I have an idea for your NEXT ad.
Showing Kerry throw his medals over the fence, then speak - but not getting too lost in his Vietnam era, but focus on him wanting the UN to be in charge of the US troops, with a few good quotes (see quotes and links below -- I think you may want to include what he said in 1970, but an additional one from 2003, to show he still holds that position, and letting people know that dates too), then clip from Bush's SOTU speech:
"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Bush, SOTU, Jan. 20, 2004
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040120-7.html (for text)
and page where you can get the video, so you can clip that part:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/stateoftheunion/2004/index.html Kerry quotes:
"I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations."
--- Kerry, Inteview with Harvard Crimson, Feb. 18, 1970
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=352185 ===
"We need a new approach to national security - a bold, progressive internationalism that stands in stark contrast to the too often belligerent and myopic unilateralism of the Bush Administration."
--- Kerry, Foreign Policy Speech
Georgetown University, Jan. 23, 2003
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/issues/kerr012303spfp.html =====
"And in the first hundred days in office, I will go to the United Nations -- I will go in the first weeks -- and I will travel to our traditional allies to affirm that the United States of America has rejoined the community of nations. "
I will treat the United Nations as a full partner -- not as an obstruction to get by -- not only in the war on terror, but in combating other common enemies, like AIDS and global poverty. We must seek not only to renew the mandate of the U.N., but to reform its operations and revitalize its capacity. And if I am president, the United Nations will be seen as the asset that it is, not a liability to a safer America. "
--- Kerry, Speech at Center for Foreign Relations, Dec. 3, 2003
http://www.cfr.org/pub6576//making_america_secure_again_setting_the_right_course_for_foreign_policy.php "I believe the Bush Administration's blustering unilateralism is wrong, and even dangerous, for our country. In practice, it has meant alienating our long-time friends and allies, alarming potential foes and spreading anti-Americanism around the world."
--- Kerry, Foreign Policy Speech
Georgetown University, Jan. 23, 2003
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/issues/kerr012303spfp.html Apparently, according to Kerry, "alarming potential foes" is a bad thing!
Most people don't understand what the UN is. A one liner about their agenda would be good. The UN would take away our America as we know it. Just if there was a way to get people to see that.
