Bush Explains Vision for Security and Opportunity

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop3sep03.story
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
Bush Explains Vision for Security and Opportunity
'We are staying on the offensive' against terrorists, he tells the convention. He pledges to transform federal social programs.
By Mark Z. Barabak and Maura Reynolds
Times Staff Writers

September 3, 2004

NEW YORK — Staking his claim to a second term, President Bush on Thursday night joined the GOP convention assault on rival John F. Kerry and promised to "build a safer world and a more hopeful America" over the next four years.

In a speech accepting the Republican nomination and wrapping up the four-day gathering, Bush spelled out his vision of an entrepreneurial "ownership society" and expansive U.S. foreign policy leading "the cause of freedom in a new century."

The president spoke at greatest length about his efforts to prevent another attack like the one a few miles from where he spoke, which killed nearly 2,800 people in the collapse of the World Trade Center.

"We are staying on the offensive — striking terrorists abroad — so we do not have to face them here at home," Bush said. "We will build a safer world and a more hopeful America and nothing will hold us back."<snip>

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1. Why should anyone believe him when

he didn't protect us from the attack on 9/11?

This should be the lead story, imo. Republicans conveniently forget who was President in September 2001.