Posted on 06/24/2004 6:46:35 AM PDT by oblomov
SAN FRANCISCO -- Democrat John F. Kerry yesterday countered Republican attempts to label him a pessimist about the US economy, arguing that criticism of the Bush administration's record of job creation actually reflected optimism that the economy could do better.
The Massachusetts senator also challenged the fiscal record of the GOP's favorite optimist, Ronald Reagan -- Kerry's first broadside against the former president since his death June 5.
Kerry, who is in California for a two-day campaign swing that the Bush reelection camp has dubbed ''the pessimism and misery tour," also launched a new line of attack against Washington Republicans, describing their attitude as ''my-way-or-the-highway, lock people out, don't let them take part in democracy." His criticism came in the aftermath of a partisan fight in the Senate Tuesday that left Kerry mostly frozen out of deliberations on one of his signature issues, veterans' benefits.
''These people are so petty, so sad, so political, all they could do was spend the whole day finding a way not to let John Kerry vote," the presumptive Democratic nominee told the annual convention of the Service Employees International Union.
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It wasn't pessimism, it was optimism! Down is up! Left is right! Barney Frank is a lumberjack!
Hhhhmmmm, didn't Kerry filibuster court nominees....
I love it when he speaks about himself in the third person like Bob Dole. What's sad is that John Kerry is trying so hard to puff himself up when, in fact, he is really a nobody who is never done anything. Few people even knew who he was until Dean imploded.
LOL! I like the Barney Frank remark
Or in other words Kerry is basically saying:
I was an optimist before I was a pessimist or because I am a pessimist. Or am I a pessimist because I am an optimist.
This guy's really out of his mind...or wants to lose. Maybe Terreezza's decided the WH is too small for her tastes.
Isn't this the same guy that is suing in Arizona to keep Nader off the Ballot?
hahahahaha
Ignore him.
>>lock people out<<
Oh No . Did they escape from the lock-box???
Only cowards attack people who can't defend themselves.
You know, if John Kerry runs against Ronald Reagan, he'll still lose. With or without the Carnahan rule.
JF*K is running on "loser" issues....he just keeps digging himself in deeper and deeper and deeper...
What a whining baby! More and more each day, I realize that this guy did not get his ass kicked enough while growing up. A few schoolyard bullies in the Ketchup Gigolo's formative years might have done him, and the nation, a lot of good.
The whole dem party is totally loony.
Going to a family reunion this summer with my wife's almost totally left wing family. I'm liable to go crazy. You can't make arguments to them -- all well-educated people who can't think for themselves. Argh.
The American Elecorate is scary. And the dem party is realllllly scary.
It is beyond the pale that this cretin would say anything about a former President the country just laid to rest. I hope America is listening to these wantabes...Their lust for power has us all wondering just what would happen if they win. This will be the most important election of our lives....wake up America!!
Gee, so instead of forgoing your fundraising to vote on a matter that you deem important, you leave anyway, and then complain.
My way or the highway?
It seems to me that he wants the entire senate to revolve around his campaign schedule. Which is amusing since his absentee record is hideous anyway, even when he WASN'T running for higher office...
Amazing, isn't it? Otherwise well educated types who get their politics from MTV and Robin Williams.
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