Kerry to campaign at site of Bush's 2002 speech

[Khephra]

CINCINNATI - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry will criticize how President Bush handled the war with Iraq at a campaign stop in the same place Bush argued his case for the war.

Kerry has scheduled a speech for Wednesday morning at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, where Bush made his speech in October 2002, as protesters crowded the streets outside and chanted.

Kerry's campaign said Monday that the Massachusetts senator will say that Bush's decision to attack Iraq has taken the United States in the wrong direction and shortchanged the government's attention to problems at home.

This week, Kerry began criticizing Bush on jobs and the war in Iraq as polls showed Kerry lagging. Kerry said over the weekend that the president had sent U.S. troops to the "wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time."

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/special_packages/election2004/9599862.htm

[truthisfreedom]

1. good. i was expecting Kerry's new crew to do exactly this... the very same

tactic to counter the rove approach of "attack Kerry's strengths."

attack bush's perceived strengths.

[Norbert]

2. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

I hope he stresses this in Cincinnati. Ohio has lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs on shrubs watch.

[Connie_Corleone]

3. I never get to see Kerry.

I'm always working when he comes to town. Damn.

[goclark]

7. Take of, it is a once in a live time thing

Hope you can do it!

[Dr Fate]

4. Keep it up Kerry- YOU must lead this fight, not us!!!

Weve got your back, but YOU must lead the charge- keep it up sir!!!!

[VolcanoJen]

5. Cincinnati Enquirer link... I think this is going to make big news

Here's what I wrote in the dupe post I just locked... sorry, kheph! :-):

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/09/07/loc_loc1akerry.html

John Kerry will be in Cincinnati tomorrow morning, to give a major policy speech on Iraq, at the exact site where Bush made his now-famous "Cincinnati Speech" to justify the proposed war in Iraq in October, 2002. I happen to think this is a huge step that Kerry is taking, and I think tomorrow's speech will be big, big news, especially when the comparisons are drawn.

Excerpt from the article:

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry will criticize President Bush's "wrong choices in Iraq" as part of a major policy speech in Cincinnati Wednesday morning, Kerry campaign and party sources said.

He is expected to deliver his remarks in the rotunda at the Museum Center at Union Terminal, where President Bush outlined the case for war in Iraq in October 2002.

A statement from the Kerry campaign Monday said the Massachusetts senator "will talk about how the president's wrong choice to go it alone in Iraq has taken the country in the wrong direction and shortchanged priorities here at home."

Kerry will outline a plan to "make our country stronger at home and respected in the world," the campaign said.

[Khephra]

6. Don't worry, Joe!

It happens to us all. The most important thing is to get breaking news up asap. It doesn't matter who does it.

:hi:

[VolcanoJen]

8. KICK!

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