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Kerry: We don't attack our opponents in personal ways
townhall.com ^ | 7/15/04 | Larry Elder

Posted on 07/14/2004 11:47:11 PM PDT by kattracks

"We're running a very positive and affirmative campaign," said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Indeed, Sen. Kerry, D-Mass., renounces nastiness: "We have not stood up," he said, "and attacked our opponents in personal ways." Really?

Let's go to the videotape.

"Week after week after week after week, we were told lie after lie after lie after lie."
-- Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., on how the president deceived the American people into supporting an invasion of Iraq.

Her party must defeat the "extraordinarily ruthless machine" run by Republicans.
-- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., at a Democratic fund-raiser. "Ruthless"?

"Let me tell you a secret. Whenever he is in the presence of a wealthy contributor, he is a moral coward, unwilling to stand up and say no, no matter what public interest is at stake. He will not choose the public interest over the private interests of a wealthy and powerful contributor."
-- Former Vice President Al Gore, at the state Democratic convention in Tacoma, Wash.

"Let me tell you, we've just begun to fight. We're going to keep pounding. These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen."
-- Sen. Kerry following a speech on economic policy in Chicago, apparently unaware of the nearby open mike. "I have no intention whatsoever to apologize for my remarks," the senator said the next day.

"Bush is an incompetent leader. In fact, he's not a leader. He's a person who has no judgment, no experience and no knowledge of the subjects that he has to decide upon."
-- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.

"Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side. They've written a new constitution for Iraq and ignore the Constitution here at home. They draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics. Now they want to write bigotry back into the Constitution."
-- NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, charmingly comparing Republicans to the terrorist Taliban who once ruled Afghanistan, to a cheering audience of liberal activists at the Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C.

"Beginning very soon after the attacks of 9/11, President Bush made a decision to start mentioning Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in the same breath in a cynical mantra designed to fuse them together as one in the public's mind. Indeed, Bush's consistent and careful artifice is itself evidence that he knew full well that he was telling an artful and important lie -- visibly circumnavigating the truth over and over again as if he had practiced how to avoid encountering the truth. . . . President Bush is now intentionally misleading the American people by continuing to aggressively and brazenly assert a linkage between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein."
-- Former Vice President Al Gore, citing the 9/11 commission report as proof of Bush's "lies."

"We should keep Bush where he belongs," gesturing downward to her genitalia, "and not in the White House."
-- Whoopi Goldberg, at a recent star-studded Democratic Party fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall, embarrassing some in her audience with a risque double-entendre.

"He's just another cheap thug that sacrifices our young. . . . You're going to get us killed with your little white lies."
-- John Mellencamp sang, at the same Radio City fund-raiser, in a song called "Texas Bandido." (About the Bush-denouncing stars, Kerry said that every performer "conveyed the heart and soul of America.")

"When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans. . . . My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitized me."
-- Billionaire George Soros, supporter of the MoveOn organization, to The Washington Post, stating that the White House was under a "supremacist ideology." MoveOn.org later posted an ad morphing President Bush into Adolf Hitler.

"I think the president wanted to be a wartime president. I don't think he wanted to go to war, but I think he wanted to be a wartime president. He saw this as something we had to do. Afghanistan was fine and that was important . . . but Iraq is what he wanted, and that's what he got."
-- Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., on "Meet the Press" last week, responding to a question from Tim Russert as to how the president became so "emphatic and convinced" about the intelligence information on Iraq.

Isn't this getting a little old? The president is a liar; intentionally misled; conducts foreign policy to enrich his oil buddies; conducts foreign policy to enrich his buddies tied to the defense industry; and, irrespective of how well the economy continues to perform, the president stands accused of "the worst economic performance since Herbert Hoover."

Sure sounds to me like a "very positive and affirmative campaign."

©2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

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1 posted on 07/14/2004 11:47:13 PM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
"Kerry: We don't attack our opponents in personal ways"

That's really cool, NAMBLA boy.

2 posted on 07/14/2004 11:52:12 PM PDT by hang 'em (THIS JUST IN: Kerry/Edwards get the long awaited, crucial NAMBLA endorsement!!!!!!!)
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To: kattracks

..and The Sheep will believe.


3 posted on 07/14/2004 11:54:57 PM PDT by Old Sarge
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To: Old Sarge

Rolling stone I believe. Kerry said I voted for the war, but I did not think Bush would f... it up so bad.


4 posted on 07/14/2004 11:57:47 PM PDT by Brimack34
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To: hang 'em

I was thinking, the way those two are carrying on, is it possible we could see the first VP who could also be the First Lady?


5 posted on 07/14/2004 11:57:56 PM PDT by Duke Nukum ([T]he only true mystery is that our very lives are governed by dead people.)
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To: kattracks

Another attack to the pile: Kerry accusing Bush of going AWOL.


6 posted on 07/14/2004 11:58:32 PM PDT by Green Knight (Looking forward to seeing Jeb stepping over Hillary's rotting political corpse in 2008.)
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To: kattracks
positive campaign???????

Attacking Bush and not sharing your own positions is a positive campaign??

7 posted on 07/14/2004 11:59:21 PM PDT by GeronL (wketchup.com)
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To: Green Knight

And don't forget what Terry Kerry has said about President Bush being stupid.


8 posted on 07/15/2004 12:01:48 AM PDT by nopardons
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Laughable.

Senator, if this is your claim, explain Whoopie, and release the video of her act.

Money talks, Brabra Streisand walks slithers.
9 posted on 07/15/2004 12:03:05 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">Hatriotism)
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To: kattracks

Kerry thinks that he can undo all the hatespeak and nastiness he and his followers have heaped upon the Republicans since last Fall...by just claiming it never happened. He's an idiot.


10 posted on 07/15/2004 12:06:55 AM PDT by Jenya (Gore, he's a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans for nobody)
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To: All

Kerry smokes crack.


11 posted on 07/15/2004 12:07:13 AM PDT by afraid
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To: Brimack34

Do you think that this means that Kerry is going to apologize for shopping the Bush Lied about the yellow cake story to the media?


12 posted on 07/15/2004 12:10:10 AM PDT by Eva
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To: kattracks
Kerry: We don't attack our opponents in personal ways

Who is "we"?

John-Jaquestrap Effin S.O.B Teresa Winthrop Simoes-Ferreira Al Qerry-Heinz III is a dishonest loser!

13 posted on 07/15/2004 12:14:53 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Maria Sharapova, please endorse G.W.)
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To: afraid

If it was a choice between Kerry and a crackhead I'd vote for the crackhead.At least the crackheads' positions would'nt change.


14 posted on 07/15/2004 1:15:58 AM PDT by SirLurkedalot (God bless our Veterans!!! And God bless America!!!)
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To: SirLurkedalot

Flipper, and his Flipper-in-training

15 posted on 07/15/2004 1:58:59 AM PDT by Watery Tart (John al-Q’erry: Consumptive Democrat Presidential Nominee)
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To: Watery Tart

LOL.


16 posted on 07/15/2004 2:07:02 AM PDT by SirLurkedalot (God bless our Veterans!!! And God bless America!!!)
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To: hang 'em

Thanks for posting this, It gave me the idea for my new tagline.


17 posted on 07/15/2004 2:09:08 AM PDT by Rebelbase (To democrats the truth is personal.)
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To: kattracks

btt


18 posted on 07/15/2004 4:21:03 AM PDT by GailA (hanoi john kerry, I'm for the death penalty, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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To: kattracks

Hey kerry... your muddah wears Army boots!

LLS


19 posted on 07/15/2004 4:34:30 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("Yeah, what CHENEY said"!)
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To: kattracks

Balony!

If what kerry and the other democrats have been saying is not a personal attack on President Bush, I would hate to see what they consider a personal attack.


20 posted on 07/15/2004 4:37:24 AM PDT by sport
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