July 28, 2004
FROM OPPOSABLE DIGITS TO OPPOSING THE WAR (via Robert Schwartz)
GOP Produces Video of Kerry on Iraq (WILL LESTER, 7/28/04, AP)
Republicans think they've found the ideal person to explain in detail the Democratic presidential candidate's evolving position on the war in Iraq - John Kerry himself.Using video clips of Kerry discussing Iraq on various talk shows, the Republican National Committee has put together an 11-minute video that traces how Kerry struggled with the issue of Iraq through 2003 and early 2004 as he competed for - and finally won - the Democratic presidential nomination.
Republicans plan to publicly unveil the video Wednesday morning and send it by e-mail to about 8 million supporters. GOP officials also are pondering how to make the video, produced by Laura Crawford of the Texas firm Crawford Creative, available to the general public.
In the video clips, Kerry gradually shifts from harsh anti-Saddam Hussein rhetoric in 2001 and 2002 to more cautious comments about Iraq in late 2003 and then to anti-war comments by early 2004.
At this rate of evolution, a President Kerry will likely give Saddam one of these.
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It's online here.
The GOP ought to sneak into movie t heaters across the country and swap the 11-minute film for the final reel of Farenheit 911 -- or at the very least, do it tonight before Michael Moore projects it onto the side of a barn in Crawford, with all the media in attendance.
Posted by: John at July 28, 2004 2:15 PMHow dare those evil Republicans use Kerry's own words against him? Don't they realize that being a Leftist means never having to explain or take responsibility for your past actions or statements? All this proves is that not only was Kerry once in Vietnam, but he's willing to grow in office.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at July 28, 2004 2:23 PM