Kerry to Follow Cheney at Westminster College on Friday

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46859-2004Apr27.html

The Associated Press
Tuesday, April 27, 2004; 3:35 PM

FULTON, Mo. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry will speak Friday at Westminster College, whose president complained after Vice President Dick Cheney sharply criticized Kerry during a campus appearance Monday, campaign officials said.

Kerry accepted an invitation to speak from Westminster President Fletcher Lamkin, Kerry spokesman Bill Burton said. Lamkin said Monday he was inviting Kerry out of fairness following Cheney's visit.

Lamkin expressed disappointment after the Cheney speech, telling students and faculty in an e-mail Monday that he had been told Cheney would deliver a "major foreign policy address" and was unhappy with what he called "Kerry-bashing." However, Cheney's spokeswoman said the speech was always intended as a campaign event.

Cheney questioned whether Kerry was fit to serve as president during wartime, repeating what he had said during a campaign event in March. "The senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security," the vice president said Monday.

British statesman Winston Churchill gave his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College at the dawn of the Cold War in 1946.

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Good to hear!

[RobertSeattle]

1. Touche - awesome

We need to come up with a catch-phrase for Cheney's speech: "Liar's Curtain" Speech?

[fertilizeonarbusto]

3. indeed

As in: "from Nome to Key West this administration has lowered an Iron Curtain between Americans and the truth."

[RobertSeattle]

4. I like it.!

Added this to my signature... You'll get royalites..

[Estel]

2. If it was a campaign event...

who pays for it? The taxpayers or the Repukes??

[newyawker99]

8. Hi Estel!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[bif]

5. Dick, you chickenhawk POS!

You're going to regret attacking Kerry. You vile waste of skin.

[rocktivity]

6. DING DING DING! Fletcher Lamkin, you're our grand prize winner!

When you stop and think about it, it was the least he could do. If Cheney is going to turn a speech about foreign policy into a campaign stop, he HAS to offer Kerry equal time. What a brilliant idea! THIS is how a REAL president acts, LOL! Fletcher Lamkin, you're a patriot!

On edit: And you deserve a prize, too, Dickhead, for providing "ample grounds to doubt the judgment" of a candidate who ISN'T in a position to doubt anyone else's!

On edit: Just sent President Lamkin a thank-you note!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Jai4WKC08]

7. Thanks for the link!!

I had the same idea, but you saved me some time. Sent just a brief note, thanking him for fairness and giving his students the opportunity to hear different perspectives.

I was hoping Kerry would send Clark again tho. ;)