Should Kerry pull a Clinton at the debates?

[DrWeird]

I'm thinking of something along the lines of, when discussion of the Iraq war he says something like this:

"A wise man once said...

'Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome.'

... and that man was George Herbert Walker Bush, your father."

[UrbScotty]

1. Omit the word "wise" from the first part

...though Poppy is wise compared to his sons.

[Bombtrack]

4. He was wise for a republican president

since he was the only one of the last 4 to not be a dumb-ass.

[Deja Q]

2. Depends

Assuming the quote is true, it might give * the sympathy vote - Americans might. :eyes:

Then there's this:

http://www.wirefarm.com/archives/003415.html


Time Magazine used to have an article that made Bush look foolish. They have recently removed it from their website.

This is an unethical and wrong move on the part of Time.

I've lost a lot of respect for the quality of writing at Time over the years, but this goes beyond anything of which I would have imagined them capable. It of course brings to mind the famous phrase by Orwell:


Who controls the past, controls the future.
Who controls the present, controls the past.

---- 1984 by George Orwell


Interesting that the author quotes Orwell, but oh well.

[DrWeird]

6. The sympathy vote didn't help Bush the Elder.

In fact I thought it was the turning point of the '92 election.

[49jim]

3. if Kerry did that the liberal media

would say that he was picking on poor * and would say that * won the debate.

[dbt]

5. Ya think there'll BE any debates?

I don't see how bu$h's handlers can risk having their boy look any stoopider than he already does--which the debates will certainly bring about.

:evilgrin:
dbt

[cease_fire]

7. I love it!

Yes! It's terrific!

And terrifically unfair. Listen, before I get flamed, I don't believe that shrub deserves any fair treatment, but in terms of a public Presidential debate, fairness is an issue. Even though that statement would eviscerate shrub, it would cast Kerry as an opportunist. Pitting father against son, no matter how appropriate it is, even in terms of foreign policy decisions, will be an unpopular move.

Again, we need no convincing. We're voting for anyone but Bush, but the election outcome still hangs by a thread, and that thread is represented by the middle ground - easily influenced and shaken.

As much as I love it, as much as I would love to have TiVo going when it happens, the debates (if they should ever happen) hold much juicer possibilities.

1) You Lied
2) You Leaked
3) You "Left Behind"
4) 5) 6) 7) 8).....

[Pastiche423]

8. How could that help kerry?

He wants to continue whistle ass' war.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

9. Tweety will be crying on screen and asking why JK is....

being so mean to *!

[Jacobin]

10. Then why did he vote to authorize the invasion?

He's not wise?

Slippery slope with that one. Another reason he was WRONG on the IWR vote.

[kaitykaity]

11. I'll betcha Kerry's got a whole file just full of these.

Like the Bush41 quote about revealing intelligence
assets.