Kerry Declares Victory, Fires Back at Bush

[papau]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-campaign-kerry.html

Kerry Declares Victory, Fires Back at Bush
By REUTERS

Filed at 11:40 p.m. ET

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry, promising a "great debate," declared victory in the Democratic presidential race Tuesday and formally opened the general election campaign with an assault on President Bush's credibility.<snip>

Kerry, accused by the White House in a new television ad airing in West Virginia of voting against funds for troops in Iraq, struck back by questioning Bush's credibility and saying he was blaming others for his own administration's failures.

At an earlier campaign event in Huntington, West Virginia, Kerry said Bush had squandered a budget surplus, misrepresented the cost of a Medicare bill and misled Americans about the threat from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq while pointing blame at former President Bill Clinton, Saddam Hussein or the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. <snip>

The Bush ad attacked the Massachusetts senator for voting against an $87 billion package to pay for the conflict in Iraq. The ad's narrator lists body armor for troops, higher combat pay and better health care for reservists and their families as items the decorated Vietnam War veteran opposed.

Kerry said his vote had nothing to do with U.S. troops not having the proper equipment and body armor in Iraq.

``They didn't have the state-of-the-art body armor at the moment they went in,'' Kerry said, adding he supported an amendment that would have paid for the $87 billion by repealing tax cuts for the most wealthy Americans.<snip>

[molly]

1. He's going to win!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

Kick ass Kerry!

[grannylib]

2. Go Kerry go....hit them with truth and refute the lies...let them be the

attack dogs...hypocritical scum. They dish out and dish out and dish out, but run whimpering when they get back any of their own.

[papau]

3. McCain says Bush can not be trusted

BILL MOYERS: If you can't trust them (The Bush Administration), why can we?

SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: I don't...I can't answer that, except to say that in 20 years around this town I've never had my word...I've never had people break their word to me in this fashion.


http://www.pbs.org/now/printable/transcript_mccain_print.html

I know it's borderline criminal for some around here to put in a positive word about McCain, but he has a lot of respect from people on both sides of the political spectrum around the country. And when he says "I can't answer that....in 20 years around this town I've never had people break their word to me in this fashion" that will strike home to some people.

It's all about the credibility gap.

[Dr Fate]

4. It's so simple isnt it- just TELL THE TRUTH about them!!!

I wonder why this was lost on DEMS in 2002.

When a PUKE lies about you, all you have to do is TELL THE TRUTH about them!!