Show Mt gait take Zrihunt A6 'fuel lay July' 27 2004 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL1 CONVENTION I jñiityii Al t t1 It 14741 Pubibuzgh Teresa Heinz Kerry Jabs a finger at Colin McNickle editorial page editor of the ' ' Tribune-Revieat a reception for Pennsylvania delegates at the Sunday Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston She accused McNickle of misquoting her and told him to "shove it" w Pittsburgh National convention planners traditionally save the keynote speech for the biggest corn- npjalopiikinal 0"— Shove it then rhyme it with rich Then roll : : It in a batch of baked cookies and teas 1 reporter to stop mis quoting her and "shove it" f' Barbara Bush set the standard in 1984 t ion week by telling a band Vice President George Bush She later : apologized Eight years later Barbara Bush was first lady when future Sen Hillary Rodham Clinton defended her active role in public life by saying "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had By STEVEN teas" regret for the remark saying she had been referring to "the BOSTON — Happy talk is here again At least in prime time and at least for a few days Eager to stir their base while not scaring off undecided voters Democrats took some swipes Monday at President Bush but toned down their most partisan digs as they opened their four-danational convention Even Al Gore the former vice president and 2000 presidential nominee bristled but succumbed to pressure from the Kerry campaign to drop some of the more jarring rhetoric he has used in recent weeks such as calling Bush a "moral coward" and likening Republicans to Nazis Instead Gore reminded Democrats of the anger and frustration they felt over the 2000 election result and then urged them to channel those emotions into votes "Do with them what I have done focus them fully and completely at putting John Kerry and John Edwards in the White House" Gore said In remarks prepared for delivery Former Preildent Jimmy Carter also ratcheted back the scathing rhetoric he had used against Bush in some recent speeches He denied getting ceremonial role" of the first lady Heinz Kerry has not apologized Her husband said he's not sorry "My wife speaks her mind appropriately" Kerry told reporters Monday ' e Her mind spoke freely Sunday night when she told Pennsylvania delegates "We need to turn back some of the creeping un- y Pennsylvanian and sometimes traits that are coming into some of our poll tics" She criticized the tenor of modern politi- cal campaigns without being specific The editorial page editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Revieasked her what she meant by the term Heinz Kerry repeatedly denied using the I didn't say" she phrase "You said something ! : : : told the journalist "Now shove it" Some convention delegates were not pressed "It could hurt her" said Lexie Carter 52 of Memphis Tenn "I'm not sure how it will play but I'm coming down on the side of 'it's OK but let's cool it Keep a level head girl' "It's the kind of thing that could hurt her stature as : a potential first lady" Carter said Joan Nagel a Pennsylvania delegate called the comment "completely appropriate" "I saw it on television" like she was being DJANSILLAN KEVOILK 1hr Avottomi Prot we can build an America that is stronger at home and respected in the world" A state senator from Illinois who is his party's nominee fq an open US Senate seat Obama also knows the impor- pressure from Kerry saying he chose Republican National Committee "The Democrats have probably come to the conclusion that the anger and the hatred and the bitterness of their rhetoric has probably not served them well" Yet Democrats aren't turning their convention into a love fest They're still working sometimes subtly to remind Democrats why they don't like Bush and to tell undecided voters why they shouldn't like him either Through the spring undecided voters in focus groups run by political researcher Frank tuntz turned thumbs down on Bush ads that ripped Kerry as a liberal By contrast they reacted favorably to Kerry ads that that stressed his agenda on issues such as health care in contrast to Bush's record In the convention Ltmtz said the ideal mix for the Democrats would be 75 percent positive message about their own candidate and agenda and 25 percent negative about Bush The best tactic he said is to have surrogates take the shots at Bush particularly those speaking when there is no live network television coverage and leave all the upbeat talk to the primetime speakers personally" Traditionally conventions are the time when a party uses "red meat" rhetoric to energize its most dedicated activists and rally them for the general election campaign after the divisions of the primary season Yet Democrats unified behind Kerry unusually early after he wrapped up his party's presidential nomination in March Their main audience now particularly during prime time television coverage is the roughly 5 million to 10 million Americans who are likely to vote but remain undecided And given that they haven't yet turned on Bush they might reject the angriest rhetoric against him as too shrill Ed Gillespie who helped curb some of the most partisan conservative rhetoric at the Republican National Convention in 2000 recognized the tactic The Associated Press Utah delegates take stand strong anti-w- - ar 46 ' 1 a r a a NI it 0- - t) x Avetoriald Press Sen John Kerry evidently believes that New England sports teams carry omens for his presidential candidacy The Red weekend series that t preceded Mondays start of the Democratic Na: tional Convention was the talk of Boston With were unavoidable Success in the series Sen t Edward Kennedy suggested could foreshadow : success in the election Kerry threw out the opening pitch The result? Mixed signs His pitch was in : the dirt some fans booed but the Red Sox 2-- 1 Last February the Super Bowl pitted his favorite New England Patriots against the Caro! lina Panthers in Houston t t "We're gonna prove that a New Englander can win in Texas" Kerry watching the game on said during halftime Patriots place kicker Adam Vinatieri kicked the winning field goal Kerry leaped out of his chair arms raised and did a little jig As the new football season approaches When Kerry could be excused for becoming a Green Bay Packers fan It seems that whenever the the Packers before win foreshadows a challenger's victory The Skins host the Packers on Oct 31 this year two days before the election - Knight Ridder News Service b1MO -6- t 4-2- t A elegant law instructor the future convention keynoter attended Columbia and Harvard universities He teaches at the University of Chicago Law- n School If elected Obama would be the fifth black senator in history He currently is unopposed after his Republican opponent Jack Ryan dropped out of the race after unsealed divorce records revealed that Ryan's actress accused him of taking her to sex clubs — Houston Chronicle - dirt on his back the only signs he had wrecked He allowed that he was a bit shaken up Bush is at his Crawford Texas ranch e tik LA - President Bush charged up punishing climbs and down steep dirt paths on his nigh: performance bike Monday at one point land ing flat on his back He dusted himself oft from his fall on a treacherous descent waved his medics away and kept rolling a small cut on his knee and -t itoN LflMONDSThCAKithdhYN Delegates hold up lights In a Sept11 remembrance as violinist Gabe Letkowitz performs and an Image of the New York City skyline is projected on screens In the background Monday night Terrorism and the war In Iraq were much on the minds of delegates who are overwhelmingly against President Bush's handling of both Utahns have turned against the war and the Bush administration The war says Utah Democratic Chairman Donald Dunn is "a big part of this" Political strategists masterminding the convention are reportedly being cautious however not to be seen as criticizing US troops or veterans in slamming the decision to go to war Veterans including former Kerry swift boat crew members are featured speakers on three of the four nights at the convention's main hall Kerry's nomination acceptance speech Thursday will be preceded by three former military men: Clark a former presidential candidate former Georgia Sen Max Cleland who was severely inBeret jured In Vietnam and Jim Rassman an who credits Kerry for his rescue in Vietnam Talking points handed out to delegates said the convention will have a "record level of involvement from veterans working hard to elect a brother-in-arms- " s An estimated veterans are attending the convention In the Utah delegation meeting Press a former California Democratic state party chairman had no hesitation in calling the Iraq War the No 1 reason to dump Bush "He's misled us into war at best if not lied us into war" said Press "By going to Iraq we've given the two years to regroup to recruit new members and to plan new attacks against the United States" 500-plu- s Election Day a Redskins' win has always pre A Packers' ceded an incumbent's L I d t'Republicans opening their convention next month in New York sports-politic- s analogies : Washington Redskins play - from that experience You essentially can't be the same person" Wright said in a voice cracking with emotion He called Kerry's war service a "powerful reason" to send him to the White House and an omission in President Bush's Texas National Guard resume that makes a big difference "We are perched on a time where it is very very critical that we have somebody in office who understands what it means to send troops to war It is not toy soldiers People actually die and it is probably the most important thing that a commander in chief does" The appearances before the Utah delegation were part of a show of veterans Monday At a boisterous of meeting delegates who served in the military retired Army Gen Wesley Clark said Kerry had volunteered for duty in Vietnam and led dangerous missions in river warfare By opening their national convention with a focus on Kerry's military service the Democrats sought to counter a Republican-lecharge that he is too liberal and weak on Issues of national security They also sought to contrast Kerry's decorated service with that of Bush who served in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War but did not see combat Wright told the Utah delegation Iraq was a "huge mistake" and said he believes the Bush administration is "playing with war and that's a very scary Idea — very scary And it's your sons and daughters who they are playing with" Utah Democrats left no doubt where they stood on the war and Kerry's veteran status by giving Wright a standing ovation "Anybody that's seen war doesn't like it" said David Holbrook a Vietnam veteran attending the convention with his wife delegate Barbara Taylor "When I came home I was mad as hell but I didn't do anything about it" he said of Kerry's post-wa- r protests of Vietnam "Now I wished I had" Holbrook a Salt Lake City realtor said the Iraq War is the campaign's key issue for him A new Boston Globe poll published Monday showed the Utahns in Boston are in line with the overwhelming majority of their 4300-plucolleagues The survey said 95 percent of delegates oppose the decision to go to war That position puts the Democratic activists in stark contrast to the majority of Utahns where Republicans rule A Salt Lake Tribune poll taken in May showed 71 percent of registered voters said they supported the war and a convincing 64 percent backed the president's management of the conflict Still Democratic leaders insist a growing number of high-profil- o was 2 years old TheAssociatittPren t ( TV tribe He met Obama's mother when both at- tended the University of Hawaii Obama's father left the family when Obama t k j - For one thing the back story is key: Obama's father was a member of Kenya's Luo - Continued from Al 1 and a stronger America That's all well and good but it still begs the question: Why Obama? she said "It looked spThttiph took the series tance of scripting His speech is expected to hew to Kerry's themes of service optimism hassled" - 4') Obama is on the move "Barack is an optimistic voice for America" "They're trying to tamp it down here I'm not surprised by that" said Gillespie now the chairman of the to temper his tone himself "My speech is just what I want to My" Carter told CNN "I think it to come would be a mistake for me out and start berating George Bush con- vention keynote address tonight The job alone announces that the Democratic Party believes said Sen John Kerry the presumptive Democratic nominee Obama "knows that together ANALYSIS Mom MA Raiff News Soria Knight Mrs Clinton expressed ' Obama is slated to deliver a 01 Democrats being cautious with convention rhetoric "rhymes with rich" during the campaign to reelect President Reagan and Mrs Bush's hus- ! publican side So who the heck is Barack Obama? ' Delegates from Florida banner their sentiments Monday at Boston's FleetCenter The party's marquee speakers have toned down their more fiery rhetoric in order to present a positive image for television cameras when she called Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro a $4 million - Ito A Teresa Heinz Kerry joined the company of political spouses this conven- : ers in the party Ann Richards Mario Cuomo and Barbara Jordan on the Democratic side and Corm Powell and John McCain on the Re- The Associated Press contributed to this story 1 " un- - winding during the Democratic National Con-- : vention and before the home stretch of his reelection campaign He spent the morning in meetings some concerning the recommendations of the independent Sept11 commission' Bush's new hobby is a way to get his heart rate up and spend time outdoors without ag-- : ride gravating his achy knees Over an that lasted an hour and 20 minutes he burns about 1200 calories and his heart rate reaches 168 beats per minute That's about four times his resting rate and in the same range as e Lance Armstrong's when the Tour de France winner is pedaling hard "At my age you're more concerned about the cardiovascular" benefits of a workout the president said Mountain biking he effect on said has a certain "mind-clearin- him as well — (I 6 The Associated Press - r oet he's jobless all we'll recover" - Tony Weak delegate from Lake Oswego Ore on President Bush and what Demo- A crats call "the jobless recovery' The official Web site of the Democratk National Convention Is http: wwwdoms2004org ILL- ' IP – -4 i OR - - ( x- |