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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 12:55 PM
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Subject: You're Only Half Right
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:57:07 -0500
From: John Kerry <info@johnkerry.com>
Reply-To: jk4p-0032M065EH@mailer.johnkerry.com
To: xxxx



JohnKerry.com


Dear xxxxx,

The topic of this email -- and the subject of a major speech I will deliver in Boston's Faneuil Hall tomorrow -- is national security.

If you think I'm planning to alert people to Republican pre-election fear-mongering on this vitally important issue, you're only half right.

Of course, we need to reject the Republicans' idea that a "debate" on national security involves them demanding another book of blank checks for policies that don't work. And, needless to say, we can't tolerate them smearing any Democrat who stands up to their miserable record of failure.

I will be campaigning for Democrats all across the country this fall. And, everywhere I go, I will talk about the Bush national security disaster and the need to change course in Iraq. They don't want Americans to remember that Osama bin Laden is still on the loose, the Taliban is gaining strength in Afghanistan, Iran is closer to nuclear weapons, and the mess in Iraq has become a recruitment poster for terror. There is no way to overstate how Iraq has damaged our efforts to actually fight global terror. It has overstretched our military, divided and pushed away our allies, and diminished our moral authority in the world.

But, here's the other half of the story. As Democrats, we have to do more than oppose what has failed. We have to actively propose a new course that can clean up the disaster in Iraq, and defeat jihadist terrorism once and for all.

We must offer the American people the kind of real national security debate they deserve -- and that the Republican Party, top to bottom, would deny them.

Tomorrow I will share my ideas on how we can do just that, achieving a more secure future for America. If you'd like to receive an emailed copy of this important address after it's delivered, please sign up here.

SEND ME A COPY OF THE KERRY PLAN ON NATIONAL SECURITY

I look forward to working side-by-side with you on this critical issue in the weeks ahead.

Sincerely,

John Kerry

P.S. Remember, we'd be glad to email you the speech after it's delivered. And we'll also be posting it on our website at www.johnkerry.com. I hope you'll read it yourself and share it as widely as possible.
Paid for by Friends of John Kerry.




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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 01:35 PM
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1. Perfect! Spot on!
And the perfect comeback to all those RWNuts who say, "I don't know what the Democrats' plan is! They don't have a plan!"
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 01:41 PM
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2. heheh...if only it were just RWnuts - it's most broadcast media who parrot
the RW message machine and say Dems have no plans.

Kerry and other Dems HAVE been putting up plans and the corporate media ignores them to follow the Rove storyline that Dems have no plans. They've been pushing this meme since 2003.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 02:08 PM
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3. Yep! I routinely point the parrots toward the various websites
The media stands with their hands covering their eyes and saying, where? Where is it? I'm not seeing it!

Damn librul media... riiiight.
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