I don't think Bush can make this military record thing a winner for himself
Kerry Turns Tables on Bush and Cheney Over War Records
By JODI WILGOREN
Published: April 28, 2004
CLEVELAND, April 27 — As he spent a second day touring hard-hit industrial areas to highlight recent job losses, Senator John Kerry and his campaign escalated their attack on the Bush administration over the military records of the president and vice president.
After an hourlong rally in Youngstown, Ohio, where Mr. Kerry hammered President Bush on the economy, his aides offered reporters a provocative four-page handout headlined, "Key Unanswered Questions: Bush's Record in the National Guard." By afternoon, Mr. Kerry himself had stoked the fire.
"I think a lot of veterans are going to be very angry at a president who can't account for his own service in the National Guard — and a vice president who got every deferment in the world and decided he had better things to do — criticizing somebody who fought for their country and served," Mr. Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, told a reporter for The Dayton Daily News. "I think it's inappropriate."
