Coming Monday -Could it be bad news for Kerry?

[Whyzdom]

Apparently on Monday, a major newspaper coughWashingtonPostcough will be releasing a story that will harm Senator Kerry's Campaign. It looks to have been discovered by Bloggers (Click) and what it could be, who knows. If you click the track backs you can see it is spreading like wild fire.

 

[HisEagle]

Well, if we're lucky, it will backfire on them and propel Kerry forward so that he can beat the snot out of Bush come election day.

 

[Key Peninsula Redneck]

w00t! Sometimes I read Power Line!

 

[Whyzdom]

From visiting the trackbacks, it seems to be something about his Foreign Policy.

 

[Rochir]

OK, let's wait

 

[SirKenin]

I'm interested, but I've talked to my father about this, and he hasn't heard anything.. He lives in Florida. Is this only a select few that know about this?

I'd love to see what it is. Hopefully it's based on facts and not bias.

 

[Grizzly]

Unless we find out that Kerry invaded a country based upon false information, then refuses to admit that we did so, I think he'll be fine.

 

[Bronco]

What if he supported invading a country based on intelligence given at the time, and then....gasp....turned around and called it the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time to try and get elected President???

 

[chalice_thunder]

What if he supported invading a country based on intelligence given at the time, and then....gasp....turned around and called it the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time to try and get elected President???

Then he would CERTAINLY get MY vote!

 

[Grizzly]

What if he supported invading a country based on intelligence given at the time, and then....gasp....turned around and called it the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time to try and get elected President???

Well, now that could be devastating

 

[Philosoft]

What if he supported invading a country based on intelligence given at the time, and then....gasp....turned around and called it the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time to try and get elected President???

Then we'd probably conveniently forget what he actually said about the bill when he voted for it, simplify his position to absurdity, then slap a pejorative label on him so we don't have to give it a moment's more critical thought.

 

[Bronco]

Simplified his position have I?? I give you this quote from Senator Kerry which is in the congressional record:

Senator Kerry:

"Mr. President, we have every reason to believe that Saddam Hussein will continue to do everything in his power to further develop weapons of mass destruction and the ability to deliver those weapons, and that he will use those weapons without concern or pangs of conscience if ever and whenever his own calculations persuade him it is in his interests to do so. . . . I have spoken before this chamber on several occasions to state my belief that the United States must take every feasible step to lead the world to remove this unacceptable threat. He must be deprived of the ability to injure his own citizens without regard to internationally-recognized standards of behavior and law. He must be deprived of his ability to invade neighboring nations. He must be deprived of his ability to visit destruction on other nations in the Middle East region or beyond. If he does not live up fully to the new commitments that U.N. Secretary-General Annan recently obtained in order to end the weapons inspection standoff - and I will say clearly that I cannot conceive that he will not violate those commitments at some point - we must act decisively to end the threats that Saddam Hussein poses." [Congressional Record, 3/13/98.]

You can argue there were intelligence mistakes made, you can say you disagree with the war, but can we please stop accusing Bush of misleading us when several powerful people were under the impression that Saddam presented a threat and had WMD. Saying Bush mislead us is simplifying the facts to an extremely absurd level.

 

[Whyzdom]

Ok... more digging today from the Blogs, it appears that the big Washington Post news story that is gonna break is....


Osama Bin Laden is dead.

This isn't fully confirmed, but that is the main bet from those inside with loose lips.

 

[alonesoldier]

what did the press finally get wind of the fact that kerry technically commited Treason and Sedition when he meet with vietcong in Paris while still in the Navy? lol wow, and only one week to go what a scoop. You know if the Republicans wanted to be jerks, they could have John Ashcroft disqualify John Kerry for office, if you give aid or comfort to the enemy during a time of war the Constitution disqulifies you from running.

 

[Whyzdom]

what did the press finally get wind of the fact that kerry technically commited Treason and Sedition when he meet with vietcong in Paris while still in the Navy? lol wow, and only one week to go what a scoop. You know if the Republicans wanted to be jerks, they could have John Ashcroft disqualify John Kerry for office, if you give aid or comfort to the enemy during a time of war the Constitution disqulifies you from running.

See.. that is what I am saying as well..lol..Media has too much influence on politics.

 

[jameseb]

Then we'd probably conveniently forget what he actually said about the bill when he voted for it, simplify his position to absurdity, then slap a pejorative label on him so we don't have to give it a moment's more critical thought.

Heh. And that certainly hasn't been done with Bush....er, wait....

 

[alonesoldier]

well, i am looking at these blogs now too, I think it will be anticlimatic. Ive heard everything from John Kerry needing psyhotherapy from vietnam... something I think would actually help him in the poll... to Bin Ladin being located and killed. Its all just guessing at this point, but when it hits I suspect it won't be the huge october surprise we are all hoping it will be.

 

[jameseb]

I doubt there's much to it either. Just hyped rumor. However, I could be eating my foot in the next 24 hours, but I honestly doubt it.

 

[elanor]

Ok... more digging today from the Blogs, it appears that the big Washington Post news story that is gonna break is....Osama Bin Laden is dead.

Well, thanks to the rallying power of the war in Iraq there's no end to the line of people willing to learn from his example and follow in his footsteps.

 

[Philosoft]

I don't remember the last time someone had a real 'October surprise.' What month did Gary Hart's "Monkey Business" appear in 1988?