Posted on 09/03/2004 1:13:20 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
PENDLETON, Ore. - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) told supporters Friday that Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites), a senator from the Northeast, doesn't understand their needs.
"He says he's in touch with the West. He must mean western Massachusetts," Cheney said.
The vice president criticized Kerry for his position on a bill Cheney said was aimed at "keeping forests healthier and communities safer." Neither Kerry nor running mate John Edwards (news - web sites) were present for the vote. Bush signed the measure into law in December.
"Sen. Kerry did not support the Healthy Forests Act when it came time to vote," Cheney said. "Now, Sen. Kerry says he likes a lot of the parts of the law. That makes one thing clear: it's not only wildfires that shift with the wind."
The Kerry campaign responded that the Bush administration hasn't fully funded the Healthy Forests Act as they had proposed. "They left firefighters out to dry this summer," said Laura Capps, a Kerry-Edwards spokeswoman. She said the Democrats worked with western governors to put together a forest management plan that emphasized protecting communities.
Cheney and his wife, Lynne, made a beeline for Republican territory in the eastern part of Oregon from the party's convention in New York. In 2000, Al Gore (news - web sites) won Oregon but Bush carried Yumatilla County, where Cheney spoke, 2-1.
The vice president trumpeted Bush's second-term agenda, pledging to "continue our pro-growth, pro-jobs agenda." Cheney said the ticket will "make the Bush tax cuts permanent," "work to end lawsuit abuse," enact medical liability reform and put together "a comprehensive energy policy."
Of the Democrats, Cheney said: "Their big idea for the economy: raise our taxes," as the crowd booed.
In his 30-minute speech before a GOP-friendly crowd, Cheney ignored Kerry's criticism a day earlier in which the Democrat accused both the vice president and the president of avoiding service in Vietnam and being "unfit to lead the nation."
Responding to the comment, Anne Womack, Cheney's spokeswoman, said: "The Republicans just came out of a really exciting positive convention in which President Bush (news - web sites) laid out an aggressive agenda for next four years. Senator Kerry's only response is to lash out and make personal attacks about the past. We think this election is about the future."
Cheney's was traveling to Nevada later Friday before heading to New Mexico on Saturday, two other battleground states.
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (news, bio, voting record), R-Ore., left, and Sen. Gordon Smith (news, bio, voting record), R-Ore., center, leads the chant 'four more years' as Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) looks out over a crowd of supporters during a campaign stop in Pendleton, Ore., Friday, Sept. 3, 2004.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)
Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) waves to supporters during a campaign stop in Pendleton, Ore., Friday, Sept. 3, 2004.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)
The Cheney/Edwards debate will be a hoot.
Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) speaks to supporters during a campaign stop in Pendleton, Ore., Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
AP - "Stating an opponent's voting record" = Assails
I have posted a few articles titled like that lately.
Yup,, time for the media to ratchet up the rhetoric... again.. like they ever turned it down. ;-)
Kerry is NOT in touch with western Massachusetts, which, aside from Northampton & Amherst are quite conservative, but rural in comparison to eastern Mass. I'm from Wilbraham, fwiw.
being from MA, did you know the Red Sox are only 2.5 games behind? :_) (from a Sox fan in Georgia)
I assail Kerry myself from time to time. But never in Oregon. In Oregeon I drink espresso beverages and read avant garde novels and attend all the right parties.
Norm,
this is the third or fourth thread today in which the pics just appear white on my computer. And yet others are commenting on pics that I can't see. Any idea what's going on? It's not just your post, it's from other Freepers too.
Ya think I have a system problem?? It's weird.
Yeah!! What happened to Oregon? When I lived there as a teen 45 years ago it was full of conservative hardworking famers, ranchers, loggers and fishermen. Now it looks and sounds like San Francisco.
hmmm? sounds like something on your browser, settings-wise.. make sure ya have your appropriate display images settings enabled would be my initial gut response.
what browser are you using? you may want to try a different one.
also, do you see images on other websites normally or is it no images at all anywhere? (if so, who did you P O at FR? :-P ) lol.. just kidding :-)
Using the dreaded IE. No, other pics come up fine. It's just a few threads here. I haven't changed any settings, and this started just about two hours ago. It was fine earlier.
Hmmmmmmmm
Kerry said so! He's wrong, but who can argue with him.
OK then ... hmmm
Have you tried deleting temporary internet files? use Tools and then Internet Options and click on delete files under the Temporary Internet Files section.
It can take some time before your hourglass returns to normal and it is done.
FReepers will have to keep me informed because I just cannot watch Edwards speak. Just listening to his voice engenders such contempt in me that I can't even hear what he sneers out of that mouth of his. Surprisingly, I can listen to SKerry. I don't like what he says but I don't have that vicseral reaction to him that I do to Edwards.
also , reboot if ya haven't already done, so, if you see pics elsewhere , what I recommended may not help but.. ya never know with Microsoft products. ;-)
Just did a reboot. Still no pics on this thread.
Grrrrrrrr.
Also, I tried to post a pic here and it comes through as a red "x".
Having lived in Pittsfield (born there but escaped to the south) I can also say that W Mass is more on the conservative side. Agree about Northampton...they should move next to Boston!
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