More Bush National Guard records
The Associated Press [LINK]
reports that the White House released another document relating to
President Bush’s National Guard service:
The White House on Wednesday night produced a November 1974 document
bearing Bush's signature from Cambridge, Mass., where he was attending
Harvard Business School, saying he had decided not to continue as a
member of the military reserve.
The document, signed a year after Bush left the Texas Air National
Guard, said he was leaving the military because of "inadequate time to
fulfill possible future commitments."
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the resignation was found
in connection with a lawsuit brought by The Associated Press. The
White House said the document had been in Bush's personnel file and
that it had been found by the Pentagon.
Curb your Enthusiasm
The Washington Post [LINK]
reports that the big gap between the two candidates for president is
in the strength of their supporters:
Nearly two in three likely voters who support President Bush -- 65
percent -- said they were "very enthusiastic" about their candidate
while 42 percent of Sen. John F. Kerry's supporters express similarly
high levels of enthusiasm for their choice, according to the latest
Washington Post-ABC News Poll.
The Post offers an example of why the lack of enthusiasm for Kerry is
so toxic to his campaign:
In an election in which turnout is key, keeping the faithful energized
is one of the most critical challenges facing Kerry as he approaches
the first presidential debate tonight. Not only must he convince the
small number of persuadable voters who currently support Bush to
switch their vote, but he also must re-energize his own supporters to
ensure that they turn out on Election Day.
While the enthusiasm gap is apparent across most key voting blocks,
nowhere is it more striking than in the way that political
conservatives, moderates and liberals view their respective choices.
Also in the Washington Post is the editorial by Tina Brown [LINK]
bemoaning how dreary are the liberal establishment supporters about
Kerry’s prospects of winning:
An expectation reversal has been going on that's strange to find among
a candidate's own supporters. Even without the goring Bush has given
him all summer, Kerry has lowered opinions of his campaigning skills
so far that he now has to make a comeback tonight just to keep his own
side happy. With George Stephanopoulos on ABC last Sunday, the usually
fierce congressman and former Clinton switchblade Rahm Emanuel looked
so distracted and unhappy defending Kerry's war positions against
Republican mouth Stuart Stevens that I half expected him to excuse
himself in the middle of the show and catch a flight back to Chicago.
Vietnam POW wives speak out
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are airing a new TV ad featuring Vietnam
POW Veterans’ wives. The group is spending $1.4 million airing the ad
on cable television stations and in the key swing states of Nevada,
New Mexico and Pennsylvania.
“The picture I have that sticks in my mind is of [Mr. Kerry] sitting
at that table in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee room with that
long hair testifying about the atrocities committed by U.S. soldiers,”
Phyllis Galanti said in an interview yesterday. “It was just such a
slap to all of the military and their families.”
Kerry testified in 1971, five years into the seven-year captivity of
Mrs. Galanti's husband, Navy pilot Paul Galanti.
The Swiftees have also released another chapter of the book, "Unfit
for Command." The newly released chapter 7 covers John Kerry’s visit
to Paris to meet with Communist Vietnamese leaders.
Human Events has both the ad and chapter 7 on its website [LINK].
NRA’s poodle TV ad
An upcoming advertising campaign by the National Rifle Association
mocks John Kerry’s attempts to portray himself as friendly to gun
sports.
The ad uses a poodle and is titled, ''That dog don't hunt.":
''John Kerry says he supports sportsmen's rights. But his record says
something else."
Billboards and newspaper ads will run this week, followed by
television commercials, Chris W. Cox, the group's chief lobbyist, said
yesterday. The NRA also plans to emblazon the slogan and the poodle on
mailings, hats, and t-shirts. The group says the ad campaign will cost
several million dollars.
War dead families TV ad
A group of military families whose relatives died in the War on
Terrorism are targeting President Bush in new television ads to be
aired ahead of the Nov. 2 election. There was no word on how much was
being spent or where.
''I think the American people need to know that we have been betrayed
in this rush to war," said Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey is one of
the casualties of the war.
Bush TV ad
The Bush campaign has the following TV ad running:
Script:
Bush: "I'm George W. Bush and I approve this
message."
On-screen text: "John Kerry on the War on Terror."
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John F. Kerry of
Massachusetts: "It was the right decision to disarm Saddam
Hussein, and when the president made the decision I supported him."
Kerry: "I don't believe the president took us to war
as he should have."
Kerry: "The winning of the war was brilliant."
Kerry: "It's the wrong war, in the wrong place, at
the wrong time."
Kerry: "I have always said we may yet even find
weapons of mass destruction."
Kerry: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion
before I voted against it."
On-screen text: "How can John Kerry protect us … when
he doesn't even know where he stands?"
Images: The spot opens with two pictures of Bush, one smiling
and one with his arm around his wife, Laura. The screen then shifts to
footage of Kerry on a television monitor. Clips of Kerry are shown in
rapid-fire succession.
CBS’s un-objective reporting
The Washington Times’ Inside Politics [LINK]
reports on how CBS continues to offer a biased fare on its newscasts:
CBS strikes again
"Apparently, the fraudulent memo scandal has taught CBS News
absolutely nothing." Charles Johnson wrote yesterday at
littlegreenfootballs.com. He was referring to a "CBS Evening News"
story on Tuesday that suggested that the Iraq war and other military
actions might force the government to resume the military draft — a
line being promoted by Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign.
Mr. Johnson quoted another Web site, RatherBiased.com:
"In a story that was a textbook example of slipshod reporting, CBS
reporter Richard Schlesinger used debunked Internet hoax
e-mails and an unlabeled interest group member to scare elderly
'Evening' viewers into believing that the U.S. government is poised to
resume the draft.
"At the center of Schlesinger's piece was a woman named Beverly Cocco,
a Philadelphia woman who is 'sick to my stomach' that her two sons
might be drafted. In his report, Schlesinger claimed that Cocco was a
Republican and portrayed her as an apolitical (even Republican) mom
worried about the future.
"Schlesinger did not disclose that Cocco is a chapter president of an
advocacy group called People Against the Draft (PAD), which, in
addition to opposing any federal proscription, seeks to establish a
'peaceful, rational foreign policy' by bringing all U.S. troops out of
Iraq. Like Schlesinger's Cocco, the group portrays itself as
'nonpartisan' although its leadership seems to be entirely bereft of
any Republicans.
"The group's domain is registered to a man named Jacob Levich, a
left-wing activist who in a 2001 essay compared the Bush
administration to the totalitarian government portrayed in George
Orwell's '1984.' " Littlegreenfootballs' Mr. Johnson added this
postscript: "CBS News also reported that there are two bills in
Congress to reinstate the draft, but failed to mention that
they were both introduced by Democrats."
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