Dems are swinging HARD! Tying Bush ANG lies to lies on Iraq!

[mbali]

KERRY TEAM, DNC HIT BUSH ON GUARD ISSUE

Democrats launched a new round of criticism yesterday aimed at President Bush's character, accusing the incumbent of skirting his National Guard service requirements during the Vietnam War and charging that such behavior was similar to Bush's "dishonesty" in justifying the invasion of Iraq.

Campaign advisers to Democratic presidential contender John F. Kerry said he will remain publicly above the fray, sticking to criticism of Bush's leadership -- as he did in a speech in New Orleans yesterday in which he compared Bush's policies to racist "Jim Crow" laws. The Democratic National Committee and military veterans will take the lead in questioning the president's Guard service in the late 1960s and early '70s, Kerry's aides added.

For the second day in a row, the Democratic National Committee held a conference call with reporters on newly disclosed documents about Bush's service, with Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and Richard Klass, a retired US Air Force colonel, repeatedly questioning the incumbent's "character" and "honesty." "If the president will lie about this, will he lie about how we got into Iraq, for example?" Harkin said. "This goes right to the heart of the character and the truthfulness of the current occupant of the White House."

A group of veterans in West Virginia, organized by the Democratic National Committee, also held a news conference yesterday to challenge Bush's Guard record, and veterans in Pennsylvania and Ohio plan to do the same today. More are planned in other battleground states, Howard Wolfson, Democratic National Committee adviser, said yesterday. He said criticism will continue almost daily, "at least until Bush himself answers these questions about his service directly." Last spring, Kerry said that he would not question Bush's decision to serve in the Guard instead of going to Vietnam but that he would challenge the president on whether he had fulfilled his Guard obligations.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/09/10/kerry_team_dnc_hit_bush_on_guard_issue?mode=PF

[ItsMyParty]

1. Lord Jesus..Amen....I've said for 3 years to people that the only

way we are going to win this election after 9/11 and marching off to war, blah, blah is to destroy this creep personally. He's where he is in the polls 'cause they think he's an honest, straight shooting, Amureakan lovin', GI butt slapping, regular All-Amercan MAN!!! Screw the issues---we have to destroy his reputation to win (and it certainly doesn't involve lying, it just involves finally talking about it bigtime and not drop the goddamn thing like Gore did---Gore fucked up..period).

[Anaxamander]

5. I agree

We have to bathe this motherfucker in acid to break the charm he has on the zombies.

[BillZBubb]

2. This is key. We must tie what happened then to now.

Otherwise people dismiss it as irrelevant. The Pugs claim Bush*s performance as Commander in Chief is all that matters to voters. We've got to tie that pathetic performance to his prior history. Without a tie, AWOL goes nowhere.

I also would like to see more emphasis on Bush*s dragooning Guard units into long Iraq service, while he didn't trouble himself to fulfill the minimum requirements during his "service" in the 1970's.

[the Kelly Gang]

3. go for it..go for the friggin jugular..don't let up on the chickenhawk

[geek tragedy]

4. 'Bout time someone realized that this is a knife fight in the mud, not a

boxing match.

[Triana]

6. It's about DISHONESTY .... read this....

It's the Dishonesty, Stupid!
by Paul Krugman

The real issue in the National Guard story isn't what George W. Bush did three decades ago. It's the recent pattern of lies: his assertions that he fulfilled his obligations when he obviously didn't, the White House's repeated claims that it had released all of the relevant documents when it hadn't.

****It's the same pattern of dishonesty, this time involving personal matters that the public can easily understand, that some of us have long seen on policy issues, from global warming to the war in Iraq.****

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/10/opinion/10krugman.html?hp

[faithnotgreed]

7. although this focuses on the staggering deficit, it cuts to the heart

of what is going on very well.

there is no deceny or honesty in this administration. period

[LynnTheDem]

8. From Krugman

So what's the real plan?

Some not usually shrill people think that Mr. Bush will simply refuse to face reality until it comes crashing in: Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman, says there's a 75 percent chance of a financial crisis in the next five years.

So hey, VOTE BUSH and make that 100%!

Rightwingnut Americans; god-forsaken idiots.

[friesianrider]

9. About friggin' time...

No matter how many times moderates say that "hate" negativity, it always works! (yet more proof most Americans are idiots)

And I love it: "Kerry stays above the fray". That's the way it should be. Let Dean, Clark, etc come out and do the dirty work. It's exactly what Bush does and it works.

Dems need to take the gloves off and keep swinging, every day. If we can be the ones to frame the debate, we can keep Bush at our mercy and pin him down to shit he doesn't want to talk about ;)