The energizer bunny.
Posted on 10/01/2004 4:42:32 PM PDT by katdawg
Energised Kerry lashes Bush, fires up campaign after debate
U.S. National - AFP
KISSIMMEE, United States (AFP) - Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) roared back to the campaign trail, piling more scorn on President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s Iraq (news - web sites) policy, as he shot for a comeback in the race for the White House.
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Kerry's motorcade swept past trees bent like bananas and scores of homes with thin plastic sheeting draped over hurricane-damaged roofs, as he launched a swing through the crucial battleground state of Florida.
Energised by his showing in Thursday night's debate at the University of Miami, which snap polls and political pundits said he had won handily, Kerry delivered another withering strike at Bush over Iraq.
He charged the president, who prides himself on decisive leadership, was dogmatic in refusing accept criticism despite an accelarating insurgency in the occupied country.
"The president keeps trying to debate himself on that," Kerry said at a rally in Tampa, stealing one of the lines Bush had used to lampoon his rival.
"He keeps trying to say 'we don't want somebody who wants to leave, we don't want a wilter or a waverer.'"
"Mr President, nobody is talking about leaving, nobody is talking about wilting and wavering, we are talking about winning and getting the job done right," Kerry told cheering supporters at the University of South Florida.
Turning the tables on Bush was a central theme of the day, as Kerry aides potrayed the President as rambling and confused -- the same line of attack which dented Kerry's poll numbers and given the incumbant a modest lead.
"They have been saying, 'look, Kerry's a flip-flopper -- we're the steady, strong leader,' then they (viewers) turn on the television and it's exactly the opposite," said senior Kerry advisor Mike McCurry.
"Kerry's the one who looks strong and steady and concise ... and the other guy was rambling and distracted, and criss-crossing back and forth on what he was trying to say."
But Kerry, who also ripped into Bush for what he said was a failure to properly organize initiatives like a unified terrorist watch list, didn't have it all his own way.
His aides were forced to deflect a Bush claim that Kerry's pledge Thursday to measure prospective US action abroad against a "global test" would put the US military in the hands of nation's like his administration's bete-noire, France.
Kerry spokesman David Wade said the president took Kerry's words out of context.
"It's evidence of how much their candidate is flailing and how much they want to try to distract from that. It's nonsense," he told AFP.
But aides downplayed expectations Kerry's performance would spark an immediate surge in the polls, saying only that the Massachusetts senator had just started to reintroduce himself to voters after a months-long Republican effort to wound him through negative advertising.
Kerry moved on from Tampa to another rally in Kissimmee, Florida, and was due to stump in the state governed by the president's brother Jeb on Saturday before returning to Washington for a reception with his running mate John Edwards (news - web sites).
Aides are already looking to the next clash with Bush, on October 8, and the two rivals will go at it for the final time on October 13.
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The first clue that a foreign writer penned this is "KISSIMMEE, United States ..."
What Kerry doesn't get is that TALKING and BEING are different.
Oh yea and Kerry was so "energized" after his convention too right!
Notice that the scum at YAHOO/AP did not mention how FIRED UP the President was in PA today with ten thousand supports.
PFFT!
I'm more laughing at their newest tactic...if the old ones don't work, steal an idea...
The energizer bunny.
FReepers need to rate this article a 1 on Yahoo's scale of 5. Go there. Do it.
It's got a 4.5 right now with 46 votes. Lets drag this one down!
Gotta hate it when you have to do that 30 some days before the election.
LMAO - pee my pants
LMAOPMP
Being lashed with a wet noodle,wielded by a wimpy French poodle, is unlikely to leave any lasting scars on a tough Texan.
Freeped! Now it has a 4.1 with 79 votes.
Kerry's motorcade swept past trees bent like bananas and scores of homes with thin plastic sheeting draped over hurricane-damaged roofs, as he launched a swing through the crucial battleground state of Florida.
After spending the day getting a manicure and then taking a nap!
I'm disgusted that Kerry came out of this debate a winner. Bush had a great opportunity to nail Kerry last night, and he didn't do it.
I believe that you always have to read the whole article, because even though they have an agenda they also have a heart and will at least include a paragraph/sentence that is the truth.
Sorry all, didn't pay enough attention to the AFP or Kissimmee part and was thinking it was just some liberal crack whore making Kerry look like some angel in this article!
I'm an ex-Democrat, having joined the GOP two years ago, and what bothers me about my new party is its' inability to take the gloves off and smash the liberals to pieces. Yesterday, President Bush had several opportunities to go after Kerry, and he didn't do it. Republican politicians have got to stop treating these radical leftists with so much respect. In the next debate Bush has to go after Kerry and hit him hard on his record. This fraudulent JFK is the biggest lefty to ever run for president and his policies are opposed by the vast majority of Americans. The media won't tell the people the truth about Thurston Howell Kerry III, and it can't always be left to the bloggers and websites like this to do the job exclusively. No, President Bush has got to peel away the nice guy image for the next two debates and come out swinging.
OH I agree...He needs to take more swings at Kerry and bitchslap the girlie man haha. He needs to also take a nap before the debate, considering his bedtime is normally 9 PM according to a book I read about him and Laura Bush.
I see what you're saying, but like Ambrose said on another thread, if Bush hammers Kerry about his record on several points but Kerry is able to come back with canned defenses, now what?? He has then effectively removed those topics from debate. Let's be happy that we did get some good nuggets for later use while the Kerry camp got nothing.
Kerry was well prepped last night, the chances of him having his defenses ready and lined up for all sorts of various possible Bush attacks highly outwayed any possible Kerry blunder, that's one way to look at it.
He put the 3/4-10 screws under his ears and his wife charged him up.
Read 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu. That is what took place last night. Bush was sizing up Kerry. Everything Kerry said is going to bury him. Bush should have offered ALL of his own time to Kerry and sat down with a bottle of water:)
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