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Saturday, October 30, 2004
Is Osama One of the "World Leaders" John Kerry Meant
when he said world leaders are telling him they want him to win?
Hat tip: The Corner.
The Kerry Campaign Summed Up in One Word: Desperation
A while back, would-be first lady Theresa Heinz, said anyone who didn't agree with John Kerry was an idiot. Pinking up on that line of thinking John Kerry is worried that the only reason George W. Bush could win this election is that America is "sleeping" and needs to "wake up" to the truth that is the brilliance of his 8,000,000,000 billion different opinions on all issues and how he is offering absoutely NOTHING in term of specifics on Iraq, he can fight the war on terror better than George Bush:
"Wake up America, wake up. ... You have a choice," he said.What is startling to me is for about the last year or so I always thought this election would be remniscent of 1996's campaign and not the obvious (and wrong) comparison of trying to paint GWB's re-election as analogous to GHWB's re-election.
Check out this quote from Bob Dole in the waning days of the 1996 campaign:
Where is the outrage in America? Where is the outrage in America? Where has the media gone in America? Where is the outrage in America?Kinda eerie, don't ya think?
Update: Does John Podhoretz read Blogs for Bush? Maybe. We did meet him during the convention and he was a regular in "Bloggers Corner." Looks like the influence of B4B is spreading!
The American Insurgency Continues . . .
In Miami, Democrats try to intimidate Republicans and shout down their press conference . . . validating nearly everything the Republican press conference was alleging:
Outside the Miami-Dade Government Center, Democratic demonstrators tried to shout-down Republican party officials and legislators who had called a news conference to make allegations of voter fraud and voter intimidation by supporters of Sen. John Kerry.Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Take A Look At This Slideshow Of The Confrontation
When the demonstrators backed off, Republican Party Chairman Ed Gillespie accused Democratic operatives of forging registrations and insulting Bush supporters.
"I would like to encourage the Kerry campaign and the Democratic Party to urge their supporters not to engage in these kinds of tactics so that we can have fair and honest election in Florida," Gillespie said.
Will This Make Front Page News Like the Trumped Up Allegations
So what really happened to the "supposed" missing munitions in Iraq?
Um, sounds like they were removed as planned:
A U.S. Army officer came forward Friday to say a team from his 3rd Infantry Division took about 250 tons of munitions and other material from the Al-Qaqaa arms-storage facility soon after Saddam Hussein's regime fell in April 2003.I wonder how big the media will report this?
Explosives were part of the load taken by the team, but Major Austin Pearson was unable to say what percentage they accounted for.
The Pentagon believes the disclosure helps explain what happened to 377 tons of high explosives that the International Atomic Energy Agency said disappeared after the U.S.-led invasion.
Needless to say I'm being sarcastic...I know they will bury this beneath some other fabricated charge in an effort to influence the election against Bush.
Luckily we're here to make sure that doesn't happen. Please do your part in your neighborhood by volunteering today!
Who Is Surging as We Head for the Finish Line?
If Internet rankings of visitors, page views etc. is any indicator, more people are heading towards George W. Bush!
Check out Alexa's Web Rankings in comparing W's site to Kerry's:
GDP = 3.7%; What Was Bill Clinton's at Same Point in '96? 3.4%
Robust growth in the economy continues despite media spin, Wall Street estimates, and John Kerry talking down anything that is good in America today. And don't forget that for the last few months ALL revisons to reported numbers have been substantial improvements in economic performance.
Wall Street seems to initailly agree as markets are up as of 10:08am (and that is far more telling than any "futures" speculation -- Maybe we can get Hillary to give us some tips on the futures markets! lol)
So how has life been the last year and a half?
| 2nd Quarter '95 | 0.7% | 2nd Quarter '03 | 4.0% | |
| 3rd Quarter '95 | 3.3% | 3rd Quarter '03 | 7.4% | |
| 4th Quarter '95 | 3.0% | 4th Quarter '03 | 4.2% | |
| 1st Quarter '96 | 2.9% | 1st Quarter '04 | 4.5% | |
| 2nd Quarter'96 | 6.7% | 2nd Quarter'04 | 3.3% | |
| 3rd Quarter '96 | 3.4% | 3rd Quarter '04 | 3.7% | |
| Average GDP Growth: | 3.3% | Average GDP Growth: | 4.5% | |
"Steadfast and Strong" vs "Waffled and Weaseled"
Here is a great post from a blogger who would know the President quite well -- his cousin!
Bush for PresidentI'll drink to that!
Someone asked me the other day why I supported President Bush, "aside from the family thing" as he put it. I said I was supporting him because I thought he understood The Issue at stake better than anyone alive. And because he cared about that issue completely. And that he was on the right side of that issue from day one and every day thereafter. And that he was devoted to committing this nation to a course of offensive engagement with the terror apparatus that might, just might, save us all here in the United States. The issue, of course, is the fight against Al Qaeda, its associates, enablers and like-mindeds.
The President Bush I read about in the papers and the newsweeklies and the blogs bears almost no resemblance to the President Bush I know and visit with from time to time. (I've never seen media as blatantly dishonest and biased as we have all seen this year.) The man I know is smart, extraordinarily disciplined, enormously hard-working, open to new ideas and approaches, decisive, shrewd and gifted with a keen sense of the possible. He is decent and honest and true, which cannot be said of many of his critics.
Has he made mistakes? Yes he has. Do they warrant his retirement. I don't think so. Because over-riding everything is the issue and on this issue President Bush has been steadfast and strong and right as rain, while his opponent has rambled and waffled and weaseled every which way.
Our enemies will brace for four more years of hell if Bush is re-elected. They will celebrate if Senator Kerry wins.
Here's to four more years of hell.
Bush Uses Doctored Crowd to Fake Support? Hardly
CNN (the "Communist News Network" among my friends) has been going gaga over the Bush campaign running an advertisement with computer enhanced crowds -- implying that the whole Ad must be a lie if the crowd is "doctored."
Joe Lockhart (not exactly the most honest person these days) has been calling for the ad to be pulled. Why? Because it's fraudulant? No, the doctoring was simply to remove the president to have a clearer crowd shot (but you had to fill in the space the President had occupied, hence the "doctoring"). Lockhart wants it pulled because it's damn effective. And the absolutely partisan media is running with it like a chicken with its head cut off without any diligence and journalistic professionalism.
Well, not so fast my friend. As this AP story points out, it was done for style purposes and adds little to the ad. Therefore BC04 are re-cutting the Advertisement:
The photo of Bush addressing a group of soldiers was edited to remove both the president and the podium where he was standing. A group of soldiers in the crowd was electronically copied to fill in the space, aides say.Where is the controversy? I can't wait to see what the MSM comes up with when there is not time left on the clock to rebut their continued partisan attacks in an effort to influence the elections.
"There was no need to do that," said Mark McKinnon, head of Bush's advertising team who shouldered the blame. "Everyone technically works for me so I accept the responsibility."
They are like the terrorists trying to influence elections -- admittedly without the killing . . . although their surrogates are getting awfully close.
John Kerry: Lifelong Red Sox Fan? Hardly
John Kerry has acted as if he is your everyday "Joe" in his fan support of the Red Sox and other local sports teams while he is on the stump. But as we have reported when he called the home of the Packers "Lambert Field", and when Peter Gammons reported on the time Kerry said his favorite player was Ned Yost (who never played for the Red Sox), or when he recently referred to the Sox best hitter Manny Ramirez as Manny Ortez, you see an unfolding picture of a man who doesn't know squat about sports but can't even pander well. Thankfully, a couple enterprising Fantasy Sports fans registered as a 527 Organization and stated their own website to track Kerry's flubs: Football Fans for Truth.
Here is a quick excerpt:
Last month, John Kerry lauded "Lambert Field" during a visit to Wisconsin. He has yet to acknowledge Lambeau Field, the historic home of the Green Bay Packers.And there is so much more! Check it out for yourself as these guys reveal what regular readers of Blogs for Bush already know: John Kerry is a big, dorky phony.
John Kerry also praised the Ohio State Buckeyes football team--during a visit to Michigan.
John Kerry throws a football like a girl.
In the first presidential debate, John Kerry said, "As president, I'll never take my eye off that ball. " Football Fans for Truth has collected reams of evidence casting doubt on his ability to do so.
The American Insurgency Continues . . .
The intimidation has progressed far beyond stealing yard signs. Yesterday, a man was arrested for trying to run over campaigners in Florida, the AP is reporting that volunteers found chalk outlines of two bodies in the parking lot of the Bush-Cheney campaign office in Knoxville Tennessee:
Three weeks after glass doors were shot out at a Bush-Cheney campaign office, volunteers have discovered chalk outlines of two bodies in the parking lot.Although some say this is more a prank than an effort at political inimidation, seeing how the vitriolic rhetoric of the Kerry campaign has inspired shootings and inspired a man to express his political voice by trying to run down Republicans in Florida, I don't think this can be so easily dismissed.
The drawings, similar to what might be found at a crime scene, were found Monday evening at the campaign office in Kingston Pike Shopping Center.
"We had someone come in and ask if there had been an accident," Peggy McDaniel said. "We think it has something to do with us."
McDaniel and fellow Bush volunteer Carol Knaffl said the tracings were first done in tape but were later redrawn in chalk.
The American Insurgency Continues ...
The vitriolic rhetoric of the Kerry campaign is firing up their base to continually physically harm Bush-Cheney supports and break into their buildings. The latest is a guy who was "exercising my political expression" by driving his car onto a sidewalk to intimidate supporters of Republican Katherine Harris in Florida:
Police in Sarasota, Florida, arrested a man accused of trying to run down Rep. Katherine Harris and her supporters with a car Tuesday, a police spokesman said.The hate-mongering of the Kerry campaign keeps dialing up the stakes. They should be embarrassed but they have no shame. Thankfully this only emboldens the rest of us.
A silver Cadillac "swerved off the road and drove up the sidewalk" heading "straight towards Ms. Harris," according to the police arrest report.
4 MORE YEARS!
Thanks to Jonathan's brother Oren for the tip.
Check out this Ad Regarding John Kerry Weakening Our Defense
Just click on the link and check out the ad "The Stakes Are High" from "Americans for Peace Through Strength".
Hat tip, K.Lo.
Bush Smarter Than Kerry According to the New York Times
We all know the New York Times is no longer simply biased, they are outright partisan these days (as is ABC, NBC and CBS). But this had to be the most painful thing for their writers, editors, and readers to see in their beloved newspaper:
To Bush-bashers, it may be the most infuriating revelation yet from the military records of the two presidential candidates: the young George W. Bush probably had a higher I.Q. than did the young John Kerry.At least the most painful thing until their November 3rd headline: "Bush Wins Re-Election!" ...
Slap the Candidates!
Although this site is bi-partisan (you can slap Bush as well), I thoroughly enjoyed slapping John Kerry repeatedly (what does that say about me? ed. -- don't answer that).
Anyway, there are some neat things about the site. Namely keep slapping until you get a "10" slap on Kerry.
Thanks to the reader "Moni Mac" in the comments section below who alerted me to the site.
The photo of John Kerry and Tom Hayden is especially appropriate with all the furor over his post-Vietnam abandonment of his "Band of Brothers" being galvanized by the release of "Stolen Honor." Also notice over 300,000 more slaps have been levied on John Kerry than George Bush ... hehe
Watch "Stolen Honor" for Free on the Internet
The makers of Stoeln Honor have released their documentary for free over the Internet. Watch it and judge for yourself.
See it here.
Or here.
Or here.
Jews for the GOP
Always expanding the party of the "Big Tent," the LA Times takes a look at the growing number of Jews voting for President Bush this year:
Joseph Lubeck is a neurologist in this suburban Philadelphia town who has supported Democratic presidential candidates since, as an 18-year-old in 1972, he "relished the ability to vote for George McGovern."While John Kerry is willing to tell any lie to any constinuent, George Bush's record of achievement continues to draw voters from all demographics.
Now he is wondering what his liberal neighbors would think if he were to put a sign on his lawn signaling his choice in this year's race: President Bush.
Herb Denenberg is a 74-year-old Democrat in nearby Radnor, Pa., who was appointed state insurance commissioner by a Democratic governor and almost won the party's nomination for Senate in 1974. This year, he too plans to vote for Bush.
Encouraged by signs that Lubeck and Denenberg may be part of a trend, Republicans are making a strong play for one of the nation's most reliably liberal and Democratic constituencies: Jewish voters.
Marc Felgoise has no such qualms. A 39-year-old commercial real estate broker with a long record of raising money for candidates of both parties who support Israel, Felgoise recently sparred with one of his mother's colleagues at her law office about Bush's domestic policies.
"Of course, I wish President Bush would increase funds for stem cell research," he said. "But if Israel is not safe and secure, what do I care about abortion and fresh air?"
Check out the Jewish coalition for Bush here.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Did John Kerry Insult Another Ally? -- This Time the Italians
Apparently Italy is "abuzzing" today because HBO in Italy aired John Kerry saying that the condistions of the Iraqi Army were so bad that even the Italian Army could "kick their asses."
I don't know Italian, and I can't confirm this, but Michael Ledeen over at NRO has the scoop.
Ron Suskind, Simon & Schuster and The Midas Touch
How many lucky breaks can one man get?
Ron Suskind must thank his lucky stars for the Bush Administration and its mishaps. It seems that any time the Bush team goes off message or one of its members is ready to bad-mouth the President, Ron Suskind is the lucky beneficiary of the scoop.
First there was University of Pennsylvania Professor John DiIulio, who briefly advised Bush in the early months of his administration. After DiIulio wrote an unflattering memo (one he later backed off from), who was there with the scoop? Ron Suskind.
Next there was the disasterous tenure of Paul O'Neill -- someone who was shown far more loyalty from Bush than he EVER showed the Administration. Once O'Neill "resigned" (as anyone knows, O'Neill was forced out due to his general incompetence), who happend to be the lucky author of his anti-Bush book? Ron Suskind.
Who aired the "damning" excepts of O'Neill's 'revelations' (subsequently refuted by anyone and everyone)? CBS who was hawking the Simon & Schuster book. Conflict on interest between CBS and S&S? nah, they're just owned by the same company and CBS would never let their politics cloud their journalistic integrity . . . over and over again
Now, guess who has the "Drudge Exclusive" quote from President Bush (designed to embarrass the President) at a private luncheon from over a month ago? Why Ron Suskind, of course!
Talk about a hot streak. Either this guy is the luckiest "investigative" journalist alive . . . or there is something fishy about all the anti-Bush "scoops" that happen to fall into his lap.
Remember to Vote for "Blogs for Bush"
This is your final reminder to vote for "Blogs for Bush" in the Washington Post poll. The polls close at Noon EST this Friday.
Matt has provided a great service here and has never asked for money (something I told him to do when he had a shot at meeting and getting his photo with the Bush twins in Boton!). He is up against professional journalists like National Review Online (people we like but would like to beat in our ONE category -- they are nominated in NINE!).
Please take a few minutes out of you day and vote for "Blogs for Bush." It would be a great way to close out the election for someone who has given so much time (and his own money) towards providing a forum for grassroots supporters of the President to air their views and build a community around that support.
Click here to vote!
Be Sure to Cast Your Illegal Ballots in Colorado
We have seen below about how the Democrats continue to try and intimidate the Republicans through violence. However, the brazeness of the actions in Colorado is beyond belief.
Not only are there 6,000 felons on Colorado election lists (part of individuals' punishment for committing a felony is loss of the right to vote), but the Secretary of State, Donetta Davidson, is publically saying to let the felons vote anyway!
Secretary of State Donetta Davidson is asking Colorado counties not to turn felons away from the polls, but to let them cast emergency ballots that likely won't count on Election Day.Unlike the backdoor cheating so prevelant by Democrats in most inner-cities, I guess at least she is being upfront about her desire to sneak illegal votes into the final tally?
"The goal is not to disenfranchise anyone needlessly or accidentally," she said at an emergency meeting held Monday, a legal holiday.
Davidson convened the state's 64 county clerks after The Denver Post reported Sunday that Colorado's registration rolls include as many as 6,000 state prisoners and parolees who should be ineligible to vote.
Records show state prisoners and parolees have voted as recently as the August primary, despite a law forbidding it. Since she took office overseeing state elections in 1999, Davidson has failed to prevent felons from registering or casting ballots. She blames Department of Corrections officials for not sending her the information.
Meanwhile Monday, the man who runs the Denver County Jail acknowledged that he allowed activists to register inmates to vote without requiring that anyone check their eligibility.
Update: More election fraud uncovered in Colorado.
Monday, October 11, 2004
John Kerry: 9/11 Changed Nothing
I think everyone is a bit dumbfounded that John Kerry said that the tragic events changed nothing about his view of the world and terrorism. Rudy Giuliani, who rose to national prominence for his brilliant leadership during those dark hours, puts Kerry's recent disasterous pronouncement that we need to get back to treating terrorism as a nuisance in proper perspective:
For some time, and including when I spoke at the Republican Convention, I’ve wondered exactly what John Kerry’s approach would be to terrorism and I’ve wondered whether he had the conviction, the determination, and the focus, and the correct worldview to conduct a successful war against terrorism. And his quotations in the New York Times yesterday make it clear that he lacks that kind of committed view of the world. In fact, his comments are kind of extraordinary, particularly since he thinks we used to before September 11 live in a relatively safe world. He says we have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they’re a nuisance.There can be no starker contrast between the two choices on November 2nd after reading this entire transcript.
I’m wondering exactly when Senator Kerry thought they were just a nuisance. Maybe when they attacked the USS Cole? Or when they attacked the World Trade Center in 1993? Or when they slaughtered the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972? Or killed Leon Klinghoffer by throwing him overboard? Or the innumerable number of terrorist acts that they committed in the 70s, the 80s and the 90s, leading up to September 11?
This is so different from the President’s view and my own, which is in those days, when we were fooling ourselves about the danger of terrorism, we were actually in the greatest danger. When you don’t confront correctly and view realistically the danger that you face, that’s when you’re at the greatest risk. When you at least realize the danger and you begin to confront it, then you begin to become safer. And for him to say that in the good old days – I’m assuming he means the 90s and the 80s and the 70s -- they were just a nuisance, this really begins to explain a lot of his inconsistent positions on how to deal with it because he’s not defining it correctly.
Firing Up The Ground Game -- Iowa in Focus
With only a few weeks left before election day, both campaigns are focusing on those key states left that are still up for grabs. Iowa -- an Al Gore state in 2000 -- is one of those within the grasp of the Bush campaign:
Together with Minnesota and Wisconsin, Iowa makes up part of a trio of upper midwestern states where Democratic strength has been weakened in the past four years and where the Bush campaign sees the chance to defeat Kerry...A Bush victory here would be devastating to the Kerry campaign, so Iowans do your part today for the Bush campaign.
For Kerry, Iowa remains a troublesome battleground.
The Iraq war, terrorism and the economy are the principal issues here, as elsewhere. The farm economy is booming and the unemployment rate is well below the national average...
The race here is so evenly balanced that both sides believe the outcome will be decided by an old-fashioned ground war.
Bush is counting on strong support in rural and suburban areas to overcome Kerry's advantage in cities. Four years ago, Gore came out of the Des Moines area (Polk County and seven surrounding counties) with a margin of 7,000 votes out of 300,000 cast. Bush wiped that out and then some in rural Sioux County, which he carried by 10,000 votes out of 14,000 cast.
Bush advisers count on the passionate support he enjoys among Republicans to turn out a big vote, and his hopes for victory may rest in part on Christian conservatives...
Bush supporters are organizing through churches in the state, and the Christian Coalition of Iowa and the Iowa Right to Life Committee are working to build a sizable vote on Nov. 2.
Catholics Not Welcome by Kerry/Edwards Campaign
John Kerry likes to use the fact that he was raised Catholic as a prop for political purposes when the reality is he is about as Catholic as I am a Martian. But you don't have to be any specific faith to get a sense of the hostility of the Kerry/Edwards campaign towards religous people. Check out what happens when a group of seminarians try to attend a Kerry/Edwards debate watch event in St. Louis:
After a longer wait a young lady claiming to be a staff member of the Kerry/Edwards campaign approached. She asked to see the signs, so we showed them to her. As soon as she realized that the signs said things such as "You CANT be Catholic and pro-choice. She said that we would be unable to enter with the signs. I produced a document from the ACLU that said otherwise. At this point we began to be accosted by various Kerry supporters. They were right up in my face, screaming and yelling. With their arms flailing they informed me that I was not welcome there. Others screamed "Who are you to tell me that my daughter who was raped cannot have an abortion." We remained calm and prayerful.But it didn't end there. Even after the seminarians agreed not to bring any signs into event (despite their legal right to do so), they were denied entrance to the event for no explainable reason:
They sent the same woman who I had discussed the sign issue with. She informed me that since the Kerry/Edwards campaign had rented the America's Center they had every right to deny anyone that they deemed likely to cause a disruption of to be a threat to the safety of the Senator. I told her that we would leave our signs outside. She said no. I told her that we would say nothing, and that we were not there to cause a disruption or harm to the Senator, and that if we did cause a disruption they could remove us. She said no. I asked her what evidence they had that we were going to cause a disruption, at which time she fell silent because there was no evidence. Up until this time the only disruptions were those cause by the Kerry supporters themselves, all we did was stand silently in prayer. I pressed her on this issue, but she could not give an adequate answer. They had no grounds for expelling us other than the fact that we were wearing roman collars. They knew our very presence would challenge Senator Kerry’s position on Life issues and the wanted to avoid that, even if it meant squelching our freedom of speech and freedom of expression. So much for the Democratic Party being a party of understanding and diversity.Good to see the Democrats so open and welcoming to all walks of life, huh?
At this point the Kerry people left and I was whisked away for a meeting with the police. They informed me that I had two options. To be escorted out peacefully or forcefully. I told them that we would leave peacefully since we did not come to cause problems only to provide a silent and prayerful witness to the sanctity of human life. I told the officers that I had only one request before we left; I wanted to know the reason we were being denied entrance. Clearly, as the police conceded, we were not a security threat, and there was no evidence that we were going to be disruptive. They asked the Kerry/Edwards people who said they would no longer speak to us about anything. Thus we were escorted out amid jeer and cheering from those still standing in line. But this is not the end of the story...
Be sure to check out what happened when the seminarians continued their silent and prayerful protest outside the area.
Although Bush Did Fine, There Were Missed Opportunities
Below, I scored the debate a tie and I stand by that more than ever. However, an e-mail from Stephen Savas, scored it a tie but with what I believe are important caveats. Most of any disappointments in Bush's performance voiced by Bush supporters can be summed up as "missed opportunities."
Here are the excerpts from his e-mail:
Bush didn't do anything so wrong, otherwise it wouldn't have been a tie. But there were so many missed opportunities for the clear touchdowns against a weak, flip-flopping opponent, and those points weren't scored. Here are some missed opportunities that would have sealed the deal:
1) "Senator Kerry applauds the efforts of our President 12 yrs ago that assembled the UN and a large coalition to go to war vs Saddam; to him this was a right and just war. Only problem is Mr. Kerry voted against that war. The wrong vote at the wrong time..."
2) "Of course Senator Kerry would immediately stop work on our most advance weapons development, like bunker-busting tactical nukes; that is the only place he's been consistent on foreign policy -- for 20 years he's voted against virtually every advanced weapon system that we now use to save our soldiers lives and civilian lives -- from the stealth fighters and bombers, to the patriot missile, and so on."
3) "I agree with Senator Kerry's concern for Russia's nuclear weapons, but he acts as if the problem just surfaced 3 years ago. In fact, if he were so concerned, he was a Senator of the United States for 10 years after the Cold War ended, before I took office. Where was his leadership in talking about this threat? Did you hear speeches or policy proposals by him urging our former President take action? No you didn't, because that takes leadership that hasn't existed. The only major legislation Senator Kerry proposed in the last 15 years related to security was to reduce the intelligence budget by $6 billion dollars, and that was after the first World Trade Center bombing."
4) "Senator Kerry just said he misspoke about the $87B dollars. Clever, but he didn't just misspeak, he voted against it. I know how to mix up some words occasionally, and this is different. He voted against the funds necessary to support our troops; that's not a slip of the tongue, that's a judgement error and inconsistency."
5) "Mr. Kerry says we didn't have a plan in Iraq, but that's just silly. We did have a plan and many parts of it have worked to startling success, from preservation of the oil fields pundits claimed would be ablaze for years, to minimal civilian casualties, to no outbreak of religious wars, to tens of thousands of Iraqis willing to risk their lives to fight for freedom. Of course parts haven't worked as well as we expected either – that is the nature of any war, and we've made some adjustments along the way. That's adjustments in tactics, but not one second of change in our strategy, our beliefs or our resolve. Nobody likes a Monday morning quarterback, and Mr. Kerry is abusing the advantage of hindsight."
6) "Mr. Kerry has fine character, but his wavering on the most important issue to our security is not a character flaw, it's just bad leadership. It's no secret that Howard Dean and I disagree on the need for war on terrorism in Iraq, but I admire Governor Dean's consistency -- that's an important leadership quality and one Mr. Kerry lacks..."
7) "Senator Kerry says we rushed to war without giving inspectors enough time. First, I'd like to remind us all that inspectors were only back in Iraq due to my leadership. That same judgement that got us in there, led me to believe the same thing John Kerry said about Iraq 3 years ago; he said Saddam was going to endlessly play a game of cat and mouse with the inspectors and that there was only an outside chance inspections would work. That John Kerry was right; this John Kerry is wrong."
Although this e-mail was written with the advantage of hindsight, these criticisms of missing too many easy opportunities is fair. I hope the Bush campaign is on top of this.
