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Sen. Bob Kerrey Campaigns For Kentucky Democrats |
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Posted by -Chuck
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Sunday, 26 October 2008 |
Kerrey leads day of campaigning for Lunsford, Boswell; defends Obama
By: Trey Pollard
Radcliff, Ky - Former Democratic U.S. Sen. and Nebraska Gov. Bob Kerrey took to the trail today along with a slate of high-profile Democrats to campaign for Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford (D-Louisville), 2nd Congressional District candidate and state Sen. David Boswell (D-Owensboro), and other local Democratic candidates.
Kerrey ripped Lunsford's opponent - U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) - for a vote against the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act - or Webb G.I. Bill - of 2008. That legislation was an effort to provide funding for college costs to Iraq War veterans.
"I thought that bill would pass 100-0 in the Senate. Mitch McConnell was one of 22 that voted ‘no,'" said Kerrey at a rally in Radcliff. "I would not support Mitch McConnell just on that basis."
Calling Lunsford's race against McConnell the "most important election" in the country behind the Presidential election, Kerrey's appearance in a school gymnasium in Radcliff was one of several on the day he was making with Lunsford and Boswell and other local Democrats.
Kerrey also was one of several speakers in Radcliff to praise Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. At one instance, Kerrey said he had to "respectfully disagree" with comments made by Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.).
Last Sunday in Seattle, Biden delivered some remarks that Republican presidential candidate John McCain has seized upon.
"Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. . . . I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he's gonna need help," said Biden at the time.
Kerrey took exception to that sentiment, arguing the election of Obama would change world attitudes of the United States after in the wake of the Bush Administration
"It's far more likely that the rest of the world would start cooperating with the United States," said Kerrey.
"It's far more likely that this country is going to be safer with a President Obama than its going to be with a President McCain," added Kerrey to the cheers of about seventy to eighty attendees.
Kerrey was joined in Radcliff by an array of Democrats. In addition to Boswell and Lunsford, Gov. Steve Beshear, former Gov. John Y. Brown, Jr., former U.S. Sen. Dee Huddleston, state Rep. Jimmie Lee (D-Elizabethtown), former state Rep. and again a candidate, Mike Weaver (D-Radcliff), and former U.S. Sen. candidate Greg Fischer (D-Louisville).
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