Bush campaign negativity..

[NC_Nurse]

 
washingtonpost.com Highlights
Bush campaign accents the negative

Scholars say volume of attacks is unprecedented

By Dana Milbank and Jim VandeHei
Updated: 12:43 a.m. ET May 31, 2004

It was a typical week in the life of the Bush reelection machine.

advertisementLast Monday in Little Rock, Vice President Cheney said Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry "has questioned whether the war on terror is really a war at all" and said the senator from Massachusetts "promised to repeal most of the Bush tax cuts within his first 100 days in office."

On Tuesday, President Bush's campaign began airing an ad saying Kerry would scrap wiretaps that are needed to hunt terrorists.

The same day, the Bush campaign charged in a memo sent to reporters and through surrogates that Kerry wants to raise the gasoline tax by 50 cents.

• More politics coverageOn Wednesday and Thursday, as Kerry campaigned in Seattle, he was greeted by another Bush ad alleging that Kerry now opposes education changes that he supported in 2001.

The charges were all tough, serious -- and wrong, or at least highly misleading. Kerry did not question the war on terrorism, has proposed repealing tax cuts only for those earning more than $200,000, supports wiretaps, has not endorsed a 50-cent gasoline tax increase in 10 years, and continues to support the education changes, albeit with modifications.

More at link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5100453/

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[woofless]

3. It's not O.K. to distort them.

[Ruby Romaine]

4. Did you forget that * said he was against nation building

and Bush flip flops on everything?

I'm not better off than I was 4 years ago, are U?

[Ruby Romaine]

5. good work mods! another freeper bites the dust! :-)

[Jade Fox]

6. READ THE ARTICLE-Kerry's actions are being distorted and lied about

You do know how to read, right?

[jbfam4]

2. Was just going to post this article.

It is also in the Wash. Post.
From Bush, Unprecedented Negativity
Scholars Say Campaign Is Making History With Often-Misleading Attacks

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3222-2004May30?language=printer


Negativity sounds so much better than lies.