Kerry's Past to Star in Bush's Ads

[kskiska]

Reelection Team Says Democrat's 32-Year Career Is Rich in Ammunition

By Howard Kurtz
Friday, February 20, 2004; Page A01

President Bush's reelection campaign has decided to focus its coming advertising barrage not only on John F. Kerry's record as a senator but also on his days as an antiwar activist, a House candidate and Massachusetts's lieutenant governor.

"The beauty of John Kerry is 32 years of votes and public pronouncements," said Mark McKinnon, the chief media adviser. McKinnon suggested a possible tag line: "He's been wrong for 32 years, he's wrong now."

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A 1970 Harvard Crimson interview in which Kerry said that U.S. troops should be deployed "only at the directive of the United Nations" will be fair game, the officials said. If they run ads about that period, they will probably focus on Kerry's high-profile opposition to the Vietnam War and comments about U.S. atrocities that could neutralize his record as a decorated veteran.

Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said: "These attacks and smears against us are just one more example of the fundamental need to change the direction of the nation from George Bush's extreme agenda to an agenda that meets the needs of mainstream America. And these attacks allow us to turn to real issues in response, which is precisely what the voters want to hear." As for the liberal label, she said: "The fact is John Kerry doesn't fit the mold Republicans throw Democrats in -- and they don't know what to do about it."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56111-2004Feb19.html

[Mz Pip]

1. If the GOP want to drege up

Kerry's record then the Dems should not flood the airwaves with that photo of Rummy shaking hands with Saddam. Talk about being wrong...

Maybe the Dems should run ads about Bush trading Sammy Sosa.

MzPip
:dem:

[molly]

2. They can't and won't outsmart us...

period the END!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[Gman]

3. Does Bush really want to talk about things they did in the 70's??

Does he seriously want to go there? Good. We can talk some more about the TANG scandal, or how about community service in Houston?

[seasat]

5. I think we need to bring back up the Harken stock trading.

Now that the media is finally looking at Shrub and Martha Stewart is in the news. I'd love for Micheal Moore to mention that one. Let's see Martha didn't even work for the company and is accused of lying about being guilty of insider trading because of a tip from a broker's assistant. Shrub is on the accounting board of Harken and dumps their stock when he finds it is going to tank, doesn't report it using the proper forms until months after the sale, and then gets off the hook by an SEC investigator that had worked as his lawyer. Did I mention that Harken also used offshore subsidiaries for tax purposes?

[Stephanie]

6. Let's talk about his TANG buddy JAMES BATH and his clients the Bin Ladens

And how Bath invested in Bush's first failed oil company, Arbusto. Whose money was he investing, anyway?

Let's talk about his insider trading at Harken Oil

And why he was let off the hook for it.

Let's talk about how the Rangers condemned private property for so they could profit off the stadium they built there, and underpaid for what they took, so the families had to sue. And how Bush received a far bigger share of the profits compared to his initial investment than everyone else.

And let's talk about UTIMCO.

Let's talk about GRANDPA BUSH and NAZI WAR PROFITEERING and the seizure of his assets for TRADING WITH THE ENEMY.

Let's talk about BCCI.

Let's talk about Neil's prostitutes.

And the Florida voter purge.

And the erased Drivers License record.

And - SOMEONE STOP ME!

[Cocoa]

4. the beauty of George Bush is his plummeting credibility

the charges of Kerry being a hypocrite fall flat when a liar is the one making the charges.

Kerry is steady and believable when he defends himself. Bush smirks and giggles and babbles.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

7. Heck we don't need to talk about bush's past (m)

any further back than the year 2000.

Seriously, he has screwed up enough in the last few years in office, that we can forget allllll about his years as governor here (GAG), and ANYTHING he did or didn't do before that.

We could fill the airwaves with very legitimate scary concerns about what he's done in the white house from now until November and STILL have plenty left over!!!

[newyawker99]

12. Hi Moonbeam_Starlight!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Why don't they just dust off the old America Love It or Leave It stickers?

The Bushies are simply trying to reserrect the notion that opposing the Vietnam War was unaptriotic.

I still think that supporting the war while dodging service in it was not only unpatriotic, but undemocratic.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

9. The desperation of the NeoCons is becoming more apparent every day.

[fearnobush]

10. Response to Mark McKinnon's Bush Ad:

While Bush attacks Kerry for being a hero by serving and saving his country men in war, and then fighting to stop that war which killed 58,000 solders... George W. Bush was serving his duty with 7 Dallas Cowboys and two U.S. congressman's sons. His missing guard duty records indeed show his desire to hide from this war. The denial records he provided to prove that he served in the Guard only proves that 30 years ago then, and now, Bush is still lying threw his teeth.

[annagull]

11. Bush said on MTP he didn't go to Vietnam b/c

"It was a political war". I would like to see that one pressed against a Vietnam Vet who opposed the war any day!

Bush: No, I didn't. You're right. I served. I flew fighters and enjoyed it, and we provided a service to our country. In those days we had what was called "Air Defense Command," and it was part of the air defense command system.

The thing about the Vietnam War that troubles me as I look back was it was a political war. We had politicians making military decisions, and it is lessons that any president must learn, and that is to the set the goal and the objective and allow the military to come up with the plans to achieve that objective. And those are essential lessons to be learned from the Vietnam War.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/NBC402A.html

I am using the above URL because I could not get the MSNBC one to download (both of them).