New Blood at Heart of Kerry Campaign reports The Washington Post. The media echo on the Kerry campaign is slightly better now, so this may have been the decisive. At least there are some punch lines:
“Dick Cheney got $2 million. What did we get?” the ad’s narrator says. “A $200 billion bill for Iraq, lost jobs, rising health care costs. It’s time for a new direction.”
“You deserve a president who will not play politics with national security, who will not ignore his own intelligence while living in a fantasy world of spin …”
Still Kerrys speech style is terrible.
Sentences – too long, thought chains – too long, wording – pompous. This will not win Joe Sixpack and Larry Lawnmower over Bush´s good/evil – with us/against us style. Campaigning is marketing, not an Oxford debate.
Explain Kerry´s position on Iraq in three short sentences? Impossible. What the f… is the campaign staff doing? Is Kerry listening to them?
All Bush enemies try to help
- The CIA sends an unrequested National Intelligence Estimate to the White House and leaks the content to the press.
- Annan emphasizes the war was illegal
- David Kay saying “we were almost all wrong” and the final reports come without WMDs in Iraq
- General Conway accusing the administration to have screwed the marines in Fallujah.
On the other side the messages stick. Next week Prince Allawi (or as koreyel suggests The Thug (formerly known as Prince) will address Congress and the UN. Rove will make sure that the right 10-seconds-points are made on TV. Only a real big incident in Iraq could spoil their effect. Then comes the October surprise – Iran? Syria? A terror incident? Who knows, but for sure there is an ace somewhere.
Kerry is much too presidential. ´ay man, set the champagne glass aside and grab a beer. Kick ass!