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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (619093)	9/7/2004 9:21:26 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Kerry has managed to get elected in the past-in Massachusetts. The anti-American vote DOMINATES Massachusetts. And despite that, he is unlikely to carry Massachusetts in 2004...

To: stockman_scott who wrote (619093)	9/7/2004 4:29:17 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 769667

<font color=brown> Once Kerry gets on a roll, he looks to be unstoppable! ;~)<Font color=black> *************************************************** Bush pledges safer world; Kerry accuses him of being unfit By Tom Raum , Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - President Bush pledged "a safer world and a more hopeful America" as he accepted his party's nomination for a second term and plunged into the final two months of his re-election campaign. He promptly drew fire Friday from Democratic challenger John Kerry, who said Bush is "unfit to lead this country."** In the city that transformed his presidency three Septembers ago, Bush declared to a raucous Republican convention crowd: "We have fought the terrorists across the earth _ not for pride, not for power, but because the lives of our citizens are at stake. ... We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer." Bush wasted no time in getting back on the campaign trail, leaving heavily Democratic New York soon after his hour-long speech Thursday night for the more politically promising battleground of Pennsylvania. He planned a Friday morning rally in the Scranton area, with stops later in the day in Wisconsin and Iowa. With the economy figuring heavily in the campaign, new unemployment figures out Friday showed the nation's jobless rate dipping slightly to 5.4 percent as the economy added 144,000 jobs in August, slightly less than economists were forecasting but still the biggest gain since May. Kerry released a statement saying the numbers mean Bush remains on pace to be the first president since the Great Depression to have no net gain in jobs during his term. Other "presidents have faced wars and recessions, but not one of them has failed to create a single job," Kerry said. At the GOP convention, Bush stood a few miles from where two hijacked planes destroyed the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, to make a nationally broadcast appeal to Americans for another term. "In the last four years, you and I have come to know each other. Even when we don't agree, at least you know what I believe and where I stand," he said. He boasted of first-term accomplishments, outlined plans for a second-term agenda and criticized Kerry on both domestic and foreign policy counts. "My opponent's policies are dramatically different from ours," he said, calling Kerry's agenda "policies of the past." "Voters will make a choice based on the records we have built, the convictions we hold and the vision that guides us forward," Bush said, standing alone on an elevated theater-in-the-round platform in Madison Square Garden. Kerry quickly joined the fray, flying from his home state, Massachusetts, to Springfield, Ohio, where he delivered a broadside against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney at a midnight rally. "They have attacked my patriotism and my fitness to serve as commander in chief," Kerry said. "I'm not going to have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could have and by those who have misled the nation into Iraq." Bush served stateside in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War era, while five student and marriage deferments kept Cheney out of military service. Kerry, who has served in the Senate for the past two decades, has made his own Vietnam combat service in the Navy a centerpiece of his campaign. "Misleading our nation into war in Iraq makes you unfit to lead this country," Kerry added. "Doing nothing while this nation loses millions of jobs makes you unfit to lead this country. "Letting 45 million Americans go without health care makes you unfit to lead this country. Letting the Saudi Royal Family control our energy costs makes you unfit to lead this country," Kerry told several thousand supporters. In New York, Bush unapologetically defended his decision to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. "Because we acted to defend our country, the murderous regimes of Saddam Hussein and the Taliban are history, more than 50 million people have been liberated, and democracy is coming to the broader Middle East," the president said. Polls show the nation deeply divided on the wisdom of going to war with Iraq, where violence continues despite a turnover of control in June to an Iraqi interim government and as the U.S. death toll there is fast approaching 1,000. taftmidwaydriller.com

To: stockman_scott who wrote (619093)	9/7/2004 4:32:42 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 769667

<font color=brown>Now this is more like it! ;~)<font color=black> ************************************ Presidential Tracking Poll: Bush-Kerry** Updated Daily by Noon Eastern Election 2004 Presidential Ballot Bush 47.3% Kerry 47.3% Other 2.4% Not Sure 3.0% RasmussenReports.com Tuesday September 07, 2004--The Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 47% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 47%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern. rasmussenreports.com