28% want Kerry to protect them.
That is his Liberal/Leftist base of "Yeller Dawg" democrats.

Z


"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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From The New York Times, 4/2/04:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/politics/02POLI.html

Grisly Deaths Don't Dent an Upbeat Bush Message Stressing Iraq
Successes

By DAVID E. SANGER

WASHINGTON --

Hours after the gruesome pictures of an Iraqi mob mauling the charred
corpses of four American contract workers sped around the world,
President Bush swept into a huge ballroom in one of Washington's most
affluent neighborhoods.

It was his final big fund-raiser, and hundreds of his supporters were
gathered around $2,000-a-seat tables, picking at salads and catching
up on Washington gossip.

Mr. Bush seemed all smiles.

He did speak about Iraq, but not of the day's events.

The White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, had denounced them on Mr.
Bush's behalf as "horrific, despicable attacks."

Yet Mr. Bush's first reference to the country was a laugh line about
his opponent, Senator John Kerry.

"Someone asked Senator Kerry why he had voted against the $87 billion
funding bill to help our troops in Iraq," Mr. Bush said, repeating a
routine that is now a highlight of his campaign stump speech.

"And here's what he said: `I actually did vote for the $87 billion --
before I voted against it.' "

Laughter swept through the room.

Mr. Bush paused and said, "Clears things up, doesn't it?"

In the Bush campaign, casualties are something to be alluded to
obliquely, if at all.

Mr. Bush's handlers, both in the White House and outside it, say they
mourn every death.

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That was almost as good as;

"Those weapons of mass destruction must be somewhere!" and "Nope, no
weapons over there!" and "Maybe under here?"

George W. Bush's big joke

Harry