Kerry Gets Tougher on Bush (GOP want return to 'separate but equal' era "

[papau]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-kerry10sep10.story
THE RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Kerry Gets Tougher on Bush
The Democratic challenger says the president's domestic policies hark back to a 'separate but equal' era in America.
By Michael Finnegan
Time Staff Writer

September 10, 2004

NEW ORLEANS — After days of sparring with President Bush over Iraq, Sen. John F. Kerry assailed the White House's record on poverty, civil rights and healthcare Thursday as he sought to regain momentum by drawing sharp contrasts with the administration on such issues.

Kerry pounded Bush for soaring health costs at a morning stop in Iowa, then made a more sweeping indictment of the president's domestic policies in a sharp-edged speech to African Americans at the National Baptist Convention in New Orleans.

Adding racial overtones to a slogan used by his running mate, Sen. John Edwards, to describe the nation's economic divide, Kerry accused Bush of "taking us back to two Americas — separate and unequal."

The last phrase refers to a core doctrine of segregationist laws — "separate but equal" public schools, which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional 50 years ago.

"Our cities and our communities are being torn apart by forces that are just as divisive and destructive as 'Jim Crow' ," Kerry said. He cited "crumbling schools that are robbing our children of their potential, rising poverty, rising crime, drugs and violence."<snip>

[Catfight]

1. A-fucking-men! n/t

[Zuni]

2. It is about time for Kerry to start stumping on this

These are the issues Kerry can take to the white house. Anyone who lives in a city knows the truth about the Bush agenda---they can see the poverty, the blight, the despair

[AspenRose]

3. True, dat

Excellent....

[maine_raptor]

4. Good Move, John

Hit'em on the Cities,
Hit'em on the Poor,
Hit'em on the crumbling infrastructure,
Hit'em on the Economy,
Hit'em on the War in Iraq,
Hit'em on all the ^&%$#@ing things they have done WRONG in the past four years.

Hit'em from ALL sides so they can't stop being on the Defensive.

"Kick'em when they're up, Kick'em when they're down"