Cheney blasts Kerry record

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[Sub-Driver]

Cheney blasts Kerry record Kerry battles questions about 1971 war protest

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Tuesday speaks on health care to a group of veterans and a Veterans Affairs hospital group in Baltimore, Maryland, as Sen. John Kerry holds a rally with federal workers in Youngstown, Ohio.

This follows a tempestuous day on which presidential politics turned to the issue of national security, with Vice President Dick Cheney launching a blistering attack on Kerry's record -- and Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe responding in kind by casting the vice president as unbelievable and hypocritical on the issue.

Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee, on Monday was hotly disputing charges that he misled people about his role in a 1971 antiwar protest during which Vietnam veterans threw away their medals.

After the conclusion of an interview with ABC during which he was grilled on the topic, a clearly frustrated Kerry -- who apparently believed the camera had been turned off -- sputtered into a microphone, "God, they're doing the work of the Republican National Committee." (Kerry blasts 'phony controversy')

Monday, the Bush campaign unleashed 10 new ads, part of a $10 million blitz targeting Kerry's votes as a senator on national security issues.

Running with that theme, Cheney traveled to a site steeped in Cold War symbolism -- Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri -- to charge that voters have "ample grounds" to doubt Kerry's judgment

[Utah Girl]

The grownups are in charge.

But the vice president's most sharply worded criticism was aimed at what he called Kerry's "condescension" to members of the 30-nation coalition now fighting alongside U.S. troops in Iraq.

"Senator Kerry calls these countries 'window dressing,'" Cheney said. "I am aware of no other instance in which a presumptive nominee for president of the United States has spoken with such disdain of active fighting allies of the United States in a time of war.

"[His] contempt for our good allies is ungrateful to nations that have withstood danger, hardship and insult for standing with America in the cause of freedom."

Thwap, take that Kerry.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

"God, they're doing the work of the Republican National Committee."

Kerry is imploding.

[Semper Paratus]

That BASTARD, hanging Kerry by his own words. The BRUTE.

[TomGuy]

blasts?

Nah! Cheney didn't blast. He spoke in his normal, subdued tone. [hehehe]. Now, the contents of his speech were scathing of Kerry, but, no, Cheney didn't blast.

[68skylark]

Monday, the Bush campaign unleashed 10 new ads.

My, the folks at CNN like violent images. "Unleashed" makes it sound like the Bush administration has a vicious animal they are letting lose.

From the Democratic perspective, I guess the truth could look like a vicious, dangerous animal that's ready to do a lot of harm.

[lilylangtree]

The only problem with the Veep's involvement in Ketchupman's traitorism is that the demoncRATS will start ads linking Veep involvement to crimes committed by Halliburton. They've tried it before.