Kerry team slams reports VP Cheney had a flu shot
 

I know you all can read the news, but this pisses me off! Makes Kerry look like a fucking moron! I'm sure Kerry would be better for our industry.... or would he?

Kerry team slams reports VP Cheney had a flu shot

Wed Oct 20, 9:02 PM ET


PITTSBURGH, United States (AFP) - Senator John Kerry (news - web sites)'s presidential campaign slammed Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), a heart patient, over reports he had a flu shot, despite a shortage of the vaccine.


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The campaign complained that Treasury Secretary John Snow and Senate Majority leader Bill Frist also had jabs, despite Bush's advice that the young and healthy did not need to get an injection.


"Once again, the Bush administration proves that it is the 'do as we say, not as we do' White House," the campaign said in a statement issued in Pittsburgh where Kerry was campaigning.


"The very week that (health) secretary (Tommy) Thompson is telling Americans to keep calm, Dick Cheney, John Snow and Bill Frist are getting flu shots."


"It is unfortunate that the Bush administration failed to do the work necessary to ensure that all Americans, including those most at risk, had been able to get shots as well."


Cheney would fit into the government's definition of those most vulnerable to a looming influenza epidemic as he has a long history of heart disease.


Bush last week suggested in the final presidential debate that the young and healthy forgo the annual shot amid a shortage of vaccine that Kerry has blamed on the president's management of the health system.

WHAT, no hate mail?

yeah, anybody who gets a flu shot has to be bad

he's like 63, and has had almost as many heart attacks..

it was foolish for them to bring this up.

Oh for fuck's sakes! Can we get any more desperate for something to sling mud about? This just shows the level of stupidity our politicians are operating on. I'm going to go read something that actually has importance now.

Seriously, if anything they should have been bringing up the fact that because of his health he was one of the people that needed a flu shot.

ya no shit. :)