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First, the Republicans tried to attack Democrats on national security, their old, reliable soft-on-terrorism gambit. But that didn't work, in part because George W. Bush's own National Intelligence Council issued a report that said the Administration's policies were probably adding to the sum total of terrorists in the world. Then the Republicans tried to accuse Democrats of being soft on illegal immigrants. But that didn't work because the President himself was notoriously humane on immigration-and it was the Republican Congress that had failed to produce a tough immigration bill...
...Most of the media attention was centered on the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Tennessee, Harold Ford Jr., and why not? He's young, attractive and black-and you know how dangerously sexy those people are. But there was enough other action around the country-the attack on the sex scenes in Webb's novels, sex-related claims against Democratic congressional candidates in New York and Minnesota-for the outlines of the new Republican strategy to become clear. Even President Bush leaped on a New Jersey court decision favorable to homosexual couples, calling it another case of liberal judicial...
...government men tearing down street barricades. In a statement, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said, "Mr. Will's senseless death, of course, underscores the critical need for a return to lawfulness and order in Oaxaca." But he also warned both sides in the Oaxaca violence that "an attack on one journalist is an attack on all who believe that freedom of the press lies at the heart of any civilized society...
...Attack in Illinois The Incumbent governor and his Republican challenger compete to tar each other with the sins of the state's disgraced former chief executive
...Maliki's outrage over attacks on the Mahdi Army are not a matter of principle; it's about the fact that the U.S. hasn't first done what it said it would do, which was to eliminate the threat of the Sunni insurgents in Baghdad. The reason Shi'ite communities believe they need militias is to protect them from the Sunni guerrillas, which they say the government and the U.S. are not doing. And Maliki can't go and tell them to get rid of their militias while they remain vulnerable to attack by Sunni guerrillas...