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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (28417)	6/4/2004 2:22:48 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

What makes you say that, because Kerry said so? Interesting but in line with your normal line of reasoning.

To: American Spirit who wrote (28417)	6/4/2004 2:38:48 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

Military Voters Go With Kerry That's a lie. You put an inaccurate spin on the article. Wishing it does not make it so. In a CBS poll released on Friday, Bush got 54 percent, of the veterans' vote while Kerry had the support of 40 percent. story.news.yahoo.com Kerry: Many U.S. Military Back Him as Their Commander By Patricia Wilson MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) courted the traditionally Republican veterans' vote on Friday by suggesting that many in the U.S. military would prefer him as commander in chief over President Bush (news - web sites). A decorated Navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War, Kerry told veterans who are organizing other veterans across the country that active duty personnel were privately telling him, "We need a change." "You'd be amazed at the number of active duty personnel who are coming up at events around the country, greeting me in ropelines or coming to rallies and telling me how important it is for us to stand up and fight for those who are not able to speak out for themselves right now for obvious reasons," Kerry said. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee added: "But the numbers of active duty people quietly coming and saying we need a change, we need to build a modern military, we need to do the things necessary to protect our troops, we need to have all our allies on the ground in Iraq (news - web sites) ... that's what this race is about." Kerry, a four-term senator from Massachusetts who has spent two decades on the Foreign Relations Committee, has used an 11-day period leading up to the D-Day anniversary on Sunday to portray himself as strong on national security and able to stand toe-to-toe with Bush on the commander-in-chief issue. He has given three speeches on foreign policy, nuclear proliferation and military modernization in front of backdrops with words like "Strength," "Security" and Service" repeated over and over. BAND OF BROTHERS Kerry has also surrounded himself with his "Band of Brothers," men who served under his command on Swift boats in Vietnam's Mekong Delta and nicknamed him "The Boston Strangler" or "Rock Jaw" but called him "Boss" or "Honcho." He has talked frequently about his war service without mentioning his three Purple Hearts, Bronze Star and Silver star. The inference is that neither Bush nor Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) fought in Vietnam. "You can't run around the country talking about patriotism, the flag and service to the nation and willfully turn your back on the people you've asked to serve," he said, citing Bush administration cuts in veterans' benefits. Kerry chose Minnesota to launch a campaign to sign up 1 million veterans to help get out the vote for him across the country. The battleground state has more than 440,000 veterans -- 12 percent of the voting age population. Bush re-election spokesman Steve Schmidt said the Republicans' campaign to win over veterans for the Nov. 2 election was the largest grass-roots veterans organization in history. "Our focus on peer-to-peer contact among veterans supporting the president is truly unprecedented and reflects the strong ties between America's veterans and President Bush's principled leadership and commitment to our military," he said. There are more than 26 million veterans in the United States and their vote usually goes Republican. In a CBS poll released on Friday, Bush got 54 percent, of the veterans' vote while Kerry had the support of 40 percent. Democrats believe they can close the gap by contrasting the military records of Bush, who served in the Texas Air National Guard, and Kerry, who volunteered for two tours in Vietnam, pushing for increased veterans' benefits and critiquing the president for the way he went to war in Iraq.