New Film -"Inside the Bubble"- Will Kerry’s Snore Room kill 08 chances

[papau]

In a WSJ OP-ED Congressman Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) calls for GOP to learn to be less reliant on spending without much of a threat of being punished at the ballot box in 2006 (Flake sees no Dem threat even with hurricanes-gas prices-Iraq: ". . . ndemic Democratic ineptitude makes Republicans more attractive when graded on a curve." - ABCNote sums it up as "Nothing the Democratic Party is doing is putting fear into the hearts of the Republican Party."

So are Mr. Kerry’s 08 prospects. “Dead but doesn’t know it.” ????

http://www.observer.com/pageone_newsstory4.asp

Kerry’s Snore Room:
Inside the Bubble
Documents Dreamers

By Ben Smith


“What was the overarching point of the campaign?” asks Jim Loftus, a press aide to Senator John Kerry, at the end of Steve Rosenbaum’s new documentary of the Senator’s 2004 Presidential campaign.

The film, Inside the Bubble, was screened exclusively by The Observer, and is set to be shown publicly for the first time at the New York Television Festival Sept. 29.

“I don’t know what the hell it was,” Mr. Loftus continues. “I don’t know now. I lived it for 11 months, admittedly intoxicated and exhausted and strung out from cigarettes and arguing with press and sappers and the whole thing. I don’t know. That’s a problem.”

It remains a problem as Mr. Kerry re-emerges on the national scene—enough so that the documentary has already drawn fire from his press secretary.<snip>

[displacedtexan]

1. I was in the DC HQ every day...

beginning in the summer of 2003.

The only mistake the top people made was not fighting back when BushBots and/or the media attacked.

[papau]

2. That was my take also - but I thought it to be a potentially "fatal" flaw

:-)

[papau]

4. Some URL's for nasty comments and seeing a scene are below

http://www.cinematical.com/2005/09/26/the-movie-john-kerry-doesnt-want-you-to-see

http://www.magnifyme.net/PublicVideo/PONYTIME.mov

http://rpv.blogspot.com/2005/09/promo-clip-from-john-kerry-documentary.html

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3. "Inside The Bubble" is apparently outside the bubble - focus on advanceman

from same article:

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Mr. Loftus, whose compulsive willingness to talk makes him the movie’s star, is a type immediately recognizable to people who follow political campaigns: the advance man. Wired and relentless, he worked for Presidential candidates going back to Gary Hart. His role on Mr. Kerry’s campaign was press wrangler—he steered the growing mobs of reporters and camera crews to their appointed spots.

That Mr. Loftus is a central character in Inside the Bubble reveals what Kerry aides are already saying is the film’s weakness. It spends a lot of time with campaign staff, but the real gurus rarely appear. Bob Shrum, Mr. Kerry’s longtime advisor, is pictured just twice, casting pained glances at the camera. Pollster Mark Mellman wanders through just once. The Clinton hands who came onto the campaign late are bit players: Joe Lockhart a voice giving instructions over the telephone; Mike McCurry slouched on the bus, staying on message.

If the film documents a preoccupation with process, goes the criticism, perhaps that’s because it spends most of its time with the people whose job it was to set up camera angles.

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