I don’t always believe anything any campaign says, but when factcheck.org an independent de-spin site says Bush nailed Kerry, you know he’s been nailed. Here they are backing up Bush’s claim that Kerry missed 75% of the Senate Intelligence Committee meetings: full thing: excerpt:
A Bush-Cheney ‘04 ad released Aug. 13 accuses Kerry of being absent for 76% of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s public hearings during the time he served there. The Kerry campaign calls the ad “misleading,” so we checked, and Bush is right.
Yow!
Here’s the script for the ad:
Intel
Announcer: John Kerry promises…
Kerry: I will immediately reform the intelligence system.
Announcer: Oh really…as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Kerry was absent for 76 percent of the committee’s public hearings.
In the year after the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Kerry was absent for every single one.
That same year he proposed slashing America’s intelligence budget by 6 billion dollars.
There’s what Kerry says and then there’s what Kerry does.
This is the same ad that the Kerry campaign “rebutted” by saying that John Kerry was Vice-Chairman of the committee when it was actually Bob Kerrey.
Kerry: up the Mekong without a clue
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