Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad
How the group came into existence is a story of how veterans with longstanding anger about Mr. Kerry's antiwar statements in the early 1970's allied themselves with Texas Republicans.
Mr. Kerry called them "a front for the Bush campaign" - a charge the campaign denied.
[all depends on what your definition of "front" is.]
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Records show that the group received the bulk of its initial financing from two men with ties to the president and his family - one a longtime political associate of Mr. Rove's, the other a trustee of the foundation for Mr. Bush's father's presidential library. A Texas publicist who once helped prepare Mr. Bush's father for his debate when he was running for vice president provided them with strategic advice. And the group's television commercial was produced by the same team that made the devastating ad mocking Michael S. Dukakis in an oversized tank helmet when he and Mr. Bush's father faced off in the 1988 presidential election.
link Spin of The Day
It's not enough that Kerry's a better man than Bush. Or that he'll make a better President. Or that the people around him have at least some moral character. Like prisoners on strike for better conditions, we forget about the prison itself. It may be that we have to start from here, or we may have to start from a compromise - there's deceit inside deceit, and a complex of lies that no one's got a line on.
Nothing Kerry's doing puts him anywhere nearer the truth than Bush, just farther from the outright dishonesty and greed of Bush's gang of affluent crooks and cunning traitors.
