Kerry: Lesson's Unlearned
I read the article available online about Kerry's campaign in the Boston Globe.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/11/14/on_the_trail_of_kerrys_failed_dream?mode=PF
This article was a compilation of 5 reporters:
Nina J. Easton, Michael Kranish, Patrick Healy, Glen Johnson, Anne E. Kornblut, and Brian Mooney.
So I am sure it was a heavily edited story, but I noticed several recurring themes:
Kerry did little things that were blown out of proportion.
Kerry did not react fast enough to the changes during the campaign.

Take Vietnam and the Swift Boat Vet's, look at the quotes from this article.
" In April, Kerry went on NBC's "Meet the Press" and confessed that his accusations (71) had been "a little bit over the top.""

NEWS FLASH, Reporters: This is not an apology in any sense of the word and very late in coming.

"The O'Neill faction also argued that poking holes in Kerry's combat record would attract fresh media attention."

NEWS FLASH, Reporters:
Kerry did have to errors and false claims about his Vietnam Record. For which Kerry did admit too later in the campaign.
This should have been looked at before the campaign started.

Kerry's book,
Tour of Duty," by Douglas Brinkley. Brinkley wrote that swift boat veterans had described Hoffmann as "hotheaded, bloodthirsty, and egomaniacal."
Kerry had tried to head off Hoffmann's anger by calling and offering to ask Brinkley to change the offending passages.

NEWS FLASH Reporters: This should have been done before the book was released.

Kerry's Senate Record:
"Only six lines of his acceptance speech were devoted to his 20 years in the Senate, a fact that his GOP foes loudly broadcast.
The omission was, said one senior adviser, "a fair criticism.""
"In the planning, proposed segments about Kerry's Senate record -- on the environment, on small business, on foreign policy -- were scrapped or scaled back."

NEWS FLASH Reporters : You would be hard pressed to find 6 other subjects in the campaign that Kerry uses his past in the Senate.

Nov2, OHIO:
If he won the state, even by a single vote, the Electoral College would name him president.

NEWS FLASH Reporters: And he would lose the popular vote by over 3 Million, so where would your outrage be over that election?

So it is an interesting read. But like almost all the articles that are being written about this election, their bias is showing.






- posted by Mike @ 1:07 PM