Posted on 08/11/2004 11:54:34 PM PDT by kattracks
[snip]"This is Bush's idea of an optimistic campaign?" he said. "The president has his back against the wall, so now he invokes September 11 in his ads."
He added: "If you ever wanted proof that the Bush campaign has reached the point of desperation, now we have it."
But Mr. Kerry himself injected September 11 into the campaign last week by accusing the president of responding too slowly to news of the terrorist attacks. Specifically, the Massachusetts Democrat slammed Mr. Bush for remaining in a second-grade classroom in Florida for five minutes after learning the news.
The Bush ad was also widely questioned by journalists, including Diane Sawyer during an interview with Sen. John McCain, who spent the last two days campaigning with Mr. Bush.
"Is the president using September 11 as a political issue?" she asked on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"I think the defining event not only of this nation's history, but of this presidency was the events of 9/11," the Arizona Republican replied. "One of the reasons why so many of us are so strongly supporting his re-election is because of his moral clarity and leadership of this country post-9/11."
He added: "Should he be proud of that? I think so."
[snip]
On Friday, Mr. Kerry told National Public Radio: "I believe that within a year from now, we could significantly reduce American forces in Iraq, and that's my plan."
Yesterday, Mr. Bush criticized that plan.
"He said he is going to substantially reduce the number of troops six months after he's the president," Mr. Bush told an audience in Albuquerque. "Listen, we all want the mission to be completed as quickly as possible — but we want the mission to be completed.
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And then have that spinner's description shot down... The border between Vietnam and Cambodia was carefully watched by all three sides... The Americans, the VC, and the Cambodians. Somehow Kerry managed to sail there, have tea with the Communists, and then sail back.
I bet the only people who would've shot at him would've been Americans... shooting at a traitor.
Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry and his wife got into a heated argument after a campaign rally in Arizona Sunday night -- a heated argument so hot they spent the night in different rooms! A well-placed law enforcement source tells DRUDGE how Kerry and Teresa Heinz moved to separate suites at Flagstaff's Little America Hotel. The stress of the campaign and the nonstop tour of battleground states is taking a toll on the Kerrys.
Kerry must have asked for too much allowance.
I heard about it.
I think Kerry finally broke the subject of her not speaking anymore while he's campaigning.
She's mad because she can't fight for women's civil rights anymore.
It's the only time that he could gain momemtum.
The Kerry campaign is beginning to unravel people.
They are in deep doo-doo.
Maybe Teresa Heinz Kerry will become a Republican again... Maybe she just realized that Kerry really is the low life she thought he was back before her first husband died.
That would be a big blow for the Kerry campaign.
No, Teresa will not be allowed to speak at the Republican convention.
OR:
* Trouble in paradise. I guess Tah-ray-zuh got mad because Effin didn`t clean his room. Someone please call the UN to negotiate.
* To be serious, maybe Tah-ray-zuh had a meltdown over Johnny Boy's constant Vietnam fabrications that are now threatening to derail his campaign. "Scambodia" really got to her! Tah-ray-zuh: "I could have bought you Cambodia, if you had just kept your damned mouth shut.
* "John, take your campaign and shove it!"
* I hope she didn't hit him. I can see another Purple Heart coming up!
* Maybe she walked in and caught him and the "Breck girl" in a...ahhm...compromising situation.
* Kerry has probably faced more enemy fire in his marriage(s) than he ever did in Vietnam.
* I am guessing that for the first time in their marriage they are spending a lot of time together, and it's getting to the both of them. I wouldn't be surprised if we see Mrs. Heinz scampering back to Fox Chapel shortly for some much needed "R&R". We knew she couldn't take much more. Chili, hotel rooms, reporters and sucking up to all those icky little people.
I said, "women's civil rights"... It was the most memorable part of her speech at the convention.
Women won their civil rights quite a while ago. They even have a few rights men don't have...
Like deciding what to do with a baby when they're pregnant. What about the husband? I think the husband should be in on that choice... Or better yet, take away that choice and just tell people not to get pregnant if they don't want a baby.
Come debate time, I think GW needs to set the ground rules.
1. You can talk about my presidency. I can talk about your senate record.
2. Vietnam is off the table. I am giving you a pass senator. Your heroics are to be admired. However the day you got back from Nam is on the table. You ran for office based on that. Makes it public knowledge.
3. Going negative is on the table unless right now you declare that only the Kerry and Bush campaign teams can fund and air media ads.
4. From now until election day, the media can only report facts and not editorialize their preferences and who they endorse. That, after all senator is what we call free press and you managed to get it for over a year now. If you tell the press to knock it off, I will also.
5. 9/11 is on the table. That defines my presidency and you have every right to criticize it if you so desire. However, if you choose to talk about my 7 minutes reading to the children after the first plane hit, I will talk about the 45 minutes you sat frozen watching it on TV.
6. Iraq and the WoT is on the table. Please feel free to take "a" position and speak out for/against it. As I will do the same. However, if you choose to condemn my actions, I will bring up every flip flop you made. In addition, if you decide to play the "unilateralism card", I will most definitely bring up the 39 nations that we are working with in Iraq.
7. Our domestic agendas are on the table. Please tell the nation every bill you passed concerning your strong beliefs in domestic tranquility, equal opportunity, job creation, education reform and health care benefits. I will talk about No child left behind, the prescription drug bill, creating a couple of million jobs after the devastating effects of 9/11 and Clintons recession and how my cabinet has more diversity than any administration in history.
8. Abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research are not political, but moral issues that I do not plan on addressing in this campaign. However if you feel the need to address these issues to the country, I will gladly state my beliefs.
9. Please feel free to tell the country how you wish to repeal the second amendment. I will not stand in your way nor will I offer an opposing view. It is part of the Constitution and that is where it will stay.
10. I plan on telling the nation about our anti ballistic missile shield and because of it we have effectively isolated North Korea, Iran and other countries trying to develop a long range nuclear capability. You can agree with my policy or not. Your choice.
11. Finally Senator and this is off the record, if your campaign chooses to go negative on me or my family, I will personally do everything in my power to see that you are brought up on charges as a war criminal, communist sympathizer and enemy of the state. I will use your meetings with the North Vietnamese, Cubans, Sandinistas and will even bring up your wifes support of the Cubans and every communist organization that is doing what it can to sabotage my presidency. I will have your wifes books audited on a weekly basis and will do the same for every socialist in Hollywood. Understand something senator, "You don't mess with Texas."
Kerry: Can I talk about the time I was in Cambodia? That's not part of Vietnam... ;-)
"So, it's ok for Kerry to try to use 9/11 against President Bush (criticizing the 7 minutes of the President's "inaction" in a Florida schoolroom, although that backfired BIGTIME on Kerry), but the President isn't allowed to mention 9/11?"
To understand Kerry, you have to think like a spoiled third grade brat that has always gotten everything he/she wants. I think Kerry uses the word "nuanced" to describe this thought process.
What a bunch of "CONTROL" freaks. They can say anything, lie, cheat, and deceive and then think they have the authority to tell everyone esle what to say and think.
We are not talking about stable minds here. So we know who they will use that "Patriot" Act against.
I hope that you are advising the President !
Just more hypocrisy from the Rats, nothing new here, standard game plan, whatever...
Kerry sounds like Bagdad Bob
The fact that we have had no terrorist attacks on US soil since 9/11 blows Kerry's premise out of the water and makes him look like the poser his is.
Does this guy live on the same planet as us ??? Mr. Kerry, tear down this wall of deception !
Excellent, excellent point!!
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