Kerry focuses on jobs, health costs- "Bush Aims to 'Bamboozle"

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Saturday, September 4, 2004

AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- John Kerry, driving through central Ohio in his first swing of the fall campaign, focused strong disapproval of President Bush's record in job creation and health care costs.

Kerry is campaigning hard in Ohio, keeping in mind that no Republican has ever won the presidency without winning the state in the heart of the Midwest. Republican Bush also is taking his campaign back to woo the state's voters during the first week of the final push toward the November election.

Kerry seized on news that Medicare premiums for doctor visits will rise 17 percent next year under a formula set by law, the largest in the programs' 40-year history, to say Bush hasn't done enough to control the cost of health care.

"No matter how hard this administration tries to sweep this under the rug, America's seniors will notice because they are paying the price for George Bush's failed leadership," Kerry said in a statement.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/04/kerry.ohio.ap/index.html




Kerry: Bush Aims to 'Bamboozle,' Hide Medicare News

Sat Sep 4, 1:56 PM ET By Patricia Wilson

AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry rebuked President Bush on Saturday for trying to "bamboozle" U.S. voters and burying the largest increase in Medicare history with an announcement at the start of a long holiday weekend amid a rush of news at home and abroad.

Kerry questioned the timing of the Bush administration's announcement late on Friday that older Americans will have to pay about 17 percent more next year for their government-run health insurance.

"He promised again a couple of nights ago to strengthen Medicare," Kerry told a rally at a baseball stadium in Akron. "Then you wake up when a lot of the news is being hidden by what's happening in the hurricane down in Florida, what's happening in Russia with 200 people tragically killed by terrorists."

"The news is hidden but it isn't going to be hidden for long on Americans, because what they did yesterday was this president made history twice," Kerry said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=7&u=/nm/20040904/pl_nm/campaign_kerry_dc

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1. bamboozled

ha...i love it.