Posted by: wasim | 29th Jul, 2004

Negative Campaigning

After reading an article about Kerry’s upcoming speech in which he’ll identify the important differences between him and GW Bush on Iraq and the War on Terror, I visited both campaign websites

www.johnkerry.com

www.georgewbush.com

The GW Bush website is incredibly negative!  It currently has pictures of Kerry, Al Sharpton, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, Michael Moore and some other liberals that conservatives love to hate in strange emphatic positions.  It is really upsetting to then go on and to read that the Bush-Cheney campaign is complaining that they have been outspent by the Kerry-Edwards campaign with a 2 to 1 ratio for negative campaigning.  Their very home page tears Kerry apart agressively for flip-flopping and “remaking” himself.

The flashy text that reads “Kerry’s extreme makeover” makes the site look literally like a tabloid magazine.  Honestly, when I went to it I thought it was a parody site.

I am not saying this as a resident of Kerry’s home state, or someone living in ultra-liberal Cambridge.  I am saying this as someone who just visited both websites and saw some really nice photos on the Kerry-Edwards campaign talking about the future and a new America.

Go to them, and see for yourself.  The contrast is really striking!

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