The worm has officially turned on Bush

[59millionmorons]

1. Bush is now claiming libel.
2. They are now trying to say by Kerry filing to the FEC and running new ads it is just keeping the story going.

These are code words for please stop your making us look bad.

Bush Campaign Calls Kerry Ad 'libelous'

http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=25133

[bobthedrummer]

1. Link please.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

2. Huh?

Bush is now claiming libel

Really? How'd I miss it? Reference?

[MallRat]

3. Libel? Please explain. n/t

[59millionmorons]

5. The way CNN explains it

Is Bush is claiming Kerry is making knowingly false claims in his new ad that Bush has a connection with the swift boat liars and the people who put the ads together. Which we all know is true.

http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=25133

[MallRat]

7. Ken Cordier: Bush campaign advisor & Swift Boat Vet. QED.

SOUNDS LIKE A LINK TO ME!!!

:nuke:

[Trajan]

4. Chuckles ....

yeah .... I think this is turning out to be a GOP nightmare ....

THEY drummed up the media frenzy on this issue: now they wont be able to hide from it .....

"Cheney got quite a few deferments, you know, while fella's like Kerry were getting SHOT AT ..... Lucky he wasnt harmed to badly .... Cheney was in no position to get harmed himself ...."

Where was George Bush during this whole ordeal ?? ...

We know where he wasnt: Getting shot at by VC ....

They fucked up with this SBL's fiasco ...

[Monte Carlo]

6. I think a lot of us need some context.

Because I, for one, have no idea what you are talking about.

[Brotherjohn]

8. Yes, and they're also saying "he did it too!"

Referring to the "Move On" "ad" that compared Bush to Hitler. I say "Move On" and "ad" in quotes, because it was really neither. It was one of thousands of potential ads made by private citizens in a contest open to anyone, made and funded by one private citizen, never run by Move On or anyone else anywhere, and yanked from the contest by MoveOn.

Oh yeah, and denounced by Kerry.

This makes them appear to be the duplicitous, hypocritical crybabies they really are.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

9. A little history for the younger DUers

In 1974 Muhammad Ali was fighting George Foreman in what was billed as "The Rumble in the Jungle," a heavy-weight title fight actually fought in Zaire (it was a Don King thing -- don't ask). Foreman is one of the legendary heavyweight fighters, not because of his technique but because of his devastating strength. The guy could knock you right into last week.

Ali's strategy seemed insane. He covered his head and backed into the ropes and virtually invited Foreman to come in and pummel him with crushing body blows for four rounds. In the eighth round, Ali uncovered and then proceeded to pound an arm-weary and punch-drunk Foreman into a TKO.

It became known as the "Rope a Dope," and it works pretty damned well in politics, too.

[Kukesa]

10. Aha! I'm old, but I had forgotten. Thanx, ritc. n/t

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

13. Memory is always the first thing to go, you know!

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[Julien Sorel]

11. They are just wallowing in the mud, which is what they wanted all along.

Economy? Iraqi war? War on terror? Where's my job?

[Brotherjohn]

12. See this great cartoon from Mike Keefe, Denver Post

via Working for Change web site: