Look, if people think in this election, if they think about the choices that have been made and the vision John Kerry offers, we win. Therefore, the [Repubicans] have to get people to stop thinking. And they're real good at that. And we already see what they do. They've gotta turn John Kerry from a three-dimensional human being into a two-dimensional cartoon. And its what they know to do.

So now they say, you all can't vote for John Kerry. He's too liberal and he won't stand up for America. Well this is what I have to say about their cartoon charges. First of all, how do you define liberal? All I know is when I tried to reform the welfare system we tried to cut the roles by more than 50 percent. We had the lowest welfare roles in over 30 years and John Kerry voted for it, and spoke for it, and stood for it.

John McCain voted against several defense budgets when Al and I were in the White House. No one ever accused John McCain of compromising the security of America. Get off my back. That's another one of those bogus ads that they can't wait to run because they don't want people to think.

Now, here's what I know about John Kerry. In the Vietnam era which marked us all, most young men, including the President, the Vice President, and me, most of us should've gone to Vietnam and didn't go. And John Kerry said, send me.

Then when it was all over and it was time to heal up and normalize relations with Vietnam, if would could get an accounting, a full accounting of all of our POWs and MIAs and we needed somebody who's been there to stand up and take a leadership role, John Kerry said, send me.