For the Record

“I’m not telling you how to do your job, but most people get paid twice a month”

In The Hotline’s survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 31 states worth 306 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 17 states worth 212 electoral votes (270 needed to win). . . . Time poll: Bush-Cheney 54 percent, Kerry-Edwards 42 percent. . . . In AP poll, 75 percent describe Bush as “decisive” and only 37 percent say same of Kerry. . . . Bush, in speech to National Guard Association: “What’s critical is that the president of the United States speak clearly and consistently at this time of great threat in our world, and not change positions because of expediency or pressure. Our troops, our friends and allies, and our enemies must know where America stands—and that America will stand firm. We cannot waver—we cannot waver because our enemies will not waver.” … In German Marshall Fund poll, 81 percent of Democrats say it’s “essential” for U.S. to gain U.N. approval before going to war and 69 percent of Republicans say it isn’t. . . . Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright on Cheney’s criticisms of Kerry, on Meet the Press: “I have never seen a national-security issue as politicized as this one has been since Joe McCarthy, and we cannot go on like this with scare tactics.” . . . Kerry adviser Richard Holbrooke on Iraq, on Fox News: “It is strategically worse than Vietnam.”

“I’m not telling you how to do your job, but most people get paid twice a month”

In The Hotline’s survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 31 states worth 306 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 17 states worth 212 electoral votes (270 needed to win). . . . Time poll: Bush-Cheney 54 percent, Kerry-Edwards 42 percent. . . . In AP poll, 75 percent describe Bush as “decisive” and only 37 percent say same of Kerry. . . . Bush, in speech to National Guard Association: “What’s critical is that the president of the United States speak clearly and consistently at this time of great threat in our world, and not change positions because of expediency or pressure. Our troops, our friends and allies, and our enemies must know where America stands—and that America will stand firm. We cannot waver—we cannot waver because our enemies will not waver.” … In German Marshall Fund poll, 81 percent of Democrats say it’s “essential” for U.S. to gain U.N. approval before going to war and 69 percent of Republicans say it isn’t. . . . Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright on Cheney’s criticisms of Kerry, on Meet the Press: “I have never seen a national-security issue as politicized as this one has been since Joe McCarthy, and we cannot go on like this with scare tactics.” . . . Kerry adviser Richard Holbrooke on Iraq, on Fox News: “It is strategically worse than Vietnam.”