Need some realtime fact checking (ooh, distributed realtime fact checking app would be fun) for this debate…
- Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush – err, if you need more mistakes (Bush couldn’t think of 3, except for the appointments who wrote books about him I guess)
- U.S. judge blocks partial-birth abortion ban – Kerry was against it because there was no health exception
- Researchers Cite Stem Cell Shortage –
The finding that only 11 cell lines are currently available instead of more than 70 led to a call for lifting the restrictions and development of new cell lines.
- LCV’s 2003 Presidential Report Card – GWB gets an F, the first ever the LCV has given to a president (34yr history)
- The Bush Record on the Environment –
‘George W. Bush will go down as America’s worst environmental president,’ writes Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and one of the nation’s top environmentalists, in Rolling Stone (12/11/03).
- Factcheck.org: Bush Still Fudging the Numbers on Kerry’s Tax Votes –
The Bush-Cheney campaign released a television ad August 23 accusing Kerry of casting “98 votes for tax increases.” The number is an improvement on Bush’s earlier claim that Kerry cast 350 votes for “higher taxes,” which we described as inflated. But even the new, reduced total is padded
- In New Attacks, Bush Pushes Limit on the Facts –
From the beginning of the year, the White House has charted new ground with the sweep of its negative campaigning, starting with an $80 million wave of attack advertisements directed at Senator John Kerry that began the moment he effectively won his party’s nomination last spring.
- Scorched-Earth Strategy –
After a terrible week for his campaign, Bush has one agenda between now and Election Day: attack Kerry