Kerry Started It

CNN's The Morning Grind concludes that Kerry started the negative ads with one aired on September 3, 2003.

That ad called Bush's jobs record an "astonishing failure." Kerry promised in that ad to roll back Bush's tax cuts and to be a president, presumably unlike Bush, who's "on the side of America's middle class."

On October 31, Kerry aired an ad in Iowa saying the Bush's administration "works for those at the top, not you," and has passed "the biggest tax cuts in history to the wealthy:"

"George Bush and Dick Cheney let polluters and oil companies rewrite our environmental laws. They defend the loopholes that let corporations avoid taxes by moving jobs overseas," an announcer says in that Kerry spot, titled "Courage."

Kerry's campaign seems to think those ads don't count. CNN isn't convinced:

Please. No clocks, no ball games. Kerry ran the first negative ads of the '04 presidential campaign. Period.

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