Posted on 04/22/2004 10:38:45 AM PDT by pookie18
Edited on 04/22/2004 10:43:39 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry's spin doctors claim that they haven't lost ground to George Bush in recent weeks, and they are staging what they insist is the "launch" of his general election campaign this week with new TV ads airing and a trip next week to the Midwest. But the fact is that Kerry has lost ground — ground he has to make up if he hopes to win in November. The more interesting question is why? My reasons:
• Richard Ben-Veniste & Co. The media loved the 9/11 commission hearings. By instinct, we thrilled to watch a prosecutor such as B-V on the hunt, creeping in on a witness like a big cat. But the commission, which served as a platform for the theatrical Richard Clarke and the cross-examinations of Democratic members, eventually came off as too political and partisan to damage the president. Just the opposite, I think. Too many of the commissioners ended up looking like they were pressing to prove that Bush could have and should have prevented the 9/11 catastrophe — a theory the public doesn’t buy. In fact, most Americans tend to blame the rise of terrorism here on the eight-year Clinton administration. Bush, without having to say much, was able to play the political victim.
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More likely MSNBC is feeling the hit from the FR boycott since we make up the majority of their audience (just guessing), so he's decided to adopt a more rational stance.
He gives himself away with his description of the media enjoying Ben Veniste adopting a prosecutorial style. BV only did that with Bush officials. When it came to the likes of Dick Clarke he was a tender and solicitous defense attorney.
Fineman and Chrissy are the two main reasons I will not watch MSNBC again and he can just go fly a kite as far as I'm concerned.
Hello America. I am John F'n Kerry. I am a complete, flip-flopping, American hating, Anti-American, Socialist loving, Communist loving, scum sucking pig of a leftist liberal who worships at the bowels of Fat Teddy Kennedy. I am worthless, humorless, ugly, a lying blowhard loudmouth gigolo who married a rich widow because I was nearly bankrupt. I tell you I will screw up everything I touch. I love the UN. I love Koffie. I love Saddam. I loved and worshiped Stalin, Hitler and ToJo. I think Lenin was a super-hero and I wish I could be just like him. I am a communist, a leftist to the third-degree. I hate religion, the military, Christians, Americans, and love the french, germans and russians. Please elect me your president, excuse me, head commissar. I will bring total ruin, despair and famine to the entire USA.
There, now you know me.
-tattled on everyone to get special status from the teacher
-framed their own mischief on their classmates and didn't feel guilty
-made sure that anyone with opposing views was censored or suspended
-spent hours thinking of childish, insulting nicknames for others
-watched one too many episodes of 'Captain Planet'
And on others he was wrong before he was even more wrong;-D
And on others he was wrong before he was even more wrong;-D
Kerry explained to supporters recently that he’d voted for the $87 billion before he’d voted against it. In his mind, evidently, he was merely explaining (with a mordant sense of humor) how the Senate works. But now that line is the centerpiece of a BC04 attack ad. Kerry told financial supporters in New York the other week that his objective, for now, was to “preserve my acceptability.” That’s a pretty low standard — but one he won’t meet if that is his only goal. So far, his strategy has amounted mostly to: Vote for me, I’m not Bush. That’s not enough, especially if Kerry is seen by most voters the way the BC04 ad portrays him: as a flip-flopping manipulative insider.
Probably (lots of times) the same way you did in Lyndon Johnson's day -- wasn't he reported to have said, "Get them by the b@lls -- their hearts and minds will follow!"?
Slick Willie enacted 0, zero, nada...not a single one of his campaign promises into law in his 8 years in office.
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