Posted on 10/15/2004 11:17:03 AM PDT by Brilliant
There is a "great potential of a draft" to replenish U.S. forces in Iraq if President Bush wins a second term, Democratic challenger John Kerry said on a campaign stop in Iowa.
Bush said in the second presidential debate that there would be no revival of the military draft under any circumstances if he is re-elected. "We're not going to have a draft, period," the president said.
However, Kerry told The Des Moines Register, "With George Bush, the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of a draft." The interview was published Friday as Kerry was leaving for Wisconsin and a speech on the economy.
Kerry is telling voters that Bush's record on jobs and taxes has helped special interests, not their interests, as he heads into the final stretch of his presidential campaign with running mate John Edwards.
He prepared to deliver the first in a series of speeches that aides describe as the campaign's "closing arguments" in Milwaukee, the first stop of a daylong drive through Wisconsin. A record 2004 federal deficit of $413 billion reported Thursday fueled the Democrats.
"We know that the strength of our economy isn't just about how many jobs we've gained or lost," Kerry said in remarks prepared for delivery Friday. "It's also about whether those jobs lift up our families. It's about whether our incomes are rising or falling."
Kerry portrayed the president as out of touch with the everyday challenges facing families.
"George Bush has had four years to do something — anything — to create an economy where hard working Americans can live out their dreams," Kerry said. "The problem is, this president just doesn't understand what's happened to our economy."
Bush was also campaigning in the Midwest on Friday, heading to Iowa and Wisconsin after more than a weeklong swing that included stops in Missouri and Arizona for the last two debates.
Bush has defended his economic record, saying that repeated tax cuts energized growth and helped create 1.78 million new jobs after the economy sustained terrorist attacks, a sustained stock market slide and a recession.
Wisconsin's unemployment rate runs below the national average, and the state's voters haven't seen the severe job losses afflicting other Midwestern battlegrounds. Bush has a slight lead in the state, which Democrat Al Gore won narrowly four years ago.
Some of the thousands who turned out to hear Kerry and Edwards brought brooms to signify Kerry's "sweep" of the debates. The crowd was dotted with "3-4-3" signs declaring Kerry the victor of all three face-to-face battles with Bush.
In Oregon on Thursday, Bush campaigned in Jacksonville, a historic gold-mining boomtown in the southern part of the state. Kerry appears to be making in roads in the area, a growing region near the California state line that has been a traditional Republican stronghold.
Bush lost Oregon in 2000 by less than 7,000 votes, though he handily defeated Democrat Al Gore in the county containing Jacksonville, a town created when gold was discovered here in 1851. The gold rush is long over but Jacksonville preserved its heritage and the entire town, population 2,300, is designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Interior Department.
The area has turned from a declining timber industry to tourism and retirement for its strong economy.
Bush's father paid a visit as vice president to Jacksonville, and his son repeated the compliment, staying overnight in a 141-year-old inn whose last presidential guest was Rutherford B. Hayes.
"I understand Rutherford complained about the tab; I'm not going to," Bush told thousands of cheering supporters at the Jackson County fairgrounds in nearby Central Point.
While waiting for the president to return to Jacksonville, anti-Bush protesters were dispersed by police in riot gear who fired pepperballs at them, projectiles like a paintball filled with cayenne pepper. Police took the action while moving the crowd away from the Jacksonville Inn where the president was to arrive for dinner.
This is the strategy of a desperate and deeply dishonest man who has surrounded himself with others who share his lack of shame and honor.
This is nothing but good news folks. It indicates a high level of fear and desperation in the Kerry campaign. This is a dead horse issue.
There's also a great potential that you are going to have to go back to seat in the Senate too. Perhaps you can get more than 5 bills passed into law then?
I think the 5 laws that Kerry passed should be sent in e-mails to all our friends and family -- even DemoRAT supporters. I think they would be shocked, as I was, to see what little he has done in over 20 years. The lack of substance in those 5 laws alone should help defeat him.
Karl should buy time on MTV and the Hip-hop stations stating Bush's anti-draft stance. Also point out that the draft is the dems idea....see recent bill and vote!!!
I think this issue may be his only hope. The polls suggest that even though Bush has repeatedly denounced the idea of a draft, young voters still suspect he will do it. That's why Kerry is doing it, and it may be working.
Of course, any reasonable person would realize it makes no sense. Bush has no power on his own to restore the draft even if he wants to, and the Congress just voted nearly unanimously not to do it. There is no need for a draft, and won't be unless Kerry is elected and decides to increase the number of troops, as he's promised.
I am glad he is doing this because it smacks of desparation in a big way. I bet his internals are terrible.
Moreover, the Bush campaign should ask where Kerry would get ANY troops since the majority will drop out if he's elected due to sheer, unadulterated hatred towards him for the shame he brought to our vets.
Funny, it was KERRY who said he would ADD 100,000 to the military. Sounds as if HE would be the one to bring in a draft (probably by admitting gays). President Bush specifically said no and ALL Rs VOTED NO on draft amendment. The MSM is despicable. How do they look themselves in the face?
O. K. I said this in an earlier thread. It's time for the Prez to USE THE BULLY PULPIT. Call a press coference to settle this question once and for all and define sKerry as the fear-monger he is trying to frighten young adults and breed anxiety in their parents.
Mr. President, it's time to use everything at your disposal as an incumbent. USE THE BULLY PULPIT / CALL A PRESS CONFERENCE.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
He's back to doing his Howard Dean scream...
See how easy this is?
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He hasn't called press conference, but he's said over and over that he won't do it. He said it in the debate. Kerry and the media just keep lying.
It's at a point where making a big to-do about it is not helpful. He should just keep saying he's not going to do it.
You're not wrong and I suspect he will before the day is out. I was just listening to Rush and he mentioned that a report came out that Bush was polling well with the college crowd and he thinks that's why Kerry revived this draft scare today.
Dont pay too much attention to Kerry promises , he seldom keeps them.
Of course, the media just says, "we are not biased. We're just reporting what Kerry says."
They only report the things that Kerry says that they want to report. You had to read the back page in order to know that Kerry had proposed to give enriched uranium to Iran.
The only way will have a draft is if Kerry is elected because there will be a great exodus from the Military. Soldiers do not want to serve under John Kerry.
I love it. It's already been pointed out at least four times on this thread, but this is a desperate act by Kerry. Mary Cheney, the faith healer comments by Edwards, the draft scare...it's part of a pattern. Kerry knows he's standing in quicksand.
The minute the sound bite is spoken they flood the airways.
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