Part of the reason this worked on Kerry is that he didn't take it seriously soon enough. Not that I blame him. I think Gore and Kerry just couldn't believe that (a) the GOP would be so brazenly dishonest and (b) that it would work.

Obama's campaign machine seems to know better.

once burnt, twice shy

1) Obama is President giving him a platform Kerry did not have
2) Note that the strongest Obama charge is that this is swiftboating - ie despicable lying. The fact that the Republicans used almost the same method - and they were shown to be liars - makes disputing this easier. No one is arguing that this large group of people can't all be lying.
3) The media is itself condemning them - while most of the cable media and radio played with the SBVT for nearly a month - even though it was the official Navy record they challenged with absolutely no proof.

Rove gladly thanks us for that.

It is not "bashing" to point out that fact. As I said, I don't even really blame them, although I think Kerry's campaign might have learned from what happened to Gore. I think Gore and Kerry would have been good presidents. Obviously lightyears better than the GOP failures who won instead. That makes it twice the shame that their campaign machines mis-understood what was about to happen to them.

What I'm saying is: it is good that Obama's campaign learned something from recent campaign history.

IMO, had Gore and Kerry had people like Axelrod, Jarrett, and Pfoffe (sp), they would have been better off. Though Cutter and D. Wade were one of the few bright spots.

IMO, having Clinton people didn't help either, but they always be praised here like Team Obama as the only Dems that know how to fight, everyone else doesn't matter.

I hope someone is working on it and that it's brilliant.

They were just showing it and seemed to be promoting it. It made me sick to see this crap again - once with Kerry was far TOO MUCH! I hope the Obama team really takes these a$$holes to the woodshed!

Again and promoted the story.

But that will never stop people from blaming only Kerry while most Dem surrogates were M.I.A.


Only difference is that Obama has a bigger platform, a stronger team of handlers, and Dems like Kerry who have his back.

Bin Laden was their meal ticket. Every time an election came up, or an expenditure vote in Congress, or even anything that could be considered 'negative' to the Bush Administration, they would whip out another ooga booga terra terra video to scare/distract the masses.

in basketball, i am pretty sure you throw an elbow back, HARDER if the opponent starts elbowing.

It is hard to argue that ice hockey is not a contact sport - far more than basketball.

The real Obama advantage is that it is well known that Obama ordered the mission to get OBL - and Obama himself is far better known as he is President than Kerry was. The intent of the Republicans was to take away the heroic war service that showed Kerry in a very good light as a strong, brave, caring 25 year old. It was an attack on Kerry's character and integrity.

Chimpy AWOL McCokespoon and Dickkk (Five Deferments) Cheeney wouldn't have been caught within 2000 miles of Vietnam. Kerry acquitted himself on the front lines with true heroism.

Kerry defends Obama and people (not you) still gripe and throw rocks at him. Go figure.

and they need one very, very badly.

Sorry Republicans and teabaggers - Obama beat you to it!!!!!

the "war on terra." The boots-on-the-groundspooks found him, the POTUS ordered the op, and now he sleeps with the fishes. Bad for business when considered in Repuke-thought.

the entire FauxNews team would have swam out to an aircraft carrier where Bush's Mission Accomplished banner would have been draped over the top deck with Bush giving a play-by-play description of their every move. Of course, that wasn't going to happen because Team Bush was focused on Iraq and had decided Bin Laden was inconsequential.

How did they ever think that an American president could just clam up after delivering the news of taking out al-qaida's #1 guy? As soon as the news broke, every news station in the world was clamoring for details of the raid. Obama gave a minimal amount but they wanted much more. These Seal republicans know that. They hate the president, hate Bin Laden was successfully taken out during a Democratic administration, and are so lowdown they don't mind politicizing the military. Only republicans could be lowdown enough to have started that trend.