New Bush ad
The Bush-Cheney campaign have put up a new TV ad that takes Sen. John
Kerry to task over health care. This is the second ad on the subject
in two days. The first ad pointed out how Kerry voted several times to
tax Social Security and wasn’t present on several votes regarding
Medicare and Social Security.
The new ad takes Kerry on regarding the fact that his plan creates an
expensive bureaucrat-run program.
"President Bush and our leaders in Congress have a practical plan:
Allow small businesses to join together to get lower insurance rates
big companies get. Stop frivolous lawsuits against doctors. Health
coverage you can take with you," the ad says.
"The liberals in Congress and Kerry's plan: Washington bureaucrats in
control. A government-run health care plan. 1.5 trillion dollar price
tag."
You can view the commercials at the
Bush-Cheney website.
Attack Bush Day?
Today is shaping up to be one of the hardest hitting attacks on Bush
since the Boston Globe and CBS news tried to make his guard service an
issue with forged memo documents.
A group of families who have lost Guardsmen will protest President
Bush before he speaks to the National Guard convention. On the
opposite coast widows of the 9-11 attack will endorse Sen. John Kerry.
"We think the real issue now is the Iraq war, it's not the Vietnam
War," said Charley Richardson, co-founder of Military Families Speak
Out, which organized the National Guard protest. "But we can't help
notice the irony that a person who managed to avoid going to combat by
joining the National Guard is now sending the National Guard into
combat in a war based on lies."
Kerry: "Bush a liar"
Kerry -- campaigning in Wisconsin where he is down eight percent to
Bush -- called President Bush a liar.
"They're being dishonest with you, they're hiding the truth from you
... they're cheating the American people of the truth," Kerry said.
The other bad news came from John Kerry’s wife calling Bush
intransigent. She told the Hispanic Caucus that Bush’s unwillingness
to change is a character flaw that shows ''inattention and
indifference" rather than strength. Teresa Heinz Kerry also said that
her husband’s ability to change was an attribute. She didn’t say the
phrase: flip-flop.
Kerry up a river
The
New York Times
reports on the newest cinematography effort to try and elect Sen. John
Kerry:
The Long War of John Kerry," directed by a longtime friend of Mr.
Kerry, George Butler, makes its debut at the Toronto Film Festival,
with the window for finding out the answers excruciatingly small. The
film will open in 200 theaters on Oct. 1, less than five weeks before
the election.
Acquired just six weeks ago by ThinkFilm, based in Canada, "Going
Upriver" has shifted in content and story line almost daily. Three
weeks ago, the film was far different, before the Swift Boat Veterans
for Truth emerged to attack Senator Kerry's wartime record, the
filmmakers said.
Poll watching, 9/14
Indiana
Bush 54%
Kerry 38%
Unsure 8%
Maine
The most devastating latest poll numbers for Kerry show that Main is
now competitive for Bush:
Bush 43%
Kerry 43%
Nader 3%
Unsure 11%
Wisconsin
Bush 52%
Kerry 44%
Nader 1%
Electorally speaking
Western states seem to be coming home to President Bush. Bush now has
decent leads in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico. What is
more interesting is that Bush is competitive in Oregon.
Bush is also making big dents in the Midwest. Bush leads Kerry in Ohio
by 52 percent to 44 percent. Bush also has taken Missouri off the
table. Bush has opened up an 8 percent lead in Wisconsin and that
leaves Michigan as the place where Bush is the most vulnerable. Bush
is also competitive in the Eastern states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Main of all places.
Blue states are now in danger of going for Bush if the election were
held today. Of course, the election is still 50 days away.
As of yesterday, Bush was on track for at least 286 electoral votes to
Kerry's 222 — it takes 270 to win — based on state-by-state polls
tracked by the Hotline political newsletter.
To say that the Democrats are worried is a major understatement. The
Boston Globe captures their mood in a story concerning the Midwest
Blue states:
''Oh my God, if Bush wins, people are going to move to another
country," said Gretchen Wick, 43, a Milwaukee teacher who went to the
Maher show.
A die-hard Democrat, she said she has never felt as worried about
politics as she does now.
CBS stands by their forgeries
CBS’s Dan Rather offered up new experts that asserted
their documents were not forgeries:
Everything that's in those documents, that people are saying can't be
done, as you said, 32 years ago, is just totally false. Not true.
Proportional spacing was available. Superscripts were available as a
custom feature. Proportional spacing between lines was available. You
can order that any way you'd like," said document expert Bill Glennon.
Richard Katz, a software designer, found some other indications in the
documents. He noted that the letter "L" is used in those documents,
instead of the numeral "one." That would be difficult to reproduce on
a computer today.
In addition to the forensic evidence, Monday's Evening News
story said the original report relied on an analysis of the contents
of the documents themselves and interviews with colleagues of the
author to determine their authenticity. The new papers are in line
with what is known about the president's service assignments and
dates.
ABC’s, The Note writes about the CBS’s defense:
The bottom line of this story has not changed: CBS News broadcast
charges against the president of the United States in an election year
based at least partially on documents that many leading experts
believe to be forgeries.
If an IBM Executive or Selectrix Composer could reproduce the
documents faithfully, that might settle some of the questions. But we
have yet to see evidence that either machine could do so — or that
such machines were used by the Texas Air National Guard in the early
'70s.
Swiftees proven right about Kerry Silver
Star fraud
The Kerry Silver Star fraud charge raised by the Swiftees has gained
strong new evidence that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are...
telling the truth. In a new report via Drudge.com on NewsCentral.com’s
The Point, the actual after action report document is shown (no, not a
CBS forger kind) which shows Kerry detailing how his swift boat gunner
shot a Vietnamese man in the leg, who fled. Kerry’s report describes
Kerry following the wounded man and shooting him. Excerpt from
article:
So there you have it. The official record -- written by John Kerry --
supports what the critics have alleged rather than the John Wayne
Kerry version the Massachusetts liberal has been telling.
This, of course, is not the story John Kerry now tells of the
incident. Will the tangible proof of Kerry’s own Vietnam after action
report – written and filed by himself and put in by him for a Silver
Star – bring even a ripple of old media reporting?
Here is the link to this story: [LINK]
Here is the link to the actual document filed by Kerry: [LINK]
NBC & CBS tell DNC: pull your ad!
A new DNC attack ad produced to be used in battleground states has
come under fire by NBC News and CBS News. The new ad features footage
taken from last Wednesday’s hotly disputed 60 Minutes II
segment aired by CBS News on the Bush National Guard memos now seen as
forgeries and from an interview last February from NBC's Meet the
Press. When the Bush-Cheney campaign in February used footage from
an interview President Bush gave NBC's Meet the Press, the
network immediately demanded that the campaign pull the ad.
According to The Weekly Standard [LINK],
the both networks are seeking removal of the DNC ad:
Late Thursday afternoon, NBC News and CBS News requested that that the
Democratic National Committee pull the campaign video in question. The
DNC, through a spokesman, says that the matter is under consideration.
NBC released a statement Tuesday afternoon. "The Democratic National
Committee (DNC) has included an edited excerpt from a Meet the
Press interview with President Bush that was broadcast on February
8, 2004 as part of their promotional campaign to be used as a web
video and shown in battleground states. NBC News does not authorize
its copyrighted footage to be used for partisan political purposes.
NBC News did not, and does not, license use of our material for these
purposes and we have asked the DNC to cease and desist immediately
from using the excerpt."
CBS spokeswoman Sandy Genelius told THE WEEKLY STANDARD late Tuesday
afternoon that CBS, like NBC, will demand that the Democratic National
Committee stop using CBS News footage in the new ad. "We do not want
them to use the video and we are taking it up with them," said
Genelius.
But will the DNC cease and desist on their ad? Here’s the initial
reaction from spokesman Jano Cabrera:
"We are aware of the request[s] and we are looking at it. Our current
understanding is that we have the right to use the limited excerpts in
the video. But we are looking at it."
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