Kerry: What Bush Can't See

[sandnsea]

Taking it to Bush, loud and clear!

John Kerry issued this statement in response to President Bush's rosy claims about the state of the nation's economy in Bush's weekly radio address.

Des Moines, IA – “Today, in his radio address President Bush had the audacity to tell the nation that his tax cuts for the wealthy “got this economy going again.” It’s just more proof that President Bush’s former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill was right. As this Bush-league, jobless recovery continues, George Bush looks at the economy like “a blind man in a room full of deaf people.”

“The President can’t see that on his watch 29,000 manufacturing jobs in Iowa have disappeared, while his Administration rewards Benedict Arnold corporations with billions of dollars in federal contracts and tax incentives to take jobs overseas and profits offshore. The President turns a blind eye to Iowa’s seniors who suffer with the lowest Medicare reimbursement rate in the country, while the Administration rewards $139 million in lobbying by the drug companies with $139 billion in windfall profits from a Medicare destruction bill.”

“The President can’t hear the voices of New Hampshire seniors and low income families freezing at home, struggling with soaring heating bills as oil prices climb above $34 a barrel. This Administration can’t hear those voices from out on the golf course this weekend in sunny Arizona on an ‘energy junket’ with energy corporations and their lobbyists. The President doesn’t hear that 20,000 jobs have been lost in New Hampshire, including 550 workers from Tyson Foods in Manchester who just got handed pink slips.”

“Iowa and New Hampshire have the chance to end the radial direction George Bush is taking our country, and choose a President who doesn’t just see what’s happening, but who has the vision to turn our economy around.”

http://blog.johnkerry.com/

[blm]

1. This is exactly the voice the Dem nominee needs.

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[mike_c]

2. gonna be some interesting spinning on the Sunday AM...

...talk shows. We'll probably get to hear Condi saying that "Saddam was just as evil in January 2001 as he was in March 2003." How much you wanna bet this will be the spin line, along with "sour grapes" to discredit O'Neil?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. 'Benedict Arnold' corporations?!!!!

Lay it on John, tell it! This is great, fiery rhetoric.

[CalProf]

4. Yes, I like that phrase

It's short and sweet and yet (ken) lays the blame squarely where it belongs.

I think we'll be hearing it alot in the next few months....

[Cocoa]

5. this is what brought down Poppy

people suffering, the President not seeing it.

Like father like son, four years and he's done.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. He sees it all and does not care

I appreciate Kerry's words, and I respect the man who said them. But you also have to factor in the logic that's being presented by some in the media that "people are hurting, and they don't know why, and they feel powerless to do anything about it, and they just want something that will make them feel better." This may not describe 100% of the American people but I do feel that it describes a huge sector of the pro-Bush camp who were on the wrong side of the tax cut. They certainly aren't behind him because of anything he's actually done for them, because he hasn't...done...anything. There's a reason not reflected in their financial status or overall tangible reasons for feeling secure that's making them "fake it 'till they make it." Maybe the President's soothing reassurance?

Bush says "we need more jobs" while he's sitting under a banner emblazoned with "jobs jobs jobs jobs" on the day of the worst job report in decades and people then say "the President's on it" and then they go back to sleep. If that guy in the flight suit with the plastic turkey centerpiece can't get 'em a job, NO ONE can. So if they vote at all in November they are going to vote for the guy who kept them safe from terra, created hundreds of thousands of new jobs a month...huh?...and...did I forget to mention this...considers Jesus Christ to be his favorite philosopher.

People are cold and hungry and frightened and Bush gives them a cookie and a glass of warm milk and sends them back to bed, telling them "don't worry...Santa will be here soon. Listen! I think I just heard his reindeer on the roof! You'd better get back into bed quick!"

Bush sees everything. Everything. I don't care if he sees it with his own eyes or if he sees it through the eyes of Karl Rove or Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld, he sees all of it. He does not care. He is warm, he is fed, if he doesn't get a second term he will go on paid speaking engagements (keeping Rove on the payroll), he will have books ghost written for him, and someone will build a George W. Bush library, even though he does not appear to read (and proudly declares "I do not read...I have people tell me what I need to know...the only thing I miss by doing that is the opinion").

When I feel that Kerry (or any other candidate) has not only realized this but has found a way to wake the "sleeping children" and they are listening and understanding that Santa ain't comin' down their chimney in the next 11 months, then I will feel that Bush is a one-term wonder.

The journey of 1000 miles may very well begin with a single step, and in this election the first step is accepting the fact that he sees everything and cares about nothing except his own agenda. Fake concern needs to be matched with tangible results. He's not up to the task because there's plenty of heating oil, DuraFlame logs, and thick, juicy rib eye steaks on the ranch in Crawford. And we all know...because he looked right into the camera and told us so...

Bush Eats Beef.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. I doubt it

he made some really inane and clueless comments about outsourcing last summer that showed he just doesn't see some things.

Good post though, and welcome to DU.

[sandnsea]

9. "turns a blind eye"

Notice how he throws in the seed. That's how you wake up the sleeping children. A little at a time. If you try to light a fire under them, they'll run from the house in a stampede and somebody will get trampled and somebody left behind and it's no good for anybody. Kerry doesn't work that way and he's oh so more effective because of it. Wait and see.

[oasis]

8. Bush can't see or just plain doesn't want to see? (eom)