Friday, August 13, 2004


Yahoo! News - Bush Declines to Condemn Attack Ads on Kerry
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President Bush praised John Kerry's military service as honorable on Thursday but declined to condemn ads from Vietnam veterans who questioned the Massachusetts senator's military record.

While declining to condemn the ads, Bush said the broader issue was independent groups known as "527s" that fall outside the boundaries of campaign finance laws and can spend unlimited amounts of money on attack ads.

"They've said some bad things about me. I guess they're saying bad things about him. And what I think we ought to do is not have them on the air," Bush said.

The Bush campaign has been upset by attack ads from liberal groups such as Moveon.org.

The difference here George is that MoveOn is telling the truth about your record, and these guys are lying about Kerry. I think going after Kerry's military service is a bad idea and is in incredibly poor taste.

So, your answer would be to squelch all speech then, is it? How typical of you, you fascist pig.