Word: swiftness
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...Vietnam War record to those who do not can only be described as overwhelming. Yet your Notebook report "Kerry in Combat: Setting the Record Straight" [Aug. 30] allowed baseless accusations to be elevated to charges worthy of serious contemplation. Follow the money that subsidizes the calumnies of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The trail leads to well-bankrolled Republican Party operatives doing what they do best: smearing good people and lying to American voters. David Federman Narberth...
...poll in this week’s Time Magazine shows that the relentless Swift Boat Veterans ads and the Republican National Convention—a somewhat unprecedented incumbent convention, considering the amount of attention devoted to the weaknesses of the challenger—have taken a toll on John F. Kerry. The poll shows President Bush leading Kerry 52 percent to 41 percent, with Kerry’s favorability rating down from about 55 percent in August to 43 percent today...
Considering his lifelong aspirations to the White House, that seems unlikely—yet his strategy makes you wonder. This summer, C-Span aired an episode of “The Dick Cavett Show” in 1971, showing a younger John F. Kerry debating his current Swift Boat rival John O’Neill on Vietnamization and how to end the War. The Kerry of 1971 paradoxically makes the Kerry of today look like an amateur. He was poised as always without sacrificing vitality; he was sharp and in command, and he seized every opportunity to quietly take...
...rival, John Kerry, 52% to 41%. Kerry's decline has coincided with the airing of television ads attacking his Vietnam War record and antiwar activism. Anxious Democrats say Kerry was not quick or aggressive enough in countering the largely unsubstantiated attacks on his record by a group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, but Kerry's drop in the polls also suggests continued confusion over his explanations of where he stands on Iraq. And a weekful of Republican Convention coverage has not helped. "We expect, as implied in the word bounce, that [Bush's] numbers will come down," says...
...seen at a convention. It certainly trumped Pat Buchanan's 1992 "culture war" speech, in which the target was an abstract army of social liberals. This was a direct assault on the character and integrity of the Democratic nominee. And it followed a familiar G.O.P. attack pattern: like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Miller wasn't an official part of the Bush campaign. He claims to be a Democrat, and so, several Republicans told me, he was free to say anything he pleased. But Miller's speech wasn't the most disgraceful part of the G.O.P. show. That honor...