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| 2007-09-14 |
| Extreme Mortman The Washington Post makes it clear: MoveOn.org provided Republicans a life raft when it ran a full-page newspaper advertisement Monday taunting Petraeus as "General Betray Us." Life raft indeed. As we wait for the first big-name Democrat to denounce the MoveOn ad, it's worth remembering for a moment the hot summer of 2004 and the pitched battle over ads. MoveOn ran an ad questioning President Bush's Vietnam-era service in the Air National Guard. In August 2004 John Kerry denounced it. Kerry: "The ad is inappropriate. This should be a campaign of issues, not insults." Three years later and the military-related insults haven't stopped. Who would have thought John Kerry would remain the sole marquee Democrat with the courage to denounce MoveOn? |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #5 Kerry felt mugged by the swiftboat thing, so he doesn't like this kind of thing. Gotta hand it to him for having generalized this lesson to some extent. Not bad for a liberal! :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-09-14 17:02 |
| #4 Until MoveOn.org compares General Petraeus to Ghengis Khan they are still playing a game of catch up with John Kerry. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-09-14 14:41 |
| #3 Democrats John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and Joe Lieberman have all spoken out against MoveOn.org's ad claiming Gen. Petraeus "cooked the books" and calling him "General Betray Us"...Hillary Clinton, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has not condemned the ad...Day 5... Link |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-09-14 12:48 |
| #2 There is absolutely nothing John Kerry could do to earn praise from this slandered USARV vet. |
| Posted by: Heriberto Ulusomble6667 2007-09-14 10:56 |
| #1 He can denounce them because he is already on record taking stands even more extreme than theirs. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-09-14 08:14 |