Kerry team, DNC hit Bush on Guard issue

[CatWoman]

By and Rick Klein, Globe Staff | September 10, 2004

NEW ORLEANS -- The Kerry campaign and leading Democrats yesterday launched a new line of attack aimed at President Bush's character, using military veterans and political allies to accuse him of skirting his National Guard service requirements during the Vietnam War and charge that such behavior foreshadowed Bush's "dishonesty" in justifying the invasion of Iraq.


Advisers to Democratic nominee John F. Kerry said they helped craft the battle plan with the Democratic National Committee but were leaving it to the DNC to execute to keep Kerry publicly above the fray and focused on criticizing the incumbent's leadership -- as he did in a speech in New Orleans yesterday where he compared Bush's policies to racist "Jim Crow" laws.

For the second day in a row, the DNC held a conference call with reporters on newly disclosed documents about Bush's service, with Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and Richard Klass, a retired US Air Force colonel, repeatedly questioning the incumbent's "character" and "honesty."

"If the president will lie about this, will he lie about how we got into Iraq, for example?" Harkin said. "This goes right to the heart of the character and the truthfulness of the current occupant of the White House."

A group of veterans in West Virginia, organized by the DNC, also held a news conference yesterday to challenge Bush's Guard record, and veterans in Pennsylvania and Ohio plan to do the same today. More such events are planned in other battleground states, DNC adviser Howard Wolfson said yesterday. He said criticism will continue almost daily, "at least until Bush himself answers these questions about his service directly."' Last spring, Kerry said that he would not question Bush's decision to serve in the Guard instead of going to Vietnam but that he would challenge the president on whether he had fulfilled his Guard obligations.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/09/10/kerry_team_dnc_hit_bush_on_guard_issue/

[CatWoman]

1. after all the bitching today, I thought you guys would like to hear this

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[mzmolly]

2. Ahhhh, things are getting tasty now ........

:P

:toast:

[kwolf68]

3. Time to rachet it up

Told my wife about this and she said, "I didn't think you liked dirty politics."

I said we had to crawl into the belly of the beast, because of what they have done/said to/about John Kerry. They got this shit-parade started and we have just the information to finish it.

Morals are gone...Chimpy saw to it and now I want this effer to go down.

[Elidor]

4. Very good news

Thanks for posting it. And yes, DU has been bitchy, not just today, but for a while now. I try to take it in stride - I can be bitchy myself, after all - but I've had to limit my time here. Too much emotion, not enough rationality.

[CatWoman]

5. you're not alone

I just came back this week.

the lunacy ran me away, too.