Bush using Radio Address to campaign - is there a precedent for this?

[Paragon]

Seems in extraordinarily poor taste to use that forum in that way...or is this old hat?

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040313/D819I7KO0.html


WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush used yet another forum to issue a thinly veiled attack against Democratic rival John Kerry, saying Saturday in his weekly radio address that higher taxes and new trade barriers would be "a recipe for economic disaster."

Bush never mentioned the Massachusetts senator by name, unlike new television ads that began airing Friday and several speeches over the last 10 days. But his arguments against the economic policies of what he called "some politicians in Washington" were the same ones he has repeatedly used against Kerry.

"They want to respond in old, ineffective ways," the president said. "They want to increase federal taxes, yet punishing families and small businesses is not a job-creation strategy. They want to build up trade walls, and isolate America from the rest of the world but economic isolationism would threaten the millions of good American jobs that depend on exports. These tired, old policies of tax and spend, and economic isolationism, are a recipe for economic disaster."

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[Nay]

1. Oh? And what is BUSH a recipe for? Prosperity?

We're practically down the toilet, and he has the nerve to say this kind of stuff?

You know, maybe in the long run (say, a hundred years) it will all work out, but for the next 30 years the rest of us have to make a living, unlike the Bush clan and friends. So, until someone comes up with a hybrid economy of some kind that can ease the transition, Bush can just shut the hell up about how well off we are all going to be in the sweet by-and-by. I notice Bush doesn't mind 'punishing families' by outsourcing all their jobs. Asshole.

[Gman]

2. Its called the

"bully pulpit"

[Paragon]

4. Yeah, I know...

But I thought some things were supposed to be sacred -- even if Bush is a stupid "bully".

[ShaneGR]

3. I'm sure it has been done before, although I have no links

Interesting question though.

[Thrill]

5. Oh yeah?

same ineffective ways? Try looking at the prosperity under CLinton. You bafoon