Posted on 10/26/2004 10:46:50 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
KERRY/EDWARDS CAMPAIGN PREPARING CAMPAIGN AD ON MISSING EXPLOSIVES
**Exclusive**
:30 spot called "obligation"
JOHN KERRY: "The obligation of a Commander in Chief is to keep our country safe. In Iraq, George Bush has overextended our troops..."
JOHN KERRY: "...and now failed to secure 380 tons of deadly explosives."
JOHN KERRY: "The kind used for attacks in Iraq, and for terrorist bombings."
JOHN KERRY: "His Iraq misjudgments put our soldiers at risk, and make our country less secure. And all he offers is more of the same. As President, I'll bring a fresh start to protect our troops and our nation. I'm John Kerry and I approved this message.
Developing...
Of course it will. They were going to pretend it was true and still are. If the Republicans have a timely rebuttal it will be a huge mistake; if not, they'll get away with it. They don't really have another choice, unless it's another lie.
WooHoo!
Let's Roll.
RD
That's flat out incorrect. Are you intentionally lying or just woefully misinformed?
Rove isn't silly, they knew this was coming.. I'm sure he'll have something up his sleeves.
Yours is the silliest post I have read today!
LLS
That's my sense as well. I'm starting to wonder if Rove has a closer. Mabye my senses are dull, but the Bush campaign has been steady and firm with their message, but they haven't launched anything. It is going to be hard enough to get the MSM to even talk about their message in the closing days, so whatever the Bush campaign has planned, it needs to have a bang.
I haven't figured it out yet. My point is I've been a silent observer of these shenanigans for too long now. Violence is out of the question, but activism certainly is an option.
Let me put it this way. I have a family, a good job, an education, and I sit here and watch pure propaganda from the DNC/media with open eyes. If this republic is to continue, there must be an open an honest debate in it. The current media machine offers no such honest debate. Alt media has made a dent, but it too is generally extremist (just because I agree with it doesn't mean it isn't extremist).
As I see it, there are two choices.
1) Shut everything out and continue to vote GOP w/out being informed.
2) Openly get involved in neighborhood politics, activism, etc.
Call it a work in progress.
We are indeed fortunate to have your keen insight.
I have been listening to Rush for more years than I can remember. I do believe today's show is the best I have ever heard....!
What damn Machiavellian plan are they (RNC) playing now? They should get out there and say/do something!!! Hell, I have been sending out emails left and right trying to fight this. Is it up to the FR??? If it is, then let's fight the SOBs!!!
I am so fed up with the MSM, Hollyweird, the DNC and sKerry/Edwards! We must play at their game--no more Mr. Nice Guy. The gloves come off NOW!!!
Yep this is it--- and we need to make it very hot for anyone repeating the lie. Bloggers for truth as it were.
This orchestraed lie needs to saddle Kerry with a 10 point drop in votes rather than a planned 5-8 percentage point boost
Same as 1992. "Stay the Course" - and hope security tensions this time around put them over.
Like Patton reading Rommel's book, the Dems read Rove, and added there own obsessions to the mix.
Either side that came out really against illiegal immigration and offered an energy strategy would have blown away the other by now.
Bush hit back on this in his first stump speech today. The RNC has issued a statement, and Rush just reported CNN has recanted the story now on their website. Rush read the correction minutes ago. This will be your next 24 hour news cycle... not because it is true... but because it is NOT!
LLS
From all I've heard, the campaign has put its bang into the GOTV efforts. The ground game.
It just doesn't matter. Minda have been made up. Votes have been cast. It is already written.
Just be patient. Kerry actually ran ads about the obviously fake CBS memos even after most people thought they were fake, and the result was kerry lost precipitous ground in the polls. Go ahead, let him run those ads, then Cheney or someone will give a big speech and call them liars that nobody can trust, then Cheney, for good measure, will finally bring up the non-existant UN security council meetings to prove the point, and the press will have to air it.
I asked my wife this morning and she new last night that it had backfired.
"People smarter than me say each person's attitude/perspective determines his own reality." ~ Prince Caspian
Exactly. And each person's own reality depends upon his emotional maturity.
A high IQ is trumped by one's emotional IMmaturity.
"There is no arguing that classical IQ, as measured by most intelligence
tests, is important in our personal, academic, and professional success.
However, emotional intelligence [maturity] matters as much as the classical
IQ. One could almost say that emotional intelligence [maturity] is a
prerequisite for the proper development and actualization of our other
intellectual abilities." ~ Unknown
More:
Excerpted:
The third method comes from Fred I. Greenstein, a political scientist at Princeton widely admired for his writings on the presidency.
In The Presidential Difference, he proposes six measures for appraising the "leadership style" of presidents:
public communication, organizational capacity, political skill, vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence.
Clinton is strong on communication, political skill, and cognitive style (absorbing and using information).
On the other three, he falls short.
His White House and his personal decision-making style were chaotic.
Despite the talk of a "third way" in public policy, he was hardly a visionary.
And he stumbled badly on emotional intelligence, which Greenstein describes as "the president's ability to manage his emotions and turn them to constructive purposes, rather than being dominated by them, and allowing them to diminish his leadership."
To Greenstein, emotional intelligence is the most important trait of a president.
Clinton, he says, "provided a reminder that in the absence of emotional intelligence, the presidency is a defective instrument of democratic governance."
Fred Barnes - Weekly Standard - 6/28/04
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/241yvyww.asp
The Shrinking Clinton
From the June 28, 2004 issue: Big book, small legacy.
by Fred Barnes
06/28/2004, Volume 009, Issue 40 [] [snip]
The president did not do what was necessary. Didn't bring in enough nation. Didn't deliver the help. Didn't close off the borders. Didn't even guard the ammo dumps. And now our kids are being killed with ammos right out of that dump.
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