Bush comments on Kerry - accusations of flip flopping

[Monument]

President Bush yesterday lashed out at his Democratic opponents for the first time in the 2004 campaign, charging his challengers with espousing "old bitterness and partisan anger" to mask their record of raising taxes and endangering Americans with a weak national defense. After abstaining from politics for months as Democrats attacked him throughout their primary season, the president took aim at presidential front-runner John Kerry, branding the Massachusetts senator an equivocator who changes course for political expediency. "The other party's nomination battle is still playing out. The candidates are an interesting group, with diverse opinions. For tax cuts, and against them. For NAFTA, and against NAFTA. For the Patriot Act, and against the Patriot Act. In favor of liberating Iraq, and opposed to it. "And that's just one senator from Massachusetts," Mr. Bush said, drawing raucous applause and whoops of appreciation from 1,500 supporters at the Republican Governors Association fund-raiser last night at the Washington Convention Center.

[onehandle]

1. That was a week ago. nt

[Cuban_Liberal]

2. Link? n/t

[POed_Ex_Repub]

3. Geez, you'd think they could come up with new tactics

I remember when Bush I's campaign used to complain (loudly) about Clinton's supposed flip flopping. Next they'll call him the "L" word. oooooh, scaaary.

:eyes:

[loudnclear]

4. The truth is 9/11 happened on Bush's watch. The planning took place

under Bush Sr.'s watch. It was blow-back for American presence in Saudi Arabia after Desert Storm. Trying to place the blame for 9/11 on the Clinton Administration is an attempt to divert attention from what Osama said was the reason for the attack in the first place. If the Clinton Administration was warned by Germany the information must have gone to the Intelligence Committees in Congres that were controlled by Rethugs at the time (1999). If the 9/11 Commission wants to know what Congress was doing at that time, they were investigating Clinton's private parts and still trying to smear and impeach him.

[emulatorloo]

5. that was a week ago kerry already responded and responded well

paraphasing JK "the man who has the *wrong* position on everything accuses me of having two positions? give me a break. GWB is a walking contradiction - he has broken every promise he ever made to the American People"

Sorry I don't have the real quotes, its friday afternoon and I am too lazy to look them up. But my paraphrase is pretty ok.

[janx]

6. NO! Really? n/t

[flpoljunkie]

7. My answer to the incompetent taking up space in the Oval Office...

Pointing out Bush's recipe of tax cuts for the wealthy as the solution to every problem, his failure to enforce the provisions in NAFTA to protect US workers, allowing John Ashcroft to abuse the Patriot Act and Bush's failure to internationalize the war and reconstruction in Iraq, raises the question of Bush's credibility and failed leadership, not John Kerry's.

That this inept administration touts their foreign policy credentials as a reason to keep them in office is utterly laughable--yet the feckless media buys into this ridiculous assertion.

It is an upside down world we live in.

[loudnclear]

8. Not upside down if you are wealthy, white, American.

Others, including poor whites, need not apply.

[tryanhas]

9. Bush is terrified of facing Edwards...

...for the same reason that the NC poll showed.

He mentioned Kerry to get Edwards' face off of television, and it worked for 2 days, and if anyone thinks that he did it because he fears John Kerry, do us all a favor, and never become a Democratic strategist if your understanding is that off.