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02.09.04, 17:20
Miller, a "Democrats for Bush" group, linked Kerry with his fellow senator
from Massachusetts, liberal Edward Kennedy. He said that for more than 20
years, "on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry
has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national
figure."
Explaining his switch of loyalties, Miller said "today's Democratic leaders
see America as an occupier, not a liberator."
Democrats decried the sharp tone of the speeches by Cheney and Miller, and
noted Cheney had mentioned Kerry by name 14 times but the word "jobs" only
twice.
"America deserves better than an attack dog vice president who only tears
people down rather than coming up with ideas that will lift middle class
families up," the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) said in a
statement.
Kerry, interrupting a vacation to make a morning appearance before the
nation's largest veterans' group, offered a tough critique of Bush's
leadership on the war and what Kerry said was a failure to make any plans for
peace in Iraq.
"When it comes to Iraq, it's not that I would have done one thing
differently, I would have done everything differently," Kerry said in
Nashville, Tennessee, in a speech to the American Legion.
The president's leadership after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has become the
centerpiece of his re-election campaign, and Republicans have reminded voters
of his war on terror and the campaign in Iraq throughout the convention.
"I will never relent in defending America, whatever it takes," Bush told a
campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio, after recalling the moment when he stood in
the rubble of the World Trade Center and vowed to fight back.
But Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, said Bush had failed to prepare
for a post-war Iraq or secure the country's borders against outside
insurgents. The president's go-it-alone approach had increased the burden on
the U.S. military and budget, he said.
Outside the convention hall, about 5,000 people formed a symbolic
unemployment line from Wall Street to the Madison Square Garden convention
site to highlight the jobs lost under Bush as protests continued on the third
day of the convention.
Security inside the hall was breached when AIDS (news - web sites) activists
briefly interrupted a speech by White House chief of staff Andrew Card to
young Republicans, including Bush's twin daughters.
After Bush's campaign appearance in Ohio he headed to New York, where his
visit with firefighters and supporters in Queens was briefly beamed into the
convention hall before he returned to his hotel to watch Cheney's speech.
