President Weighs in On Kerry (washingtonpost.com): "Bush 'begins his campaign on his back foot, because his job ratings are down and his personal image has suffered' because of questions about his National Guard service and the absence of the weapons of mass destruction he had said were stockpiled in Iraq.
In a head-to-head matchup, Kerry beat Bush by 52 percent to 43 percent among registered voters in a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Feb. 12. His job approval rating was 50 percent, down from 71 percent on April 30, two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein's government.
... Bush, saying he looks forward to a spirited campaign, spent much of the speech defending and boasting about what he called "a record of historic achievement." He promised to "win our second term."

"A president needs to step up and make the hard decisions and keep his commitments, and that is how I will continue to lead our country," Bush said. "Great events will turn on this election. The man who sits in the Oval Office will set the course of the war on terror and the direction of our economy."

And that is why regime change--vote democratic in Nov. folks, unless you want eternal war and impoverishment.
- posted by geoff @ #