Kerry's new ads....they are awesome

[MidwestTransplant]

http://www.johnkerry.com/features/heartandlifetime/email.html

Frank Luntz even said they were fantastic!

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ok Frank Luntz

I suspect he has a secondary objective here.

But they are fantastic

[Got WMD]

2. Great ads!!!

Part of me just wants him to open up the big guns on *, but these are very well done ads. Finally!!! I wonder when * will run a positive ad touting his "record of lifetime service"???

[newyawker99]

14. Hi Got WMD!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Kadie]

3. Great ads.

Real positive, showing people some of who John Kerry is. Great way to start I think.

[quinnox]

4. I don't doubt it

I saw some of his ads during the primary season, and they were great. Very professional and well done. Kerry seems to know where to get the best ad people.

I remember one that was about one of his mates in Vietnam talking about how Kerry was a decisive leader and how he had complete faith in him, they should run this ad again for the general election.

[tandot]

5. great to see some positive ads...

I think lots of people are tired of all those negative ads.

If Bush made a similar ad, how would it look like?

DUI arrest
Yale, Harvard
National Guard to get out of Vietnam
(Bush: I am proud to have placed a check mark next to "I do not volunteer for overseas")
AWOL

[LynzM]

6. I really liked in the first one

How he says that after the privileges he had, including going to Yale, he felt he owed something to the country, to give something back. Take the "privileged" bit right out of the RW's mouth!

[berner59]

8. Both are great!!!!

So well done, positive and stirring... I think I like the 1st one a little better because Kerry is talking about himself - it connects a bit more...but the 2nd one has some great images - with the kids and John McCain...

I hope these get played all over...

[aquart]

9. Not just George.

America's privileged have staked out the position that they are too exalted to give ANYTHING back, especially not money or military service.

[Mountainman]

13. There is a tradition of wealthy men giving military service.

They joined the Navy or Army and became officers because of their status in life but they really did risk their lives for the cause. Kerry joined a long line of Americans from Washington, to Lee to Teddy Roosevelt and FDR. Bush on the other hand chose to remain safe in the TANG.

[blm]

7. Who was twisting Luntz' arm at the time?

Luntz has been dumping on Kerry for almost two years.

Methinks Luntz will use the "great"ads as the reason that Kerry will pull ahead in the polling to pretend that a fall isn't because of Bush's own failures.

That's how Luntz works.

[caledesi]

10. Woo Hoo! Loved these 2 ads. Shows the very humanistic side of him

[derby378]

11. They're OK

Considering that they're coming a little late, I think one of those ads should have contrasted Kerry's service records with Bush's. Warm and fuzzy won't necessarily do it this time around.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

12. positive, uplisting, informative

and sans the dark cloud.

Nice going.