New Bush Hispanic ad
President Bush has launched a new ad aimed at Hispanics. The
advertisement, titled "Our Country, Our President," shows that "all
the Latinos are together, no matter where we come from," said Lionel
Sosa, an advertising adviser in the Bush re-election campaign.
Nearly 40 million Hispanics live in the United States, making it the
country's largest minority group.
Bush hopes to capture the Hispanic vote in the November 2 election,
although Spanish-speaking Americans tend to support Democrats.
The ad begins with Bush, wearing a shirt without a tie, saying in
Spanish: "I am President George W. Bush, and I approved this message."
The television spot, which features the flags of such countries as
Cuba, Venezuela and Mexico, will be broadcast in the key states of
Florida, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado, all with large
Hispanic populations.
During the ad, a voice-over says in Spanish: "We live in a country
that has opened up its heart to us and has given us a real
opportunity: the United States, our country; George W. Bush, our
president."
Swifties hold strong:
Boston Globe reporter 'misstated'
HumanEventsOnline article:
The following statement from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is in
response to an
article appearing in the morning edition of the Boston Globe
(“Veteran Retracts Criticism of Kerry”) which implies that one Vietnam
Veteran wishes to retract an affidavit he signed regarding John
Kerry’s actions during and after Kerry’s time in Vietnam. The signed
affidavit can be seen below.
"Captain George Elliott describes an article appearing in today’s
edition of the Boston Globe by Mike Kranish as extremely inaccurate
and highly misstating his actual views. He reaffirms his statement in
the current advertisement paid for by the Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth, Captain Elliott reaffirms his affidavit in support of that
advertisement, and he reaffirms his request that the ad be
played.
“Additional documentation will follow. The article by Mr. Kranish is
particularly surprising given page 102 of Mr. Kranish’s own book
quoting John Kerry as acknowledging that he killed a single, wounded,
fleeing Viet Cong soldier whom he was afraid would turn around.
“Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has more than 250 supporters who are
revealing first hand, eyewitness accounts of numerous incidents
concerning John Kerry’s military service record. The organization will
continue to discuss much of what John Kerry has reported as fact
concerning his four-month tour of duty in Vietnam.”
Adding to the controversy around Boston Globe reporter Kranish is the
Matt Drudge story – developing – that Kranish was being paid
by the Kerry campaign to write the foreword for their new campaign
book... a book now canned.
Kerry deserves Silver Star?
The
Boston Globe reports that one of the ‘Kerry lied’ veterans is
recanting his story about Kerry’s not deserving the Silver Star for
bravery in Vietnam:
Lieutenant Commander George Elliott said in an interview that he had
made a ''terrible mistake" in signing an affidavit that suggests Kerry
did not deserve the Silver Star -- one of the main allegations in the
book. The affidavit was given to The Boston Globe by the anti-Kerry
group to justify assertions in their ad and book.
Kerry’s awarding of the Silver Star controversy involves whether a
Vietcong that Kerry shot (some say in the back) actually posed a
threat to his crew. A Silver Star is awarded for bravery that saves
the lives of others through action above and beyond the call of duty.
Elliot stated in the Globe article:
''I still don't think he shot the guy in the back," Elliott said. ''It
was a terrible mistake probably for me to sign the affidavit with
those words. I'm the one in trouble here."
The Associated Press reported yesterday that Houston home-builder Bob
J. Perry, a major Republican donor, gave at least $100,000 to the
organization sponsoring the ad, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
The White House has stated that they are not associated with the
group, that they would favor independent 527 organizations such as
this one to cease all expenditures and that the Bush campaign have not
and will not criticize Kerry’s service in Vietnam.
This recanting by Elliot puts the running of the ad in danger of being
pulled by stations who are running the Kerry lied ad.
Kerry asked to leave unit
The
Washington Times posts this recount of a swift boat
commander’s interview about Kerry:
A most ear-opening interview this week with John Kerry's former
commanding officer in Vietnam, who told the Kevin McCullough Show in
New York that he had asked Mr. Kerry to leave his unit in Vietnam
after the issuance of his third Purple Heart.
Former Navy Lt. Thomas Wright said he frequently was forced to
confront Mr. Kerry over willful disobedience to orders while aboard
Swift Boat patrols.
He told radio host Kevin McCullough that on frequent occasions Mr.
Kerry would randomly fire at "things he thought were moving" along the
shoreline. The lieutenant stated that protocol was to fire only when
the unit was receiving hostile fire. He explained that part of the
patrol's goal was to develop contacts with noncombatants living along
the rivers.
He said when confronted about his defiance, Mr. Kerry would either
claim he didn't hear the orders or insist that he thought "he saw
something" moving.
The former commanding officer's boldest claim was that after Mr. Kerry
received his third Purple Heart, he and two other ranking officers
flat-out asked the now Democratic presidential candidate to leave his
unit because his behavior put the group in greater vulnerability and
danger.
Mr. Kerry, he said, replied that he would not leave, "but was out of
there by morning."
Kerry handles heckler
Reuters reports on how Senators John Kerry and John
Edwards traded barbs with hecklers in Missouri:
"Four more years," chanted dozens of backers of President Bush as the
Democratic ticket emerged from their train late on Thursday and waved
to hundreds of supporters.
"Flush the Johns," one man shouted.
Fans of presidential nominee Kerry and running mate Edwards
outnumbered taunters, yet the scene was reminiscent of a rowdy hockey
crowd.
As Bush backers again chanted, "Four more years," Kerry drew cheers by
predicting the end of the Bush presidency on election day. "Let them
chant because they have only three more months to chant," Kerry said.
Kerry’s energy solution
The Associated Press reports Sen. John Kerry would give tax cuts to
hybrid cars:
For consumers, Kerry's plan to spend $20 billion over a decade to
develop more clean-burning fuels and environmental technology would
mean incentives, like tax breaks, worth up to $5,000 for the purchase
of clean and efficient vehicles. Kerry wants those vehicles to be made
in the United States, and would put half of the $20 billion toward
helping American manufacturers rebuild their plants to make more
efficient vehicles.
Kerry further blamed the Saudis for our difficulties in the world:
"We're going to make sure we provide real security for our nation
because as long as we are a country which God gave only 3 percent of
the world's oil reserves to, as long as we have to import 53 percent
of our oil from other nations, as long as the Saudis and the Middle
Eastern countries have 65 percent of the world's oil reserves, we are
always dependent on someone else," Kerry said.
Democrats’ crisis of faith
"Under God" in the pledge of allegiance took out the new Democrat
National Committee’s religious outreach person after only 13 days on
the job. This is the second no starter for the Democrats in that
position. The Rev. Brenda Bartella Peterson is the second Democratic
official to resign under pressure from the New York-based Catholic
League, which Monday began issuing press releases criticizing her.
The
Washington Times sought comments from an expert on the
Democrats’ problem with religious outreach:
"I don't think the Democrats or the Kerry campaign quite know what to
do with religion," said John Green, a political science professor at
the University of Akron who does extensive polling on religion and
politics. "There is a certain fear on the part of the Democrats that
if they talk too much about religion, they will alienate a portion of
their base.
"In the Kerry campaign, one day they talk about faith and the other
day they don't, so you never know what they are going to say. It's not
too late for them to change but they need to figure out what to say,"
Mr. Green said.
The Democrats have continued to try and move the different faiths
toward a discussion of values. The Democrats are doing so in order to
introduce discussion of liberation theology and its accompanying
socialist viewpoint of how to care for the poor among us. This
theology also shares a small world environmental viewpoint that argues
against consumer consumption.
Poll watching, 8/6
Kerry moves up in New Jersey a poll, taken after the Democratic
National Convention, showed Sen. John Kerry with the backing of 49
percent, President Bush with 36 percent and independent Ralph Nader
with 6 percent.
In a late June Quinnipiac poll, Mr. Kerry had 46 percent, Mr. Bush 40
percent and Mr. Nader 7 percent.
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