Edwards Wonders Who's Minding the Store

[steve2470]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EDWARDS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\

or

http://tinyurl.com/55dbg

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) -- Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards accused the Bush administration on Thursday of ignoring problems ranging from scarce flu vaccine to the war in Iraq while officials campaign in battleground states and asked, "Who's minding the store?"

Edwards, speaking in a high school gymnasium during a bus tour of eastern Iowa, cited national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans as examples of Bush officials who are campaigning while pressing issues remain unresolved.

"There's a solution for this," Edwards said. "In America, that's called an election."

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[xultar]

1. That is exactly what I was thinking. I thought there was a TERRA LERT!

I thought that there was supposed to be a big attack coming.

The National SECURITY ADVISOR is out campaigning instead of watching SECURITY.

:wtf:

[kayell]

7. It probably won't make any difference. She never noticed before

even when security threat warnings were handed to her in a big juicy memo.

[MasonJar]

10. But...but...she didn't know the seat and flight number. Be fair!

[dArKeR]

2. Kerry should make this into a TV commercial by tommorrow!

[maddezmom]

4. another headline: Ridge heads to battleground states

Ridge heads to battleground states
By Katherine Pfleger Shrader | Associated Press
Published on Thursday, October 21, 2004
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WASHINGTON -- When Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge leaves the Washington area on official business, nearly three-fifths of his public events are in the 17 states considered the most hotly contested in the presidential election.

Overall, Ridge and his senior executives, who have pledged that the department would not become entrenched in politics, did nearly half their public events in those 17 states, according to a review by The Associated Press. That includes the electoral prizes of Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

more:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/article/index.cfm/i/102104b_ridge

[donkeyotay]

3. They can't have it both ways. I thought the terrists were coming.

Cheney and Dr. Rice are out campaigning. I thought we were supposed to be wrapping our minds around the threat of a nuklar bomb are a bug-bomb threatening a city...

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Which reminds me: WHO the f**k WAS in charge on 9/11/01 ??

:grr:

[steve2470]

9. Richard Clarke was...

then they had the nerve to slander him....he probably saved some lives

[RareLubbockDem]

6. Maybe they outsourced it

[kayell]

8. *snort* I wonder how much we're paying Halliburton for this job

At least they can reuse the plastic turkeys.

[Jacobin]

11. Um, that would be the same morons who were "minding the store"

on 9/11

I like Senator Edwards.

He has a nice way of bringing that up in a subtle kind of way..

:evilgrin: