BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?

Subject: RE: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: GUEST,tarheel
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 03:39 PM

KERRY does not have to worry about the economy and that's why he cannot express himself about it correctly! how can he relate to it when his precious little Tereasa owns $$BILLIONS! do you really think he cares about the rest of us? i can't, for the life of me, understand why he even wants to be president!...but,if you live in the millionaire/billionaire society,i guess you might get Bored once in a while and have a need to let someone know that you are alive and well in the world,somewhere!

Subject: RE: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 02:45 PM

When was Bush's last press conference Larry?

Subject: RE: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: GUEST,Larry K
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 02:32 PM

Maybe Kerry is clueless because he has the same advisors that have run the democrats for the past 8 years.   Dick Morris said it proves how much Clinton wants Kerry to lose that he sent Kerry the advisors he fired from his own campaign.

To win, Kerry must change the focus to domestic issues- economy, healthcare, jobs, etc.   Instead he keeps bringing up 30 years ago.   To those of you who think the recent attacks on Bush in the national guard are beneficial to Kerry- think again.    It only reinfores that Kerry is 30 years in the past.    Most people want to know what he is going to do in the future.    I predict that these national guard attacks (and Kitty Kelly bood) will aid Bush.   It only distracts from his domestic agenda.

AS Dick Morris says- all Bush has to do now is look presidential and stay out of the mud.   Let his surrogates fight Kerry in the mud.   Bush looks presidential.   Kerry looks lost.

In the midnight rally, Kerry attacked Cheney for not serving in Viet Nam.    Nothing could have helped Bush more.   Maybe Kerry thought he was still part of the republican convention.   It was the icing on the cake.

Bill Oreilly has the best suggestion for Kerry- hold one (count em) one press conference, explain viet nam, answer all questions, and never mention it again. The problem is that Kerry has not held one press converence in over one month.   In the last one he said he wanted to fight a more "sensitive" war on terrorism.   After the incidents in Russia last week that seems even more absurd than it did a month ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: DougR
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 02:05 PM

John Kerry is clueless because he is clueless.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: kendall
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 12:41 PM

Anyone who saw 60 minutes last night knows that at last something is being done to expose the creep.

Subject: RE: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: Nerd
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 11:27 AM

Why is GUEST clueless? Why doesn't he ever mention President Bush's deficiencies?

And before you provide evidence to tell me that he's CONSTANTLY mentioning President Bush's deficiencies, let me head you off by saying that I won't accept that evidence. Because I don't remember him saying certain things, that means he isn't saying them, even if he can PROVE to me that he IS saying them. And it's HIS fault that I never hear it.

See how silly you sound, GUEST?

Subject: RE: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: Peg
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 10:42 AM

Um, maybe because Bush and Cheney keep talking about everything BUT the economy, accusing Kerry of lying about his record in combat, and implying that somehow America will not be safe from "attack" if Kerry wins? (that last disgusting fear-mongering tactic courtesy of Dick for brains Cheney).
Kerry has to keep answering to these lies or voters will think he has something to hide...and "the war on terror" keeps taking the fornt seat because of the horrors taking place around the globe.

Subject: RE: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 10:26 AM

I'm getting depressed about the whole election thing. I'm afraid too many Americans don't have the patience to listen to anything complicated. I heard a quote the other day: "If you have to explain your position, you've already lost the debate." People only want sound-bites. That's why it's so easy to brand someone a flip-flopper. The election will be won by slogans and catch phrases, not by issues.

Eight—or was it twelve?—years ago, Ross Perot did what I thought was a brilliant thing. On 2 or 3 occasions, he bought a full half-hour of network television time—he said it cost him the same as two 1-minute commercials—and explained the economy to people, principally to impress people with the enormity of the national debt. He presented charts and graphs and explained them with great clarity. People (myself included) didn't vote for him because they didn't trust him personally as a leader, but I think he succeeded in impressing people with the fact that the debt was indeed a big problem. Soon afterwards, we had a balanced budget. Now, it's unbalanced again.

I expected to see other candidates follow his campaigning technique, but it didn't happen. Why not? Well, I think I know why not, but it depresses me.

Subject: RE: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: GUEST,GROK
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 10:25 AM

However, despite my remark to GUEST above, s/he makes a point that Kerry should be made aware of. Electioneering is much like chess or fighting: it's really about timing and tempo. If you allow the opponent to establish the 'pace' of events, and if you are always responding, you will eventually lose. The way for Kerry to win this, IMO, is to unleash a devastating piece of filth about Bush--shouldn't be too hard to come up with that, given Bush's track record of lies and bullshit--just enough time (but not too much time) before the election that the spin doctors cannot refute the allegations. Quid pro quo. You may not think that's fair, but really, given the Bush 'trail of deceit', who friggin' cares? There are no rules in a knife fight, and the Bush team make the rules as they go along anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: GUEST,GROK
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 09:58 AM

GUEST,

The crucial question is not why Kerry is not talking about the economy; rather, it's "Why is the media NOT reporting it when he does?" Smart guy/gal that you are, I'da thunk you'd a figgered that out fer yerself. Glad to help though.

Subject: RE: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 09:41 AM

Spare us Guest. We do not have to prove anything to you because no matter what evidence we present you will put your own spin on it.

The problem with Kerry is that he is talking about the economy, but he cannot articulate his message clearly. The media loves the Vietnam/Iraq material because it stirs controversy. That is where they keep the focus.   Kerry has not been able to figure out a way to make the economy a sexy issue.   "It's the economy stupid" was a great catch phrase that brought the issue home. When Kerry talks about plans to create incentives for keeping jobs at home or reducing the deficit, the reporters and audience zone out. Too dry.

Subject: RE: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 08:05 AM

And please spare me the cut and pastes to "prove" that Kerry is talking CONSTANTLY about the economy. If that were the case, we'd all know that by now. We don't. We don't have a clue as to what the hell Kerry is droning on about at his campaign appearances, or his campaign's "message of the day".

He isn't getting through to anybody, so the only people who end up listening to him are his own choir.

Apparently, Kerry considers his personal "honor" over the military service thing more important than winning in November.

Subject: BS: Why is Kerry Clueless?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Sep 04 - 07:59 AM

Seriously. He keeps talking about Iraq, when Americans keep telling pollsters, quite consistently for over a year now I might add, that "It's the economy, stupid".

Yes, Bush does better in the polls on the commander in chief question. But so what? It's the economy, stupid.

Why isn't Kerry hammering away at Bush on the economy? There is no other issue that will unite American voters more than their own pocketbooks. So what gives, here?

For a guy everyone claims to be so smart, why is he acting so stupidly?

This makes no sense.