Kerry Plans to Respond to Bush Speech

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Tuesday August 31, 2004 3:49am

NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) - Hours after George Bush is to accept the Republican Party's nomination for re-election in New York on Thursday night, Democrat John Kerry (website - news - bio) plans to respond at Ground Zero of the presidential campaign - Ohio.

Kerry plans a rally in Springfield, Ohio, just before midnight Thursday evening with his running mate John Edwards (website - bio) and their wives. Then the Democratic nominee plans a two-day bus tour to the Ohio cities of Newark, Akron and Steubenville.

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Kerry plans interrupt his getaway Wednesday to speak to the American Legion in Nashville, Tenn.

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Kerry-Edwards campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill said the message to voters in the general election kickoff will be that there is a fundamental choice in November - "four more years of policies that benefit the few and catastrophic successes that blame the military for administration miscalculations, or the Kerry-Edwards plan to build an economy that strengthens and expands the middle class." Kerry's campaign plans to return to significant advertising in the coming days after a monthlong break. Kerry was mostly dark during August, except for a few small ad buys in six states to respond to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads that criticized his military record.

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[John_H]

1. kick. Great idea. Here's how the whores will try to spoil it.

1)Bush gives speech.

2)right leaning panel and rethug electeds praise speech--Churchill, Reagan, Lincoln and FDR all rolled into one decisive package.

3) They show a potion of Kerry's speech--just enough to give the on-scene reporters to say that this is an "attempt" to "steal the president's thunder" and to provide a launching pad for the speech to be picked apart by right leaning panel and rethug electeds.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

2. So what?

[John_H]

3. So I think it's a great idea. And maybe we could get some of our people

on with exclusive pre-speech leaks and post-speech interviews.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

4. I guess I'm just cynical.

I've completely given up on the idea that the media is anything but an adjunct of the Bush campaign, and I'm not going to get my hopes up in anticipation of how they will cover a particular event, or whether they will allow articulate Democratic spokespeople to be heard, nor will I get upset when my worst fears concerning the media are realized on a daily basis.

That said, I didn't mean my post to be critical of you or your enthusiasm and I'm sorry if it came off that way.