Kerry's Common Denominator, Issue 3

Republican National Committee ^ | September 13, 2004

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ISSUE 3

"We have to find a way not to have the politics that looks for the lowest common denominator, but one that reaches for the highest common denominator …"  Sen. John Kerry, Speech To The American Legion National Convention, Nashville, TN, 9/1/04

KERRY'S COMMON DENOMINATOR
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HIGHEST OR LOWEST?

 

 

 

Sen. John Kerry (D-MA):   "'This president has talked about compassion, but he's walked right by. He's seen people in need but crossed right by,' Kerry said. … 'We are not going to allow them to put a "do not enter" sign on the White House door,' Kerry said at the Washington Convention Center."  (Jim VandeHei and David Snyder, "African Americans Shut Out by Bush, Kerry Says," The Washington Post, 9/12/04)

Madeleine Albright:    "And I have personally, I'm speaking personally now, I have never seen a national security issue as politicized as this one has been since Joe McCarthy, and we can not go on like this with scare tactics."  (NBC's "Meet The Press," 9/12/04)

Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA):  "No President in America's history has done more damage to our country and our security than George W. Bush."  (Sen. Ted Kennedy, Congressional Record, 9/10/04, p. S9064)

Sen. Kennedy:   "As I have said before, the only thing America has to fear is four more years of George Bush."  (Sen. Ted Kennedy, Congressional Record, 9/10/04, p. S9065)

Richard Holbrooke:   FOX NEWS' CHRIS WALLACE: "Wait a minute, Mr. Ambassador, you are telling me that you think that Iraq is worse than Vietnam?"  HOLBROOKE:  "Yes. It is strategically worse than Vietnam." (Fox's "Fox News Sunday," 9/12/04)

Wesley Clark (D-AR):   "No wonder on the day of 9/11, when the President spoke to the nation, he looked like a deer in the headlights ."  (NBC's "Today," 9/12/04)

Howard Dean (D-VT):   "'I think that George Bush is certainly going to have a draft if he goes into a second term, and any young person that doesn't want to go to Iraq might think twice about voting for him,' [Dean] said."  (Lisa Gentes, "Howard Dean Calls Bush Dishonest In Lecture At Brown," The Associated Press, 9/9/04)