Clinton acts as warm up man for Kerry at convention

AS BILL Clinton basked in the spotlight yesterday at the opening of the Democratic convention, John Kerry visited Florida to press his case as to why voters should put him the White House in place of President George Bush.

“We need to push the curve of discovery,” the Democratic contender told workers at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral. “We need a President who believes in science and who’s prepared to invest America’s efforts to cure Parkinson’s and AIDS and diabetes and Alzheimer’s, and do stem cell research.”

Mr Kerry also appealed to Republicans and independents to “stop and think” about who they will vote for in November. There’s nothing conservative about “piling debt on the shoulders of our children and driving the deficits up as far as the eye can see,” he said.