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article that says that a Bush/Cheney '04 ad overstates the number of "small businesses" as 900,000. But a glance at the text of the ad, posted in a sidebar to their analysis, shows that in fact the ad refers to 900,000 "small business owners," which is the number of taxpayers in the top bracket who own a piece of an S-corporation. That this is an unfair definition of a "small business owner" still strikes me as something of a stretch. Nonetheless, on the campaign trail (unlike in the ad that FactCheck.org purports to debunk), the President and Vice President have indeed used the formulation "900,000 small businesses," and after re-reading the debate transcript I must concede that it was indeed Bush's use of that formulation that Kerry was objecting to. Mea culpa . /p> p> MISSING THE FOREST br> Re: Jed Babbin's Sharpies at the U.N. and John Tabin's Kerry Cries Timber! : /p>

I have yet to hear a single commentator make the observation that Kerry's foreign policy was toast for the real reason. (Though Fred Barnes came close.) Yes, It's the Bush plan which could make it redundant. But Kerry's policies were toast the instant that Bush announced troop withdrawals from Western Europe. In that instant any involvement by the Axis of Weasels became defensive. Their Rapid Reaction Force rather than being forward facing became a Maginot in mobility never to leave the EU's shores. Which pretty much put the coffin in the ground to France and Germany sending troops to Iraq.

Which brings us to the ultimate conclusion. Is Kerry that stupid and surrounded by such incompetents that as a team they could not see the geopolitical ramifications? Let alone the domestic political ones? If Holbrooke did not see this then as a taxpayer I want his G22 salary back for the last 20 years. But as of the last debate Kerry and Edwards were still rattling that they will expand the Coalition. Under Kerry am I to presume that Grenada and the Bahamas will be sending a few MP's? Clearly Kerry lacks the flexibility to see that a new position was needed.

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