[lit-ideas] Re: A Cure for What Ails Us
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:13:16 +0100
Addendum
Yes I know "wooden donkey"'s an unfortunate choice, I'm afraid it was
what came to mind...
Friday, September 10, 2004, 7:15:13 PM, Carol Kirschenbaum wrote:
>> Read the latest polls and felt sick to my stomach.
CK> ck: John, all the polls announced over NPR in California, for the past
CK> couple of weeks, have indicated that Kerry is significantly behind Bush,
CK> particularly since the Republican convention--and that nearly half of all
CK> Americans still believe that 9/11 was because of Saddam.
CK> That's why I posted my query about Bush running "unopposed." I do not
CK> understand why the Dems are continuing to hit Bush in such irrelevant (to
CK> voters) areas as his Air Force Reserve record, instead of attacking the
CK> misinformation the admin continues to assert as truth. How much money the
CK> Dems spend on ads from now until the election isn't the point, if the
CK> message in those ads isn't about issues that voters care about. Iraq is one
CK> issue that's working for Bush, when the truth of the war could pull him
CK> down, if only Kerry's team put some real energy into it.
CK> So I wonder, again, what's keeping Kerry from shoving the 9/11 commission's
CK> report into Bush's face? A certain percentage of American voters will
CK> always vote for the incumbent, particularly if extra framing makes it
CK> seem/feel that voting against the incumbent is tantamount to voting against
CK> the president (the office). The Dems need to make this basic distinction as
CK> clear as Cheney, in the opposite direction.
CK> You and I may take this for granted, but in the heavily Hispanic and Hmong
CK> town where I live, it's unthinkably unpatriotic to assert that the highest
CK> US politician of this democratic country is not necessarily telling the
CK> truth. We're talking about a lot of voters--relatively new ones, and their
CK> kids--for whom the US government *is* the president.
CK> Hey, but even old, Nation-reading folks like me are not impressed by the way
CK> Kerry's getting bashed, even on such liberalish media as NPR. Non-committed
CK> Dems might be wondering, then, whether Kerry is capable of talking the rest
CK> of the world into collaborating with the US on diplomatic solutions to armed
CK> conflict. Kerry's style of campaigning, so far, indicates that he gives the
CK> farm away to the guy with a bullhorn, and then runs off sniffling and crying
CK> foul.
CK> You've gotta really loathe Bush to vote for Kerry as this Dem is portraying
CK> himself in this campaign's action and rhetoric! Really, "tax-and-spend
CK> democrats"--with THIS DEFICIT? Yet the Republicans got away with it!
CK> Carol,
CK> at 105 degrees and warming
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