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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (496737)	11/21/2003 1:33:36 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush has proven to be both blunt and bright....its a very tough job he's doing compounded by having to clean up after 8 years of neglect.... JLA

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (496737)	11/21/2003 1:41:19 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 769667

Dean says "Workers are getting screwed"! I would like to hear Kerry make a blunt statement like that.

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (496737)	11/21/2003 3:24:30 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Kerry Focuses On Bush Corruption: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry (news - web sites), promised on Friday to reinstate a five-year lobbying ban for government officials and spelled out a plan for the first 100 days of his presidency. Kicking off a new push in the first key primary state of New Hampshire, Kerry accused President Bush (news - web sites) of buckling under to special interests and vowed to "shine a light" on influence peddling in Washington. His speech, delivered at a high school in Concord, New Hampshire, and distributed in Washington, opened a two-day bus tour of the state for Kerry, who has seen his early lead in state polls eclipsed by the rise of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (news - web sites). The Massachusetts senator promised to issue an executive order reinstating the five-year waiting period before former administration officials can lobby government agencies. The ban, issued by President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) in 1992, was revoked shortly before he left office in 2001. "We will end the sorry spectacle of George Bush's campaign manager selling access for contracts to rebuild Iraq (news - web sites)," Kerry said in a reference to Joe Allbaugh, Bush's campaign manager in 2000 and now a principal in a lobbying firm aimed at helping clients get reconstruction contracts in Iraq. Kerry, who recently fired campaign manager and longtime adviser Jim Jordan in a bid to shake up his campaign and saw several top staff members quit as a result, acknowledged his uphill fight in New Hampshire, where a strong showing is vital to his presidential bid. "Running for president can be a humbling experience," Kerry said. "Here in New Hampshire I started out ahead and then I fell behind, but I'm going to fight back." "ANSWERS, NOT ANGER" In a shot at Dean, whose rise has been fueled by his heated denunciations of Bush and Washington Democrats, Kerry told New Hampshire voters to send America a candidate "who offers answers, not just anger." The speech and bus tour begin a two-month push to the crucial first contests in the nine-candidate Democratic nomination fight, which begins with caucuses in Iowa on Jan. 19 and continues in New Hampshire on Jan. 27. Kerry also will conduct a bus tour in Iowa next week and announced a series of 24-hour campaign days in the next two months. Earlier in the week he unveiled new campaign ads in Iowa and New Hampshire that highlight what he said was his record of standing up to special interests and to Bush. In his speech, Kerry laid out what he called an "action plan" for the first 100 days of his presidency, saying his first major proposal to Congress would be a health care plan that would provide all Americans with access to the same health insurance available to members of Congress. He repeated promises to repeal Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, cut the deficit in half in his first term, strengthen environmental protections and make the United States energy independent within 10 years. He also renounced the Bush policy of preemptive war. "Ending George Bush's failed go-it-alone policies is something worth fighting for," he said. "George Bush has shown he has no experience to be commander-in-chief and no plan for peace in Iraq." Kerry pressed his new "Real Deal" theme, promising to reward companies that create jobs by helping with health care costs and closing loopholes for companies that take jobs offshore. "We will shine a light on the secret deals in Washington by requiring every meeting with a lobbyist or any special interest deal inserted by a lobbyist to be made public," he said.