Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 12:25 am:

President Bush's leadership in winning the war on terrorism has been remarkable. After September 11, President Bush acted decisively to rout Al Qaeda, and America is safer as a result. He continues to wage the global war on terror with focus and determination

America is winning the war on terror. After September 11, President Bush acted decisively to rout Al Qaeda from their hiding places, and America is safer as a result. He continues to wage the global war on terror with focus and determination. Our military proceeded with skill and bravery to liberate the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, and ensure that weapons of mass destruction never find their way into the hands of terrorists.

President Bush understands that we must give our military all the support it needs. He has increased defense spending in all of his budgets to give our servicemen and women the resources and the advanced technology they need to face today's threats. This President is providing the strong leadership America needs.

Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 3:02 pm:

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I'm running for President to put jobs back at the top of our national agenda.

I'm running for President because the right to organize is a basic right for American workers and it should never be weakened, never be curtailed, never be taken away.

I'm running for President to make our public schools a focus for excellence not a photo-op for tomorrow's front pages -- and I am going to criss-cross this country and hold George Bush accountable for making a mockery of the words 'Leave No Child Behind.'

I'm running for President because instead of spending $50,000 a year for a young person's jail cell, we should be investing $10,000 a year for a young person's future with early childhood education, child care, Head Start, Smart Start, Healthy Start, a real start on the road to full citizenship.

I'm running for President because it is long since overdue that the United States of America stops being the only industrialized nation on this planet that doesn't have health care available for all of its citizens. I'm running to make health care in America a right and not a privilege - to bring costs under control and to cover the uninsured.

I am running for President because we have to stand up to Republican attempts to strip the very security out of our Social Security.

I'm running for President to make America energy independent - to secure our nation, protect our environment, and create jobs.

I am running for President because polluters shouldn't be calling the shots in this White House. We need make sure our families have clean water to drink and clean air to breathe. And arsenic in drinking water is not an environmental policy; it is an environmental obscenity.

And I am running for President because after September 11th, we need a President who has the experience and the vision to make this country safer, stronger and more secure.

Throughout this last century, Democrats have been the party that provided Americans with security at home. We're the party of economic security - of the minimum wage, of workplace safety, of the right to organize. And we're the party of retirement security - of Medicare and Social Security.

But we have also been the party of national security - of the tough-minded strategy of international engagement and leadership forged by Wilson and Roosevelt in two world wars and championed by Truman and Kennedy in the Cold War.

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