Flip Flop Kerry Supporters
Posted by Moonage on 30 Aug 2004 | Tagged as: 2004 Presidential Election
From my buddy –H. This was posted as a comment, but merits it’s own post.
I had to re-read this piece couple times to make sure I did not mis-read it:
….. To help Americans reduce their debt, Kerry is proposing to cut credit card fees and rates, and put limits on below-prime or zero-interest loans, which Kerry said often hurt consumers when the rates rise or the principals come due. He also wants lenders to better disclose their policies for raising rates.
He described how credit card companies can increase interest rates up to 29 percent in some cases just for one late payment. “So all of a sudden, people get caught in a trap, the debt trap,” he said.
At the Daly City event, Lori Guy, a 35-year-old high-tech worker from San Jose, was held up as an example by Kerry as a victim of bad credit-card policies.
She told the crowd how her employer, a large semiconductor manufacturer whom she did not identify, cut her salary after she moved West in 2000 to take a job. Her credit card bills piled up and she got socked with late payments, but she had no place to turn until she finally got back on her feet.
She blamed her company’s outsourcing of jobs overseas for the cuts in salaries, and she had left many in the crowd believing she had been laid off.
In an interview later, however, Guy said she is still employed by the company and after two merit raises in the past year she now makes more money than she ever had ….
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Moon’s comment: Huh? He’s done this several times in speeches. I don’t know if he doesn’t clear people’s entire stories beforehand or what, but that entire presentation contradicted itself and debunked the point Kerry was making. It has been commented by several people that it appears Kerry is just winging it, and honestly, I see a lot more evidence to support that claim than evidence that he screens anything at all. His campaign is floundering for the very reason you show. He is not getting a coherent message accross other than “I was a Vietnam War Hero and Bush wasn’t”. His other theme is “vote for me, I’m not Bush”, but, he has muddled so many opportunities I think a lot of the ABB crowd are getting so confused that they will vote for Bush by accident.
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