Posted on 08/28/2004 7:20:10 PM PDT by plushaye
What did Weasley say?
Note that Reuters used the last third of the article trying to blame Bush for the whole mess that Kerry is in......but said little about the inconsistencies & lies that Kerry has been caught in......
That was a very classy thing for President Bush to say. It's little things like that that speak volumes about a man's character. I can't imagine Clinton, Gore, or Kerry being so charitable and self-effacing.
And they won't stop; if the polls are right with Bush on the rise -- and if Bush gets any kind of convention bounce -- we better all don our HAZMAT suits because Kerry and the Dems will go nulcear.
The President is acting like a gentleman. I think it will play well with the undecided voters.
I never cared for Bush41, but I have to admit that both Bushes are pure class. Gentlemen through and through.
I guess Bush never heard the phrase "nice guys finish last".
its time for him to be quiet about this, or when asked, say that Dem 527s are saying he is poisoning pregnant women, and Kerry is saying nothing about it.
I see it more as killing your enemy with kindness.
You're wasting your time with that one.
Sen. Kerry ...... here is some rope... just how much of it do you want?
It is brilliant. Kerry says he went to Viet Nam and Bush says he honors that service. President Bush then says Kerrys was more heroic and what is left for Kerry to do? He can't argue (well, knowing Kerry, I guess he can). The point being is when someone pushes a argument, and it has little value except to the person pushing it, then concede it, go on with your business and let them think they have won something. They stand there thinking "I won," and the rest of the world doesn't notice, or care.
Kerry made a mistake! There's nothing heroic in that. However, he did the right thing in taking out after that VC with the RPG. Lots and lots of guys were awarded posthumous Silver Stars for similar acts.
Basically, it was pretty stupid for an officer to go chasing around a VC by himself in an ambush situation, but it was colorful and stimulated otherwise timid Navy recruits to meet the challenge of real combat.
I've always wondered if he got into wearing his sword. That hasn't been mentioned in any of this.
what if his records have been "sanitized"? that silver star citation that was altered, reissued, and allegedly signed by lehman didn't get there by accident. if kerry has been planning on running for president for 40 years, he has probably been cleaning up his military jacket behind the scenes for years.
I know Peggy Noonan is working for his campaign now, and Karen Hughes is back-- lots of good advice there. Plus his wife, of course, but sometimes a wife can be too much her husband's partisan and too close to him to be able to see clearly enough to give good advice.
At any rate, I think his response here was SPOT ON. Absolutely gracious and self-effacing -- you couldn't draw a more perfect contrast with Kerry's bragging and self-promotion. Perfect!
All he has done so far is to take the high road.
You have to remember, even the slightest connection to the Swifties will be blown out of proportion.
And it WILL hurt Bush if there is even a tiny bit of evidence of that.
The public would be taken in by the claims.
Luckily, so far, the evidence is SO slim that even the media can't focus on it much.
he's crazy like a fox, my friend.
Absolutely classic. Bush is a master at this......he WILL win!
Not surprising from a rag that would put this line of drivel in the article.
The president continued to defend his own service in the Air National Guard
As if being in the ANG was something needing defending.
Kerry's Democratic primary rival Wesley Clark, his voice rising to a yell, suggested President Bush is behind the criticisms being aired by veterans who say Kerry lied to get medals and then disgraced the country with his anti-war activism after returning home.
"I think that it's outrageous that the president of the United States can question the medals and the service and the valor of American veterans who have served," said Clark, a retired four-star Army general. "It's offensive against every veteran in this country."
Relying heavily on money and help from Republicans, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have made the claims, many of which have been disputed by Navy documents and other veterans.
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