Al From and Bruce Reed: The case for John Kerry

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ELECTION 2004
Choosing a president

The case for John Kerry

By Al From and Bruce Reed
October 31, 2004

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America is at war, and Bush isn't winning. All Bush's bluster can't obscure his signal failure: Three years after Sept. 11, America is losing ground in the war on terror, when we ought to be winning it. We have no illusions: We live in a threatening world, with many enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy everything we stand for, and we need a wartime president. But it's not enough just to be willing to wage that war; we need a president with a strategy to win it. Americans in both parties must now face the uncomfortable truth that the Bush approach isn't working.

Americans are worse off than they were four years ago. By any measure, Bush has the worst economic record of any president since Herbert Hoover. In four short years, the strongest economic run in our history has given way to the weakest recovery in 75 years.

Middle-class Americans are working harder, making less, and paying more just to get by. After eight years of going up, their incomes have gone down – and their costs of health insurance, college tuition, and gasoline are going up.

Bush presided over the loss of 1.5 million private-sector jobs, and made the American economy less competitive in the world. He has racked up record budget deficits and let federal spending soar. Under Bush, domestic spending is going up at almost triple the rate it did under Clinton, but he has never vetoed a single appropriations bill, and still refuses to restore caps on spending.

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From is founder and CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council. Reed is president of the DLC.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. The only thing Bush can give are lies

just saw a Bush commercial where he said that he defended Social Security, healthcare, etc, etc. Almost puked up my dinner. I hope and pray that Americans don't fall for his lying bs.

[Larkspur]

2. An Al From and Bruce Reed endorsement make me want to vot e for

Nader. These guys are DLC turds.