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| 2004-10-26 | ||
| Bush Aide Draws Fire with Pre-Election Speech Gives Speech to Florida Jewish Voters President Bush's national security adviser touted the president's foreign policy to a Jewish group on Monday in a speech Democrats said was as a blatant foray into Bush's re-election campaign. Although Condoleezza Rice did not mention Bush's Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, by name, her speech reflected the Bush campaign's portrayal of Kerry as having a too narrow view of the war on terrorism. "For some it is a limited engagement whose goal is to go after Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, assume a more defensive posture at home and one day be able to put it out of our mind," Rice told the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "But this is not the struggle that we face. The global war on terror calls us, as President Bush immediately understood, to marshal all elements of our national power to beat terror and the ideology of hatred that protects them and recruits others to their ranks." Amen to that! Democrats say Rice and other officials like Treasury Secretary John Snow and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge have been making most of their federally paid trips in swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio, all of which may be critical in deciding the outcome of the Nov. 2 election. The White House dismisses the criticism and insists Rice's speeches are not campaign events but reflect her responsibility to inform the public on national security issues. Kerry has said Bush's invasion of Iraq last year was a distraction from the war against terrorism and that it drained forces from the hunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the invasion of Afghanistan a year earlier. Distraction and Kerry are synonymous terms but not in this context. Florida decided the 2000 election with a wafer-thin 537-vote majority for Bush and polls indicate the race will be very close again this year. Florida's Jewish community, which amounts to 4 percent of the state's population, overwhelmingly backed Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore in 2000 but polls show the Republicans are making inroads. With the Dems sucking up to the Palestinian types, do oyu wonder why?
{Drool and Heavy Breathing} "This is a pretty desperate and dangerous move by the Bush campaign to allow Condoleezza Rice to take her eye off the ball in wanting to come to this event at such a critical time," said Morrie Goodman, ex-director of communications for the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Bill Clinton. NO! This is a chance for Dr. Rice to test her public speeking skills in the run-up to 2008, and give her boss a boost at the same time...
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| Posted by:BigEd |
| #7 He had to take his pants to the cleaners, something about ink stains. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-10-26 1:47:40 PM |
| #6 Was Sandy Berger was unavailable for comment? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-26 11:54:14 AM |
| #5 Come on, BAR. Let's give Kerry a little credit. What he really meant to say was, "The war against terrorism is a distraction from John Kerry getting elected." |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2004-10-26 11:53:08 AM |
| #4 Kerry has said Bush’s invasion of Iraq last year was a distraction from the war against terrorism.. Not that it needed to be said, but without a doubt, Kerry == clueless. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-26 11:05:27 AM |
| #3 Condi! Condi! 2008! |
| Posted by: A Jackson 2004-10-26 7:48:57 AM |
| #2 You mean that the Dems may losing not just the Black Vote? But the Jewish Vote as well? By all means, let Condi stump for the President. She needs the seasoning, come 2008! Jack. |
| Posted by: Jack Deth 2004-10-26 4:42:52 AM |
| #1 380 ton of explosive that wasn't even there according to NBC embeded personel via Drudge. No the desperate moves have all be by the democrats. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-26 3:52:23 AM |