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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: ChinuSFO who started this subject	5/20/2004 2:47:02 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (2) of 81568

Kerry: Bush 'Willful' in Breaking Education Vow story.news.yahoo.com By Patricia Wilson PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) on Thursday accused President Bush (news - web sites) of willfully breaking his promise on education so he could give tax cuts to the richest Americans. The senator from Massachusetts, who voted for Bush's sweeping reform of the public school system but has since criticized it as poorly implemented and underfunded, asked students at Edison High School: "Why do people who earn more than $200,000 a year get another tax cut?" Prodding Bush on one of the president's own signature domestic issues, Kerry said the provisions of the No Child Left Behind education legislation had been shortchanged by $26 billion. "Now, everybody in America would forgive you if you fall short because you're trying the hardest you can and you just can't quite get there," he said. "But I don't think people should forgive a willful turning away from a promise ... and the president has chosen to give a tax cut to the wealthiest Americans." <MORE>

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