"Republicans...say Bush's leadership is critical at a dangerous time"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=1&u=/usatoday/20040722/ts_usatoday/itsclearlyacampaignforcommanderinchief

Republicans are attacking Kerry's credentials, however. They say Bush's leadership is critical at a dangerous time. "If America shows weakness or uncertainty in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy," the president said last week at a rally in Green Bay, Wis.

Most of the $85 million in TV ads the Bush campaign has aired are devoted to warning that Kerry lacks the steadiness and toughness the presidency demands. They include footage of Kerry saying of a spending bill for Iraq (news - web sites): "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." Republicans cite Kerry's criticism of the war now, after voting to authorize it two years ago, as an example of waffling.

Rebecca Kowaloff, 20, of Northboro, Mass., says Bush's decision to invade Iraq has increased threats to the United States. At Lincoln Square in Gettysburg's small downtown, she is wearing shorts and a T-shirt, but she's packed a floor-length Civil War-style dress for a reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg that has drawn thousands of Civil War enthusiasts to town. "I don't like the way he's made us an enemy to the rest of the world," she says of Bush.

Four years ago, George W. Bush was a two-term governor from Texas with little experience on foreign-policy and defense issues. But Gore's more substantial résumé in the Senate and as vice president didn't seem to matter. "This was one of the areas where voters felt a little bit of discomfort with George Bush," Donna Brazile, Gore's campaign manager, says. "But we didn't have the backdrop of Sept. 11 to exploit that."

[RoyGBiv]

1. Dangerous Time?

I thought the world was safer.

Sheesh, can't they just tell me what I'm supposed to believe and stick with it. Head Hurts. Can't Breath. Fear. Help!

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. "Dangerous at a critical time"? That's like

"Was he in danger?"

"Yes"

"Grave danger?"

"Is there another kind?"

[billbuckhead]

2. It's hard to find a guy who when his country is attacked just sit's there

reading a kindergarten book. pResident Bunnypants. First time since 1812 America is attacked on it's home soil and pResident Bunnypants sits there and sits there. Meanwhile no fighter planes are up in the air taking on the terrorists. Bush said he was a fighter pilot and yet he just sat there.

[indigobusiness]

3. 'Dangerous at a critical time'

is more like it.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. You've got THAT right...

:thumbsup:

[DenverDem]

4. When is he going to demonstrate some leadership?

As far as I can tell he's a tool of the power elite and couldn't lead a starving man to an all you can eat buffet (of course he wouldn't do that anyway because busholini thinks the man is starving because jebus didn't bless him with wealth which is the mark of gawd's favor, doncha know.)

[kentuck]

6. Democrats say it is critical that we have leadership at this time.....

George W Bush is leading this nation off the cliff.

[Connie_Corleone]

7. Yes, he showed real leadership

when he sat there reading that goat story on 9/11. The man was scared shitless.

[lastknowngood]

9. they are close it is Dangerous at a critical time

n/t

[joanne]

10. The flip flopper in Chief is at it again

Of course, fearmongering is part of his game. A MAJOR part.

[Cha]

11. What leadership? If bush's lips are moving ..then he's

lying.. http://www.bushlies.com

republicans=FEAR

[HFishbine]

12. Fear

is very un-American. People are tiring of it.