Posted on 10/20/2004 3:41:25 AM PDT by ejdrapes
DAYTON, Ohio (Reuters) - Democratic White House challenger John Kerry said the United States needed a leader who could do more than one thing at a time, and accused President Bush on Tuesday of mishandling both the economy and the war on terrorism. On the attack with two weeks until the Nov. 2 election, the Massachusetts senator also rebuked Bush for talking tough about his efforts to catch or kill Osama bin Laden, blamed for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. The al Qaeda leader is still at large. Kerry suggested at a rally before thousands of supporters in Dayton that Bush was in over his head at the White House. "Let me tell you what the real test of this race is," Kerry said. "We need a president of the United States who can do more than one thing at the same time." "We need a president who understands that not only do we need to do the job of being the head of state and commander in chief, but we need a president who also understands what it means ... to get the job done for the middle class in America," he said. Kerry mocked Bush for complaining over and over in their first debate that the presidency and establishing security in Iraq was "hard work." "I kept hearing the president say in that debate, 'it's hard work, it's hard work, it's hard work,"' Kerry said. "Well, Mr. President, I'm very happy to relieve you of that hard work." He called Bush's economic policy "deja vu all over again," comparing his record to that of Herbert Hoover, the last president to lose jobs on his White House watch, and accused Bush of "raiding and privatizing" the Social Security retirement system. "He has become the first president in more than 70 years to have the incomes of American families decline in each year of his presidency," Kerry said in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. earlier. "He has become the first president to turn a record surplus into the largest deficit in history and he has become the first president to launch an all-out assault on Social Security." Pennsylvania and Ohio are two of the biggest battlegrounds in this year's election. Kerry accused Bush of taking his eye off bin Laden and diverting from the war on terror to invade Iraq. "Let me also make it clear, that compared to this president -- who made significant boasts about chasing after Osama bin Laden and then only months later said 'I don't know where he is, or I don't really care and I don't think about him that much' -- I will fight a tougher, smarter, more effective war on terror." Kerry, who is running neck and neck with Bush in opinion polls, kept up his relentless battering of the president's economic policies and renewed his criticism that Bush would undo the federal government's "sacred compact" with seniors. "If you work hard and contribute to your country, you can retire with a level of decency and dignity. Imagine if that was taken away?" he asked. "Social Security is on the ballot. A choice between one candidate who will save Social Security and another who will undermine it." Democratic presidential candidates have long tried to paint Republicans as a threat to Social Security in an effort to win the votes of elderly Americans who can make the difference in critical battlegrounds like Florida. Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said the president had not endorsed and specific plan, although one under consideration would allow younger workers to put some of their Social Security tax money into personal retirement accounts that could then be invested in the stock market. "This opportunism confirms what the American people have already seen for themselves," Schmidt said. "John Kerry will say anything for political benefit. His scare tactics and grasping rhetoric on Social Security have shown that once again." Kerry: U.S. Needs Hard Worker Who Can Multi-Task
This from a giggolo who never worked a day in his life! A great Good Morning laugh!
Amen!
Kerry working ... "My lovey I have a tough decision to make. What do ya think -- shall we go windsurfing, skiing, boating or do we just sit on the beach."
Lovey in a worried voice ... "Well don't you have a Intelligence meeting about terrorism today?"
Kerry on his best Thurston Howard impression voice ... "ahhh don't worry lovey, there are plenty of other Senators that are going to be there, I just don't feel up to it today. sooo --- which mansion is it today? -- Is the jet fueled up?"
Priceless.
He's in Ohio, and is doing it on purpose.
Because he thinks his audience is illiterate, unsophisticated, and poor. He thinks they all left their trailers and their spots on the assembly line to come hear him, and he is compassionately making sure they can understand his complexity and greatness.
Bwahaha!
Bold words coming from a lifelong professional gigolo. But he can order wine and a cheese course without breaking a sweat.
How about the last 20 years vacationing.
Does multi-tasking mean windsurfing and skiboarding at the same time?
Or is multi-tasking meaning you need 5 homes to live in.
In the meantime, this man who has never held down a real job in his entire life hasn't shown up for his own job in the Senate for almost four years - for which we should all be grateful. Demonstrably, Kerry has got to be one of the laziest men alive!
From the mouth of someone with a reputation as a slacker in the Senate?
Kerry's job would be easy. Foreign affairs would be turned over to the UN for the "Global Test".
The internal affairs would effectively be turned over to the courts and trial attorneys. Surf's up! Hang Ten, Dude!
Wasn't that what he denounced the President for doing regarding Iraq?
this from a guy who has one of the worst work records in the senate?
round file!
Kerry COULD have shown what a great multi-tasker he is by being both a candidate for president and a working U.S. Senator !
If I am not mistaken, Kerry is one of the first major national politicians to parody himself.
WAIT A MINUTE!
Kerry BLAMED Bush for starting a war in Iraq while continuing operations in Afghanistan.
A Loser, A Liar, A Liberal
Exactly! Per sKerry, the Armed Forces of the United States can only do one thing at a time...Afghanistan OR Iraq. Nevermind that doing both surrounds the next domino in the axis of evil...Iran.
What in the world does this gigolo who has never worked a day in his life and has lived off rich women from his childhood aunt to his heiress wives know about WORK? He should be laughed off the stage after assine remarks such as these, instead of having his blather spread by the feckless partisan media.
If the left succeeds in stealing this election with fraudulent illegal votes, what are we, the decent taxpayers prepared to do to retaliate? We need to be thinking and planning our individual responses to this real possibility.
Pompous Liberal Massachussettes snot.
A Kerry troll break in and says that's a lie, it was nine.
But he's counting four resolutions which don't really become laws. And he's SOOO very good at multitasking he can't make Intelligence Committee meetings most of the time. I guess he just had his plate full already what with protecting whales and renaming Federal buildings and fund-raising and finding another rich heiress to marry and keeping Teresa happy once he found her and all those other multiple tasks which were so much higher priority than learning about foreign threats and exercising congressional oversight of our spooks.
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