AP Interview: Bush faults Kerry for 'shameless scare tactics'

[Kadie]

AP Interview: Bush faults Kerry for 'shameless scare tactics'
TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent

Monday, October 18, 2004

(10-18) 10:15 PDT ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) --

President Bush on Monday accused Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry of "shameless scare tactics" by suggesting that the president would jeopardize Social Security for older Americans and bring back the military draft for young people.

Bush, in an Associated Press interview, said of Kerry, "He's trying to scare our seniors. It is wrong to try to scare people going into the polls."

The Republican incumbent said Kerry's charges were just "old-style politics."

Kerry said Sunday that Bush was planning a "January surprise" attempt to privatize Social Security if re-elected. As for reviving the draft to replenish U.S. forces in Iraq, the Democrat told The Des Moines Register last week that, "With George Bush, the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of a draft."

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[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Reminds me of a saying about a pot and a kettle....

[Wickerman]

2. Dammit, John - that's my tactic - I scare the citizenry!

[aden_nak]

3. You want to know what scares seniors? "MUSHROOM CLOUD!"

[WI_DEM]

4. Is there anything more scary than all the Bush "Terra Alerts"???

[Sparkly]

5. They said the same thing in 2000.

They said it was a "scare tactic" to warn that Chimp's tax cuts would tank the economy.

They said it was a "scare tactic" to warn that Chimp would tank Social Security because we had such a big surplus.

And on message boards four years ago, they said it was a "scare tactic" to warn about terrorism, to warn he'd start a war in the middle east, to warn that he was a rightwing extremist who would neither unite nor lead from center.

They always say the truth is a "scare tactic."

[Supersedeas]

6. a 'shameless' wonder--accusing Kerry of scare tactics (up is really down)

[BattyDem]

7. Meanwhile ...

The Bush/Cheney campaign has been running on a theme which basically says, "Vote for us or you'll die!"

Mr. Pot ... meet Mr. Kettle. :eyes:

[VOX]

8. * has the NERVE to talk scare tactics? GOP: All terror, all the time...

...nukes, Saddam, terra, liberal, 9/11, terra, 9/11, al Quaeda, terra, dirty bombs, nukes, raise taxes, terra, 9/11, red alert, liberal, 9/11, blah blah blah.

Without scare tactics, * has **nothing**!!!