennis' day at last, at least in Carrboro

http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story...1050c`.html Democrats set N.C. caucuses

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18271 IVINS: Environmental Assaults

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,...2052349,00.html Author: Bush is '`anti-intellectual`'

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18300 IVINS: Strange Peaches This Election

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/1673...talkshow02.html Don't touch that dial (AirAmericaRadio)

Jackie O

Apr 2 2004, 01:54 PM

There are only 4 sites to go vote at in Raleigh. This is unbelievable. Why are there so fewer than the number of sites set up for voting in other elections?

This will deter a lot of voters from getting out.

vagabondvet

Apr 2 2004, 02:00 PM

Hi, Bora, and everyone...

Because the subject of many of the articles in the links isn't JRE, I'm going to move this topic from JRE In The News to News In Politics. Bora, if you want to create another topic in the JRE In The News forum for articles that are specifically about JRE, go right ahead... might be easier to just continue to post them all in this topic than to sort them out, though... up to you how you want to do it. Thanks again for everything...

Bora

Apr 2 2004, 02:07 PM

Yup, you are right. This thread was supposed to be `JRE-only`, but over time it got polluted by articles on other topics, for which we have other threads already. I guess this should go to News in Politics, and we can start a new `JRE-Links` thread in a day or two once some more articles on JRE show up.

vagabondvet

Apr 2 2004, 02:09 PM

QUOTE(Bora)

Sounds fine.

Bora

Apr 2 2004, 09:41 PM

Poll Picks McCain as Kerry's Vice President
Website unlocks secrets of stars' political contributions
Bowles pitches jobs plan, endorses Embassy
Presidential preference caucus sites announced

Bora

Apr 3 2004, 06:08 PM

http://washingtontimes.com/`upi-breaki...-6738r`.htm Enough with 'saving' time already

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/politics...ign/04VICE.html
Kerry Adviser Looks for Running Mate Ever So Discreetly

http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/`m-n&...riani040304.htm
'Bush's Resume': Answering The Democrat Attack Machine

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=...id=465812&rfi=6
If Kerry wants Rendell's endorsement, he may have to ask

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/...ics/8348119.htm
Kerry needs Pennsylvania if he is to unseat Bush

http://www.nola.com/news/`t-p`/ind...99888151740.xml
Tammany Politics

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news...ggkkoing|Bora|Y
Edwards' popularity leaves NC on sidelines

Bora

Apr 4 2004, 11:51 PM

No signs of quick decision by Kerry on a running mate

It's not easy being Republican at USC

Bora

Apr 5 2004, 06:48 AM

The Gamecock - News
Issue: 4/2/04

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Local man looks to realize dream in new presidential reality show
By Michael LaForgia

Maxwell Highsmith says reality television is his ticket to becoming the next leader of the free world.

Highsmith, 39, of Columbia, has applied to appear on "American Candidate," Showtime's American `Idol-style` political reality show in which viewers vote on potential presidential candidates.

"The revolution will be televised," the show's Web site boasts.

Among the series' advisers is Henry Gates, a Harvard professor who will appear at USC April 13 to speak at the Robert Smalls Lecture.

Highsmith already has his own section on the "American Candidate" Web site.

The reality show got about 200 applications from across the country. The pool will be narrowed to 12 cast members, and Highsmith hopes to be among the finalists. According to the Web site, the winner receives $200,000 and a chance to address the nation at a televised media appearance.

Highsmith is confident he'll make the cut.

"I know that one day I will be president of this country. If not today, then when I'm 60," he said.

He has been tracking the show's development since September 2002, when he first read rumors about the concept on the Drake Report.

Anyone 18 or older can compete on the show.

Highsmith said it took him about a month to complete his application, which he mailed in November.

The application process is a lengthy one, including 27 pages of forms and a `five-minute` video tape.

"It's not an application for the `faint-hearted`," he said.

He expects a decision by April 11. The application deadline is April 9. The series' final episode will be aired July 4, when the two remaining candidates will square off for a debate in front of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.

Highsmith calls himself an independent. He voted for Clinton twice and for Bush in the last election. He is, however, a `card-carrying` Democrat.

"I try to vote on what I think is good for the country and what is good for me," he said. "I'm not a `party-liner` at all."

If he becomes a candidate, Highsmith will campaign on two major issues: ending the U.S. military occupation of Iraq and opening up `election-year` dialogue with the American public, particularly with the black community. Highsmith supports the war on terror, but he said the United States overextended itself by attacking Iraq.

He said he sympathizes with the proponents of gay marriage.

"People think the concept of marriage would be destroyed. I don't see that," he said.

And Highsmith has a unique perspective on the Confederate flag. While he sees it as a divisive force in South Carolina, he said it makes him proud.

"I see it as a symbol of strength for me," said Highsmith, who is black. "There was a time when I was less than `three-fifths` of a man."

As president, Highsmith said he would also address what he sees as interdepartmental problems with the government. For example, Highsmith said communication problems left America unprepared for the September 11 attacks.

On economic matters, Highsmith agrees with much of what U.S. Sen. John Edwards campaigned on.

"I like his talk, I think he had some great ideas," Highsmith said. "I'd like to talk to him to see what's viable."

He invites USC students to challenge him on other important issues.

Born in Hempstead, N.Y., Highsmith joined the Navy after high school.

After a stint as a submarine electronics technician, he attended Broward Community College in Florida. There, he involved himself in student government while studying English and theater.

While in Florida, Highsmith worked as a mall security officer.

He married his wife, Cassandra, in 1989, and the two have a `1-year`-old son.

Highsmith, a U.S. Army reservist, studied English and theater at USC as an undergraduate until his unit received word they were heading overseas in February 2003.

Although he wasn't deployed, Highsmith continues to serve in the Army Reserve as a systems information manager and a squad automatic weapon gunner.

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sirius

Apr 5 2004, 09:31 AM

QUOTE(Bora)

Poll Picks McCain as Kerry's Vice President[/quote]

I want to point out that the title of this article is JUST WRONG! The poll they are talking about said that JRE won in the category where they asked who was most likely to help Kerry get elected. If Kerry doesn't get elected, he ain't going to have a VP. McCain only won by one point over Edwards when they asked who would be more qualified to actually assume the presidency in the event that something happened to Kerry. That's a `razor-slim` margin, and I think Edwards would be a better President than McCain by FAR.

Bora

Apr 5 2004, 03:06 PM

Interesting:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/`wp-dyn&...?referrer=email
This Time, Bush Could Get the Gore Treatment

http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/`wp-...tlook040504.htm
Outlook: Election 2000 Revisited?

Bora

Apr 5 2004, 11:08 PM

Each one of these mentions JRE somewhere:

A matter of poor public relations

Legislators get earful on economy

Living the dream

Buchanan Would Add Gravitas to Ticket

Finally, '60 Minutes' does something right

Kerry attacks President's spending bill

Tracking the Stars' Donations

Democratic Veep Short List Grows

Bush says economy is 'fantastic'

Job Losses in Textile Sector Mount as Negotiations with China Stumble Along

Bora

Apr 6 2004, 10:10 PM

A view from the other side of the aisle:

http://www.nypress.com/17/14/news&columns/rsmith.cfm

Bora

Apr 7 2004, 05:03 AM

Kerry promises to create 10 million jobs http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/c.../0407kerry.html

Candidates' TV ad blitz has begun http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/n.../nation/2489596

Working to win the South wastes Democrats' time and resources http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=25634

Senate `Show-Downs`
http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/.../04/04_506.html

Kerry is more than a 'gray old man' http://www.freelancestar.com/News/FLS/2004...4072004/1315594

Town hall echoes with cries for state to raise taxes http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story165282.html

McCollum attack may boomerang http://www.sptimes.com/2004/04/07/State/Mc...ack_may_b.shtml

What? A `Kerry-McCain` ticket? http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/04/0...04040704_01.txt

Fast facts
http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/97/129/01_8.html

Federal officials won't immediately deport girl who sought father http://newsobserver.com/nc24hour/ncnews/st...7335c`.html

Edwards renames his PAC
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/3492617...7458c`.html

Bora

Apr 7 2004, 08:06 AM

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?...M20040407b.html
Willpower: Losing Weight The Responsible Way (Tommy Thompson)

ekylander

Apr 7 2004, 12:06 PM

[b]http://www.rightwingeye.com/
Nice movie about the right wing.

Bora

Apr 7 2004, 12:14 PM

WallMartization of America:

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html

Bora

Apr 8 2004, 07:44 AM

http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2004/0...ett/175012.html
Wags and dog tales

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news...ggkkoing|Bora|Y
Short and snappy comments by anonymous Observer readers

http://www.dailyvanguard.com/vnews/display...8/4074da03ea850
Kucinich: Changing the face of America

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news...cal/8381528.htm
Hopefuls fish for votes in northeast

Bora

Apr 8 2004, 09:25 AM

Nice editorial:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/`wp-dyn&...?referrer=email

Molly McRae

Apr 8 2004, 12:29 PM

Some interesting commentary found today...

Generals weary of low troop levels

Firm stand on the war rattles Bush

Kerry, Congress Should Fight Bush Science Cuts

From Tyranny to Freedom

Suicide by Free Trade

Bora

Apr 8 2004, 12:58 PM

These are GOOOOOD! Here's one of them in its entirety:

April 8, 2004
Kerry, Congress Should Fight Bush Science Cuts
By Mort Kondracke

Sen. John Kerry (`D-Mass`.) is blaming President Bush too much for "sending American jobs overseas," but nowhere near enough for risking U.S. technological leadership by underfunding basic scientific research.

Only about 100,000 of the 1.8 million jobs lost during the Bush presidency went overseas, but experts say that millions of jobs - in fact, America's place in the world - could be lost if other countries gain dominance in new technologies. Not only should Kerry be raising more hell about this, but Congress, instead of slathering pork into the pending highway bill, ought to spend a few billion dollars to increase Bush's budgets for the National Science Foundation, science programs at the Departments of Energy and Defense, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Ever since World War II, the United States has led the world in science, developing computers, semiconductors, the Internet, satellites, lasers, lightweight new materials, robotics, fiber optics, medicines, imaging systems like MRIs and instant global communication.

Such products, all originated through federally funded research, kept America the richest nation on earth. Academic studies show that between half and 80 percent of US productivity and economic growth is linked to technological innovation.

But various experts, including some Republicans, warn that the United States is in danger of losing its edge - with profound consequences for the economy and national security - because of underinvestment in basic research. Underfunding - or actual cuts - could cost American leadership in major new technologies, including hydrogen and fusion research for energy, new semiconductors, computer simulation of complex systems like the environment, stem cells as a disease cure, exploitation of discoveries from the human genome project and nanotechnology, the development of `atom-sized` systems. The Bush administration claims that it has made "a record federal investment in research and development," projecting outlays increasing 44 percent during Bush's first term.

However, scientific groups like the American Physical Society and the Association of American Universities dispute the Bush case, asserting that his spending is heavily skewed toward `short-term` defense and homeland security "development" and skimps on `long-term` basic research in physics, chemistry, mathematics and engineering.

For instance, the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the leading federal sponsor of physical science research, is scheduled for a 2 percent cut in Bush's new budget.

The National Science Foundation is slated for a 3 percent increase, but that's far short of the 15 percent authorized by Congress in 2002. Defense "research and development" is up by 7 percent, but basic and applied research - as opposed to weapons development - is down by 11 percent in Bush's budget.

One Republican who's protesting is former Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), who told me that "it's a grave risk for the country's future not to be investing heavily in basic research."

"There are five parallel revolutions under way in science," he said, listing information technology, communications, nanoscience, quantum mechanics and biology. "These five will change our world," he said.

"The amount of scientific knowledge we gain in the next 25 years will equal or exceed that of the whole 20th century. For the United States not to be in the forefront of that is to risk our national security and our economy. "We're not going to be able to compete with China and India in the next 25 years if we graduate more lawyers than we do scientists," he added. "We're engaged in a huge misallocation of priorities to spend as much as we do overall and not spend more for science."

Another Republican, former `Lockheed-Martin` President Norman Augustine, said in an interview that "America's ability to keep its standard of living and create jobs has to be based on creating knowledge, and our ability to do that is in considerable trouble."

He said that "more than half of all our graduate students and PhD's in the hard sciences nowadays are foreign students. They used to stay here and become Americans. Now, if they can get here in the first place because of visa restrictions, a lot of them are going to go back home because the future is brighter there."

Augustine, making Washington visits on behalf of the American Physical Society, said that federal investment in basic research - except for biomedical research - has been "flat" for more than 20 years as a percentage of gross domestic product, and the Bush administration isn't improving the picture.

"This jobless recovery we're in may be the leading edge of the future," he said. "Our failure to invest in new seed corn may be coming back to haunt us." So what's to be done? For one thing, there's a golden political opportunity here for Kerry to pounce on Bush's sad record and be the "science candidate" in 2004. To some extent, he's done so, promising in an October 2003 speech at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire to increase NIH and NSF funding, undo Bush's limits on `stem-cell` research and stop alleged political interference in scientific studies of the environment and energy.

Kerry also has issued a `high-technology` position paper largely built around extending broadband computer access to all homes, businesses and health facilities, and he has promised to make the R&D tax credit for corporations permanent.

But Kerry could do more - specifically by mentioning Bush's research record as part of every speech and by building a full research platform of his own. Meantime, Congress needs to raise Bush's budget recommendations. The cost for adequately funding space research, the NSF, defense and energy research would be about $4 billion - a pittance compared with what Congress is prepared to shell out in highway pork.

As Gingrich told me, "the problem is that science isn't as well organized as the industries of the past are to lobby for money. Those industries get the government to prop up the past, but science is inventing the future." Congress ought to listen to its old leader. So should Bush.

Bora

Apr 9 2004, 10:54 PM

This is a very interesting article/interview (and not just because it mentions JRE

):

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/intervi...-04`-09.htm

Bora

Apr 10 2004, 12:19 AM

The poor? Liberals whistling a new tune

Hopefuls try to differentiate themselves in race for Burr's seat

McCarley, Hodes may join political races
He was named the third most attractive man in U.S. politics by readers of Politics1.com, trailing U.S. Sen. John Edwards and Gov. Jeb Bush's son, George P. Bush...

Bora

Apr 10 2004, 10:02 AM

http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/bord...3861`.shtml
Bush uniter - not divider! Yeah, right!

http://www.`news-record`.com/news/...hins_041004.htm
Health insurance premiums: Small businesses feeling the pinch

http://www.freep.com/money/business/bonior...10_20040410.htm
WORKPLACE ORGANIZING: Laboring after Congress

http://www.sfgate.com/`cgi-bin`/ar...MNG3G639PH1.DTL
Fellow Dems share ideas on best tactics for Kerry

Bora

Apr 10 2004, 12:39 PM

Views not seen in mainstream media:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/`f-n...;/1112681/posts
We bombed the wrong side?

http://www.georgejonas.ca/recent_writing.cfm?id=183
Cleansing Serbs, courtesy of NATO

http://www.antiwar.com/spectator/spec270b.html
Kosovo goes to hell

http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/mar...4/hed6310.shtml
Kosovars Survey the Damage of Ethnic Violence

http://www.washingtonpost.com/`wp-dyn&...-2004Mar30.html
Serbia's Ambassador On Violence in Kosovo

http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/...4_490_5_eng.txt
Comment: Kosovo: Why Serbs Need `Self-Government`

http://www.antiwar.com/malic/
Imperial Relapse
Kosovo Pogrom Forgotten

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3430199.stm
America: An empire to rival Rome?

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