Bush's Mocking Drowns Out Kerry on Iraq Vote (a la Dean)

[MarkTwain]

Bush's Mocking Drowns Out Kerry on Iraq Vote
By DAVID E. SANGER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 - For five days now, as the long-distance arguments between President Bush and Senator John Kerry have focused on the wisdom of invading Iraq, Mr. Kerry has struggled to convince his audiences that his vote to authorize the president to use military force was a far, far cry from voting for a declaration of war.

So far, his aides and advisers concede, he has failed to get his message across, as Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have mocked his efforts as "a new nuance" that amount to more examples of the senator's waffling.

Mr. Kerry's problems began last week when President Bush challenged him for a yes-or-no answer on a critical campaign issue: If Mr. Kerry knew more than a year ago what he knows today about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, would he still have voted to authorize the use of military force to oust Saddam Hussein?

As Mr. Bush surely knew, it is a question that can upset the difficult balance Mr. Kerry must strike. He has to portray himself as tough and competent enough to be commander in chief, yet appeal to the faction of Democrats that hates the war and eggs him on to call Mr. Bush a liar. It is a problem that has dogged Mr. Kerry since he walked through the snows of Iowa and New Hampshire, and suffered the barbs of Vermont's former governor, Howard Dean, who made Mr. Kerry's vote to authorize action an issue. Now Mr. Bush has taken up where Dr. Dean left off.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/12/politics/campaign/12memo.html?hp

Point One: This is what happens when you have a candidate who preferes to be "a little bit pregnant."

POint Two: Unless and until this candidacy gets off its god damn ass and starts to fight fire with fire, dramatically, combusitvely, explosively, and definitively....

...DimDubmbSon and his Cabal will find themselves winning their first Presidential election.

[0rion]

1. Nothing he says can stop his downfall now...

BUHAHAHAHHAHAHA!

Waaaaahaaahaaaavvve, Gooooooodbye.

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=744368

[Minstrel Boy]

3. I like what xymphora had to say yesterday:

"Even a hint of sensible pacifism won't fly in today's talk-show world where any nuanced approach is easily ridiculed, and this despite the fact that it is clear that the vast majority of Americans dislike the American violence against the Iraqi people. In order to become President, if you are not gifted with the natural stupidity of Bush, you have to pretend to be stupid by claiming to have dumb and simplistic policy positions."
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2004/08/kerry-and-iraq.html