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President makes plea to female voters / Imagine better times in Iraq, Bush tells women
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| Sept. 17, 2004, 10:34PM
| DEB RIECHMANN
Posted on 09/18/2004 8:08:14 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Politics
Sept. 17, 2004, 10:34PM
President makes plea to female voters
Imagine better times in Iraq, Bush tells women
By DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - President Bush sought backing from female voters Friday, asking them to look beyond rising violence in Iraq to a day when a democratically elected leader will lead the nation.
"Someday an American president, whoever he or she may be, will be sitting down with a duly elected leader of Iraq and talking about how to keep the peace in a greater Middle East — and our children and our grandchildren will be better off for it," Bush said.
He spoke at a "Focus on Women" event in a state where he holds a narrow lead.
Nationally, women cast 52 percent of the votes in the last presidential election. Bush is hoping to win the support of more of them than he did in 2000 when Democrat Al Gore received 54 percent of the female vote to his 43 percent.
Bush cited his marriage as a point in his favor.
"I lucked out when Laura said yes," Bush said, shortly after being introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C. "You can judge the nature of a fellow by the company he keeps. I'm keeping great company when it comes to Laura Bush."
In 2000, Bush courted women voters with promises of education reforms. On Friday, he talked about his "flextime, comptime" proposal.
His plan would let workers choose time off instead of overtime pay as compensation for extra work. Labor leaders say that under flextime rules, workers no longer would get paid overtime if they worked 50 hours in one week and 30 the next.
He also renewed his call for medical liability changes — and took a jab at Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards, a former trial lawyer.
"There are too many trial lawyers in the United States Senate," Bush said at the campaign event in Edwards' home state — a state Bush won easily in 2000.
After the women's event, there was a Republican Party fund-raiser at the Charlotte home of C.D. Spangler Jr., a retired banker and former president of the University of North Carolina system.
The fund-raiser, which raised $1.5 million, also was to benefit the campaign of GOP Rep. Richard Burr, running for the Senate against Erskine Bowles, former chief of staff to President Clinton.
From North Carolina, Bush was traveling to his family's compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. He leaves Sunday to visit hurricane damage in Alabama and Florida.
HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Politics
This article is: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/2801528
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; femalevoters; gwb2004; iraqiwomen; womensvote; wstandsforwomen
Not sure if anyone questions the title? Did it jive with the contents?
To: Former Military Chick
Where in the story does President Bush tell women to "Imagine better times in Iraq"?
To: MisterRepublican
thank you, I thought I was losing my eye sight.
To: Former Military Chick
AP is off its game. They forget to say that everybody booed.
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:19:46 PM PDT
by
Bonaparte
(and guess who sighs his lullabies, to nights that never end...)
To: Bonaparte; Chieftain; Ragtime Cowgirl; gatorbait; writer33; GreyFriar; americanmother; The Mayor; ..
You know, there should be consequences when you mislead with a title. imho
To: Former Military Chick
Yes, there should be. But AP doesn't care what's right. They only care about their leftist agenda and what they can get away with. They are just as far gone as CBS.
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posted on
09/18/2004 8:37:54 PM PDT
by
Bonaparte
(and guess who sighs his lullabies, to nights that never end...)
To: Former Military Chick
It makes me wonder if they don't write titles like that just to repress reading it.
To: Former Military Chick
Imagine better times in Iraq, Bush tells women
I'd rather imagine a stable personal economy, Jorge. Cut the crap on Free Trade and the invasion of illegals. I could care less about Iraq.
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