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[The Democratic Daily] So, John Kerry was in Iraq eating a meal at the embassy and someone snapped a photo of him sitting at a table, apparently talking to someone at the table, and the right wingnut bloggers have all translated this photo as the troops have snubbed Kerry. Forget that there could be a multitude of explanations other than that, like the other folks at the table already left the table and the waiter’s cleared their spaces and Kerry was continuing a conversation with someone down the table a bit.

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The Washington Monthly The Washington Monthly: The picture, and the accompanying narrative about how the troops avoided Kerry, made the rounds by way of far-right radio-host Scott Hennen, who claims the "priceless story" was sent by "a friend of mine serving in Iraq." (If Hennen's name sounds familiar, it's because he has an interesting history with the White House.) (via Cosmos)

The Carpetbagger Report The Carpetbagger Report: At PowerLine, another problem surfaced: As commenter “Angus” noted, the flag hanging to the right of the Union Jack belongs to Portugal, which withdrew its mighty 120-man coalition force from Iraq nearly two years ago. (via Cosmos)

UrbanGrounds: You decide who is more respected and loved by us servicemen and women!” Go see the picture for yourself and have a good laugh at the expense of one of our nation’s greatest dissapointments (second possibly only to Jimmy Carter). h/t to Memeorandum (via Cosmos)

http://bestofbothworlds.blogspot.com  Best of Both Worlds: America's Fighting Keyboarders are having much fun with this photo, which purports to show Senator John Kerry sitting alone at a dining hall table in a US facility in Baghdad. One strange thing is that the people circulating and bravely captioning this photo are the same people whose detective work on photographs from the Israeli invasion of south Lebanon helped prove that the death toll from that invasion was in fact zero, yet they don't wonder why there's a Union Jack on the wall behind Kerry. (via Cosmos)

Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought: All in all, this was a pretty desperate smear, but it is typical of the conservatives who typically resort to this nonsense but never show the guts to discuss Kerry’s actual statements and positions. Afterall, these are pretty much the same people who have been twisting Kerry’s recent joke about George Bush getting us stuck in Iraq to be a smear on the troops. (via Cosmos)

FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog: Day By Day, John Kerry Watch: Ted Kennedy Drops Kerry Presidential Support, The Ryskind Sketchbook: Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick RIP">11 (via Cosmos)

Home - Spin Thicket: WSJ.com's best-read stories of 2006 may surprise you -- lots of geeky fluff 0 Politics As Usual Ford disagreed with Bush about Iraq War -- showing that even in his 90s he had more of his faculties than W 0 TPM Muckraker Right-Wing Spin The latest rightwing blogger conspiracy theory unravels before our eyes 0 Seth's Blog Social Disease Media Are you on the Z-list yet? (via Cosmos)

http://blackwhite.blog-city.com  blackwhite--modern thought control: Although officials have said no decisions will be made in the Crawford meeting, Bush seems to be laying the groundwork for one more sustained effort to defeat the Iraq insurgency and stabilize the country politically. Two defense officials said Wednesday that some sort of troop increase appears likely in an effort to contain the violence but that the specific size and nature of such a surge still has to be worked out. (via Cosmos)

Instapundit.comhttp://www.instapundit.com  Instapundit.com: The same small group of nations responsible for almost any meaningful global action, from Sierra Leone to Iraq to Afghanistan to the tsunami-devastated Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia and on to East Timor and the Solomon Islands. The same core of English-speaking countries, technically multinational but distressingly unicultural and unilingual and indeed, given that most of them share the same head of state, uniregal.

Time.com[Time.com] Breaking News, Analysis, Opinions, Multimedia and Blogs | TIME ...: From Michael Richards to John Kerry, top moments of the year .ground the day of the alleged massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians, as well as their superiors, .

http://upper-left.blogspot.com [Upper-left.blogspot.com] Upper Left: Senate Foreign Relations Committee incoming Chairman and just declared presidential candidate Joseph Biden is avoiding John Kerry's political problem and not planning to say "I voted for it before I voted against it" by opposing the President's plan to surge troop levels in Iraq on the front end.Of course, the situation Joe Biden finds himself in isn't really analogous to the situation that led to the infamous Kerry quotation. After all, Joe was for the war, or the use of force authorization, at least, before he was against the escalation.

http://americablog.blogspot.com [Americablog.blogspot.com] AMERICAblog: A blog for a great nation that deserves the truth: It's fine for the New York Times to quote someone saying they think the progressive blogs are pulling the party to the left, that would be that person's OPINION - totally quotable. But then you'd find another expert to see if they agree with that assessment, or even better, you'd interview a left-wing blogger to respond to the charge.

http://corner.nationalreview.com [Corner.nationalreview.com] The Corner on National Review Online: John Kerry lost married woman without college degrees by 16 points and white women by 11 points, but Democratic candidates have had similar women trouble for over 20 years. As I point out in you know what:  "Since 1980, Democratic presidential candidates have won an average of 46 percent of the white women, two-party vote while Repubicans have won an average of 54 percent in those seven national races." 

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