One of the Bush campaign's tactics is to portray John Kerry as an old-fashioned liberal. They love to refer to him as "a Senator from Massachussetts" because they think the mere fact of geography implies how liberal he allegedly is.
Thus my surprise that President Bush told supporters in Onalaska [Wisconsin] that Mr Kerry's career in the Senate showed he was not part of the Democratic Party of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F Kennedy.
"With that record, he stands in opposition not just to me, but to the great tradition of the Democratic Party," he said.
In other words:
Roosevelt, architect of The New Deal
Truman, the first president to advocate national health care
Kennedy, created the Peace Corps (dismissed as a 'bleeding heart' initiative and 'kiddie corps' by critics) and was a... uh... Senator from Masschussetts
I didn't know that Bush admired all of these liberal presidents, let alone that he though the Democratic Party had a "great tradition." But does Bush really intend to CONTRAST Kerry to these presidents who advocated such liberal policies?
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Wow, I can't even imagine where he was going with that comment. Hopefully scores of GOP voters are going to be hitting Google and trying to figure out which great traditions those are and why the president has opposed them so actively. Perhaps in his next speech he'll mention how both JFK and Kerry were decorated Navy officers.
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