What Would Kerry Do? (Can he convince voters he would be a better CiC?)

Newsweek ^ | Aug. 16, 2004 issue | Richard Wolffe and Susannah Meadows

[FairOpinion]

Seven hours after the White House offered to brief him, Kerry, who'd been unwilling to bump any campaign events, was finally parked in one place long enough so that a secure phone line could be set up in his bus. After playing softball with firefighters and autoworkers in Taylor, Mich., Kerry boarded his bus next to the field, and, still wearing his TEAM KERRY jersey, heard what lay behind last week's terror warnings.

He may talk tough, but Kerry still faces his biggest challenge convincing voters he'd be a better commander in the war on terror than Bush. Polls show the president holding a double-digit lead over Kerry on terrorism and homeland security. And the Bush campaign is relentlessly attacking Kerry's Senate record, accusing him of missing intel committee meetings and proposing to cut intel spending a decade ago.

[FairOpinion]

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[maryz]

Bush campaign is relentlessly attacking Kerry's Senate record, accusing him of missing intel committee meetings and proposing to cut intel spending a decade ago.

"Accusing him"? Aren't these things a matter of public record?

[FairOpinion]

This is "leftist-speak". When people confront Kerry with the truth, they are "accusing and attacking".

When Kerry and the Dems make unsupported allegations against Bush, the leftist media reports those as fact.

[goldstategop]

With all the favorable publicity Kerry's gotten in the media, he should be up by 10 or 20 points. Instead, he's even with Bush. And he got no bounce out of his own convention. Commander In Chief material? This is one dude who didn't show he's got what it takes to sit in the Oval Office.

[BluH2o]

... the Bush campaign is relentlessly attacking Kerry's Senate record, accusing him of missing intel committee meetings and proposing to cut intel spending a decade ago.

Accusing him ... Newsweek liberal speak. If the situation were reversed then Newsweek would read "pointing out the fact".

[maryz]

With all the favorable publicity Kerry's gotten in the media,

Not to mention the incredible barrage of negative publicity for Bush, including the "bash Bush book-of-the-week club, the adamant refusal to cover progress in Iraq, the drumbeat of insistence that the terror warnings are political, etc., etc., etc.

[Right_in_Virginia]

It took Kerry seven hours to find an opening in his schedule to find out about credible threats to this nation...and he has the nerve to bash the President for seven minutes on 9/11.

Unbelievable.

[beyond the sea]

After playing softball with firefighters

And throwing the ball from left field like an eight year old girl..........

[Semper Vigilantis]

While the president talks about closing down terrorist finances, Kerry wants to name and shame uncooperative banks and countries?and even shut them out of U.S. markets.

There goes the French vote. Kerry better be careful - he's dangerously close to alienating his core voters.