Clinton charisma kicks off convention

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By ALAN FREEMAN
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail

Tuesday, Jul 27, 2004


Boston — Setting the tone for what promises to be a fractious presidential election campaign, former president Bill Clinton accused President George W. Bush last night of deliberately dividing Americans to promote the interests of the wealthy and of using the Sept. 11 terror attacks to advance his right-wing agenda.

"They need a divided America, but we don't," Mr. Clinton told a rapturous crowd on the opening evening of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, where delegates have gathered to anoint Massachusetts Senator John Kerry as their presidential candidate for the November election.

Mr. Clinton told the standing-room-only audience at the FleetCenter auditorium that Americans generally agree on the need to share responsibilities and broaden opportunities, but that the Republicans need to create divisions to stay in office.

He then catalogued a series of choices that Republicans had made to protect tax cuts for the very rich by cutting spending on after-school programs for the poor, benefits for the unemployed and education grants for the country's schools. And he accused them of lifting gun control on assault weapons while cutting funding for police.

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[Catfight]

1. Send John Kerry!!!!!! Love the big dog, hate the little weiner!

[MISSDem]

2. Bill Clinton was good, of course. But I thought

that Jimmy Carter was really good. And you know the Iran hostage thing that happened while Carter was President looks different when you look at it through today's lens.