…and my sincere thanks for her service to our country. Senator John Kerry had his shot - and it was wide of the mark when it should have been a bullseye.
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…and my sincere thanks for her service to our country. Senator John Kerry had his shot - and it was wide of the mark when it should have been a bullseye.
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I don’t know, I think Kerry, in the end, was a fine candidate but for one brief moment when he blew his entire integrity on the war by saying he would have voted for it knowing what he knew now. That was just asinine.
Posted 24 Jan 2005 at 11:12 pm ¶I think Glenn is right. It was a poor attempt at triangulation that just sounded phony. Just once, I would have loved to hear him say that George Bush lied about Iraqi WMD and if he had told the truth, he wouldn’t have voted to authorize the war. Kerry had some great ideas, he just communicated them poorly.
I would like to see him or any other Dem. sponsor a resolution to revoke Bush’s authority. Jeebus, show some spine for heaven’s sake.
Posted 25 Jan 2005 at 8:38 am ¶Kerry had a lot of problems, the biggest of which was not showing spine - particularly at the end, when Kerry claimed counting every vote in Ohio was important - but immediately conceded the election anyway. To me that was an unforgettable slap in the face - he wouldn’t even fight for his own legitimate votes - selling out his supporters and making a mockery of the later process where Barbara Boxer stood up against certification as a sacrificial lamb. Kerry failed to use his excess primary money to help fellow Democrats in tight races in 2004 - again failing to make a difference where he could have. Kerry failed to properly address his Vietnam record, despite having dealt with it his entire political career, something that is politics 101 (did he think they’d actually forget what they had plagued him with for decades?). Finally, as mentioned by both of you, he failed to properly address Iraq (first by his votes, then by his hindsight description of them).
Democrats needed a presidential candidate that would do more than just show up for duty in 2004. Kerry, despite the unprecedented help of 527 groups like A.C.T., The Media Fund and Moveon.org, despite outspending Bush, despite battling a president that was demonstrably wrong and disastrous on most issues - despite running in a race that was very much John Kerry’s to lose - despite all this Kerry served without distinction. That was not good enough - and it is not good enough. I don’t believe John Kerry deserves a second chance.
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