Johnny E was back on the trail today in Michigan. Didn't see this listed elsewhere, but may have missed it.
Hope this will calm at least a bit the frayed nerves from this week of personal attacks.
And he's going to FARGO tomorrow!!!! AND ALABAMA (??!!) next week! And wil stay on the trail during GOPfest 2004, as Cheney did.
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- A day after Vice President Dick Cheney criticized John Kerry, Democratic Sen. John Edwards defended his running mate, saying on Friday that Kerry "spilled his blood for the United States."
Edwards said his GOP rival was trying to tear down the Democratic presidential nominee -- a decorated Vietnam veteran -- to avoid talking about the issues that matter to voters in economically troubled states such as Michigan, calling it "an effort to distract."
Cheney told voters in Ohio on Thursday that Kerry had called for a "more sensitive" war on terror and mocked that notion as something that won't impress the Sept. 11 terrorists or the Islamic militants who have beheaded U.S. citizens.
The comment Cheney referred to was more complex. At a minority journalists' convention last week, Kerry said: "I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history."
Edwards, returning to the campaign after a three-day break, told a rally in Flint that Cheney "took that word and distorted it and tried to use it to argue John Kerry will not keep the American people safe. ... He's talking about a man who still carries shrapnel in his body. He's talking about a man who spilled his blood for the United States of America."
"To try to argue that he's not tough is just a ridiculous argument," Edwards said after the rally. "It's exactly what the American people are sick of."
The North Carolina senator on Friday also discussed his 2002 vote to give President Bush the military authority to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
"I think it was correct to give the president the authority that he was given," Edwards said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think the president has misused and abused the authority he was given. ... And the American people, our troops, the American taxpayers have paid dearly as a result."
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw102713_20040813.htm
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