What Would Kerry Do?
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He talks a good game, but Kerry won't find it easy to convince voters
he'd be a better commander in the war on terror
By Richard Wolffe and Susannah Meadows
Newsweek
Aug. 16 issue - While the president gets briefed in his high-tech Sit
Room deep in the West Wing's basement, John Kerry's intel sessions are
a much more makeshift affair. Seven hours after the White House
offered to brief him, Kerry, who'd been unwilling to bump any campaign
events, was finally parked in one place long enough so that a secure
phone line could be set up in his bus. After playing softball with
firefighters and autoworkers in Taylor, Mich., Kerry boarded his bus
next to the field, and, still wearing his TEAM KERRY jersey, heard
what lay behind last week's terror warnings. While his aides described
the call as simply "informative," the glimpse into the top-secret
intel made its political mark all the same. Kerry tiptoed warily
around the warning, and kept his distance from Howard Dean, the former
Vermont governor, who accused the Bush administration of manipulating
the warning to help boost the president's re-election bid. Kerry
wasn't always so respectful. Standing beside Dean six months ago, he
reacted with scorn to a previous Orange alert. "The president is
actually playing for the culture of fear in our country," he said in a
televised debate in Iowa.
Richard Wolffe
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