Kerry Makes Cover of Newsweek

[cindyw]

Marrying Kerry: Forget the hype about blogs and backpacks. It's all about getting warm bodies to the polls. How John Kerry got his groove back, mucked up the Bush battle plan—and proved Democrats are thinking hard about who's the most 'electable' challenger to Bush.

By Howard Fineman

Feb. 2 issue - It was pitch dark and zero degrees outside, and the driver had dimmed the fluorescent lights in Sen. John Kerry's "Real Deal Express" for the long ride across New Hampshire from Claremont back to Manchester. The campaign day had been a good one, as, indeed, they all had been since Iowa, where months of dogged work—patiently answering hour upon hour of questions from voters in town halls, learning to speak in the crisp cadences of the campaign trail, not in Senatese—had paid off in a come-from-behind victory. But the gloom in the bus reflected Kerry's mood, which was subdued, almost grim, as he jabbed at the soggy remnants of a salad and contemplated what could be a grueling, lengthy contest for the Democratic nomination. A year ago the pundits had christened him the front runner; instead, Howard Dean had blogged his way into the role. Then, in Iowa, Dean had collapsed, and added to his woes with a primal scream of a concession speech. Now, post Iowa, Kerry had roared to the lead in the New Hampshire tracking polls, but the results were by no means set. Dr. Dean, performing emergency surgery on his campaign, calmed his delivery and advertised his unassuming wife in an effort to show that he was a regular fellow; Sen. John Edwards, a trial lawyer, addressed the jury of voters in his earnest, po' boy style. Anything could happen, Kerry said; he had to work—harder. "I don't believe in numbers," he said. In Vietnam, many years ago, he had learned to live with the fact that an invisible sharpshooter on a riverbank could kill him in an instant. "I learned to tough it out," he said.

Read the rest for yourself here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4052507/

If anyone can let me know how to post the cover, I would appreciate it. I don't get how to find the html page with the image.

[Jack_Dawson]

1. Newsweek wishes it came out on Thursday

So its news wouldn't be a week old.

[MaineDem]

2. It's about time!

Thanks for the heads up.

"JK - all the way!"

[cosmicdot]

3. Here's the image. What's one to think of Howard Fineman?

He's on the A-List at http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/roster.htm ... seems he was chosen as MediaWhore of the Year a few back.

The Media certainly has a way of confusing people.

So, is he, like, a top-rate and true journalist now? Or does it matter?

A-List Whore Roster

Fred Barnes
Michael Barone
Richard Berke
Mona Charen
Linda Chavez
Ann Coulter
Howard Fineman
David Gergen
Jonah Goldberg
Sean Hannity
Betsy Hart
Christopher Hitchens
David Horowitz
Brit Hume
Mike Isikoff
Mort Kondracke
Charles Krauthammer
Chris Matthews
Michael Medved
Dick Morris
Mike McCurry
Peggy Noonan
Bill O'Reilly
Kathleen Parker
Geraldo Rivera
Cokie Roberts
Tim Russert
William Safire
Tony Snow
Andrew Sullivan
George Will
Mort Zuckerman

[jsw_81]

8. "Dean's new decaf strategy"

LOL!

[waldenx]

4. Newsweek was created by Skull and Bones

so its no shock who is on the cover.

[bigtree]

5. Skull and Bones

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[MaineDem]

6. Ummmmmm...

Howard Dean was cover-boy a few weeks ago so your supposition has no bearing at all.

[nightperson]

9. I really, really hope

the recent avalanche of vociferous yet totally undocumented Skull and Bones assertions backfires so badly on Kerry's opposition. If it doesn't, what a truly barbaric, infantile, anti-intellectual state this Party is in.

[diamond14]

7. "during Vietnam, bush 'slipping away' from ANG to Senate race in Alabama"

perilously close to calling bush* on his desertion (calling bush* desertion "slipping away").... Bush was in the Air National Guard, protecting the skies over Houston (when he wasn't slipping away to work on a Senate race in Alabama).....

-snips-

A decorated Vietnam veteran, Kerry was patrolling rivers in the Mekong Delta while Dean was skiing in Colorado on a 1-Y deferment, and Bush was in the Air National Guard, protecting the skies over Houston (when he wasn't slipping away to work on a Senate race in Alabama). Kerry contends he could neutralize Republican soft-on-terror attacks. "I not only welcome that fight, I relish it," he declares. "If that's what they want, then I say to them, 'Bring it on!' "

[Frederic Bastiat]

10. Oh no that's a peak indicator

Remember when Dean made both the covers of Time and Newsweek on the same week. I believe it was back in September-October when Dean peaked - been downhill since then.

Hedge on Wes!

[milkyway]

11. Congrats, Kerry supporters. The cover is extremely flattering and helpful

for Kerry. It makes the milquetoast Kerry seem like he's been leading the attack against Bush, when he's only been a follower.