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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: Reilly Diefenbach who wrote (258486)7/4/2010 1:59:09 PM
From: Dan3Read Replies (1) of 306849
 
To this day, I am stunned that the propaganda machine run by the Republican party was able to trash Kerry.

A genuine war hero, who (despite having the kind of political connections that would have let hime dodge the draft like Bush and Clinton did) fought in some of the most dangerous parts of the war.

And he was defeated by a draft dodger on the basis of their respective military records!

One of the most amazing events in the history of propaganda, it's chronicled on wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org

Kerry was a wooden speaker, stupidly ruined himself by testifying to congress that some nasty stuff happens during war time (duh!), and was far less personally likeable than Bush. But this stunt was incredible - kudos to the advertising wizards who managed to pull that one off. Probably the same guys who used to put doctors in TV commercials explaining they smoked cigarettes for the health benefits...

Of course, it put Bush in the white house, which may yet end up destroying modern civilization, but still - what an ad campaign!
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