Whoa!
Good, good ad...
I have only one observation: this ad is going to hurt.
Oh, man. Sweet. Give it to him Swifties!!!
Excerpt
"...P.S.: The idea that Kerry was actually in Cambodia over Christmas when he said he was has apparently long been abandoned by the Kerry campaign. ...
P.P.S.: Like many of my friends, I wasn't paying much attention to the Swifties until Kerry went postal on them. (Hmm. Was that a smart move? What happened to the rope-a-dope strategy?) I don't know which side is right. I don't know that I'd even hold it against Kerry if he did exaggerate a bit to get the three Purple Hearts that let him leave Vietnam. I do know that if freedom of speech means anything it means that a group of citizens can get together to bring up this sort of charge against a presidential candidate, subject to the laws of libel. But read this New York Times editorial and see if you can avoid concluding that the Times doesn't think the Swift Boat Veterans Ad should be stopped because it might be financed with corporate or union money in violation of the spirit of McCain-Feingold. The Times doesn't even really think it should be stopped because it was financed by a rich individual Republican (something that's clearly perfectly legal under McCain-Feingold as long as the group running the ads is not incorporated).
The Times thinks the ad should be stopped because you just shouldn't be able to make such "outlandish" independent charges in a campaign. They're against the speech, not the financing. Like Kerry, they're trying to come up with a "process" reason that avoids the inconveniently messy issue of truth. But their process reason--an attack on "independent" criticism per se--seems particularly dangerous.
P.P.P.S.: Respectable big-time journalist friends who met with the anti-Kerry vets recently found them a lot more credible than expected. Sorry, Note!
Its not long enough. We need a 90 second commercial, at least
Well John, you said bring it on. Consider it brought.
There is a whole new generation in this country since Vietnam and a whole new attitude about our fighting men
This add will be devastating to the left
Wish they would have included that whore Fonda in the ad
I remember those days very well .
Tied my gut up in knots
bump for later...
W-O-W, brought tears to my eyes as memories flooded back after 33yrs.
Kerry's a traitor and should be tried.
I'm sending another $50 to the Swifties.
I really like what the one vet said about Kerry giving them "for free" what he suffered torture for not saying.
Powerful statement!
I'm going to spread this around.
You Go Swifties!
"Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. "
Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man Introduction (1792)
TRUTH = SWIFTIES
Even the gentleman who is quoted below would have had the guts to support the truth!
"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."
...Harry Truman
thanks for the link. we may have to change the name or add to the swifty boat boys a new title. the tidy bowl cleaners. they are really starting to clean the grim and scum around the giant inflated life of mr kerry. its just a matter of days before they press the handle and flush the crap down forever.
dude! in all my years, that is one of the toughest ads ever. Passion of the Christ and now this. tear jerker. it may be to powerful for the meek (so be it). wonder what they would have produced if we had donated more money prior to this release. okay mccain, it is high time you spoke out against him too.
has it begun airing on tv yet? what markets? Thanks in advance for your replies.
I LIKE it!
I especially like leting JOHN KERRY do the TALKING!
Good one.
I wish they also had JOHN KERRY saying HE committed THESE WAR CRIMES! Also have a picture of the book KERRY wrote about HIS WAR CRIMES too. Then I'd be thrilled at the ad. These ads are killing him.