Kerry ad: "He Asked What He Could Do For His Country And Then He Did It"

[NewYorkerfromMass]

Anyone see this full page ad in Tuesday's NYTimes?
I just saw it this morning.
I cannot stress how absolutely awesome it is.
It's the kind of thing I've dreamed of- EXACTLY what I've wanted to see.
It is both a tour de force of graphic design and a tremendously powerful statement of Kerry's proven courage.

Here's a story on it:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=Kerry%20Ad

I am looking for a pdf or other version of it.
johnkerry.com should post it.
It is simply awesome.
This shows why we will win.

[rfranklin]

1. Bush started a war and didn't want to pay for it...

Steve Schmidt, a Bush-Cheney campaign spokesman, said the ad does not address the point that "John Kerry voted for the war in Iraq but voted against the money for it."

Bush and his country club patrons started a war and want your grandchildren to pay for it. Their grandchildren will receive untaxed inheritances.

[girl gone mad]

3. What a non-sequitur.

What does voting against giving Bush free reign over the 80 Billion (a move that is looking smarter by the day) have to do with the ad? They sound desperate.

[girl gone mad]

2. I'm happy that the Kerry campaign..

is coming out with a positive message. I think it will be an effective strategy.

[Catt03]

4. Please post a link for the page if you find it. Thanks

ed spelling

[sundancekid]

5. the tag line ALONE is enough for goose bumps

I have written the Kerry campaign for a link so we can get it out as you suggest ... Thanks for the heads up ...
O8)

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. Here it is in a small format

I put it up on my own site

[NewYorkerfromMass]

12. and a little larger format

I'm new at this web publishing!

[Adelante]

19. Thanks so much

That is fucking grand :D

[NewYorkerfromMass]

37. You're welcome!

[ACK]

7. Man that is powerful stuff

Wow. That is good stuff.

[Larkspur]

8. I thought it was...

"Kerry asked how he could gain more power and inflate his ego and then he did it."

[StephNW4Clark]

9. Isn't there a Nader or Dean Disappointment Blog to inhabit instead?

I'm sure they're missing your bitterness.

[ACK]

10. Constructive criticism is cool but gosh

Bitter anyone?

_

[Larkspur]

17. Actually, I appeal to those voters who are disgusted with Bush and don't

like Kerry either. I tell them that I despise Kerry, but Bush is a disaster, so they should vote for Kerry. I tell them that I'm voting for Kerry but won't be supporting him. That's the pragmatic view of those of us not blinded by Kerry worship.

[ACK]

22. I am not blinded by Kerry worship

And my backing of others here even the ones being critical should have made that clear or hell even the subject of my first message to you.

He is not the second coming.

He is to the firm right of Kuicinch and Nader.

He is however to the left of Clinton, Lieberbush and the way Gore ran last time.

Hell, in the most conservative free nation in the entire fucking world I am glad I even get the chance to vote anymore let alone get the chance to vote for man to the left of Clinton.

_

[Hav]

11. Ah the smell of bitterness..

I see that still after this long time that your candidate got his ass handed to him, you are still so bitter about it and still determined to work against Kerry. It's almost amusing how they act like little spoiled kids.
"I didn't get my candidate and now I want to make sure that your candidate won't win because I couldn't stand it!"
Cry me a river, your candidat didn't win. Sió what. You need to get over it. Really, you need to try to get over it. It turned you into such a bitter person, or maybe you were always like that. Seek some help to deal with your bitterness, you need it desperately.
It's ridiculous. You just can't accept that Kerry is doing fine.

And there is nothing you won't use to attack him. Now he's getting attacked for serving his country. That alone shows how desperate you are.
Your performance might be somehow amusing but you are so horrible at making a point. It's so boring and predictable.

[MoonRiver]

13. Sometimes I wonder how nefarious the anti-Kerry posters really are.

We'll never know but we must be vigilent.

[Larkspur]

16. Actually, it's not bitterness, but cynicism at Kerry worship

The the "Dems are united more than ever before" mantra that that DNC and DLC leaders are trying to brainwash us with. The purpose of that brainwashing is to suppress dissent within the Dem Party after a presumed Kerry win this Fall. Kerry may win the White House, but Congress will most likely remain in Repuke hands. The senate may turn Dem, but not by much.

As far as bitterness of Dean not winning, well sure I would have liked him to win, but I'm enjoying my life again after being off of the Dean Campaign the last few months. I've got my flowering trees and shrubs doing really well this year. My garden took a hit with all the time I spent on Dean's campaign last year, so now I get to enjoy the fragrances and beauty of my lilacs, which have never been this bountiful before, and my rhododendron blossoms are gorgeous. :evilgrin:

[jmags]

26. Aaah...the joy of pious self-righteousness.

I'm glad you are able to rise above the brainwashing we have all fallen victim too. If you ever find a cure for the rest of us, please be sure to send it along.

[incapsulated]

27. Your garden...

Is the soil good for growing cannabis?

Just a suggestion.

Jeez.

[JetCityLiberal]

25. smell your own posts

they smell.


JetCityLiberal

[Andromeda]

14. Larkspur, I was a Dean supporter too.

And I was disappointed when he didn't win the Iowas primary. But Kerry won fair and square and as much as I loved Dean he is not the candidate the majority of voters wanted as a candidate. Dean is supporting Kerry and doing all he can to help Kerry win so why can't you get over your bitterness and support the people's choice? I'm sure it wasn't easy for Dean to lose but he was man enough to take the high road and put the Democratic party ahead of his own ambitions.

We have so many problems in this country and so many important issues at stake in this election. We have to get rid of George Bush because he is ruining this country and four more years of him would completely destroy it. I am scared of what will happen if we don't stand by our candidate and help him win the election.

If you don't like Kerry, fine, that's your choice. But if you want to bash him expect to get a reaction from others who don't agree with you. I don't know why you do it and I'm not going to try to analyze it but you are not going to change the minds of people who have this country's interest first and foremost in their minds.

[Larkspur]

15. I don't care if the Kerry supporters bash me. Bring it on!!!!

I'm not a sheep following the Kerry herd and I never liked Kerry, even before I supported Dean. My #1 choice until Dean chastised the Dems, like Kerry, was Bugs Bunny. I had complete contempt for the Dem field, except for Al Gore, who was a presumptive candidate at the time, and Dem Party leaders by October 10, 2002, so my dislike of Kerry precedes my support for Dean.

I'm just an ordinary, hardworking, taxpaying citizen, who is disgusted at the poor quality of leadership in this country and in both political parties. The Repubs are ruled by psychopaths and the Dems by mead-heads. I'm for convicting the pro-war Repubs and Dems with war crimes and tossing them into jail, or maybe the guillotine would be a better choice.

[Larkspur]

18. Kerry did not win fair and square

His buddy and national fundraising chairperson, former Sen. Torricelli, of senate ethics infamy, donated $50K to the 527 group that ran a "dirty tricks" operation against Dean in Iowa. Torricelli used Repuke goons, who supported Bush in 2000, to help devise his nefarious strategy. As far as I'm concerned, I hope Kerry wins in November but I also hope Bush and Rove trash Kerry brutally. Kerry deserves no less that to get brutalized by Bush * Co.

[mitchum]

20. Well. you certainly tip your hand in this post...

and what a bitter, pissy, dirty little hand it is.
"...but I also hope that Bush and Rove trash Kerry brutally"

I think you are engaging in quite a bit of projection with your hysterical screeds about "Kerry worshipers" I see very little worship, only a lot of acceptance or support. Now, if you want to talk about a candidate who seemed to inspire insane sychophancy...

[Larkspur]

23. I like Red Wine Vinegar on my fish & chips

Red Wine Vinegar also makes an excellant marinade for red meat.

OK, I'm still bitter about what Kerry, Gephard, and Clark did to Dean in Iowa. I have a right to be bitter about it. Too bad you don't like it. As I've said before, I'll vote for Kerry but I will not support him.

"Revenge is a dish best served cold." It's cold in New England, at least in the winter.

[trumad]

29. Get the fuck out of this thread!

Why the fuck are you in this thread? Is it your soul intention to find every positive Kerry thread and then take a shit in it? Is that your goal? Can't you control yourself and stay out threads like this... Ohhh noooo...you have the right to voice your opinion and by golly, that's what your going to do... You're not a Kerry worshiper so your going after all the folks that support and admire the guy. You have no value to a thread like this... Open your own anti-Kerry thread and invite all your miserable anti-Kerry chumps in to whine all you want, but stay the fuck out of a thread like this because it makes you look silly as shit!

[ACK]

31. Man I back up Kerry and do NOT like Larspur's comments but ...

Get the fuck off?

That is like an invite to a million of those "we are the oppressed left" threads.

Do not let yourself be goading into such reactionary statements. Then the Kerry supporters get accussed of being goose stepping toads trying to squash critical conversation.

[trumad]

32. My point is:

is....why is he even in the thread? Why do anti-Kerry jerk-offs have to enter every Kerry thread and post anti-Kerry bullshit? Is it their mission? I don't get it... I can say Kerry loves Raisin Brand cereal and in pop's an idiot Kerry basher with some inane bullshit comment. WHY! What's their purpose? What was Larspur's contribution to this positive Kerry thread? It was nothing! Kerry runs a great ad like this and these whiners have to come into this thread and spout their shit..WHY?

Listen, if they have the right to enter threads like this (which they do), then I have the right to tell them to get the fuck out!

[Hav]

33. haha

Don't hold it back.
I think that this special group just can't stand Kerry's success. They didn't get what they wanted, and they won't be able to accept that other peeps got what they wished and worked hard for.
It is this type of Democrats who would be happy if Kerry lost in November just to gloat and who enjoy every vicious attack from the Right against Kerry. Only because their candidate couldn't beat Kerry.

[blm]

35. Torricelli donated money to a group who was supposed

run ads for their union affiliates. He didn't create the ads. Kerry also denounced the ads as soon as they came out.

btw...Torricelli didn't start raising money for Kerry till some months after those ads were run.

Torricelli also raised money and supported Gore when he ran...did you blame Gore then, too?

[Tatiana]

21. AWESOME ad! n/t

[zoeyfong]

24. Helping dig the hole deeper in Vietnam did not do America any favors.

Why does Kerry keep acting like the war in Vietnam was a good idea, and his decision to go over there was intelligent and courageous? Was he so unable to think independently that he could not recognize that the Vietnam war was unwise, unnecessary, and unwinnable, and that the best thing he could do to help his country would be to help bring the soldiers who are already there home. Voluntarily going over there and helping us dig our hole deeper does not show good judgement, and kerry obviously has made the same mistake again wrt the Iraq war. Throw in his vote *against* Gulf War 1 and he has a very poor record of knowing when America's armed forces should be used. I really hate to be critical, but this is too big of an issue for democrats to be pretending that the emperor has clothes when he does not.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

28. Kerry is the emperor who has no clothes?!! WTF?!!

Let's just look at what 2 guys did when they were 23 years old.
Forget about the merits of Vietnam, what are the merits of national service and honor and duty, and (get ready- hold your breath) PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY?
The polls already show Bush is going down.
The people are waking up.

[trumad]

30. That's got to be the stupidest most uninformed post ever

and one of the strangest talking points I've seen. So what your saying is Kerry should have taken the route Dubya took? Or maybe fled to Canada? Is that what your saying?... And it's quite funny how you conveniently forget what JK did when he got back from Nam... Dude start reading because it's big time obvious that you're out of your league!

[blm]

34. HAHAH...you don't much about Kerry do you?

Kerry is credited with helping END the war in Vietnam when he returned.

Your post screams ignorance aforethought.

[Mountainman]

36. Many people supported the war until they learn what it really was about

Just like many people are turning on the Iraq war yet they supported it last year. They first believe in their country and believe their country is living up to the values you were taught as a kid. Then when the truth comes out they see that they have been lied to.

People really believed that there was truth to the domino theory and that we were protecting people from evil communism and stopping communist proliferation in the Far East.

After years of fighting people found that they were being lied to by their government and that the price of war was too much to pay. They then fought to end the war.

I was one of these people, so was Kerry.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

38. kick

[farmbo]

39. Bush's plea to the elite: "Just ask what your country can do for you...

...Never mind what you can do for your country; and we'll let our Kids worry about the bills."