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Kennedy Accuses Bush of 'Credibility Gap' (Bloviator Alert)
Washington Post ^
| 4/6/2004
| Helen Dewar
Posted on 04/05/2004 8:56:17 PM PDT by playball0
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), broadening his criticism of President Bush from foreign policy to domestic issues, accused Bush yesterday of having "created the largest credibility gap since Richard Nixon" on education, health and jobs, as well as the war in Iraq.
"He has broken the basic bond of trust with the American people," Kennedy said at the Brookings Institution in a speech that was clearly aimed at challenging Bush's credibility with voters, especially by comparing him with Nixon, who resigned as president in disgrace as a result of the Watergate scandal 30 years ago.
In response, Senate Republican leaders defended Bush's credibility, and the Bush-Cheney campaign accused Kennedy of serving as the "hatchet man" for Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. "Issuing personal attacks against the president is just another way of saying they have no agenda to lead America," said Terry Holt, spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bush; chappaquiddick; credibilitygap; kennedy; nixon; tedoffensive; ussoldsmobile
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Have at it. Would you want Kennedy to campaign for you? What a joke!!
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posted on
04/05/2004 8:56:18 PM PDT
by
playball0
To: playball0
You mean Kennedy spoke and people actually understood what he said?
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04/05/2004 8:57:37 PM PDT
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To: playball0
Kennedy is making the speeches you'd think the candidate himself would be making. Why?
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posted on
04/05/2004 8:58:53 PM PDT
by
YaYa123
(@Why Is Kerry Hiding?com)
To: playball0
"Brookings Institution": a far left think tank.
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posted on
04/05/2004 8:59:46 PM PDT
by
Abcdefg
To: playball0
Have at it. Would you want Kennedy to campaign for you? What a joke!!About as fast as I would want him to drive me over a bridge at Chappaquitick.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:00:06 PM PDT
by
lonestar
(Me, too!--Weinie)
To: playball0
To: playball0
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: playball0
Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.
To: playball0
This is Hillry speak, she's got Old Teddy reading her speeches again.
To: William Creel
No comment. ;-)
To: Bush Cheney
I just hope that W will stop kissing Tubby's blubber butt.
To: Bush Cheney
I just hope that W will stop kissing Tubby's blubber butt.
To: playball0
Kennedy Accuses Bush of 'Credibility Gap' (Bloviator Alert)Somehow, and I don't know why, this title made me think of the Fat One speaking "with bovine perspiration on (his) upper lip area", as Frank Zappa would say.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:04:34 PM PDT
by
greydog
To: YaYa123
To: Paul Atreides
I thought his speech went swimmingly.
To: Paul Atreides
That should carry a "bloated-tick" alert. Man he looks like 3,000 miles of bad road.
To: playball0
Once again,Tedward misses his mark.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:05:20 PM PDT
by
Redcoat LI
("help to drive the left one into the insanity.")
To: playball0
WTF is Ted the Swimmer doing talking about credibility.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:05:43 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("My governor don't got the answer")
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