Bush Raps Kerry, Slips in Newsweek Poll

By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer

COLUMBUS, Ohio - President Bush on Saturday ridiculed what he called the
"Kerry doctrine" as a dangerous outsourcing of America's security,
seeking to poke a hole in Sen. John Kerry debate performance with what
advisers see as his rival's biggest miscue.


The first poll taken after the presidential debate showed Kerry running
even with Bush. The Democrat had the support of 47 percent and Bush 45
percent in the Newsweek poll. Independent candidate Ralph Nader (news -
web sites) had the backing of 2 percent.

Bush was slightly up, 49-43, in the same poll in early September and up
11 points in the Newsweek poll taken right after the GOP convention. The
poll of 1,013 registered voters was taken from late Thursday to early
Saturday and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4
percentage points.

"When he laid out the Kerry doctrine, he said that America has to pass a
global test before we can use American troops to defend ourselves," Bush
said, drawing loud boos from a friendly crowd at a National Association
of Home Builders meeting and later from campaign-assembled audiences in
Mansfield and the Akron suburb of Cuyahoga Falls.

(No, you dumbfoch..that is NOT what Kerry said. Stop lying)

"When our country is in danger, it is not the president's job to take an
international poll, the president's job is to defend America," Bush said.

In the debate, Kerry said he supported the right of a president to order
a pre-emptive strike to protect the country but, he added, it must pass
"the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why
you're doing what you're doing, and you can prove to the world that you
did it for legitimate reasons."

(That's what Kerry said. Quite a bit different than Bush's latest lie.)




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We today have a president of the United States who looks like he is the
son of Howdy Doody or Alfred E. Newman, who isn't smarter than either of
them, who is arrogant about his ignorance, who is reckless and
incompetent, and whose backers are turning the United States into a pariah.

What, me worry?