Playing Telephone
Dana Milbank at the Washington Post this week had a very good column showing statements made by Kerry (as typical of the man, full of explanation and nuance) that were in turn dissected to the lowest common denominator by President Bush. Here's a good example:

"Yes, I would have voted for the authority [to use force in Iraq]. I believe it is the right authority for a president to have. But I would have used that authority, as I have said throughout this campaign, effectively. I would have done this very differently from the way President Bush has. My question to President Bush is: Why did he rush to war without a plan to win the peace? Why did he rush to war on faulty intelligence and not do the hard work necessary to give America the truth?" -- Kerry, Aug. 9

"He now agrees it was the right decision to go into Iraq. After months of questioning my motives, and even my credibility, the Massachusetts senator now agrees with me that even though we have not found the stockpiles of weapons we all believed were there, knowing everything we know today, he would have voted to go into Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power." -- Bush, Aug. 18

Mr. Bush gets this wrong on two counts: a) the vote was not a vote to go to war with Iraq -- it was a vote to give the President authority to use war powers if all other means of investigation/negotiation had come to an end; and b) Kerry states that plainly, that the vote was to give the President that authority.

There are several other examples worth checking out.