Buzzwords and cheap shots
From The Boston Globe
By Jeff Jacoby
July 30, 2004
Kerry told us more last night about his childhood memories ... than he did about his nearly three decades in public office.
"I ask you to judge me by my record," he implored, but then said virtually nothing about it. ... Nothing at all about being elected lieutenant governor. And just three sentences about his 20 years in the US Senate. ...
All night long -- all week long -- there is only one part of Kerry's long record that the Democrats have wanted Americans to notice: the part that ended 35 years ago when he came home from Vietnam. ...
His political career wasn't the only thing missing from Kerry's speech. ...
After raising the specter of an enemy "unlike any we have ever known before," Kerry promptly started talking about -- jobs. ... This is the most important election of our lifetime. But why that is, Kerry has yet to say.
He spoke ... about his respect for "all who serve in our armed forces today." Couldn't he have spared a few words to salute those troops for ... the toppling of vicious tyrannies in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Kerry's cheapest shot came at John Ashcroft's expense: "I will appoint an attorney general who actually upholds the Constitution." And how, exactly, does Ashcroft undermine the Constitution? ...
It was a pedestrian address, uninspiring, cliched, and humorless. It made sure to work in all the poll-tested buzzwords ... But buzzwords don't decide elections ...
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