The Missing Senate Years

By Lorie Byrd ~ July 30th, 2004 @ 10:25 am

I think that omitting an entire two decades of Senate votes by Kerry in his speech last night might have helped him in the short run, but as I stated earlier, not only can Bush/Cheney now point out the record of votes Kerry didn’t take the opportunity to explain or defend, but they can show demonstrably (minutes allocated in Edwards and Kerry speeches) that Kerry is trying to hide his Senate record. CrushKerry has already put up a breakdown of what was and wasn’t included in the speech:

Birth-1966: 6 mentions – Born in the “West Wing”, a Cub Scout; Biking in East Berlin; Watching soldiers in Germany; seeing people live difft lives in the same cityhearing JFK’s call to service
1966-1969 (Vietnam): 5 mentions – carrying an M-16; defended country as a young man; fighting with his “band of brothers; walking patrol in a dangerous place; writing letters home
1969-1976 (Anti War Activist): 0 mentions
1976-1979 (Prosecutor): 3 mentions: protected victims rights; saw kids abandoned; made prosecuting violence against women a priority
1983-1985 (Dukakis Lieut. Gov.): 0 mentions
1985-2004 (Senate): 3 mentions – put 100K cops on the street (a lie); working for a balanced budget (another lie); working with McCain on POW’s.