New Bush ad blasting Kerry for his inattendence on voting.

[coloradodem2005]

Most of the ad is ridiculus. Bush, once again attacks Kerry but does not discuss what he has to bring to the table, or what he has brought for that matter.

He says that Kerry missed a vote to fund our soldiers, but came back to vote against the Laci Peterson bill which would protect pregnant women from violence. I am curious. Does anybody know what this law is?

It ends with Kerry has his priorities, are they yours? I think the ad is ridiculus over all because I know Bush has his priorities, and they are not mine.


But, I would like to know more about this law.

[gollygee]

1. If I recall . . .

It was a vote to give personhood to a fetus so someone who kills a pregnant woman could be charged with two murders. It would have obviously led to further taking away abortion rights.

[soup]

2. I thought I heard 'against the Laci Peterson bill which will

save women's lives'. ('save women's lives'? or just simply 'save lives'?, not sure) Maybe I heard it wrong.

But I wondered the same thing about how the law actually reads.

Guess I need to go look it up, unless some quick and knowledgable DUer gets it posted first.

[soup]

3. I heard it wrong.

It's worded 'protects pregnant women from violence'.

Here's one article on it:

>snip<
Analysis: Kerry opposed the so-called Laci Peterson law--named for the pregnant California woman killed in 2002--saying it would impact a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy. The bill, signed into law by President Bush, exempted abortions from prosecution. Kerry says he voted for a Democratic amendment that would have increased penalties for attacks on pregnant women--including murder charges if the fetus is killed--without defining an "unborn child." While Bush communications director Nicole Devenish said the Peterson law had "broad bipartisan support," 35 of 48 Democratic senators voted against the measure; all but two Republicans supported it.

The absenteeism charge is a staple in congressional campaigns, and the proportion of Senate votes missed by Kerry is accurate. But members of Congress who run for president routinely miss plenty of votes, so it remains to be seen whether voters will find this a compelling issue. The examples of what Kerry missed is selective, since he was also on the road while measures he favored were considered. When Kerry returned to Washington last month to vote on improving health care for veterans, Republicans delayed the vote.

This ad, which follows by one day the release of seven positive Kerry spots, makes clear that the Bush strategy still rests heavily on discrediting the senator as unacceptably liberal. The Bush camp has responded to the Kerry camp's decision to advertise in North Carolina after adding John Edwards to the ticket by launching two older anti-Kerry ads in Edwards's state.
>from:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37865-2004Jul8.html

It's a subscription site, so don't know if it will open. The ad can be watched there, too.

[coloradodem2005]

5. I agree.

Like I said, the ad looked ridiculous. If a Senator is running for President (or Vice-President) it is unlikely that his attendence will be very good during that year.

[Yupster]

6. Dole resigned his seat

to run. Pretty brave considering his odds were pretty low of winning, and he really loved being a senator.

[jackstraw45]

4. For somebody who has spent 40% of his presidency on vacation...

this sounds like an ad from desperation and fear.