Right now, he's on the jobs tour. Specifically because Edwards is running on jobs. But this statement was just 3 days ago, he hasn't stopped his attack on Bush on anything.
Here's a new ad as well,
http://www.johnkerry.com/videos/console.php?video=022704_wordStatement from John Kerry Regarding President Bush’s Speech
The following statement was issued by John Kerry after President Bush’s speech tonight at the Republican Governor’s Association fundraiser:
February 24, 2004
For Immediate Release
New York, NY –
“President Bush gave his speech tonight as if the past three and a half years never happened. But the American people haven't forgotten this President's failed record, because they have to live with it everyday. George Bush's credibility is running out with the American people. They want change in America, and I'm running because I am determined to bring that change and put America back on track.”
Rebuttal: Bush By Bush's StandardsTonight in front of Republican Governors, Bush characterized his administration as "STEADY LEADERSHIP IN A TIME OF CHANGE.” But the very areas he highlights as successes illustrate how far backwards he has taken America. How can we believe his new promises when he’s failed so miserably to keep his word for the past four years.
Bush Said His Administration is: "Moving the Economy Forward"Tonight Bush said he is responsible for “tax relief that is moving economy forward.”
U.S. has lost THREE MILLION jobs since Bush came into office. Bush is also responsible for a record $304 billion deficit.
Bush Promised He'd Create 2.6 Million Jobs This Year, Then He Changed his Mind a Few Weeks Later
“Bush's economic team has said his programs will create 2.6 million jobs this year. It's a goal economists say will be difficult to achieve.”
“The Bush administration is overly upbeat in predicting that 2.6 million new jobs will be created this year, private economists say. It is a hurdle that would require the administration, in just one year, to replace all of the jobs that have been lost in the three years since President George W. Bush took office. ‘The job machine would have to rev up very, very quickly - it's got to be almost supercharged at some point during the year’ to do that well, said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com.”
“Thursday's report also showed that the number of unemployed people collecting jobless benefits for more than a week rose by 106,000 to 3.2 million for the week ending Feb. 7, the most recent period for which that information is available. This suggests that jobs are still hard to find for some workers. The report comes as recent Bush administration comments about the job climate touched a political nerve and raise questions about the White House's economic grasp. President Bush on Wednesday distanced himself from an earlier prediction by his economic advisors that that the economy would add 2.6 million new jobs this year.”
Bush Said His Administration is: “Winning war terror”
Bush Giving Up on bin Laden
President Bush: I have no idea whether we will capture or bring to justice, may be the best way to put it.”
Tonight Bush said he should be re-elected because his is “extending peace and freedom.”
Friday Bush Administration Admitted Their Interim Iraq Plan is Not Working
“The Bush administration acknowledged on Friday that its ambitious plan to transfer sovereignty directly to a democratically elected government in Iraq was unlikely to succeed, after Iraqis insisted on elections untainted by U.S. influence. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the administration's initial plan for an interim, democratically elected government through a complicated series of 18 regional caucuses had failed to pass muster with Iraqi leaders.”
Tonight Bush said, “In Iraq, my administration looked at the intelligence, and saw a danger.”
Bush Conceded His Argument for War was Wrong
Mr. Russert: The night you took the country to war, March 17th, you said this: “Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.”
President Bush: Right.
Mr. Russert: That apparently is not the case.
President Bush: Correct.
Mr. Russert: How do you respond to critics who say that you brought the nation to war under false pretenses
President Bush: “...I made a decision based upon that intelligence in the context of the war against terror. In other words, we were attacked, and therefore every threat had to be reanalyzed. Every threat had to be looked at. Every potential harm to America had to be judged in the context of this war on terror.”
Bush Made Assertions About WMD BEFORE Report Completed: Tenet Said Administration Ignored Caveats and Qualifiers. “In its fall 2002 campaign to win congressional support for a war against Iraq, President Bush and his top advisers ignored many of the caveats and qualifiers included in the classified report on Saddam Hussein's weapons that CIA Director George J. Tenet defended Thursday. In fact, they made some of their most unequivocal assertions about unconventional weapons before the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was completed.”
Bush Said Iraq Threat of “Unique Urgency” Though Report Did Not Draw That Conclusion. ”Iraq "is a grave and gathering danger," Bush told the United Nations on Sept. 12, 2002. At the White House two weeks later -- after referring to a British government report that Iraq could launch "a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes after the order" is given -- he went on to say, "Each passing day could be the one on which the Iraqi regime gives anthrax or VX -- nerve gas -- or someday a nuclear weapon to a terrorist ally.’ Three weeks later, on the day the NIE was delivered to Congress, Bush told lawmakers in the White House Rose Garden that Iraq's current course was "a threat of unique urgency."
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0223j.html
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