Dems Press Kerry to Step Up Bush Attacks(too many chefs)

AP ^ | 09/01/04 | RON FOURNIER

[Williams]

But I thought attacks were "ugly" and wrong. Listen Freepers, the Clinton scum is surrounding Kerry. They are going to use detectives to out the Swifties and repub's private lives, and they are going to stir up hateful racial incidents and issues. Kerry's soul belongs to the worst scum now. And the media will applaud every underhanded move.

[angkor]

while Bush was in the Redneck Riviera, Kerry was picking shrapnel out of his butt,"

Ahem. That would be rice grains, not shrapnel.

[ken5050]

Was just channel surfing..C-span showiNG the Dem response team brIEfing from this morning..caught a few minutes..McAuliffe, Menendez, Lautenberg, and a few others...They're all standing there, on the stage, somber faces, hands clasped in front of them..looking like.....

PALLBEARERS

Guess who's funeral they're attending?....hehehhe

[Jaysun]

Dems Press Kerry to Step Up Bush Attacks(too many chefs)

You can never have too many chefs. More chefs means more delicious varieties of food. ;o)

[Jaded]

But, but, but I thought Kerrie was the one who swore there would be no mean nasty attack adds.

[VRWC_minion]

[Jaded]

Rudy was right,Kerry has time to change his mind again 3 or 4 times.

[marron]

By the time Kerry personally struck back, calling the group a front for Bush spreading "lies about my record," the damage was done.

These guys don't get it. It wasn't Bush, they weren't lies, and the damage was done in 1972.

"Why not stand up there and say, `He chose to have his father get him out of harm's way while I volunteered to risk my life?'"

Oh, sure, go for it. According to Kerry, that makes him innocent of war crimes.

What Democrats have to ask themselves is whether their bench is so thin that their most serious candidate is a guy that hasn't done anything in 20 years. What happened to their heavy hitters? Do they not have any heavy hitters?

[Redbob]

"'Personally, I'm for somebody coming out and saying while Bush was in the Redneck Riviera, Kerry was picking shrapnel out of his butt,' he said."

Redneck Riviera.
This must be a Michiganian way of trying to court the Alabama voter.

[OpusatFR]

That will be a huge mistake. Everyone is on to the Clinton apparachniks and there are ways to tar them badly for using those techniques. Worked prior to the web. Not now and not since the game is out.

[COUNTrecount]

[Always Right]

Kerry and his beleaguered staff are being flooded with advice, much of it contradictory. Some party officials want him to criticize the president for sitting out the Vietnam War in the Texas Air National Guard. Others say that would draw unwanted attention to allegations about Kerry's combat experience when the focus should be on the economy and the Iraq (news - web sites) war.

With advisors like this, who needs enemies....

[arkady_renko]

"But I thought attacks were "ugly" and wrong. Listen Freepers, the Clinton scum is surrounding Kerry. They are going to use detectives to out the Swifties and repub's private lives..."

Don't need private eyes. Remember the Michael Moorish Craig Livingstone and the FBI files?

[arkady_renko]

But of course that assumes that the old Clinton gang actually wants Kerry to win...

[ServesURight]

Rush was just talking about this.

[Williams]

It seems impossible to win the election by pointing out Bush's Guard service, because last time I checked Bush is already President. He can be judged on his performance and one would think publicly known info from 30 years ago was already factored into Bush's first election. Al Gore did a longer tour in Vietnam than Kerry.

Kerry OTOH, is being evaluated the first time around for CIC, therefore all issues are relevant at this time.

[Gucho]

"Personally, I'm for somebody coming out and saying while Bush was in the Redneck Riviera, Kerry was picking shrapnel out of his butt," he said." CAUTION: THIS ITEM SOMETIMES MISTAKEN FOR SHRAPNEL

[Yankee]

Message to liberals:

It's the candidate, stupid!

[Wild Irish Rogue]

"Personally, I'm for somebody coming out and saying while Bush was in the Redneck Riviera, Kerry was picking shrapnel out of his butt," he said. "There are those who want John Kerry to drop his drawers and show America the scars."

I want to see Kerry's home movies from Vietnam.
The home movies he happily shows reporters and guests to the manse including Charles Sennott of the Boston Globe in 1996.
The home movies where he watches his men pour gasoline on a village and raze it.
The shots of Kerry sunbathing next to a bound and blindfolded prisoner.

Jim Robinson posted the original article last Friday night.
("Flashback: 1996 - The Boston Globe: The making of the candidates: JOHN FORBES KERRY
The Boston Globe ^ | October 6, 1996 | By Charles Sennott, Posted on 08/27/2004 10:07:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson )

Kerry spent 5 hours with the reporter,very proudly showing him his home movies from Vietnam.
" ... the film showed soldiers dousing gasoline on huts in a small village before setting them on fire."
Kerry talks to the reporter about the sickly sweet smell of the burning wood.

Don't recall "It takes a Kerry to raze a village " being shown at the DNC convention.

Page 62 of " Unfit For Command "
quotes George Bates an officer in Coastal Divison 11 describing how Kerry ordered the torching of a small hamlet that was obviously nothing more than a peaceful fishing village.

Kerry ordered the farm animals slaughtered and then Kerry ran around with his Zippo,
" burning up the entire hamlet."
Bates said the village was apolitical, no symbols or flags in evidence.
Bates said that " existing policies, decency and good sense required the boats to simply move on."
Bates believes that Kerry acted " in an almost criminal manner."

Another scene from Kerry's home movie :
" There is Kerry in cutoff shorts working on his suntan next to a Viet Cong prisoner bound and blindfolded."

Didn't Kerry just call for Rumsfeld to resign because of Abu Grhaib ??

By all means, let's keep the focus on Vietnam.