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"That '70s Show"
Topic Started: Aug 25 2004, 05:02 PM (156 Views)
Dwayne
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The Opinion Journal's James Taranto points out another conniving Kerry scheme...
"I called the media. . . . I said, 'If I take some crippled veterans down to the White House and we chain ourselves to the gates, will we get coverage?' 'Oh, yes, we will cover that.' "--John Kerry, testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971

"Kerry is sending to Crawford former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia, a frequent companion of Kerry's on the campaign trail and a fellow Vietnam War veteran who lost three limbs during the war. Cleland . . . will try to deliver a letter protesting the [Swift Boat Veterans for Truth] ads to [President] Bush at his heavily guarded ranch, Kerry aides said."--Reuters, Aug. 25, 2004
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I thought it was going to be about the show that used to precede ENT on Wednesday nights.... ;)
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Dwayne
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No such luck, but John Kerry is a rerun from the 70's.
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Dwayne,

Wasn't chaining one's self to an object something that was also done in the sixties? Or are you speaking specifically of a Kerry event? I'm thinking of the Weather Underground (formerly the Weathermen--and their ilk) that went to extremes. The railroad tracks come to mind. Even I could not go to such extremes to prove a point, I don't think.
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Dwayne
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Read the opening quote from John Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony, then compare that to the Max Cleland spectacle yesterday. From the 1971 quote, Kerry is implying he'll go as far as chaining handicapped veterans to the gates of the White House to get media attention, then on the 25th John Kerry sends a crippled vet to George W Bush's home for media attention.

All the points about the Weather Underground are tangentially related, but my specific point is that John Kerry will stoop to incredible lows in his attempt to get media attention.
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Okay, gotcha. I don't think he needs to do this, though. I believe he already has (or will have come election time) quite a lot of media attention. I don't understand the motivation here. I might be able to understand it if he were way behind in the polls, but isn't it a tad closer than that at present?
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Aug 26 2004, 03:07 PM
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Okay, gotcha. I don't think he needs to do this, though. I believe he already has (or will have come election time) quite a lot of media attention. I don't understand the motivation here. I might be able to understand it if he were way behind in the polls, but isn't it a tad closer than that at present?

Kerry's point was to try and put Mr. Bush on the defensive and that's it.
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Okay, but if Bush will have none of it (i.e., doesn't take the bait), then it will have been done for nothing. Care to speculate on what will become of it?
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Aug 26 2004, 03:26 PM
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Okay, but if Bush will have none of it (i.e., doesn't take the bait), then it will have been done for nothing. Care to speculate on what will become of it?

Nothing.

I think the narrative of the day has now changed to Mr. Bush's suit filed today to close the 527 loophole.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=6081771
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