JOE LOCKHART, what a great spokesman for our side!!!

[Bluebear]

Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry's campaign spokesman Joe Lockhart said the report is a stinging indictment of the Bush administration's prewar intelligence and foreign policy judgment.

"I think it raises some serious questions," Lockhart told CBS television's "Face the Nation" program.

"Secretary (of State Colin) Powell went up and based most of his assessment on Saddam's nuclear threat on these aluminum tubes to the United Nations. That he did in public. Condoleezza Rice raised the specter of a mushroom cloud. That is sobering to all Americans. Vice President Cheney said this was a fact. He didn't say there was debate. He said this was a fact.

"This is about what the president knew, what he withheld from the American public, if anything," Lockhardt said. "These are questions he should answer now."

The report is another blow to White House credibility on foreign policy matter as the presidential campaign enters a critical 10 day period, with a vice-presidential faceoff on Tuesday and two more scheduled debates between Bush and Kerry.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&ncid=703&e=7&u=/afp/20041003/pl_afp/us_vote

[cheshire]

1. I sure am glad to see him again, I missed him. He is so casual and comfort

able when he speaks you just know it's the truth.

[Bluebear]

2. Comfortable is the word. No pretense. nt

[SemperEadem]

this statement says it all

"Lockhart, a former spokesman for president Bill Clinton and now a senior Kerry adviser, said on CBS that Bush's mistake was expecting to debate a caricature that "100 million dollars in negative advertising had created."

bush is so heavily invested in the artificial construct that he has no ability to deal with reality or in the real world.

[myopic4141]

3. Smell test

I really wish someone would begin using "smell test" as an explanation of Kerry's "Global Test" when asked. The aluminum tube knowledge is just another example of "the dead fish smell" from Bush's desire to go to invade Iraq. The "Global Test" mentioned by Kerry was about the level of certainty required prior to engaging in preemptive war and not a "veto by foreign power" to engagement. If the level of certainty cannot pass the smell test, then we should not be engaging in preventive war. Bush's certainty was based on lies and deceit; therefore, did not pass the smell test. Everyone except the American people knew of the uncertainty behinds Bush's assertions which is why they were against the invasion. If the American people knew as well, then the invasion would have never been supported here as well. Smell tests are very important and this one reeked to those who knew the truth.

[Bluebear]

4. Kerry was looking for a word and I thought 'smell test' immediately

It's so obvious that was the contextual phrase he was looking for!

[myopic4141]

5. Start using

Every one should now use smell test instead of global test.

[jimshoes]

8. The thought occured to me yesterday

and I posted that Kerry probably thought better of using such an earthy term like smell test. The pugs would no doubt have jumped on that one too.

[Julien Sorel]

6. Keep the pressure on.

[The Chronicler]

7. Potential Press Secretary for a Kerry Admin

IMO