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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Like everyone wasn't already tired of hearing about Vietnam from Kerry years ago!
For only being over there four months, it seems he went on at least 8500 missions.
Do the fools believe this ridiculous tactic is going to get Kerry off the hook?
W keeps saying kerry served honorably and should be proud of his military sevice.
great, i would add.. it's his 19 year service that needs to be questioned.
start playing hardball. those idiots are.
He can't. It's against CFR laws. Sheesh!
Plus, Bush has nothing to do with it. It's Kerry vs Vets. Kerry is reaping his own Karma.
PS...Hannity has a film of Kerry burning down a village.
Novack says the Vets also have the man who signed the medical paper for Kerry's first purple heart. (Dems said the name on the paper was not the guy that said he treated Kerry, so they got the guy on the paper, too.)
Sounds like Kerry's "witness" forgot to read his crib notes.
Glenn will always be remembered as Clinton's smarmy defense attorney during the impeachment.
LOL
People who just move on to more outrageous lies when they are caught in a lie do not end well. It usually ends up involving burly guys wearing white.
The problem with them is, they really THINK they are fair and balanced.
A FOURTH Purple Heart!!!!? None of the other PH's involved a bullet.
Well, since Runyon is saying Kerry was shot, it appears Runyon has the faulty recollection.
Gardner was not on the Boston Whaler that night. Schachte was the OIC. Kerry was on training mission. The two enlisted guys on the boat (Zaldonis and Runyon) that night don't remember that Schachte was on there. But logic would dictate, you don't put a new officer on a training mission without an experienced officer being present. Schacte's call sign was Batman. Kerry's was Robin. POW!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1200338/posts?page=30#30 <-- 1st PH
If Bush condemns the swiftboat vets, then Kerry should condemn moveon.org
Until these Democrats get around to condemning Michael Moore, MoveOn.Org and a host of other negative ad producers, I believe they can just shut the hell up.
john glenn?
Is that the guy who almost had his job outsourced to Coco the space chimp?
Why does this remind me of that audio clip on Boortz's web site called "Boo Got Shot?"
Glenn's been a big leftist all of his political life.
Gosh, if we could just see Kerry's medical records we would know if he got shot. That would end it.
Yep. This pouting means the Vets 527 is working, and the Dems 527's are not (no one is paying attention to those).
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