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Kerry Denies Campaign Shake-Up
By Charles HurtTHE WASHINGTON TIMES CANONSBURG, Pa. — Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry's campaign spokesmen yesterday denied that there's a "shake-up" of the campaign, despite the infusion of new Democratic blood into the staff and an overhaul of the candidate's stump speech. After a 90 minute call from Bill Clinton from his hospital bed, Begala, Carville, and Lockhart descended on the campaign like a swarm of killer bees. Under new directions from former President Bill Clinton — the only Democrat to win the White House in a quarter of a century — Mr. Kerry is shedding talk of his own Vietnam War record. He spent Labor Day blaming President Bush for current economic conditions, which he invokes the Great Depression to describe. "No more reference to Vietnam!"????????? In West Virginia Monday. the Mafia-reject head of the coal miners union decried the "draft-dodging" Bush and Cheney. Someone didn't get a copy of the new talking points. Someone needs to be taken to the wood shed! "The problem is very clear, isn't it?" Mr. Kerry said. "Wages going down, cost of living going up, jobs that replace them pay less, standard of living goes down. John Edwards and I believe we can raise the standard of living in America again." Increase the wages of ambulance chasing lawyers like Edwards. Lawsuits without end! Despite the signs that Mr. Kerry is revamping his campaign team as Mr. Bush reaches a double-digit lead over him in the polls, the campaign adamantly says it isn't so. "There is no shake-up," spokesman David Wade said. "In the last 60 days of the election, we've been lucky enough to add some tested, talented people to the campaign." "Time" and "Newsweek" magazines are no longer our friends. Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-07 |
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