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To: Sully- who wrote (1899)	4/20/2004 8:05:05 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

JOHN KERRY IS SITTING ON A POLITICAL TIME BOMB in not releasing all of his past military records to the press. Moderate Voice Blog ---He was asked on "Meet the Press" whether he'd do the same as President George Bush and release all of his military records and replied:""I have. I've shown them -- they're available for you to come and look at." He added that "people can come and see them at headquarters." But when a Boston Globe reporter went down he was told enough was enough. ---This is BAD NEWS for Kerry...literally. ---At a time when polls show he is losing ground to Bush even during a two week period of bleak news for the administration, Kerry is poised for a battle of wills with the press...and in the end he's going to lose. ---In the end, he'll have to release the records, or refuse and face the question "WHY?" -- and it's going to distract from his campaign messages. ---For instance, read this section from the Globe piece: Kerry has not released the formal evaluations from superior officers, although his campaign has given a letter from a commanding officer that recommended him for service aboard Navy patrol boats and also reports for the Silver and Bronze stars that laud Kerry's actions in combat. By comparison, retired Army General Wesley K. Clark released hundreds of pages of his records during the Democratic primary campaign, including all evaluations of him by his superiors. Bush earlier this year released 300 pages of documents after media outlets raised new questions about the extent of his National Guard service. Those records, which Bush promised during a Feb. 8 appearance on "Meet the Press" to make available, included many military evaluations and medical records. ---Why does this matter? ---(1)GOP operatives must be salivating at the comparisons they can draw between the Kerry camp's stance and what Bush and Clark did. ---(2)It's going to undermine Kerry's big selling point, his military record. Just as the press and critics clamored for the Bush administration to release the Presidential Daily Briefing to show it had nothing to hide, Kerry's critics and foes are going to suggesting he won't release all of his records because he has something to hide.. ---((3)Polls clearly show Kerry's campaign is lackluster and that his negatives are going up. This ain't gonna drive them down... ---UPDATE: As this controversy began to get "legs," the Kerry camp provided certification of his medals from the Vietnam War, including three Purple Hearts for combat injuries. ---The AP reports:"(Kerry's spokesman) said the Massachusetts senator and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee requested a copy of his record from the Navy last month and received roughly 150 pages last week. He said the campaign was in the process of scanning images of the documents Tuesday and they would be posted on Kerry's Web site." ---ADVICE TO KERRY FROM A FORMER NEWSPAPER REPORTER: The press will want to see ALL OF IT. Nothing less will do, especially after the promise you made on "Meet the Press" about anyone looking at it. Anything less than releasing all of it will keep alive -- and feed -- the controversy.

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