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It was 47 months ago today: the headline from the New York Post.

Kerry's Choice
Dem picks Gephardt as VP candidate

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So if pattern falls true once again, we have about a month to see who Barack Obama will pick as his VP candidate.

Kerry let his supporters know by e-mail that he picked John Edwards, not Dick Gephardt, to be his running mate.

You have an idea of the short list, the long list, and the long shots. You have watched, for good or for bad, the pundits obsess over whether Hillary Clinton should be on the ticket. We take no position on that; it's Barack Obama's choice.

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I missed a day of high school
(A fact which made me smile)
A family friend took me
Who was covering the trial.

The defendant was quite silent
Very much the introvert
Unassuming and tiny in
His loose-fitting white shirt.

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BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE

“MCCAIN: I campaigned in Florida against the National Catastrophic Insurance Fund Bill.” When homeowner’s insurance rates jump up from $400 a year to a catastrophic $1800 a year (and that does not include mandatory “flood” insurance rates) but does have a hurricane deductible of over $12,000 on a 1000 square foot home you have to know there’s something rotten somewhere!!! When your taxes go from $900 a year to $2800 a year on that same home in a failing economy, then you begin to realize the sad truth that a Repuglican dominated government does not give a rat’s behind for John Q. American!

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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Chad Rubel

In the last 70 years, Canada has helped out in a lot of wars alongside the United States: World War II, Korean War, the first Gulf War, and, of course, Afghanistan.

There are two wars missing from that list: Vietnam and the Iraq War. And despite what Ann Coulter says, Canada wasn't in Vietnam. Canada is willing to go to war, but if Canada doesn't enter a war, there are probably some very bad reasons for going to war.

When some U.S. young men didn't want to go in the draft to Vietnam, they went to Canada. And Canada welcomed them. The Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau didn't have an issue with the protesters. According to the War Resisters Support Campaign, between 50,000 and 80,000 Americans sought refuge in Canada during the U.S. war in Vietnam.

But quietly, there is a new revolution of U.S. young people who are also selecting Canada. Of course, there is no draft, but these are U.S. soldiers who decided they just couldn't do it anymore. And unlike the Trudeau government, the Conservative government of current Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper isn't holding out the welcome mat.

In response, the Canadian House of Commons passed a non-binding resolution by a 137-110 vote to "immediately implement a program to allow conscientious objectors and their immediate family members . . . to apply for permanent resident status and remain in Canada."

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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Christine Bowman

I'm no expert on Patrick J. Fitzgerald, US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. But just considering his public persona, he looks a lot like a 21st century Eliot Ness of "The Untouchables" fame -- that steely legend-in-his-own-time who relentlessly pursued mobster Al Capone.

Straight-arrow crime fighter. Nonpartisan gotcha guy. Principled. Tough. Effective. He appears to be kind of a buttoned-up, hard-working version of Superman. The quintessential American hero. He puts his faith in the system and works like a dog.

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The last couple of weeks have brought confirmation -- as if it were needed -- even in the corporate media that President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and the gang of thugs and sycophants around them in the White House, engaged in a massive conspiracy to lie the country into a war in Iraq.

The release of a confessional book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan and the subsequent release of a long blocked report by the Senate Intelligence Committee make it clear that Bush, Cheney, & Company deliberately lied to Congress and the American public back in 2002 and early 2003 about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein (there was none). McClellan also states that Bush and Cheney conspired to "out" CIA undercover operative Valerie Plame Wilson, as part of a campaign to prevent her husband from exposing a major part of that campaign of lies: the claim that Saddam Hussein was seeking to build nuclear weapons.
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BE ELECTED
by Christine Bowman

Getting closer to Michelle Obama.

^Duand/AP

Larry McShane at The NY Daily News approved of Michelle and Barack's Tuesday night gesture:

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