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Vice president makes appeal on conservative issue
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Vice president makes appeal on conservative issue of gun control
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Pa. - Highlighting an issue with conservative appeal, Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday mocked rival John Kerry's recent goose-hunting foray as the vice president hunted for votes in a traditionally Democratic area of southwestern Pennsylvania.
"You and I know the Second Amendment is more than just a photo opportunity." Cheney told an applauding crowd of hundreds of people at Washington & Jefferson College.
Cheney said the Democratic senator "voted against gun owner rights at every turn."
Kerry went hunting last week in Ohio, trying to win over swing voters, and bagged a goose, prompting Cheney to ridicule the image of the armed and camouflaged Democrat. To laughter from the crowd in Washington, Pa., Cheney wondered "how often he's been goose-hunting before."
The Bush-Cheney ticket lost the county containing Washington four years ago, an area where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of nearly 2-to-1. Republicans see a trend in their direction for long-Democratic areas such as southwestern Pennsylvania where voters are conservative on social issues such as gun control and abortion.
Bush lost the three-county region around Washington by 17,000 votes to Al Gore out of 144,000 cast for the two candidates.
Cheney praised the U.S. military's efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan and said the Pennsylvania economy is improving with the addition of 71,000 jobs since February.
Earlier in the day in Florida, Cheney rejected Kerry's criticism of the Bush administration for the disappearance of hundreds of tons of explosives in Iraq, saying the Democratic candidate doesn't have the answers to what happened to the weapons.
Cheney, campaigning near the heart of the most heavily contested area of Florida, said the facts surrounding the missing explosives are unclear, that Kerry "doesn't know" the answers and that Kerry adviser Richard Holbrooke "admitted as much." He renewed his criticism that "John Kerry will say and do anything except give our troops the backing and praise they deserve."
In a television interview Tuesday with Fox News, Holbrooke said "the U.N. inspectors had told the American military this was a major depot." He added: "I don't know what happened. I do know one thing - in most administrations the buck stops in the Oval Office."
A Kerry campaign spokesman, Phil Singer, said in a statement: "Dick Holbrooke has said he doesn't know about particular details. The last time I checked, George Bush is in charge of marshaling the facts and is commander in chief."
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/10029293.htm?1c
GEORGE WASHINGTON (First President)
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the people's liberty teeth keystone... the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable... more than 99% of them by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference. When firearms go, all goes, we need them every hour." (Address to 1st session of Congress)
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Pa. - Highlighting an issue with conservative appeal, Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday mocked rival John Kerry's recent goose-hunting foray as the vice president hunted for votes in a traditionally Democratic area of southwestern Pennsylvania.
"You and I know the Second Amendment is more than just a photo opportunity." Cheney told an applauding crowd of hundreds of people at Washington & Jefferson College.
Cheney said the Democratic senator "voted against gun owner rights at every turn."
Kerry went hunting last week in Ohio, trying to win over swing voters, and bagged a goose, prompting Cheney to ridicule the image of the armed and camouflaged Democrat. To laughter from the crowd in Washington, Pa., Cheney wondered "how often he's been goose-hunting before."
The Bush-Cheney ticket lost the county containing Washington four years ago, an area where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of nearly 2-to-1. Republicans see a trend in their direction for long-Democratic areas such as southwestern Pennsylvania where voters are conservative on social issues such as gun control and abortion.
Bush lost the three-county region around Washington by 17,000 votes to Al Gore out of 144,000 cast for the two candidates.
Cheney praised the U.S. military's efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan and said the Pennsylvania economy is improving with the addition of 71,000 jobs since February.
Earlier in the day in Florida, Cheney rejected Kerry's criticism of the Bush administration for the disappearance of hundreds of tons of explosives in Iraq, saying the Democratic candidate doesn't have the answers to what happened to the weapons.
Cheney, campaigning near the heart of the most heavily contested area of Florida, said the facts surrounding the missing explosives are unclear, that Kerry "doesn't know" the answers and that Kerry adviser Richard Holbrooke "admitted as much." He renewed his criticism that "John Kerry will say and do anything except give our troops the backing and praise they deserve."
In a television interview Tuesday with Fox News, Holbrooke said "the U.N. inspectors had told the American military this was a major depot." He added: "I don't know what happened. I do know one thing - in most administrations the buck stops in the Oval Office."
A Kerry campaign spokesman, Phil Singer, said in a statement: "Dick Holbrooke has said he doesn't know about particular details. The last time I checked, George Bush is in charge of marshaling the facts and is commander in chief."
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/10029293.htm?1c
GEORGE WASHINGTON (First President)
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the people's liberty teeth keystone... the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable... more than 99% of them by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference. When firearms go, all goes, we need them every hour." (Address to 1st session of Congress)