Drudge: Bush-Cheney '04 Chair Blasts Kerry For

Promoting 'Character Assassination. :cry:

Statement from Governor Marc Racicot, Chairman, Bush-Cheney `04
Tue Feb 3 2004 12:31:55 ET

``Sen. Kerry is supporting a slanderous attack on the President by refusing to repudiate comments by DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe who on Sunday accused the President of being AWOL and said that his service in the National Guard did not qualify as service in the military or service to his country.

``President Bush served honorably in the National Guard. He was honorably discharged. To suggest, as Sen. Kerry has, that the military should 'answer questions' about President Bush`s honorable discharge is an outrage. The furtherance of these charges is despicable.

``Peter Jennings called the accusation by Michael Moore that the President was a deserter, 'a reckless charge, not supported by the facts,' and the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania has said that the charges are unfounded.

``By embracing this line of attack, Sen. Kerry has made clear that he will accept and promote character assassination, innuendo and falsehood even when he doesn`t have all the facts. 'I don`t even know what the facts are,' Kerry said yesterday. A man seeking the presidency has an obligation to get the facts straight before he sends his surrogates out to slander the Commander in Chief.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm

on edit: Here's the bush site link if you're brave enough to go there (says the same thing as drudge)

http://bushcheney2004.com/

Es muy bueno. The questions will be asked.

They both say that they don't agree with those statements but say "I don't know all of the facts" a clear "if anyone reading this is interested why don't you look up the facts and decide for yourself....oh and tell a few friends"

I personally don't think he was technically AWOL or a deserter but there is at least a year of unaccounted for time and this just has to get into the barbershops, bars, and workplaces as a topic of discussion to be effective.

They're not saying the words themselves, but they are publicizing the questions, which is the best of both worlds - all of the effect, none of the risk.

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is thrilled to see his name tossed in there. Well, now ABC is going to have to go out there and get to the bottom of this.

When it comes to character assassination, nobody beats the Right, and their media orcs. I don't think this ought to be a big issue, but yes, it has struck a nerve.

..."a couple of months of drills, which he made up later". How the fucking Hell do they get away with that blatant lie when the records show Junior was missing an entire year??

I figured that they would want to poo-poo it away. I have read on other threads that this isn't even being discussed on RW talk radio, keep them in the dark.

You can't criticize the president, even though he's running for office. Anythng critical is labelled hateful, implied to be unpatriotic and destablizing.

Whoever our guy is - let him be loud and constantly in their faces.

all of the character assassination against Cleland. Their hypocrisy is so funny because they have short term memory loss. They also engaged in some character assassination against McCain. I would like to think that the public is on to their MO and won't fall for it.

bu$h, the gig is up.

The first one is about secret service for the candidates.

Where's that, I'm not seeing it?

this issue isn't going to be put to bed early like the last election.

on Panama City Beach drinking and chasing women?

They should try to cover it up or let it die, not "fight" it. The facts are at best not clear cut. Lingering questions are not what the GOP should want. Oh well for them...

Now I've seen everything.
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Was this story before or after some link to "Janet's boob exposed"?

too funny. Jennings didn't back up what he said in any way, he just stated it. Was Jennings there in TX and AL? Did he do any investigative work on this? Or is Jennings simply all-knowing?

Jennings took his bait, no doubt miscalculating how Clark would respond.

Time for Jennings to explain what he meant by "unsupported by the facts."

simply produce the documents that show Dubya reported to duty at the National Guard. Instead of yelling how "outrageous" and "shameful" it is, just show us the proof.