"I went to Vietnam, yadda, yadda, yadda" (Holt on new Kerry ad)

[DeepModem Mom]

Washington Post:

Kerry Ad Focuses on Domestic Agenda
Aides Try to Shift Campaign's Tone
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 23, 2004; Page A07


After two weeks of televised assaults by President Bush's campaign, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) unveiled an ad about his domestic agenda yesterday in what Kerry's strategists described as an effort to change the tone of a resoundingly negative election season.

While the new spot offers no new details on Kerry's stance on health care, taxes and education, it uses images of the presumed Democratic nominee in Vietnam -- and with police officers and construction workers -- to make the case that "John Kerry has fought for his country" for 35 years.

Mary Beth Cahill, Kerry's campaign manager, said Bush is running "an unprecedented negative campaign" because he has "no positive case to make." Senior strategist Tad Devine, accusing the president of "distorted" advertising, said the campaign concluded it was more important to address voters' bread-and-butter concerns than be drawn into constantly responding to Bush's on-air attacks....

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Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt responded, "John Kerry's campaign seems to be summed up this way: I went to Vietnam, yadda, yadda, yadda, I want to be president. He would have the American people ignore his 19-year record in the United States Senate. . . . In the case of John Kerry, the truth hurts."...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16201-2004Mar22.html

[CO Liberal]

1. And Bush's Campaign Is Like This:

"Terror, terror, terror, yadda, yadda, yadda....."

[maddezmom]

4. and don't forget everything is Clinton's fault

:mad:

[Racenut20]

2. Mary Beth better be figuring out how

To get her candidate across instead of whining, else we have another "Gore campaign".

[trumad]

3. Gore won

[blondeatlast]

5. The Gore campaign was successful. Remember? nt

[emulatorloo]

6. What part of what she said is whining?

She is not crying about attacks on Kerry.

She is just saying that Bush won't focus on the issues.

[TruthWins]

7. Holt is a dope

This is the same Bush League spokesman that tried to spin the 22,000 new jobs created last month as a sign of Bush League's economic success, despite the fact they had projected 10 times that many jobs and none of those 22,000 were in the private sector, all government jobs.

[JI7]

8. and Bush got scared and hid on 9/11 even though he wasn't threatened

his shithead administration lied and said he was specifically threatened because they didn't want to admit the asshole was just scared, just like he is scared of horses. he hid during the vietnam war also, he even hid from the national guard which he went into in order to avoid serving in vietnam. what a fucking loser. and now he is hiding from his years in the stolen presidency. he failed to get elected by the people in the first place and he has been a failure in office.

[Robb]

9. I'm frankly amazed

...a professional communicator for the Bush camp actually said "yadda, yadda, yadda." :eyes:

[DeepModem Mom]

11. ...especially about decorated wartime service!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

10. and in the case of John Kerry, GW Bush, and Vietnam- the truth hurts

see it works both ways. But assholes will (and do) have trouble seeing this.
They are gripless.

[Dr Fate]

12. Let me guess- this Holt guy never served a day...

...much less experienced combat.

Just a guess. Am I right?

So let me see- is his thesis that a President who has actually seen combat should not highlight this when it will be his job to SEND men into combat?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

13. It's like a parody

Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt responded, "John Kerry's campaign seems to be summed up this way: I went to Vietnam, yadda, yadda, yadda, I want to be president. He would have the American people ignore his 19-year record in the United States Senate. . . . In the case of John Kerry, the truth hurts."...



"George Bush's campaign seems to be summed up this way: 9-11, yadda, yadda, yadda, I am the president. He would have the American people ignore his record as President. . . . In the case of George Bush, the truth hurts."