# At last! Kerry is getting it right! **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 21, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-last-kerry-is-getting-it-right/265367 "2004-09-21T19:46:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-last-kerry-is-getting-it-right/265367/1 "2004-09-21T19:46:36Z")
It’s been like a cool rain after a long drought to see Kerry finally hammering that bastard Bush on Iraq. The recent attack made al lthe media … it was wonderful to hear the newscasters repeating Kerry’s assertions that Iraq was a horrible mistake. Now I just heard kerry hammering on Bush after Bush’s address, saying that Bush failed to level with the U.N., that he lives in a state of denial (The Great State of Denial is solidly for Bush in the coming election, of course) and that he’s not in touch with reality. Great stuff! Let’s make the odious little toad defend his administration’s adventures in Iraq. It’s the one place where I think Americans are most unhappy about the guy, what with so many beheaded Americans and flag-draped coffins coming out of the place. I hope Kerry presses this attack, and presses it HARD. Unlike the economy, there’ll be no weaselling on this one … even that toad Rove’s gonna have a hard time with a direct assault on the War in Iraq. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-last-kerry-is-getting-it-right/265367/2 "2004-09-21T19:52:25Z")
I agree – but Kerry is handicapped here by his earlier prowar votes and public statements on the war, which actually reflect thoughtful nuance but which Bush is spinning, with the greatest of ease, to make Kerry look like a “flip-flopper.” I wonder how Kerry’s going to handle this at the September 30 debate? And I hope the Kerry campaign doesn’t stop hammering the economy as an issue! Of course there’s obvious linkage – the budget deficit affects the economy, the costs of the war (and the tax cuts) gave us the budget deficit. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-last-kerry-is-getting-it-right/265367/3 "2004-09-21T19:59:53Z")
Guess you didn’t see the [Kerry’s new strategy for the home stretch](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=276762) thread… I said what I have to say there. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-last-kerry-is-getting-it-right/265367/4 "2004-09-21T21:28:29Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I agree – but Kerry is handicapped here by his earlier prowar votes and public statements on the war, which actually reflect thoughtful nuance but which Bush is spinning, with the greatest of ease, to make Kerry look like a “flip-flopper.” I wonder how Kerry’s going to handle this at the September 30 debate? The response seems to be, and I hope they make this very clear, that the Congress gave the president their trust, as they should, and Bush violated it by saying that he would go to war only when diplomacy failed, and then basically ignoring diplomacy. I think the trust angle works well. ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-last-kerry-is-getting-it-right/265367/5 "2004-09-21T21:35:49Z")
[Moderator Hat ON] Let’s keep this in the [Kerry Home Stretch](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=276762) thread. We don’t need two threads on this topic. [Moderator Hat OFF]