John Kerry and John Edwards have ideas to improve America, and they've been talking about them during the last two days, but don't look for any of them to show up in the reporting in the NYTimes.
Jodi Wilgoren instead reports that the second Kerry fundraiser that had to be postponed when Reagan died happened last night despite Wilgoren's public worrying that "[r]euniting the performers and rebooking those locations will be difficult." Somehow Team Kerry has defied the odds again - this time to the tune of $7.5 million.
The rest of the story outlines the remainder of the "carefully choreographed multimedia campaign" that Kerry and Edwards have been on since the VP announcement. It's really not bad, if you want to hear a rundown of appearances and cutesy sound bites (Mrs. Kerry says Mrs. Edwards has a "huge brain", Sen. Kerry has no plans to see F911) instead of a story that actually says something we could use to decide how to vote.
The other Kerry story is from Jim Rutenberg and Glen Justice. "Some Democrats" are at it again. This time they're concerned about Kerry opting out of public financing. This could have taken up the same amount of space that the Times gave to the AP story about college tuitions rising (a tiny mention on page A1,356) and been just as effective. Kerry's not opting out. After that, BushCo won't be able to either. End of story.
I learned more about Sen. Kerry by reading Richard Stevenson's story about BushCo's latest plan to break ahead of Kerry*Edwards in the polls. It's actually the same plan to attack, attack, attack, which the corporate press likes to refer to as "defining" Kerry and now Edwards.
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