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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (10935)	8/31/2004 11:55:36 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 10965

Pollster: Bush Ahead on Credibility, Kerry 'Betrayed' Veterans Today on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country," host Joe Scarborough was speaking with pollster Frank Luntz. Story Continues Below The former Florida congressman asked Luntz why George W. Bush was ahead in the polls right now, even though John Kerry should have gotten a bump from the Democratic convention. Luntz answered: "The last ten days, it's over a single word, a single principle: credibility. That's what these Swift Boat ads have done. They've undermined Kerry's credibility, his veracity - and they've done it with John Kerry's own words. "I don't think the viewers at home realize just how important it is [that] they've got Kerry on videotape, they've got Kerry on radio ... you actually hear the accent, communicating what he felt. "We're in the middle of a war right now, and the American people in general and veterans in particular don't want to hear someone, 35 years ago, basically trashing the troops." Scarborough said, "The polls show this has less to do with what John Kerry actually did winning his medals in Vietnam than what he did when he came home. ..." Luntz added, "Exactly. And there's one word here that stands out - we did some focus groups in the last few days - and the word is betrayal. "That's how people feel. The language that he used, the fact that he said what he said back at that time, the veterans feel like they were betrayed." The pollster concluded, "If the Bush campaign were to pick up" on the theme of betrayal, it would hurt Kerry even more.

To: calgal who wrote (10935)	8/31/2004 11:55:50 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10965

Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2004 3 p.m. EDT McCain: Grill Kerry on War Crimes Claim In his harshest comments to date about John Kerry, Sen. John McCain said Monday that the presidential candidate's claims that he committed atrocities during the Vietnam War is a "legimitate" area of concern that requires further explanation. Asked if Kerry should be asked to provide details about his 1971 admission on "The Dick Cavett Show" that he commited atrocities that violated the Geneva and Hague Conventions, McCain told ABC network radio host Sean Hannity, "I think that that's legitimate. I do." Story Continues Below But McCain defended Kerry's controversial testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee just three months before the Cavett broadcast, where he accused his brother soldiers of battlefield barbarity "reminiscent of Ghengis Khan." "I don't agree with his statements and I said I didn't agree with those postwar [comments]," the Arizona Republican said. "But people have the right to disagree with their government. It was people's right to protest against the Vietnam War and that's one of the things we fight for." The former POW said a 1973 article he wrote for U.S. News & World Report where he talked about being "bombarded" by his Hanoi Hilton jailers with statements from prominent anti-war activists was not a direct reference to Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony.