Reply #20: What ARE you talking about? Or listening to? [View All]

[jobycom]

The top of the hour reports I've heard this morning quote him blasting Bush and Cheney, just as you say he should.

The big problem here is that the media defines Kerry by choosing whatever words they want out of his statements and playing them. It isn't what Kerry is saying, it is-- as we've been saying it would be since last year-- that the media is trying to undermine Kerry, and pimp Bush.

Every member of the Bush family runs dirty campaigns. As they did to Gore, and Ann Richards, and Clinton, and going back a bit, Yarborough (Texas senator), the Bushes have campaigned by lying about their candidate, getting him or her on the defensive, and turning them into a laughing stock. I remember posting a dozen times that the favorite Bush strategy is to take the strength of a candidate and turn it into a weakness, as they did with Gore. Even McCain.

That's what they are doing to Kerry, and the media will play along, just as they did with Gore. Kerry will not win by stomping on every brush fire they start. He will win like Clinton, or Gore, by painting the big picture: These are our ideas, they always work, and Bush's ideas have failed every time. All this parsing of his specific responses, or more accurately, to the media's specific choice soundbites of his answers, is just going to frustrate us.

Kerry is NOT being portrayed fairly by the media. Keep that in mind. What you hear isn't what he's saying, it's what the media has pulled out of his statements to embarrass him. Hang in there, don't let them define Kerry for you. Kerry will get serious after the conventions, when the race starts up.

Don't forget, both Gore and Clinton were way behind at this point in their races. Clinton was in third, behind Perot and Bush. Kerry is sitting pretty damn pretty for a big sweep, being as close as he is in the polls. Watch him work.