Kristen Breitweiser-Make an ad of her talking to Security Moms

[RamboLiberal]

That would be powerful.

"I would love to have heard President Bush and the Republicans in Congress say, 'Here's what we'll do better.' But they didn't do that. They circled the wagons, they stonewalled, they blocked, they foot-dragged," she said in an interview aboard the Edwards campaign plane.

Before large, sympathetic crowds here, as well as in Iowa and New Hampshire, she offered a blistering account of the obstacles she says she faced during a three-year battle to start the nation toward a new intelligence system. Her presentation is raw with anger and grief, and it registered strongly with the Democratic loyalists. At a town hall meeting, under a hot midday sun in downtown Manchester's Victory Park, she moved museum volunteer Fran Gordon, 84, to tell Edwards: "You should put her on a TV commercial. People need to hear her."

On the rope line later, as Edwards shook hands, Breitweiser was swamped. Jane Ryan, 54, of Hollis, Maine, begged her to stick with the campaign. "They need you," Ryan said. "You are so powerful."

"I know in my heart that this is what needs to be done," Breitweiser said, clenching her jaw. "I have a 5-year-old that lost her father and thinks a dad is an image in a photo. She has no idea that a dad is supposed to be real and hug you. I want to know that she's going to be safer. That when she grows up, she's not going to die because of payback for a bad foreign policy."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58043-2004Sep28?language=printer

As I said before - put her in an ad, maybe with her daughter and a photo of her husband, saying what she said above, saying it specifically to parents, saying I voted for Bush in 2000, but cannot now. Make an ad of all the Jersey girls with their kids and photos of their husbands.

[rndmprsn]

1. DO IT NOW!

[Pirate Smile]

2. A commercial with her slamming Bush would be so effective.

[cheshire]

3. It pisses my of that others make a choice to support the man who

has turned his back on the very people who have gone thru what they are afraid of. How stupid can you get. How dare they spit on the people who lost someone with their stupidity.

[elperromagico]

4. Few things are as powerful as the words of someone who lost

a loved one on 9-11. And if it shatters the illusion of George W. Bush being some kind of great, decisive wartime leader, all the better.

[PittLib]

5. Hey rmpalmer ... did you see her speak today?

[RamboLiberal]

6. Wish I could've - had to work

I was off sick two days last week so I figured not a good idea to call off.

[PittLib]

8. Understood. She really adds an amazing element to the campaign.

You can't NOT be sad and angry, after hearing her story. I had to try pretty damn hard not to cry. I'm pretty on top of campaign info ... but she really shed some light, and needs to be heard by more people. I shut down a freeper today with her points. I was so pissed that the local news used a 30 second sound bite of Edwards, with no mention of Brietweiser (WPXI-NBC).

[AnnitaR]

7. Kristen breaks my heart.

There are many things that I will be thinking about when I cast my vote for John Kerry.

I will be thinking about Kristen that day. I don't know why but she has touched me in a way I can't really describe. The look in her eyes is just heartbreaking to me. She just looks lost and so very tired.

I will be thinking that if Kerry is elected that Kristen can finally rest and focus on herself. Kerry can do the fighting for her. He can fight to make sure she and the rest of us finally know the truth about 9/11. He can fight to make the changes to make her, her child, and all of us safer. He will do the things that should have been done by the man who allowed her husband to be killed.

I hope that when Kerry is elected President that I see Kristen standing next to him with a smile on her face.

[RamboLiberal]

9. Female Newsweek reporter on Countdown reports that 9-11 widows

are calling women in their age group in Ohio to talk to them how Iraq was a diversion and will not keep them safe.

Maybe Kerry will make that ad.

[JohnnyCougar]

10. Tell the Kerry campaign

[RamboLiberal]

12. I think John Edwards can tell them that - she's on his bus

He's seeing the crowd reaction to her.

And maybe Elizabeth might troll by DU!

[dennis4868]

11. If Kerry takes your advice and does this....

"As I said before - put her in an ad, maybe with her daughter and a photo of her husband, saying what she said above, saying it specifically to parents, saying I voted for Bush in 2000, but cannot now. Make an ad of all the Jersey girls with their kids and photos of their husbands."

KERRY GETS THE SO-CALLED SECURITY MOMS VOTE! nuff said.....

[Jack_Dawson]

13. "Security Moms" is a Bullshit Expression Invented by...

Karl Rove about a week ago. The same guy who brought us "flip-flop." Why are we parroting their talking points?

However, your point is extremely valid.

[RamboLiberal]

14. I know it's their talking point - but the media is all over this

and I do think there are women out there who are buying in to the Bush BS that he's keeping them safe.

It may be a term, but they are out there. They think those nasty terrorists are going to attack their kids school. They're not thinking their sweet little kiddies will someday be in a draft or in another 9-11 cause what * is doing now will cause as Kristen said blowback that will affect us for decades to come.

I think there are another group of moms with teen kids who are now worrying about a draft. That group is turning Kerry.