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Thursday, August 12, 2004
Summer Mudslinging Redux:
National Guard records. Fahrenheit 9/11. Swift Boat Veterans. Cambodia lies. And today...
One of the radio ads addresses Kerry's failure to vote on a bill to extend unemployment benefits for 13 weeks: "It needed 60 votes to pass. Ninety-nine out of 100 senators voted -- Kerry did not! It lost by one vote! Maybe Kerry thought the more of us who are unemployed and hurting, the more likely we would vote Democrat."
Another ad attacks Teresa Heinz Kerry, who, at the Democratic convention last month cited her birth and upbringing in Mozambique and who has described herself as African American. In the radio commercial, the announcer says: "His wife says she's an African American. While technically true, I don't believe a white woman, raised in Africa, surrounded by servants, qualifies."
The Kerry campaign denounced the ads, all of which are being aired on radio stations with largely black audiences. "It's disgusting that the president's political allies are now using race as a political weapon," said Bill Lynch, deputy manager of the Kerry campaign. "First a group of right-wing Swift boat veterans began smearing John Kerry's military service, and now another group has resorted to playing racial politics."
First of all, there is no credibility in such a denouncement from the side which decided during the 2000 campaign to use the same tactics against then-Governor Bush. But this fact aside, I think it's only a matter of time until most of the voting public will become weary of the vitriol coming from BOTH sides.Labels: Archives_2004
.: posted by
Dave
9:26 AM
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