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[beansoup]

I'm also struck by the amateurish handling of this by the Kerry campaign. So far three different people have shown up on talk shows to debate John O'Neill and O'Neill has demolished everyone of them.

The reason for O'Neill demolishing them is that this is a "Truth againist the, Buy lies campaign", Kerry is running...
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[Beldar]

Adam Nagourney's article in Saturday's NYT ( http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/21/politics/campaign/21assess.html ) is also not too slanted. Both he and the WaPo reporter seem to be stunned that Kerry is suffering so much damage from this controversy, but they don't (or won't) dig deeper into why. My blogpost on these two articles, with my advice for the mainstream media reporters on the questions they ought to be asking, is here: http://www.beldar.org/beldarblog/2004/08/wapo_and_nyt_se.html ...

[85 Scott]

I liked the first ad alot. But this new ad may even be better!

That "he sold us out" comment is so true. Any time you can use the enemy's own words against them - it's a huge plus.


My only advice for now, maybe later on in the campaign try to relate some of Kerry's past to modern day events. Such as his "unauthorized" meetings with the leaders of communist North Vietnam.

Imagine if today, a former soldier joined left-wing protesters to undermine the US war against terrorism - they met "illegally" with Al Sadr or Bin Laden, negotiated "unapproved deals" - and then tried to smear the US into accepting the radical demands in those terrorist deals?

That's what Benedict Arnold Kerry did in the early 1970's. He knowingly
"smeared all US soldiers" and "sold America out" to jumpstart his politcal career of lies.

[Lily]

Good analysis Beldar and Nagourney's article was interesting.One thing Nagourney didn't mention and what the Kerry campaign didn't count on was how compelling the SWBT ads are.I happened to tape Hannity and Colmes the night the first ad aired and I watched the ad over and over again. I found the ad compelling and the men who were speaking believable.

[BlueLotus]

ArmyWife,

I do not come from a military family, per se. My father was in the Navy (USS Essex, TF 10) between Korea and Vietnam, my one uncle served on a oil tanker near the end of WWII and my other uncle served in the Air Force as well, but they were all fairly short enlistments.

However, I have NEVER, even as a child growing up in the 1970's and 1980's, believed that the "baby killer" testimony levelled at Vietnam vets was true and I tried to make sure that any time I met a Vietnam vet I thanked them for their service. I felt this would, in a small way, help ease the pain of the broad brush stroke applied by John Kerry.

Brave men being vilified by false accusations is not something I care to repeat in this country's history, nor honor by bestowing upon the accuser the world's most important job as leader of the free world.

It's time for Kerry to pay the piper!

[leeinwv]

[RocketFett]

Hear that? Hear that? It's the sound of nuts and bolts hitting the ground as the kerry campaign machine shakes itself to pieces. When he can't even have a lead in Ohio at this point in the election, that is very bad for him.

An important historical note also. The Gallop poll showed last week that Bush's approval raiting was 51%. NO president ever with a approval rating of 50% or higher at this point in the election has ever lost. And john kerry is not the person to upset that 100% trend. He's as arrogant, unemotional, unlikable, and disingenuous as a person can get. He is all things clinton, except that he has LESS than no charisma, and when he lies, they really do look like lies, and can't be spun into some kind of seemingly quasi-truth, like clinton can do.

[Herb]