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Bush/Cheney Uniting the Dividers
July 28, 2004
The Bush/Cheney '04 campaign is upset at Democrats for portraying President Bush as a "divider" during the 2004 Democratic National Convention. In today's Bush/Cheney blog entry, Republicans state, "we can't simply let this attack go by."
Challenging the Bush/Cheney 2000 mantra that Bush is a "uniter, not divider," Democrats are asking Americans to heed another Bush/Cheney 2000 mantra: "The record speaks for itself."
Over the past four years, Bush has demonstrated little leadership in uniting our country. The record, indeed, speaks for itself.
- President Bush supports a divisive amendment to the United States Constitution.
- President Bush engages in divisive class warfare by asking average Americans to make significant sacrifices in a time of war while awarding deficit balooning tax-cuts to the wealthiest 2%.
- President Bush has refused to veto a single piece of legislation running historic deficit spending that borrows money from Seniors as well as future generations.
- President Bush opposes scientific research into the promise of stem cell technology in favor of political forces that defy science based on religious notions.
- President Bush continues providing Congressional Republicans briefings on issues separate from Democrats.
- President Bush and his campaign continue to portray those who asked important questions regarding our intelligence before the war as preferring Saddam Hussein as a dictator.
- President Bush has divided our alliances abroad by withdrawing from international treaties on the environment and trade agreements and has made global security a distinctly American problem by not mobilizing the world to take up their responsibilities in both funding and fighting the war on terror.
This list can go on and on, but one thing remains clear. America deserves a real uniter, not a divider. In contrast to the upcoming Republican National Convention, the diverse face of the Democratic party won't just be on stage in Boston. It's also among the thousands of faces in the crowd that represent our party and our nation across the country. It is the true face of a united America.
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