Tim Russert Interviews Kerry

[Nemont]

MR. RUSSERT: And we are back in Florida, Florida, Florida, battleground state, talking to John Kerry, Democratic candidate for president.

Senator, again, in the interest of candor and clarity, you have promised to create 10 million jobs...

SEN. KERRY: Yep.

MR. RUSSERT: ...and cut the deficit in half in your first four years.

SEN. KERRY: Yes, sir.

MR. RUSSERT: If you don't achieve those goals, would you pledge that you would not seek re-election?

SEN. KERRY: Well, it would depend on the circumstances. If I don't because there's a war or
something terrible happens, of course I'm not going to make that pledge . But if I walked away from my promise, which I won't do, I wouldn't deserve to be re-elected. Look, I know I can create 10 million new jobs for this country. Bill Clinton, when he ran in 1992, pledged to create eight million. Guess what, Tim? He created 11 million. We're now a bigger economy with more people. There's no reason we can't create 10 million jobs. But you can't do it with George Bush's failed policy.

I will make this country and our economy stronger by restoring fiscal responsibility. And what I've promised to do--and I have a plan. George Bush has no plan except tax cuts that take place seven years from now for the wealthiest Americans. My plan is to give 98 percent of all Americans a tax cut now. I will give 99 percent of all American businesses a tax cut now. And I pay for it. And I show precisely how I pay for it. And I'm going to reinstate the pay-as-you-go principle that we lived by in the 1990s so that, if we're going to have a program, we're going to have to show Americans how we pay for it.

So if Mr. Kerry is elected president and something Terrible happens, eg. 9/11 attacks, and he can't creat 10 million jobs because there is a war on or an economic slow down happens he is off the hook for all his promises. Seems a little hypocritical then to blame Bush for the exact same thing. A terrible thing did happen and the war on terror is ongoing.

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Nemont

 

[Bambistew]

Kerry's a joke! I think he just likes to hear himself talk...

 

[Ten Bears]

LMAO