Posted on 10/03/2004 8:35:12 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - John Kerry (news - web sites) on Saturday looked to frame the next presidential debate in a specriticizing President Bush (news - web sites)'s economic record, but also tried to get in a final word about their last face-off by declaring himself the winner and Bush a liar. "George Bush (news - web sites) lost the debate," an announcer says in a television ad Kerry's campaign unveiled Saturday. "Now he's lying about it."
The Democratic presidential candidate's accusation came two days after his first debate with Bush, when he told moderator Jim Lehrer that he avoids saying that the president is lying to the American people.
"I've never, ever used the harshest word, as you did just then," Kerry said. "And I try not to, but I'll nevertheless tell you that I think he has not been candid with the American people."
In the first poll taken since the Thursday night debate, Kerry was running even with Bush after having trailed him in the same survey last month. The Newsweek poll showed Kerry had the support of 47 percent and Bush 45 percent, with independent candidate Ralph Nader (news - web sites) at 2 percent.
Kerry spokesman David Wade said the Massachusetts senator's new ad will run at least in all the places where Bush airs his own new ad called "Global Test." The Bush ad is scheduled to go on the air Monday on national cable networks and in select local media markets,
That ad refers to Kerry's comment in the debate that a pre-emptive strike must pass "the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons."
The Bush ad called it the "Kerry doctrine," and asked: "So we must seek permission from foreign governments before protecting America?"
Kerry also said in the debate Thursday that he would not cede the United States' right to a pre-emptive strike and that he will "hunt and kill the terrorists wherever they are." Those comments are what the Kerry ad focused on.
The ad also referred to a story appearing in Sunday's New York Times that the Bush administration sometimes overstated intelligence assessments of nuclear weapons programs in Iraq (news - web sites) in the lead-up to the war. "Bush rushed to war," the Kerry ad says. "We're paying the price. It's time for a fresh start."
Kerry's campaign insisted that its new ad would run. However, at least three such response ads it produced over the past two weeks never made it to the airwaves and were used solely to generate news coverage.
Kerry campaigned in Florida Saturday for a second day since Thursday's debate on foreign policy. While Bush held huge rallies in the Midwest battleground of Ohio, Kerry gave a 45-minute speech in Orlando outlining his economic agenda.
Kerry aides said the speech, along with another on energy he planned to give in the coming days, are designed to set up the issues for the final two upcoming debates — a town-hall style match Friday and another focused on domestic policy the following week.
Kerry argued that Bush cares most about the wealthy and well-connected, while portraying himself as the patron of working families who are struggling to achieve the American dream.
"I've got your back," Kerry said.
"For the last four years, George Bush has turned his back on you and the families with almost every choice that he's made," Kerry said. "For those people who are struggling, four more years of Bush choices is four more years that I don't think people can really afford."
Bush led 49-43 in the Newsweek poll in early September and was up by 11 points in the poll following the GOP convention. The Newsweek poll of 1,013 registered voters was taken from late Thursday to early Saturday and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Kerry's economic case against the president built on the criticisms that he lodged against Bush's leadership in Iraq. He said Bush "is a man who can't see a problem and can't fix a problem."
Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said the economy is recovering under Bush, and he contended that Kerry's policies will end the progress.
"John Kerry's policies will derail the economic recovery and mean that every American sends more money in taxes to the federal government," Schmidt said.
After a day of campaigning in Orlando, Kerry flew back to Washington and appeared briefly at a $6 million fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites)'s presidential campaign fund.
Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) and his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry arrive for a campaign fundraiser in Washington, October 2, 2004. Kerry has pulled ahead of President Bush (news - web sites) in a poll published by Newsweek magazine showing Thursday's television debate erased the lead Bush had enjoyed for the last month. Photo by Jim Young/Reuters
Kerrry ist ein grosse sitzpinkler.
Here is a link to see the ad http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_1003.html
Been done a few times already?
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(excerpted from Sac Bee Op Ed)
http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/10949091p-11866354c.html
Kerry follows Dole model
By Dan Schnur -- Special To The Bee
Published 2:15 am PDT Sunday, October 3, 2004
Since the early stages of his presidential campaign, John Kerry has worked to inspire Democratic voters by linking his candidacy to the legacy of John F. Kennedy and the halcyon days of America's political Camelot.
More recently, Republicans have compared Kerry with Michael Dukakis, the Massachusetts presidential candidate whose most memorable event on the campaign trail was the attempt to prove his military credentials by posing on a U.S. Army tank.
Kerry's personal biography clearly gives him much more standing from which to debate national security matters.
But identifying the strongest political parallel to Kerry's candidacy requires traveling far beyond the borders of Massachusetts to his professional home for the last two decades, the floor of the United States Senate.
As Kerry struggles to convince voters to remove an incumbent president from office, his effort has begun to bear a striking resemblance to Bob Dole's.
Another long-time senator and decorated war veteran, Dole waged the unsuccessful campaign to unseat another incumbent president in 1996.
As you may have heard at some point over the last several weeks, John Kerry served in Vietnam.
As was the case eight years ago, when Republicans believed that Dole's status as a war hero would form a compelling contrast to Bill Clinton's lack of service, Kerry's supporters were confident that their candidate's record in Vietnam would work to his strong advantage when compared to the wartime choices of George W. Bush.
Like Dole, Kerry framed his candidacy around his war record from the beginning. Like Dole, he appeared with fellow veterans at campaign events and pointed to the lessons learned in combat as a defining experience in his life.
But like Dole, Kerry has been unable to persuade voters that an admirable record of military service automatically translates into relevant preparation for the Oval Office.
Be fair to Kerry. He has talked about any number of domestic and foreign policy matters over the course of the campaign, just as Dole did. But when given the chance to introduce himself to the national electorate at this summer's Democratic convention, Kerry chose to illuminate his candidacy almost entirely by his military accomplishments.
Not surprisingly, post-convention polls showed that Americans' personal regard for Kerry had grown significantly as they learned the details of his service.
But because voters learned little about Kerry's plans for the future, that respect did not translate into popular support for his campaign.
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Dan Schnur was communications director for Gov. Pete Wilson and the 2000 presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain.
Thanks for crosslinking! :-)
Does anyone have a complete listing of the crimes the Hari Kerry has committed?
It's easy to determine sKerrys future moves, first move the White House to Paris, then...
That picture makes me wanna barf.
I dont believe those liberal leaning polls.
Uh huh. Kerry should worry about fixing the air valve on his cheek. It's looking very angry.
GET CHIRAC ON THE PHONE!!!
hahahaaaa! Like Bush said. Kerry needs to finish the debate he's havin' with himself ! :^D
The same holds true for his advertising staff.
F. Democrats.
We also know from a Larry King interview what John Edwards would do. Run away from his job and go home. The DC police came to get him into protective custody with other congressmen.
Point well taken, Dr. Weegee. I stand corrected.
"Passing the global test" can not be spun for anything other than it is. It's totally self explanatory!
That's about where he got full of himself in the debate and stepped in it bigtime. That one and giving the Iranians nuclear fuel (so they can build a nuke even faster I guess).
Ever notice how this guy has to explain everything he says because it sounds so stupid to begin with? "I voted for the 87 billion, before I voted against it".
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