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Vint Cerf and Others Form Advocacy Group
Omega writes "Vint Cerf, father of TCP/IP, and several Nobel Prize winners have formed a 527 committee called 'Scientists and Engineers for Change.' Among their major complaints are that the Bush administration has ignored and misused scientific findings to achieve political goals and that it has stifled scientific research. While the group isn't officially endorsing Kerry, Dr. Cerf points out it's pretty obvious what their goal is."
The NY Times article glosses over what they're actually working towards, other than saying they don't want the US "losing the edge" in technology. That's then followed immediately by this paragraph:
Robert Hopkins, a spokesman for the Office of Science and Technology Policy, disputed that opinion. "I don't know where their accounting is coming from," Mr. Hopkins said. "The president has been a strong and generous supporter of science, increasing federal R&D budgets 44 percent to a record $132 billion."
A quick Googling doesn't show anything for their group's name, either.
What the hell? Are they just a few people that doesn't like Bush and decided to form a soft-money group to campaign against him? This article made it to Slashdot how, again?
--trb
So far, many of the points the Swifties made (by the way, fantastic lack of class in calling war heroes "the Not-so-Swift Veterans") have proven to be true. Kerry's people have been forced to admit that he did not spend Christmas in Cambodia, that his first purple heart probably was from his own grenade shrapnel, that he was still an officer (not discharged) when he meet with the enemy and organized protests and accused his brothers-in-arms of war crimes, etc.
However, not a single one of their "lies" has been demonstrated to be false.
And John Kerry still has yet to sigh SF-180, releasing the rest of his military records, even though "stonewalling" George Bush has long since done so.