People for the Ethical Treatment of Appetizers Animals should be very happy with Alicia Silverstone. Remember her? She was an actress who had a career ten or so years ago. Made a movie called Clueless. Nowadays she’s promoting Peaceable Kingdom, a farm-animal rights documentary that she describes as "'Fahrenheit 9/11' meets 'Babe.'" She’s also weighing in on the 2004 presidential election. Fellow bloggers, we might as well hang it up. With eloquent and concise commentary like this out there, who needs us?

Q: Who's more animal-friendly, Bush or Kerry?

A: Definitely Kerry. I don't know actually. I don't know how Kerry feels about animals. I know the destruction of the environment continues to go on in this country. And the last four years there's been more.

Q: You gave up meat six years ago; do you feel any difference?

A: …It's a kind of goodness I feel. It's so contagious…What I had before was (choices of) chicken, fish or beef. Now it's like, which grain should I use? Which bean? I have 8 million choices now.

I learned how to really taste food. I'm like a total food snob now. If I was not doing what I do, I would be a food columnist.

I, for one, hope she becomes a columnist. The world shouldn’t be deprived of her ability to, like, definitely put sentences together. The very idea makes me feel a kind of goodness.

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Geoff Metcalf examines the effect the Swift Boat Vets are having on the Kerry campaign:

One poll found that more than half the voters questioned had seen or heard of an ad by Swift Boat Veterans For Truth that accuses Kerry of lying about events that earned him five medals in Vietnam a generation ago. The University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey also found that 44 percent of self-described independent voters found the ad very or somewhat believable.

Joanne Ostrow looks at the positive side of those negative ads:

Before we lament the nastiness quotient, consider. Maybe this is not a bad way to go.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, said in a TV interview: "A lot of attack is ... legitimate and important discourse. ... Pundits and the press and academics say, 'Oh they're going negative,' when in fact what individuals are doing is making legitimate, fair attacks that are accurate and relevant to governance.

CK Rairden brought a smile to my face with comparisons between Apocalypse Now Redux and John Kerry’s Vietnam Redux:

“I asked for a mission… and for my sins, they gave me one. And when it was over, I'd never want another.” It was like Déjà vu all over again. In fact if John Kerry had the Democratic National convention to do all over again, he may have wanted to lead with that classic Martin Sheen line instead of his now troublesome “reporting for duty” mantra.

Lastly, my living hero, Bob Dole, finally spoke out about Kerry the... ahem... war hero:

"One day [Kerry]'s saying that we were shooting civilians, cutting off their ears, cutting off their heads, throwing away his medals or his ribbons," Dole exclaimed on CNN, referring to the militant anti-war protests Kerry participated in after returning from Vietnam.

"The next day he's standing there, 'I want to be president because I'm a Vietnam veteran,'" Dole stated.

Dole said Kerry needs to make up his mind about whether he was proud of his service in Vietnam or if he loathed it.

And don't forget, there's a new best of issue up at Homespun Bloggers.

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WOW. How could I have forgotten to mention this? Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, has managed to dream up a bizarro version of John Kerry that, were he real, I'd be proud to vote for. Read this, liberals, and lament what could have been. Kerry talked about taking the high road. Glenn shows him how he might have done it.

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