Bush campaign to base ad on Kerry terror quote

[TimeToGo]

Sunday, October 10, 2004 Posted: 7:29 PM EDT (2329 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's campaign announced Sunday its plans to use as the basis of a new commercial a quote from an 8,000-word New York Times Magazine article about Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

The parsing prompted the Kerry camp to retort that the soon-to-be-released Bush ad was another example of the president's campaign taking words out of context to create a misleading impression.

The article, a largely analytical cover story in the magazine, says the interviewer asked Kerry "what it would take for Americans to feel safe again."

''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,'' the article states as the Massachusetts senator's reply.

''As a former law enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.''

Kerry was a prosecutor before he got into politics, and made fighting organized crime a priority.

Bush campaign Chairman Marc Racicot, in an appearance on CNN's "Late Edition," interpreted Kerry's remarks as saying "that the war on terrorism is like a nuisance. He equated it to prostitution and gambling, a nuisance activity. You know, quite frankly, I just don't think he has the right view of the world. It's a pre-9/11 view of the world."

SNIP

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/10/bush.kerry.terror/index.html

Read the rest of the article.

I asked earlier if these guys were insane. Now I ask, are these guys just plain evil???

[TomClash]

1. Pathetic

It's obvious that Kerry is saying we have to reduce terrorism so it is only a nuisance.

Ridiculous and typical.

[Edwardsgroupie]

2. This is what Bush meant when he said you ´can´t ever win´ the war on

terror...How ironic they want to use this very thing against Kerry.

[Unstuck In Time]

3. "... are these guys just plain evil???"

Yes. Plain and simple: Yes.

[newyawker99]

5. Hi Unstuck In Time!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Teaser]

4. Old News. Kerry campaign already has a response ad.

Using Bush's "We can't win the war on terror" quote.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

6. these people are pathetic

the very thing they say they criticize others