Kerry Vows To Restore 'Truth' to Presidency

[dArKeR]

Democratic Ticket Assails GOP Values as 'Distorted'

By Jim VandeHei and Dan Balz

ALBUQUERQUE, July 10 -- President Bush has governed in a dishonest fashion, trampling values on every issue except fighting terrorism and leaving voters "clamoring for restoration of credibility and trust in the White House again," John F. Kerry and John Edwards said in an interview.

"The value of truth is one of the most central values in America, and this administration has violated" it, Kerry said in an interview with The Washington Post aboard the Democrats' campaign plane Friday. "Their values system is distorted and not based on truth."

The Democratic nominee and his running mate said it was that kind of anger toward the president that prompted entertainers at Thursday's Democratic fundraising concert in New York to attack Bush as a "cheap thug" and a killer. "Obviously some performers, in my judgment and John's, stepped over a line neither of us believes appropriate, but we can't control that," Kerry said. "On the other hand, we understand the anger, we understand the frustration."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41190-2004Jul10.html

[Born Free]

1. Say it again, loud and long "truth" is a value America needs

Kerry needs to keep on this long enough to force the media to question the misleading propaganda coming from the bush team. This isn't a blow job but national security they are discussing, the future of America is in jeopardy, not just the value of a stained dress.

[Ruffhowse]

2. Over and Over and Over Again, Kerry has to pound it out that...

Bush cannot be trusted. That you just can't trust what he says. That he is untrustworthy in anything he says or does. This should be the focus of the Kerry/Edwards campaign, for it goes to the heart of what is wrong with the Bush administration. I'd love to see a series of commercials stating-"Bush....we just can't trust him." Hit Bush hard with these kind of ads. Bring on average citizens to do testimonials that say "Well, I thought he was going to be an OK President, but after he lied to us about WMDs and Iraq, I just don't trust him anymore." Once this contest gets really negative (and I have no doubt it will), these are the kind of hard hitting commercials that can rake Bush over the coals. The beauty of hitting him with the "no trust" thing, is it's hard to refute.

[Crachet2004]

4. You are so right...but so far Kerry has been reluctant to go negative...

with his tv ads...and so far, it has been working. But our allies, like Moveon, Michael Moore, and others have shown no such compunction.

However, Kerry in the flesh has shown more willingness to attack Bush since John Edwards came on board.

I think Kerry/Edwards are just beginning to build a head of steam, and don't want to peak too early.

But I do think you are right: "George Bush and Dick Cheney, we just can't trust them anymore".

[snippy]

6. I agree. Bush's lying should be a huge issue in the campaign.

He lies about anything and everything, anywhere and everywhere, to anyone and everyone. Publicizing his compulsive and incessant lies may cause people to become fed up with his lying. People who are willing to give him a pass about his lies to justify the invasion of Iraq may reach a point where they have had enough of his lies about something else.

The entire world knows that Bush is the most compulsive and incessant liar in the history of American politics.

There is no subject so somber, serious, or shallow that Bush will not lie about it. The only other option is not to lie. And that apparently is something Bush can not do.

For example:

Bush says he fell off his bicycle because of the heavy rains and he watched on television as the first plane hit the first WTC tower on 9/11 and John McCain has an illegitimate Negro daughter and Bush would veto McCain-Feingold and the yawning boy was not there and was not yawning and besides he was standing some place else and Richard Clarke had complete access to Bush and Rice which proves that Clarke was out of the loop which is Clinton's fault but the White House revealed that Clarke briefed the press on background about Bush fighting terrorism which means that unnamed White House sources may not be identified even when Bush wants to even if they criminally reveal the identity of a covert CIA employee and everyone except Bush himself knows where he was during his National Guard service but it was Clinton's fault that Bush did not show up for duty which was after Bush volunteered to go to Viet Nam but before he was no longer required to take a flight physical and about the same time that God ordered him to smite Saddam because the 70 lines of embryonic stem cells and more arsenic in the water and more mercury in the air prove that republican science is better than sound science and the Bush administration did not illegally conspire to illegally reveal the identity of a covert CIA operative which resulted in 2 million new jobs being created because democrats support terrorism and are not good Americans just as the Jews were not good Germans which is why Bush said he would veto the creation of both the Department of Homeland Security and the 9/11 Commission but now claims credit for their creation and the White House is cooperating with the 9/11 Commission which is why the White House withheld documents and called the republicans on the Commission before Clarke testified and why the White House is not coordinating the attacks on the integrity and bipartisanship of the Commission and why Bush and Cheney negotiated with the Commission that the two of them would testfy one time only but never again since the dental xrays prove that Bush spoke with the CIA director everyday and did not ignore either the repeated warnings of the dangers of al Qaeda and Osama or the August 2001 intelligence briefing specifically warning of the upcoming 9/11 attacks because the United States is a nation with a mission and that mission is to bring freedom to every single person in the world which will cut the deficit in half if you do not count those parts of the deficit which will increase under Bush which is Clinton's fault but the boxes from China were labeled "Made in USA" which resulted in 2.6 million new jobs being created even though the $400 billion Medicare prescription drug decorative turkey was not labeled $550 billion and was passed without bribery or criminal deception and was not criminally promoted by the Bush administration using taxpayers' money for propaganda purposes which proves that government spending under Bush has gone down if you do not count the increased government spending under Bush which is Clinton's fault just as acts of terrorism have decreased since 9/11 if you do not count the increase in the number of acts of terrorism and Bush's plane to Baghdad was spotted because before Saddam bought the uranium and became an "urgent" but not an imminent threat which is Clinton's fault Bush had no plans on his desk to invade Iraq since the invasion was not planned before Bush took office even though it was the subject of his first national security council meeting in February 2001 and in December 2001 when plans for the invasion were being finalized Bush said he was focused on the military operations in Afghanistan since the Carrier Costume Party was too far offshore for the Navy to make a large enough "Mission Accomplished" banner to describe the WMD we have found in Iraq some of which Saddam was giving to Osama for following Saddam's plans and using Iraqi hijackers on 9/11 which is Clinton's fault but everyone who pays income taxes got a tax cut which created 3 million new jobs and allowed Iraqi oil revenue to pay for the cost of the reconstruction of Iraq after the invasion by a small number of troops who would be greeted with floral program related activities except for the dead and wounded troops who are being brought home secretly which is Clinton's fault since Bush is the one who hugs the mothers and the widows and the wives and the kids and since Bush does not watch television news he did not know about the republican torture pranks occurring in Iraq until he saw the pictures while watching television news and that is why Bush who will use the jawbone of an ass to force OPEC to open the spigots and who is responsible for good economic numbers but not bad economic numbers which are Clinton's fault wrote the poem that he did not write blaming Laura for dropping the dog.

FIRE THE LIAR

[zanana]

3. This is what I've been waiting for.

Nobody will come out and say Bush is a liar. This goes one step closer to "telling truth to authority". The Bush administration is based on lies, and at least half the country is ready to say so. The fact that John Kerry finally said it makes it obvious what's going on here. I want to believe at least half of what I hear from the government.

[trof]

5. This troubles me:

(don't have subscription-don't want one-haven't read entire article)
GOP Values as 'Distorted'

Is this a direct quote from Kerry or Edwards?
The whole GOP?
Or some of the repug politicians?
I wouldn't go along with the former statement, but certainly would with the latter.

[Kahuna]

7. Bravo, John Kerry! I love you man!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[IndianaGreen]

8. Even half-truths are better than the total lies we get from Bush

Nixon looks like a Boy Scout compared to the criminal gang that has been running the country for the past four years.

[hippywife]

9. Why doesn't he start by

being honest and admitting that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake then?

[AirAmFan]

10. Just google "bushlies". I did, and got over 2600 "hits"! People have been ...

... keeping track of Dubya's pathological relationship to the truth for four years now. Rove's campaign attack on Al Gore for untruthfulness should have been a tip-off for what was to come. Remember another President who schoolchildren were taught "could not tell a lie"? Well, Dubya is the opposite.