Kerry appeals for end to election advertising war

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Kerry appeals for end to election advertising war

Mon Sep 27, 4:06 PM ET


SPRING GREEN, United States (AFP) - Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) appealed for an end to the TV advertising war that has marked his election battle against President George W. Bush (news - web sites).


Kerry said the avalanche of negative television spots and attacks being shown on US screens was scaring off voters.


"Americans need a real conversation over our future," Kerry said in a speech at a school in Spring Green, Wisconsin.


"What they don\'t need is all these trumped up advertisements, they just make people curl up and walk away," added the Massachusetts senator.


"I\'m calling them \'misleadisments,\'" Kerry said of the adverts. "It\'s all scare tactics ... because (Bush) has no record to run on." :rolleyes: Is this guy for real?


The Democrats have complained bitterly about a new advertisement that shows Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), September 11 hijack leader Mohamed Atta, Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and the ruins of the World Trade Center, and questioned whether Kerry was up to dealing with them.


A statement called the spot, run by the Republican group Progress for America Voter Fund, the latest in a series of "desperate and despicable attack ads" aimed at diverting attention from Bush\'s record.


The Democrats have rolled out a new advert of their own, titled "Despicable," in which they accused the Bush administration of "playing politics with terror" and dividing the country to win a second term at the White House.


A group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has also been at the center of the television advertising battle with controversial spots aimed at discrediting Kerry\'s Vietnam War record. The adverts accused the decorated Vietnam War veteran of exaggerating or lying about his exploits.


In Wisconsin, Kerry also made a personality attack against the president, saying that he and his rival are both children of privilege, but Bush considers his comfortable position an entitlement.


Kerry said "he and I, we went to the same university, we\'re both very privileged." Both men attended Yale University.


The Democrat added that from his education "came a sense of fairness and responsibility" while Bush "thinks it\'s entitlement."


Kerry said America\'s middle classes had suffered from the huge tax cuts that Bush had presided over and which Democrats say mainly benefit the most wealthy.


"He doesn\'t care, he\'s out of touch," said Kerry. Another example of this guy just blowing smoke out of his ass. They might be both out of touch with the regular guy but Kerry wouldn\'t even look at most of us on a regualr day.


The Democratic contender has been in Wisconsin since Sunday preparing for the first of the presidential debates against Bush on Thursday.


He sought to highlight his own campaign commitments ahead of the November 2 election against Bush\'s "broken promise after broken promise".


Kerry also launched a new attack Bush\'s campaign in Iraq (news - web sites), a topic where Republicans have accused him of continually changing position.


"I\'ve been right on Iraq all along," said Kerry. "I said yes, we ought to hold him (Saddam Hussein) accountable, but let\'s do it the right way, and I showed what it was, step by step. And step-by-step the president chose the wrong way."

I like how you put in your own opinions in the middle of the article, REAL nice touch.

The mudslinging is awful, and forever will be, but it won\'t ever stop. Just a fact of life, basically.

See Yuz.

Originally posted by ROL Jamas
I like how you put in your own opinions in the middle of the article, REAL nice touch.

The mudslinging is awful, and forever will be, but it won\'t ever stop. Just a fact of life, basically.

See Yuz.

Do you really like how I did that?

Which time was he right on Iraq?  Kerry is pathetic.  Actually the DNC is pathetic - they don\'t have a candidate and they know it.

Eh, atleast I know Kerry wouldn\'t impose his religious morales on other people.

Terrorism is the least of my worries.

You are more worried about religion than terrorism?

What religious morals?  I despise organized religion and I don\'t see Bush forcing relgion on myself.

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I guess when you get beat you throw in the morality card.  Only thing he has left to do is talk about how he plans on helping the elderly thread their knitting needles on the weekends.

You know.......Bob Dole isnt doing any mud slingin.......VOTE FOR BOB DOLE!

You are more worried about religion than terrorism?

What religious morals? I despise organized religion and I don\'t see Bush forcing relgion on myself.

Don\'t want to get into the gay marriage argument again so let\'s just forget i said anything.

So what you are saying is you are gay and want to get married?  Unless that is the case - I can\'t see how you can think religious issues in this country are greater or anywhere near the problem terrorism is.

[Bobs_Hardware]

Well.. what if everyone he knows is gay and want to get married, and all he ever hears whenever he hangs out with them is a whole lot o\' complainin\' about how they can\'t get married! And then he tries to find new friends who aren\'t gay but they come out of the cloest and are all like "BOO HOO I CAN\'T GET.."..... No, you\'re right, he\'s probably gay..

Sorry Hamster, I tried..

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kerry hurt himself early on in the campaign..he\'s been indecisive on all issues.."i voted for the 83 billion before i voted against it"  yea in that commercial they cut the rest of it, but still to make a comment like that,..and not only that i\'ve watched kerry through this whole campaign and trust he\'s not the stronger leader...

i don\'t like bush\'s foreign policy at all..he can say what he wants i will never agree with him on anything concerning those issues, but what i respect is that is stands firm on what he believes in..and i gotta respect him for it and i believe that he needs to clean up the iraqi mess..i wouldn\'t want to come in and have to deal with that...it\'s already been said that france, russia or china will still stand by their decision even if kerry is pres..

..kerry has been indecisive on all issues...and he wants to raise taxes... definite no-no in my book..bush wants permanent tax cuts..and i\'m sure nobody was complaining when they got that check in the mail...as much as i hate to say it...bush 4 mo..yrs...

Wow clips... rational argument and unbiased conclusion - as much as some like to say I am on the Bush bandwagon I am not a big fan of his either, but I definitely despise John Kerry for a number of reasons and think his leadership skills are lacking.  

Your reasoning is impressive and I have to give you credit in the way you came to your conclusion.  If the Dems had someone who had a plan, a backbone and didn\'t waffle on almost every issue - I would vote reluctantly for them over Bush

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yea i know we\'ve banged heads numerous times on the issue of iraq, but i think we can both agree that bush is the stronger leader here..

Should be an interesting debate on Thursday over foreign policy.