Kerry: “If you can’t get flu vaccines to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bioterrorism? If you can’t get flu vaccines to Americans, what kind of health care program are you running?”
Bush: “We will not have an all-volunteer army.”
I like the use of the flu vaccine shortage as a central campaign issue as we approach the election. It touches everyone, it illustrates some of the things Kerry has been saying about the state of the American healthcare system, and, most importantly, the criticism is fair. Bush had been warned that there could be problem this year, and neither he nor Tommy Thompson took action. I just hope there isn’t footage out there somewhere of John Kerry getting a shot when Senators were told they could cut in line, in front of the sick and elderly. That’s the only thing, I think, that could turn this issue around on him.
As for Bush’s quote above, as he apparently didn’t mean to say it, it probably wouldn’t be fair, but someone really should use it in a commercial aimed at 18-24 year old voters.
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I saw that Bush comment earlier. The best part was that the crowd corrected him, he didn’t even realize what he had said.
I agree about the flu issue, especially when you consider that approx. 12,000 U.S. citizens die each year from the flu. Four times as many casualties as 9/11, each year.
I hope no one makes this point to W, though, or he might try to figure out how to “smoke out” the flu molecules and that could lead to quite a few casualties.
Round 2!!!
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