September 09, 2004, 11:30 AM
Issueless, Democrats look backwards
The Democrats keep their focus on the past as “the Boston Globe reported [President Bush] failed twice to fulfill training commitments in 1972 and 1973,” according to commentary by Bloomberg. Democrats hope that this will “hinder Bush's campaign for re-election.”
The Boston Globe, which has written itself as a Kerry 2004 sponsor, reported yesterday focusing on the past, focusing on events that happened (or didn't happen) a little more than thirty years ago.
Our President, while the mainstream media focuses on the past, has the 'audacity' to assume he will be in office four more years by looking forward.
He spearheaded a discussion in the Cabinet Room on intelligence reform. President Bush began the meeting with this statement:
THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank the members who are here. Thank — thank you all for coming today. We are going to discuss intelligence reform. I will be submitting a plan to the Congress that strengthens intelligence reform — strengthens the intelligence services. We believe that there ought to be a National Intelligence Director who has full budgetary authority. We'll talk to members of Congress about how to implement that. I look forward to working with the members to get a bill to my desk as quickly as possible.
It's important we get our intelligence gathering correct. After all, we're still at war. We've got to find the enemy before they hurt us. We've got to do everything we can to protect the homeland. We're still on the offense here in this country. We're chasing down these killers overseas so we don't have to face them here at home. We're making good progress.
Ultimately, we will prevail because liberty changes countries, and liberty changes the habits of people. Liberty promotes peace. And that's why we appreciate the sacrifice of the men and women who wear the uniform. They're serving a great cause. We mourn every loss of life. We'll honor their memories by completing the mission.
We do not have a president that daily looks at the polls; our President has his own ideas and does not need a pollster to tell him what to think.
The wide-spread rehashing of President Bush's guard service demonstrates that Democrats cannot win with their issues.
If the media and Democrats were wholly honest, Kerry would run on his 20 year senate service instead of his “experience in a war” (a phrase newly coined after Clinton's advice.) Kerry would campaign on military cuts, tax raises, and even his pro-abortion stance.
At the DNC Convention, Kerry pointed to his four months of service in Vietnam as the reason we should vote for him. Now that he's steering off that focus, he attacks President Bush or Cheney's service or lack of service thirty years ago and questions the war in Iraq once again. Voters are left with one question. “Kerry, why do you want to be our President, our Commander in Chief?”
Now is not a good time for Kerry to start answering that question, he's a little late. Can anybody here answer the question:
Why is Kerry running for President?
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