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Politics : John Kerry for President? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MrLucky who wrote (566)	8/3/2004 12:32:21 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 3515

Bush Planning August Attack Against Kerry By ADAM NAGOURNEY and ROBIN TONER Published: August 1, 2004 WASHINGTON, July 31 — President Bush's campaign plans to use the normally quiet month of August for a vigorous drive to undercut John Kerry by turning attention away from his record in Vietnam to what the campaign described as an undistinguished and left-leaning record in the Senate. Mr. Bush's advisers plan to cap the month at the Republican convention in New York, which they said would feature Mr. Kerry as an object of humor and calculated derision. The summer campaign plans described by aides to Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry, who is in the midst of a two-week cross-country bus tour, suggest that August is no longer the slow and sleepy month it once was in presidential campaigns. Campaign aides described the period this year as an opportunity to shift the dynamic for their campaigns, because the race is so tight and because voters appear to be paying attention to what is going on. [More] nytimes.com Interesting that Bush intends to de-emphasize Kerry's Viet Nam resume. Probably a good idea. It's irrelevant in any event, and an attack on his grandstanding about being a war hero could be seen as petty and pitched, much as AS does, as an attack on a "war hero."