Posted on 08/27/2004 4:03:11 PM PDT by ambrose
Posted on Fri, Aug. 27, 2004
Glenn urges Bush to condemn swift boat ads
CARRIE SPENCER
Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Retired U.S. Sen. John Glenn said Friday that President Bush should take time in his Ohio visit Saturday to condemn ads attacking Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's military record in the Vietnam War.
Political strategists say the Kerry campaign needs to fight back against the ads questioning his rescue of a crew mate and the wounds that won him three purple hearts, but runs the risk of tiring voters eager to hear about jobs and education.
The ads by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ran for just one week in three states but have generated intense media publicity, and polls this week showed Kerry slipping slightly.
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Ohioan Pat Runyon, who introduced Glenn, told about 200 supporters at a union hall that he went on a nighttime raid with Kerry on a three-man boat in Vietnam, and that Kerry returned fire even after getting shot.
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John Glenn is from Ohio not the south.
Elderly pawn.
Come on, JohnnyNam, cough up the Form 180 AND a full body x-ray and metal detector scan.
I got a long list of responses to that innocent comment. I guess my notion of the brave astronaut is gone forever.
You are absolutely correct. My memory failed me in my haste to engage hyperbole.
Regards.
Thanks. I somehow had John Glenn confused with John Warner of Virginia.
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