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Kerry team slams reports VP Cheney had a flu shot | ||
2004-10-21 | ||
Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign slammed Vice President Dick Cheney, a heart patient, over reports he had a flu shot, despite a shortage of the vaccine. The campaign complained that Treasury Secretary John Snow and Senate Majority leader Bill Frist also had jabs, despite Bush's advice that the young and healthy did not need to get an injection. "Once again, the Bush administration proves that it is the 'do as we say, not as we do' White House," the campaign said in a statement issued in Pittsburgh where Kerry was campaigning. "The very week that (health) secretary (Tommy) Thompson is telling Americans to keep calm, Dick Cheney, John Snow and Bill Frist are getting flu shots." "It is unfortunate that the Bush administration failed to do the work necessary to ensure that all Americans, including those most at risk, had been able to get shots as well." Cheney would fit into the government's definition of those most vulnerable to a looming influenza epidemic as he has a long history of heart disease. Bush last week suggested in the final presidential debate that the young and healthy forgo the annual shot amid a shortage of vaccine that Kerry has blamed on the president's management of the health system.
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Posted by:Steve |
#8 John Kerry, you traitor, you're dismissed... |
Posted by: Crerert Ebbeting3481 2004-10-21 5:02:16 PM |
#7 More comments from a very small man. He was small with the Allawi, comments; small with Cheney's daughter comments and small again with a man who has done more for this country than Senator Horseface could probably comprehend. John Kerry absolutley disgusts me as a human being. |
Posted by: Bill Nelson 2004-10-21 8:21:54 PM |
#6 As the Dems so often point out, Cheney has a bad heart and is well within the guidelines for a flu shot. He got one for the same reason Clinton got one. |
Posted by: RWV 2004-10-21 5:07:56 PM |
#5 Is Kerry going to chastise his running mate and the rest of the freaking lawyers for chasing vaccine production out of the US? And they bitch and moan about outsourcing |
Posted by: Cheaderhead 2004-10-21 4:10:07 PM |
#4 What is the matter with these people! Give 'em hell. I did. http://www.johnkerry.com/contact/ The e-mail stuff is on the right side. Just don't give them your real e-mail address because these jerks are dangerous. |
Posted by: Tom 2004-10-21 1:10:41 PM |
#3 slick willie got his to over the weekend. Is Kerry going to chastise him as well? Didn't think so. |
Posted by: Jarhead 2004-10-21 11:18:44 AM |
#2 Soo... a 63 year old man (who is older than the recommended cut off of 55 for a flu shot), has a heart problem (making him automatically elegible for the flu shot in any state) is not supposed to get one because he is in the Bush administration. Any one want to bet if John KKKerry or his wife has gotten theirs? If this is the best John can come up with this late in the game, he is screwed... |
Posted by: mmurray821 2004-10-21 10:28:51 AM |
#1 Bill Frist is a MD and also fits within the guidelines as a health care provider. All the rest of the Congresscritters, Cabinet members, and other Administration hangers-on oughta personally deliver his or her dose of flu vaccine to Walter Reed Hospital, where most of the OIF amputees are recovering. |
Posted by: Seafarious 2004-10-21 10:13:46 AM |