[Brandon]

This ad is timed to coincide with Kerry's address to the American Legion on Wednesday. It's running in Florida, there's a nationwide cable buy -- and a special buy in Nashville, where the Legion convention is being held.

I think Kerry's swiftboat just hit another mine.

[xm177e2]

This ad is timed to coincide with Kerry's address to the American Legion on Wednesday. It's running in Florida, there's a nationwide cable buy -- and a special buy in Nashville, where the Legion convention is being held.

That explains it. I don't think this issue has much emotional appeal to most people in America (not because we don't care about medals, but because we haven't earned any, so we don't feel like we should be criticizing people who have). But veterans have earned the medals--and in many cases paid for them in blood--and they will probably not be so tolerant of Kerry's behavior. And their reaction to Kerry will be very imporant to how other Americans view Kerry's military service.