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The diplomat
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Terre Haute, IN USA
Sep 1999
time: 23:36
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NOT!
How can we believe Kerry's claims that he will create new jobs as president when he can't even bother to vote to renew unemployment benefits? 
Unemployed: behold your champion!
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Kerry Absence Dooms Jobless Benefits Vote
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
WASHINGTON — A push by Senate Democrats to extend jobless benefits lost by a single vote yesterday - as their nominee-to-be, John Kerry (search), missed the vote while campaigning in Kentucky.
Kerry, the only senator to miss the vote, said he didn't come back to Washington because "we were told that no matter what would happen, [the Republicans] would change a vote in the Senate and they were not going to let it happen."
The bid to extend federal jobless benefits for an extra 13 weeks failed by 59-40, one short of the 60 votes needed because the cost would exceed last year's budget agreement.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (search), D-N.Y., said almost 130,000 New Yorkers exhausted their jobless benefits between December and April. Opponents note the jobless rate dropped to 5.6 percent and say the emergency aid isn't needed.
President Bush's campaign spokesman, Steve Schmidt, said, "Last month, John Kerry was pushing for the extension of unemployment benefits. Today, he had the chance to actually vote on that question, but was too busy playing politics when he would have made the difference in the Senate."
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119710,00.html
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Whoha
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The TOC is supposed to be classified guys...
Dec 2001
time: 23:36
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He has to get this under control:
"Kerry on Globalization: Who to Believe, Flip or Flop?
Alan Tonelson
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
In its obsession with Massachusetts Senator John Kerry’s (admittedly Clintonian) position on whether he does or does not own an SUV, the national press corps typically missed a much bigger story: the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate’s apparent endorsement of the idea that the manufactured goods that Americans consume should be made in America.
In a late-April conference call to reporters, Kerry declared, “I want cars to be made in Michigan, made in America....” He also pledged “to keep car manufacturing jobs in the country” if elected.
Now it’s possible that Kerry would restrict this policy only to cars, but it's hardly clear why – especially since his campaign literature emphasizes that manufacturing as a whole is “critical to national defense,” “pays higher wages and is responsible for the majority of research and development,” and creates big employment and growth multipliers. Reaping these benefits obviously requires the United States to keep making a wide range of industrial goods.
Of course, such statements clash violently with Kerry’s subsequent declaration to The Wall Street Journal: “I’m not a protectionist. I never have been. I’m not about to be.” Champions of open trade policies must logically believe that the free worldwide flow of economic resources by definition produces the best possible outcome for the U.S. economy regardless of the effects on particular sectors of the economy.
So which of Kerry's contradictory positions should we believe? And is this the kind of question that should still be unanswered about someone who may be only six months from the presidency?
Sources: “Kerry Says His ‘Family’ Owns SUV, Not He,” Associated Press, April 22, 2004; “Report on Manufacturing Jobs: George Bush’s Manufacturing Crisis,” http://johnkerry.com/features/manufacturing; “Kerry Strives to Highlight Pro-Market Side,” by Jacob M. Schlesinger and John Harwood, The Wall Street Journal, May 3, 2004"
http://tradealert.us/View_art.asp?Prod_ID=1114
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