The Osterley Times: Kerry lambasts McCain for "pathetic" attacks.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Kerry lambasts McCain for "pathetic" attacks.

John Kerry gave a very good speech I thought, pointing out - as he only can - what it is like for someone to be for something before they are against it:

"Candidate McCain now supports the wartime tax cuts that Senator McCain once denounced as immoral. Candidate McCain criticizes Senator McCain’s own climate change bill. Candidate McCain says he would now vote against the immigration bill that Senator McCain wrote. Are you kidding? Talk about being for it before you’re against it."

"Let me tell you, before he ever debates Barack Obama, John McCain should finish the debate with himself. And what’s more, Senator McCain, who once railed against the smears of Karl Rove when he was the target, has morphed into candidate McCain who is using the same “Rove” tactics and the same “Rove” staff to repeat the same old politics of fear and smear. Well, not this year, not this time. The Rove-McCain tactics are old and outworn, and America will reject them in 2008."

It's a good line and it's one that the Democrats should utilise to the full. Kerry, the man who the Republicans swift boated, then attacked McCain for the kind of nasty smears which he has employed to disguise the fact that his policies are toxic.

"The McCain-Bush Republicans have been wrong again and again and again. And they know they will lose on the issues. So, the candidate who once promised a “contest of ideas,” now has nothing left but personal attacks."

"How insulting to suggest that those who question the mission, question the troops. How pathetic to suggest that those who question a failed policy doubt America itself. How desperate to tell the son of a single mother who chose community service over money and privilege that he doesn’t put America first."

"No one can question Barack Obama’s patriotism."