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John Adams: John Kerry
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John Kerry's troubles have largely been forced on him by the Democratic Party platform. He has been given the unenviable task of presenting it as the War Party when in fact it is not, nor does it want to be. The Democrats could have chosen to become a real anti-war party, in which case it would have nominated Howard Dean or it could have elected to become a genuine war party and chosen Joseph Lieberman. Instead it chose to become the worst of all combinations, an anti-war party masquerading as the war party.
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For John Kerry, the specter of Attorney General John Ashcroft trashing Americans' civil liberties has been a useful campaign prop. In campaign stops, Kerry has promised to "end the era of John Ashcroft and renew our faith in the Constitution."
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The Democratic Party followed his lead, supporting the death penalty in its 1992 and 1996 platforms under Clinton and in 2000 under Al Gore before removing the plank in 2004 at the request of nominee John Kerry, according to published reports. What position the 2008 platform will take is uncertain, but of the remaining Democratic candidates, only former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel opposes capital punishment.
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-- George Elliott, Kerry's former CO, states, John Kerry has not been honest about what happened in Vietnam in the Any Questions? ad. Elliott in the space of a month changed his story three times.
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