SOME INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE ON 527 GROUPS, complete with some useful graphics.
Archive for 2004
August 23, 2004
TWO DAMAGING QUOTES for the Kerry Campaign. The first is from Bob Dole:
“One day, he’s saying that we were shooting civilians, cutting off their ears, cutting off their heads, throwing away his medals or his ribbons,” Dole said. “The next day, he’s standing there, ‘I want to be president because I’m a Vietnam veteran,'” said Dole, whose World War II wounds left him without the use of his right arm.
Maybe Dole’s mad because Democrats sneered that his World War II wounds were self-inflicted back during the 1996 campaign. Why didn’t Chris Matthews put a stop to that?
Then there’s this quote from within the campaign itself:
When you’re basically running on your biography and there are ongoing attacks that are undermining the credibility of your biography, you have a really big problem.
Yes, and a predictable one. What’s worse is that it didn’t have to be this way.
UPDATE: More biography back-pedaling from the Kerry campaign.
ANOTHER UPDATE: This timeline of missteps and fumbles indicates that it’s been a month of miscalculations for the Kerry campaign. This is a striking chronology even for those of us who have been following things. My favorite entry is the one for August 12.
THE GERMAN MAGAZINE DIE ZEIT notes the irony of German complaints about American troop withdrawals. MedienKritik has a translation:
Just a year and a half ago the majority of Germans were certain the USA and its President represented a greater danger to world peace than Saddam Hussein, and the US armed forces were considered fearsome executors of the sinister US plans for world domination. Now, however, German politicians and union people, who marched at the very front of the peace demonstrations, are pouting and grimacing like children who feel they have been left in the lurch by Daddy because the number one war-monger wants to deny us the trusted presence of our uniformed American friends.
Heh. Actually, they were totally consistent. Opposition to the war against Saddam was based on a fear that it would cost Germany jobs and money, and so is opposition to the U.S. troop withdrawal. On a related note, read this.
MICKEY KAUS notes an outbreak of “Clintonism” from the Kerry campaign.
ARTHUR CHRENKOFF has posted his latest roundup of underreported good news from Afghanistan, and once again it’s hosted by the Wall Street Journal folks.