{"id":267,"date":"2004-10-20T23:08:39","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T04:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=267"},"modified":"2004-10-20T23:10:36","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T04:10:36","slug":"kerry-team-slams-reports-cheney-had-flu-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Team Slams Reports Cheney Had Flu Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, now the Kerry camp is just pathetic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Senator John Kerry’s presidential campaign slammed Vice President Dick Cheney, a heart patient, over reports he had a flu shot, despite a shortage of the vaccine.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John Kerry may become our president. It would be a travesty if it comes to fruition, as it would be the based on the sleaziest campaign I can remember, a campaign of lies, innuendo and defeatism, seemingly sanctioned and propped up by the mainstream media. Now, are they actually trying to garner political gain from a flu vaccination administered to a 63-year-old key government official with a history of heart ailments? I repeat, pathetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, now the Kerry camp is just pathetic. Senator John Kerry’s presidential campaign slammed Vice President Dick Cheney, a heart patient, over reports he had a flu shot, despite a shortage of the vaccine. The campaign complained that Treasury Secretary John Snow and Senate Majority leader Bill Frist also had jabs, despite Bush’s advice that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-04","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}