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Is it just me, or is USAF Gen. Merrill McPeak's TV ad in support of Kerry incredibly stupid? I have seen the ad several times, and I just shake my head every time I see it. Gen. McPeak states that his reason for supporting Kerry is,,,,and I quote,,,,,,,,,,"He has a strategy"! He has a strategy?HE HAS A STRATEGY???? SAY WHAT? Who in the heck doesn't? How about telling us what that strategy is! Howard Dean has a strategy. Al Sharpton has a strategy. Dennis Kucinich has a strategy. Bill Maher has a strategy. Rosie O'Donnell has a strategy. Barbra Streisand...

At about 1:30 EST this morning, General Merrill McPeak, who is virtually the only military figure supporting Spitball, did a quick interview on CNN Headline News. The interviewer asked him to respond to the charge that, for twenty years in the Senate, Kerry voted against almost every major weapons system now in use. I do not know how to get a transcript of the General's response, but a rough paraphrasing -- omitting the various hems and haws along the way -- was something to the effect of: "You can talk about motions, amendments, procedures, and so forth, but that's politics....

This is the Retired USAF General that we have been seeing so much of lately saying, "As a fighter pilot I saw my share of combat. As Chief of Staff I lead the Air Force during the first Gulf War and four years ago I endorsed George Bush for President. But this year I'm voting for John Kerry. ETC..............

On the opening day of the Republican National Convention, Democrats launched a fresh media attack against President Bush's domestic and foreign policy. Opponents of the current administration say President Bush has failed to lead in key areas, such as homeland security, the war in Iraq, and job creation. A few blocks away from the Republican National Convention, Democrats have set up temporary headquarters to try and draw away some of the focus that will be on President Bush and his party this week. Democratic National Convention Chairman Terry McAuliffe says his team plans to highlight what it considers President Bush's...

General Merrill A. "Tony" McPeak "served for over 35 years in the US Air Force, culminating in four years as Chief of Staff from 1990 through 1994. He retired with the rank of 4-Star General. General McPeak has served as President of McPeak & Associates, an aerospace consulting company, since his retirement from active service. He is President and COO of Kitcomm Communications, Ltd, and Chairman of the Board of ECC, Intl., a publicly traded defense contractor. General McPeak also serves on the Boards of Directors of Tektronix, Inc., Trans World Airlines, Inc., and Centerspan Communications, Inc." "McPeak was a...

NewsMax Wires WASHINGTON (AP) -John Kerry's Vietnam War service records run to multiple medal commendations and a notation of "conspicuous gallantry" in combat. President Bush's file tracks the stateside career of a National Guard test pilot. Yet the combat veteran is the one under attack as a wartime pretender in the race for the White House. It's a controversy - Democrats call it a smear - stirred by the president's allies and aimed at undermining Kerry's truthfulness, personal character and fitness for office as much as his claim to the medals he came home with. Smear or not, the charges...

August 20, 2004 Ex-Gen. McPeak in add for Democrats Washington, DC, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Former Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak is featured in a new Democratic ad intended to burnish U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry's national security credentials. The ad features McPeak explaining why he has chosen to support Kerry for president in 2004 event though he backed George W. Bush for president in 2000. "Nothing is more important to me than protecting America. John Kerry has the strength and common sense we need in a commander in chief. And something more -- a real strategy to make America...

WASHINGTON - A retired U.S. Air Force general who endorsed President Bush four years ago says in a new television ad by the Democratic Party that this year he will vote for John Kerry because the Democrat has "a real strategy to make America safer." The ad featuring Merrill A. McPeak was released by an arm of the Democratic National Committee a day after Kerry lashed back against allegations by a veterans group that he exaggerated his combat record in Vietnam. McPeak, Air Force chief of staff during the first Persian Gulf War, claims in the ad that Kerry "has...

From 2000 to 2003, California workers' compensation insurance premiums posted double-digit percentage increases -- helping to flat-line the state economy. Now, four months after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 899 to reform workers' compensation, premiums are dropping by double digits -- facilitating the California recovery. Bipartisan cooperation between the governor and the Legislature produced workers' compensation reform that is delivering results. (snip) Even though some of the most important reforms do not take effect until January, the early results show a system already on the mend, and it is worth looking at how far we have come. The State...

WASHINGTON The man who was Air Force chief of staff during the first Gulf War is supporting John Kerry for president. Retired General Merrill "Tony" McPeak gave the Democrats' weekly radio address today. He says he switched his support from President Bush to Kerry on the strength of Kerry's wartime service and experience in Vietnam. McPeak said it "means an awful lot" to him that Kerry fought for his country as a young man. And he said for him, the "real deal" isn't whether a strategy is Republican or Democrat -- it's "whether it makes us safer." McPeak also questioned...

Senator John Kerry's new television ad is intended to establish his macho credentials, playing up his skills as a pilot, outdoorsman and athlete, as well as to mention his support from military leaders who served during Republican and Democratic administrations. And some of that Pentagon-style backing was on vivid display on Wednesday, when retired Gen. Merrill A. McPeak, a former Air Force chief of staff and a 2000 supporter of President Bush, lashed out at the Bush administration's Iraq strategy in a conference call in support of Mr. Kerry. "I was flabbergasted almost immediately, from the first day of this...