Comments on: John Kerry Boosts Obama Campaign and Helps Debunk Clinton Attacks

By: Obama Responds To Swift Boat Attack While McCain Violates Previous Vow To Condemn Such Attacks - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:00:28 +0000

[...] from the Swift Boat Liars during a time when there were limited funds available for response due to restrictions placed upon him by accepting matching funds. When Obama first gave this reason some criticized him by arguing that there were not any active [...]

By: Obama Appears Unlikley To Repeat Kerry’s Errors of 2004 - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:23:58 +0000

[...] but at least it is safe to predict he will not make the same mistake. Both Kerry and Obama have learned an important lesson from the Swift Boat attacks and any Democratic candidate will be better prepared this time. Kerry wanted a positive convention [...]

By: Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Democratic Debate Wrap-Up

Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Democratic Debate Wrap-Up — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:09:35 +0000

[...] Ron Chusid agrees that Obama scored points on the war, and says that Hillary failed to do anything to blunt Obama’s surge: Clinton is in a no win position on Iraq. No matter how she tries to wiggle out of it, she was wrong. She is trying to copy John Kerry’s position that the vote was not the same as supporting going to war. Unfortunately this argument didn’t work politically for Kerry and it will be even harder for Clinton to use it. Kerry opposed the war before it started, giving some credibility to his argument, but Clinton did not. If Kerry could not get away from his IWR vote, Clinton has much less of a chance. Clinton also copied Kerry’s language in discussing going to war as a last resort. [...]

By: Obama Wins Debate But No Knock Out Blow - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:32:03 +0000

[...] Clinton is in a no win position on Iraq. No matter how she tries to wiggle out of it, she was wrong. She is trying to copy John Kerry’s position that the vote was not the same as supporting going to war. Unfortunately this argument didn’t work politically for Kerry and it will be even harder for Clinton to use it. Kerry opposed the war before it started, giving some credibility to his argument, but Clinton did not. If Kerry could not get away from his IWR vote, Clinton has much less of a chance. Clinton also copied Kerry’s language in discussing going to war as a last resort. [...]

By: Fact Checking the South Carolina Debate - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:31:28 +0000

[...] I’ve written more on Bill Clinton’s distortions of the issue here. Other aspects of the controversy are discussed in this post on John Kerry’s support for Obama. This includes why Obama played down the IWR vote before speaking at the 2004 Democratic Convention. Both Bill and Hillary Clinton have tried to claim that they also opposed the war, but the facts show otherwise. For example, the post also contrasts the views of John Kerry with Hillary Clinton noting that while both voted yes on the IWR, Kerry spoke out against going to war before the war started while Clinton did not express her opposition until much later, casting doubt on her rewriting of history. [...]

By: Obama Responding to Clinton Attacks on Good Morning America - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:49:43 +0000

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By: Obama Responds to Clinton’s Smear Campaign - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:49:06 +0000

[...] When a campaign is the subject of a campagin based upon smears it is always a difficult decision as to how to respond. This was the case with John Kerry and the Swift Boat Liars in 2004, and with Barack Obama and the smear campaign being run by Hillary Clinton today. One problem is that time devoted to smears can distract from the positive message you wish for the campaign to portray. The Washington Post reviews how this problem has affected the Obama campaign. The hundreds of people who turned out at the University of Nevada on Friday heard Sen. Barack Obama deliver a lofty stump speech about bridging the nation’s divides and creating a groundswell for change. But they also witnessed him engage in the more mundane task of rebutting attacks from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on his positions on Social Security taxes and on the proposed nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. [...]

By: rawdawgbuffalo

rawdawgbuffalo — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:04:07 +0000

wonder how much bill and hill paid mr. johnson, it will work agains her, he real issues remain the econonmy and iraq.....the new efforts and focus on surge and money will not work . sunni or latter

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:35:38 +0000

Thanks for the excellent clarification of the whole Swift Boats sequence. So many times, Dems take up the Republicans’ derision toward their own candidates when doing a post-campaign analyses. Kerry has gotten as much disrepect from his fellow Dems as he did from Republicans. I read speeches he had made saying all the right things during the campaign and the speeches didn’t gain any coverage. He was not an incompetent candidate. He just wasn’t a warrior any more. And I worry that Obama won’t be a warrior although the Clintons have left a bad taste in my mouth since Iowa.