Bush tells Florida: "Best way to avoid the draft is to vote for me."

[Bluebear]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - President Bush turned the tables Saturday on Sen. John Kerry, declaring "the best way to avoid the draft is to vote for me," and pledged to oppose mandatory military service. The Democrat stuck to domestic issues, blaming Bush for a shortage of flu vaccines.

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Bush appealed to Florida's large Jewish population by signing a bill requiring the State Department to document attacks on Jews around the world. The department had opposed the measure, calling it unnecessary.

Upbeat backdrops — Bush appeared in rock-star fashion at a sports arena in Florida and Kerry greeted well-wishers on the porch of a farm in Ohio — contrasted with the sharply critical messages they conveyed to supporters.

Amid strobe lights and swirling smoke, Bush's campaign bus drove into a darkened sports arena in Sunshine, Fla., depositing the president on stage with red-white-and-blue lights flickering across a crowd of 10,000 supporters. He noted that a year ago Sunday his opponent voted against an $87 billion bill for military reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041017/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_rdp&cid=694&ncid=716

[KlatooBNikto]

1. Mr.Bush also said: "You can count on my experience in evading the

draft that even if a draft comes you won't be affected so long as you have the right parents.My opponent cannot promise that because even with all his money, he could not avoid the draft and volunteered for service.Now you tell me who can get you out of a draft, me or my opponent?"

[jefferson_dem]

2. Looks like another flip-flop for the chimpster - here's a quote from him

from the same day even -

"After standing on the stage, after the debates, I made it very plain: We will not have an all-volunteer army," Bush told a rally in Daytona Beach.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&e=5&u=/nm/20041016/pl_nm/campaign_bush_dc

[Catch22Dem]

4. Hahahahaha

What a dumbshit! Methinks that slip was a wee bit freudean!

[AntiFascist]

3. Bush ONLY seems to characterize himself as the War president....

didn't he even make a comment that war is almost always on his mind? How can you fight wars without soldiers?