From yesterday's AP wire, via the Chicago Sun-Times, "McCain calls attack on Kerry military record 'cheap stunt'":
Republican Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad criticizing John Kerry's military service ''dishonest and dishonorable'' and urged the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well.The White House declined.
''It was the same kind of deal that was pulled on me,'' McCain said in an interview, comparing the anti-Kerry ad to tactics in his bitter primary fight with President Bush.
The 60-second ad features Vietnam veterans who accuse the Democratic presidential nominee of lying about his decorated Vietnam War record and betraying his fellow veterans by later opposing the conflict.
''When the chips were down, you could not count on John Kerry,'' one of the veterans, Larry Thurlow, says in the ad. Thurlow didn't serve on Kerry's swiftboat but says he witnessed the events that led to Kerry winning a Bronze Star and the last of his three Purple Hearts. Kerry's crewmates support the candidate and call him a hero.
The ad is scheduled to air in a few markets in Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Asked if the White House knew about the ad or helped find financing for it, McCain said: ''I hope not, but I don't know. But I think the Bush campaign should specifically condemn the ad.''
McCain, chairman of Bush's campaign in Arizona, later said the Bush campaign has denied any involvement and added, ''I can't believe the president would pull such a cheap stunt.''
In 2000, Bush's supporters sponsored a rumor campaign against McCain in the South Carolina primary, helping Bush win the primary and the nomination. McCain's supporters have never forgiven the Bush team.
The attack that the bush team, including karl rove, made on McCain was that he fathered an illegitimate black child. The bush team set up a phone bank and called many registered voters; these voters were asked if they would support McCain for president if they knew that he had fathered an illegitimate black child. Almost all polled said "absolutely not." This one example is just more proof that Bush and his team of rabid media hounds can NEVER be trusted, not even by their own party.
Posted by: NotMyPresident on August 13, 2004 06:54 AMWhere do you get your information? Aren't you tired of believing all of the wild accusations that you hear? When you mature, if you mature, you will apply the smell test to such goofy stories before you run your mouth and look like a complete fool.
Posted by: Jerry on August 13, 2004 03:43 PM
