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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (2082)	2/13/2004 1:50:52 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

...he spent yrs as private businessman which better qualifies him to govern than a life-time politician. Ann, there is a joke going around which sounds like this.: Who is the President of the Dominican Republic? Answer Sammy Sosa. However, his choice of a life's partner was a school teacher Are you sure he did not plan to run for School Board at some point? And then became a businessman. And then because of his father's influence became a proxy President.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (2082)	2/13/2004 2:01:57 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Bush Campaign Launches Anti-Kerry Video Feb 12, 7:15 PM (ET) By SCOTT LINDLAW apnews.excite.com WASHINGTON (AP) - In a new video message being sent to millions of people, President Bush's re-election campaign casts Sen. John Kerry as a tool of the special interests he regularly denounces. The spot, titled "Unprincipled," has the flavor of a political campaign ad but is customized for the Internet users who were receiving it Thursday night. An advance copy was provided to The Associated Press. The one-minute spot depicts a woman surfing the web. She finds a clip of Kerry, the Democratic front-runner, railing against "the influence-peddlers and the special interests. We're coming, you're going!" Kerry declares. The woman narrates the piece as she digs further into the Internet and finds news and watchdog reports on Kerry's campaign fund raising. An analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics in Washington found that Kerry, from Massachusetts, accepted the most campaign money from lobbyists over the past 15 years of anyone in the Senate - about $638,000. "Whew!" the woman says. "For what?" "Kerry - brought to you by the special interests." The video spot was to be sent out late Thursday to about 6 million Bush supporters. It makes clear that Bush's re-election campaign believes Democrats have all but settled on Kerry as their nominee, and it previews a line of attack the Bush campaign will use to exploit what it believes is a vulnerability. It also is an inexpensive way to hit back at Kerry and other Democrats who have been pummeling Bush for months. Kerry's spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter, said the video "demonstrates two things: the Bush White House is going to run a gutter campaign, and their worst fear is a Democratic nominee named John Kerry." Bush's camp should stop "wasting time sticking their nose in a Democratic primary and engaging in smear tactics," she said. Bush had about $100 million in the bank at the end of 2003. He and his surrogates have been steadily collecting it all year. The Bush-Cheney re-election team will begin airing TV ads in battleground states in coming weeks, as soon as the Democrats settle firmly on their nominee, campaign officials say.