Kerry Links U.S. Strength to Responsibility | LA Times

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Kerry Links U.S. Strength to Responsibility
-The nominee apparent, speaking to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, says Bush has undermined America's standing in the world.

By Michael Finnegan and Maria L. La Ganga, Times Staff Writers

PHOENIX — A day after President Bush apologized for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops, Sen. John F. Kerry accused him of shirking responsibility for the scandal while pursuing policies that have weakened America's security and undermined its moral standing abroad.

In a wide-ranging address to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, Kerry on Friday also charged that Bush's economic policies had hurt the middle class and left "the worst of all fiscal worlds: a bigger government that does less and spends more."

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee spoke just hours after the U.S. Labor Department reported unexpectedly strong job growth in April — welcome news for Bush's reelection campaign. Kerry's speech also came on the same day that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld faced a grilling on Capitol Hill over the prisoner abuse scandal.

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1. I heard the speech on C-Span

he sounded and looked good.

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2. Well said, Kerry! However...

I don't think this is a government that "does less and spends more."

Maybe if he modified it to "does less smart things and spends more."

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3. He's pointing out the truth, not making "accusations"

It is amazing that the results of the Bush Regime's actions are even open to interpretaion. How can anyone still believe that the Bush Regime really has tried to do the right thing since January, 2001, but it's just those mean terrorists that have gone and devalued the dollar, run up oil prices, made the rest of the World hate the U.S., invaded a country that hasn't done anything to our country and killed and tortured its citizens, emptied the U.S. treasury, stolen our children's future, and on and on...

My fellow citizens should be asking why the Bush Regime hates us so much, not the "terrorists."

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4. Kerry must link the mess to bush's soft on defending...

the US. Now we're in a real mess. Using evil do-er bible thumping, self-interpretations got us in this mess. Religion fails us again.

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5. Nice jab at Kerry

"A day after President Bush apologized for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops, Sen. John F. Kerry accused him of shirking responsibility for the scandal "

It makes it sound like Chimp's "apology" corrects everything and that Kerry is out of step for "accusing" him of not facing
responsibility after Bush already did it. Of course Kerry is not criticizing or demanding accountability, he's "accusing."

God, it's like watching what they did to Gore all over again. Kerry is being portrayed as a hapless, will-say-anything campaigner. Here we go again...

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