Drudge has a hilarious report up from the Kerry hunting photo-op this morning.

Exerpts:

In lieu of actual information, we put our heads together and came up with some details for this pool report. The primary area of wager was whether Mr. Kerry would return with game at all.
HE WOULD NOT: Fearing a backlash from soccer moms and PETA freaks, he decides to return empty- handed with that age-old phrase employed by failed hunters: I don’t do it to kill things; I just like being outdoors. But, that could undermine the manliness that he has so carefully cultivated since launching his campaign.
HE WOULD, DEAD: Be bold. Kill something. Come back holding limp ducks by their wrung necks in your bloody fingers. Win back those security moms. This would have been the strategy advised by Bill Clinton, whom Mr. Kerry talks to by phone very often.
HE WOULD, DEAD, CLEANED, DRESSED FROM FOOD LION: Return with several fattened (thought not for their livers as that would come perilously close to something French), beautifully yellowed birds that were purchased from the local supermarket last night. This would allow him to appear bold, willing to hunt down and kill the enemy, but wouldn’t be too scarily unfamiliar to people who don’t hunt. “You should always come dressed for dinner,” he would explain.
HE WOULD, BUT IT ISN’T A DUCK: This theory developed into the most desirous. He returnsvictorious, but with Osama bin Laden, who had been hiding out in the backside of the farm. Turns out that immediately after President Bush outsourced the capturing of him in Tora Bora to the Afghan warlords, Mr. Bin Laden climbed into a container of poppy gum and arrived through a port in Newark. The container, of course, went uninspected. With so few police officers on the street, Mr. Bin Laden had no problem wandering America unmolested.
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At 8:53, distant wails of geese could be heard from beyond tree-line to east of house, where as hunting party was to north of house. Roughly 60 large Canada geese emerged over tree line and – as if trained to do so if at the last minute no birds had been slaughtered in this great authentic moment of modern American politics – made a beeline for Mr. Kerry and his camo-clad comrades. Suddenly, an explosion of gunfire. It was enough to evoke flashbacks in your pooler, who really was in diapers when Mr. Kerry fought in Cambodia or Vietnam or wherever.

Whoever wrote this should be doing comedy.
(Drudge doesn’t leave items up very long, so instead of just linking to it, I’ve grabbed the whole thing. You can read it in the extended entry.)

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Rick Richman notes that The Jewish Press has endorsed George Bush.

[A]s the [New York] Times Magazine interviewer said of Mr. Kerry’s statement that he is committed to destroying terrorists “effectively”:

This was a word that Kerry came back to repeatedly in our discussions; he told me he would wage a more “effective” war on terror no less than 18 times in two hours of conversations. The question, of course, was how.

It should be noted that in the second presidential debate Mr. Kerry stated 23 times, without adding anything more, that he “has a plan.”

Is there any question that President Bush can be relied upon to more forcefully prosecute the war on terror?

Richman adds this:

It is hard to imagine John Kerry leading the Not Primarily a War on Terror.
It is impossible to imagine him mobilizing anyone behind the Wrong War Wrong Place Wrong Time. His election would be the Spanish election writ large.
And it is easy to imagine Kerry appeasing Old Europe’s views on Israel, as he seeks to pass the global test.