--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You most certainly can. Bush's first campaign ad > (last fall) said: > "people are attacking the president for attacking > the terrorists." > directly calling into question the patriotism of > people that oppose the > invasion of Iraq. And how about the new ad that > says Kerry "wanted to > delay defending America until the United Nations > approved." Sounds like > questioning his patriotism to me. And now Bush will > be targeting Kerry's > anti-Viet Nam war record in 1970. I'm thinking that > that one's going to > backfire as there aren't too many people who were > around back then that > were pro Viet Nam.
Wanted to delay defending America until the UN approves doesn't sound like an attack on his patriotism. It sounds like an attack on his judgment. The same with his anti Vietnam War record. Both are signs of astonishingly poor judgment. I assume you think that poor judgment on foreign policy is something that disqualifies one from the Presidency? You cannot, Doug, despite what you seem to want to do, claim that any and all criticisms of someone's record in public life are attacking their patriotism. That's pretty much the only way John Kerry can defend his record, I guess, but it's not an honest one. I want a cite on Bush's ads, since I don't think he's ran any that say that, and I generally know what his ads say - and it should be a better cite than Salon Magazine. > > As far as a mean spirited campaign, Bush has hired > the likes of Alex > Castellanos. Are you familiar with the smear > tactics this guy is famous > for (hint: bureaucRATS). > > Doug I do know who Alex Castellanos is, and the bureaucRATS thing is a proof of how desperate you are to find something. Because, of course, that whole thing was made up - a fictional tempest in a teapot over a non-existent event created by a media desperate to find something or anything to attack the campaign with. Everyone knows it. Democratic Party professionals who are friends of mine still laugh about it. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
