I don't know what motivates folks who claim that Kerry hasn't taken the fight to Bush. I just can't imagine that they've heard everything that has been said by the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Here's a collection of John Kerry's words so far in this campaign:
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"We shouldn’t be opening firehouses in Baghdad and closing them in Brooklyn."
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“Under this Administration, America’s middle class has been abandoned – its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first,” said John Kerry. “Middle class Americans don’t ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.”
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“I'd like to know what it is Republicans who didn't serve in Vietnam have against those of us who did. I'm tired of Republicans trying to divert attention from the real issues."
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“One way or another we're going to have a debate about the future not the past. We’re not going to let them make this about a war 34 years ago, when we need to talk about the war today."
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“Republicans like to question the patriotism of Democrats who question the direction of our nation. They put Max Cleland in an ad with Osama bin Laden to question his commitment to the defense of our country. This President came to Georgia to campaign for Saxby Chambliss and didn't say a word about it. Now his surrogates are at it again. Well, I don't think that politics of fear has any place in our country, and I'm still waiting for the Republicans to tell me what more Max Cleland has to leave on the battlefield of Vietnam to prove his commitment to our country.”
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"America deserves a better debate. If you want to debate the Vietnam era, and the impact of our experiences on our approaches to presidential leadership, I am prepared to do so.
This is not a debate to be distorted through your $100 million dollar campaign fund. This is a debate that should be conducted face to face."
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“President Bush gave his speech tonight as if the past three and a half years never happened. But the American people haven't forgotten this President's failed record, because they have to live with it everyday. George Bush's credibility is running out with the American people."
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“It’s no surprise that the president chose to unveil his vision for America at a $1,000 a plate fundraiser. His contributors are getting plenty from this administration while the rest of America suffers."
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“For everyone who saw the President yesterday in Daytona when he said to all of America, ‘gentlemen start your engines,’ I say we need a new president who says to the American people lets start our economy and put America back to work."
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"George Bush just doesn’t get it: tax cuts for the wealthy don’t make a difference for middle class Americans like Noemi Gonzalez – economic opportunity and the quality of our schools does. Tax cuts for millionaires don’t help the 56,400 Floridians who have lost manufacturing jobs on Bush’s watch, the 115,558 children in Florida shortchanged by Bush education cuts, or the 19,633 Floridians forced to declare bankruptcy last year because of the stumbling economy and failed policies."
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"For Americans who are tired of the politics of attack and smear, its time for a president who lifts America up and invests in the real needs of our country. Instead of a president whose top economic adviser says it’s good for America to send jobs overseas, its time for a president who knows how to create jobs at home. Instead of an administration who believes that the only indicator of the economy is the stock market, its time for a president who measures the economy in jobs, health care and the skills of workers.”
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"George Bush is a walking contradiction, a walking barrel of broken promises," Kerry told the morning gathering.
"As the phrase goes," he said, "Houston, we've got a problem."
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"I think George Bush ought to leave the ranch and come out and talk to people who have lost their jobs," he said, standing in a balloon-festooned plaza in front of a massive Lone Star flag. "I think he ought to leave the ranch and come out and talk to people who don't have any healthcare."
He accused Bush of telling "one of those tall Texas tales"
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"I believe what he will do tonight is run away from his own record because he doesn't have a record to run on."
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"Kerry said he's never seen such "crony capitalism and crony government" or such "arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy."
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He vowed that if elected he would go directly to the United Nations in the first 100 days of his administration to "make it clear that when the secretary of state speaks, he or she speaks for America -- not for the losing cause of internationalism inside an administration obsessed with its own hubris and swagger."
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John Kerry Wednesday attacked President Bush's foreign policy, calling it "arrogant, inept, and reckless . . ."
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"Coddling big oil, serving up tax giveaways for the wealthiest, and opening up doors for the lobbyists and for the polluters: That's the only mission accomplished by George W. Bush."
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Florida Democrats, it's time to get real. George Bush thought he could play dress-up on an aircraft carrier in front of a sign saying "Mission Accomplished" and we wouldn't notice that our troops are dying in Iraq every day."
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"The largest cost of the Bush tax giveaway will not be borne by any of us here today - it will be paid for by our children," Kerry said. "We're borrowing from Social Security and Medicare to put money in our pockets today - and sticking our children with the bill."
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"We’re not only going to send Bush back to Texas, we’re going to stand in front of a sign that says ‘Mission Accomplished.’"
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While applauding Libya's announcement, the Massachusetts senator said in a statement that it "makes clear the shortcomings of George Bush's go-it-alone unilateralism."
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''He misled every one of us,''
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This is the biggest 'say one thing, do another' administration that I've seen."
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"On issue after issue, George Bush has given America a raw deal, and everyone in this room knows it," he said in the text. "George Bush goes to Baghdad to carry around a fake Thanksgiving turkey while he cuts support for our troops and 40,000 veterans are left on a hospital waiting list."
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"George Bush has shown he has no experience to be commander in chief"
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Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry said Tuesday that President Bush has used the threat of war in Iraq to distract attention from the nation's economic problems."
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"The largest cost of the Bush tax giveaway will not be borne by any of us here today — it will be paid for by our children," Kerry said. "We're borrowing from Social Security and Medicare to put money in our pockets today — and sticking our children with the bill."
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"George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president."
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"(Bush) has squandered the goodwill of the world after September 11 and lost the respect and influence we need to make our country safe."
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"Being flown to an aircraft carrier and saying `mission accomplished' doesn't end a war," Kerry said, drawing laughs and applause. "And the swagger of a president saying, `bring 'em on' will never bring peace."
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