Terezzzza and John are getting scarier and scarier...Look at the bottom of this piece...are the folks from Pittsburg really swayed by this foolishness....? Maybe Teressa and Buffett and Striesand and Soros and all the rest of the Socialist Left are going to pay for all of these.....
Road to the White House: Heinz Kerry assails Bush policies
Monday, October 04, 2004
By Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
post-gazette.com
Teresa Heinz Kerry blasted President Bush's conduct of the war on terror and touted her husband's plans for health care and education in a speech last night to Westmoreland County Democrats.
The war in Iraq has cost America the respect of her allies and the United States is losing the war in Afghanistan, Heinz Kerry said at a dinner at the Sheraton Four Points in Greensburg.
"On 9/12 every single newspaper in the world said 'We are all Americans.' Today it is not the case," she said.
By sending American troops to Iraq instead of to Afghanistan, Bush permitted Osama bin Laden to escape, Heinz Kerry said.
"Osama bin Laden is Osama been lost," she said.
"The Taliban is back running Afghanistan," Heinz Kerry said.
Iraq under Saddam Hussein was not a hotbed on terrorism, but it is now, she said.
"No American boy or girl should lose their lives for oil," she said.
Americans need to think of security in broader terms than bombs and terror, Heinz Kerry said. "Seldom do we think of security in terms of one's job, one's health care benefits, education," she said.
"Every child in America will receive health care from day one if John is elected. Period," she said.
The Kerry health care plan also will provide catastrophic coverage for all Americans, Heinz Kerry said. Under her husband's plan, the government would pay 75 percent of all medical costs above $50,000 per incident, she said.
The Kerry plan also would provide tax subsidies to business owners to provide health insurance for their employees, she said.
In addition, her husband plans to provide every student in America with four years of college tuition in exchange for two years of community service, and to provide parents with a $4,000 tax credit for college tuition they pay, Heinz Kerry said.
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(Jack Kelly can be reached at jkelly@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1476.)
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