Now this is disturbing:
Kennedy praises Bush
Friday, 3 December 1999 14:11 (GMT)
(UPI Focus)
Kennedy praises Bush
BOSTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) - Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy said Friday that Republican presidential front-runner Texas Gov.
George W. Bush "meets the bar" to be president.
At the same time, Kennedy told the Boston Herald he has not decided
yet whether to endorse Vice President Al Gore in the Democratic
presidential primary race.
While criticizing Bush's record on health care, Kennedy suggested the
governor run on his strong record of education reform.
Kennedy also said Bush's failure to answer foreign policy questions
from a Boston television station was insignificant.
"The fact is, he's been a governor and there are foreign policy
issues that don't come across his plate, and there's a learning curve on
it," Kennedy said in a meeting with Herald editors and reporters.
Kennedy, the leading liberal in the Senate, said he did not want to
appear to be giving Bush his endorsement, "but I think he certainly
meets the bar, the standard" to be president.
He said that while Texas has a woeful record on health care, if he
were Bush, he'd run on that state's education record "because they've
made important strides."
As to the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Kennedy
said he has not yet made up his mind between Gore and former New Jersey
Gov. Bill Bradley.
Kennedy, one of the Clinton-Gore administration's strongest allies,
said he didn't exclude the possibility of endorsing Gore, who he said
has tried to recruit his backing.
"I've not really...made up a judgment," the senator said.
Kennedy praised both Democratic candidates for making health care a
priority and said he was confident either one would make "major
progress" on the issue if elected president.
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