"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Edwards managed to get through his entire speech without mentioning
George
Bush
by name.

Raises the bar pretty high.

When the bar is already on the floor it is not difficult to raise it.

Let's see if Kerry can also rise above attack politics here on out.

A political campaign for political office is by nature a fourm for attack
politics. How else are you going to point out the other guys failings.

If he does, the nation will notice the contrast when the R's use their
convention to badmouth and smear Kerry and Edwards. The technique is
likely to
backfire on the side using it- if the other side doesn't reciprocate.

It politics, stupid!

If we're finally to the point where the electorate will respond to a
positive
message rather than to "my opponent sucks, my opponent sucks, my
opponent
sucks" hope may indeed be on the way. :-)

And this is where Bush wins. Kerry has spent so many years in the US
Senate
and has done a damn thing but run his mouth.


3 months of heroic service in Viet Nam....over 240 months of worthless flip
flop service in the Senate.

And now he says he will *define* himself tonight. I guess those 240 months
in the Senate are not the way he wants to define himself.