Kerry, Edwards Blast Bush Over Katrina

I would vote for these two over the GWB admin any day, just like i did last november, but i'm not sure if a rehash will fly, but maybe that can help bolster another nomination...but who knows.

Almost everything they warned of has come to pass. Edwards repeatedly talked of the "two Americas" and of the poverty in this nation that is ignored by the current administration. Hurricane Katrina showed him to be right. Kerry and Edwards knew the problems, but Bush, Rove and the spin machine, constantly ridiculed them. Well, we are losing in Iraq, the national debt is astronomical and rising, Homeland Security is a farce, Karl Rove revealed the identity of a CIA officer during wartime, and the so-called president took 5 days to respond to dying Americans in the Gulf area. I'm glad I was in the 49% who recognized true leaders! I'd vote for them again!

to the people, on all sides, if Kerry/Edwards was the ticket for '08. The message would be that they are everything that this administration is not like competent, intelligent and compassionate.
Then I think, no, we need a new duo with fresh ideas.
Al Gore would work for me as well. Gore/Clark?
A Kerry/Edwards ticket has one huge plus...the repug smear campaign has used up all it's ammo. I like this idea more and more. Their first promise would be to install James Lee Witt as FEMA director.

Senators? I've heard there isn't as much of a rift between the two of you as a person might assume. If there is--kiss and make up, hmmm? We need you.

If Gore had picked Edwards instead of Loserman, we would probably have a different story today. But, sigh...here we are

But Al Gore could have run with Jesus himself, and the neocons still would have stolen the election in FLA.!!! Joe was good for Gore in Fla. because of the retired Jewish population, and Americans voting abroad. So please don't blame him for Gores' loss. I really think Al would have done much better, all over, with his base, if he had stuck to "It's the economy, Stupid" and not distanced himself from Clinton! A lot of Dems. here on DU may not care for big dog anymore, but he has a HUGE grassroots following. The African American population still adore him, as do middle income folks! (like I used to be 'til bush made me poor!!)

I just hope Democrats keep coming out against bush and this administration. Nothing wrong with kicking these idiots while they are down.

He spoke of going to the Kerry's home with the the 2 little kids and Teresa sending them home with cake for Elizabeth. I don't think there is any problem on a personal level.

I think Edwards will run for President. It's clearly what he is gearing up for and so is Kerry. Neither engaged in personal attacks last year and I would imagine it would hurt either one to do so. In Kerry's case, it would beg the question of why he chose him. In Edwards case, it would simply look tacky.

So there may be no reason to make up. I doubt Edwards would agree to running as the VP unless he was sure he had no chance for president.

It was a barn-burner. . .

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2005_09_19.html

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And the rush now to camouflage their misjudgments and inaction with money doesn’t mean they are suddenly listening. It's still politics as usual. The plan they’re designing for the Gulf Coast turns the region into a vast laboratory for right wing ideological experiments. They’re already talking about private school vouchers, abandonment of environmental regulations, abolition of wage standards, subsidies for big industries - and believe it or not yet another big round of tax cuts for the wealthiest among us!

The administration is recycling all their failed policies and shipping them to Louisiana. After four years of ideological excess, these Washington Republicans have a bad hangover -- and they can't think of anything to offer the Gulf Coast but the hair of the dog that bit them.

And amazingly -- or perhaps not given who we’re dealing with -- this massive reconstruction project will be overseen not by a team of experienced city planners or developers, but according to the New York Times, by the Chief of Politics in the White House and Republican Party, none other than Karl Rove -- barring of course that he is indicted for "outing" an undercover CIA intelligence officer.

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Kerry was already going to get. That said, there were many excellent hard hitting speeches that you had to watch CSPAN or read the Kerry blog (or other liberal sites) to see or read.

As corpses were still floating and lying around and still being found perhaps they were waiting for a respectful moment? Two weeks is just a drop in the bucket. Katrina will be with us for a long, long time.

he's done a lot of work to help Katrina victims. In addition, he issued a statement after Bush's speech on Thursday night. He's been doing alot...

but Edwards has been good in presenting an alternative plan for the Gulf region.

They do not support the war in Iraq! THey are supporting the troops who have to fight this evil war based on lies and greed for oil!! The only thing they supported was the Presidents right to go to war AS A LAST RESORT !! They were lied to, the same way all of us were lied to. They want our troops home safely as much as Cindy Sheehan does!! Kerry is the only one who's had our backs the whole time since the election, WHICH HE WON, was stolen from him! Think he can't do it again?? I KNOW HE CAN! If "tricky dick" got elected on the second try, John Kerry can, and will, do it too. He has "BULLDOG DETERMINATION" that no other Democrat has. You watch and see. Just last weekend he flew down to Baton Rouge with a planeful of supplies for the evacuees. Where was the press coverage for that??? I hear Bush is heading back down there again, maybe he'll meet up with Hurricane Rita!! He deserves WHATEVER HE GETS!!!

Tell me when YOU KNEW that they were lying. Did you know it when Colin Powell was presenting the case to the UN? Even HE thought it was true, only to find out that they made a "sucker out of him" The only thing Kerry did wrong was to give Bush the benefit of the doubt, when he voted to give the pResident the power to do things the right way, which I'm sure he (Kerry) would have expected and appreciated if he were the President!! Which by the way, HE IS!!

The arguments made by Powell had been debunked before he gave his UN performance. HE knew the arguments were crap, he wasn't suckered into anything.

but I still disagree with you. Personally I have never believed anything that has come out of bushes mouth!! I have a son-in law-, whom I love dearly, but he is a Preacher, and solid bushie but; after we went into Afghanistan, he couldn't for the life of him figure out, WHY bush was going into Iraq, because "thats not where Bin Laden is", and what did Iraq have to do with 9/11??? He was taken aback by how vehemently I spoke about "the pResident"!! He couldn't understand how I could hate anyone so much!! I'm wondering ( I haven't asked) how he feels about his pResident now? Sure we all suspected it was lies, but like I said previously most people would never have suspected just how devious and what a liar bush is!! A lot still can't fathom it, even here on DU!! When we try to convince them ,they don the tinfoil hats!! Remember, George Tenet was a part of the former Dem. Administration. Could it be that The senators and House were all "hoodwinked" by the mis- intelligence that came from the CIA? I have a son who insisted that Bush must know something that he can't let the Americans know, and we shouldn't be so quick to judge!! Yeah, right!!! Until I joined DU, I lacked a lot of the inside information that the MSM wasn't talking about. It was Keith Olbermann that opened up my eyes, then came the Downing St memos, then Plame, etc. etc. I don't think The politicians on the Hill have time to read all the stuff we have at our disposal these days. I said all this to ask you, WHY DON"T you all just give Kerry the benefit of the doubt?? I don't think it would kill ya! Bush will do that first. Whoever runs in 2008 against the Repuke machine won't stand a chance in hell unless we the the VOTING RIGHT! We should all be thinking about 2006 first and foremost, because we need a balance in power just in case we do get stuck with bush til his term is up!!!

I dont think Kerry or these others has a chance next time because of their steadfast war support. This will hang around their necks for good.

drop in the polls. Past bush supporters are more open to criticism of the pRresident, launching much of that criticism themselves.

Kerry/Edwards have a captive audience right now.

Watch the RW talking heads start calling Dems whiners and nay-sayers again. Don't think it will do Shrub much good this time around as people's own thoughts and feelings are beginning to correlate with many on the Dem side.

Not really - less than a minute or two of coverage for all the Democrats (except Bill Clinton). These are both strong speeches - but neither was given much press. To my knowledge, neither even made CSPAN.

"I can keep you safe and they can't?" Kerry/Edwards should be in office now.

It turns out that Cheney has not at all prepared the country for a natural or man-made disaster. And whatever the Yale boy was supposed to do, either.

Well worth reading - the whole thing. He tells it like it is and has a genuine understanding of what is wrong in this country today.

But it looks like Kerry followed Gore into Liberal Rehab and took the "I just lost an election I shouldn't have lost" Treatment. Who's next?

I'm sure the democrats will jump on this and keep it going.

They dang well better!

Let 'em have it boys!!!:patriot:

I miss last year. :(

*sigh*

Speaking of Bushvilles

Mobile Home Industry Waiting on FEMA By BILL POOVEY, Associated Press Writer
Mon Sep 19, 5:28 PM ET



WHITE PINE, Tenn. - Manufacturers are gearing up to produce cities of mobile homes for Hurricane Katrina victims, but 10 days after the federal government received their proposals to address the housing emergency, the companies are still waiting for a response.

"A lot of people are waiting," said Phyllis Knight, executive vice president and chief financial officer for Champion Enterprises Inc., a mobile home manufacturer based in Auburn Hills, Mich.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency set a Sept. 9 deadline for mobile home makers to submit bids. But FEMA spokesman Butch Kinerney said there has been a delay because the agency's parent, the Department of Homeland Security, has yet to approve a housing plan.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050919/ap_on_bi_ge/katrina_manufactured_housing;_ylt=AtXev6PTaMP2ff0m_9JMawWb.HQA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3bGI2aDNqBHNlYwM3NDk-

...if John Kerry had been in the White House, the aid to New Orleans would have arrived as soon as the storm left. Not like what did happen: it got there after b**h left his vacation.

I'd vote for Kerry again. Heck, we won the election anyway, but too many people think it ended up fair and square. What's it gonna take to get them thinking right?

Might I get arrested for randomly sticking them to bumpers in the grocery store parking lot?

Kerry has been busy on the Senate floor, pushing for legislation to "watch our backs"!!! He's been to Iraq and back, and been so many places speaking on behalf of our UNDER INSURED CHILDREN!! Just because the MSM doesn't cover all of his activities, doesn't mean it hasn't happened. I've heard it said on the Kerry Forum, that he's so many places, at what seems like the same time, he must have one or two "CLONES" out there!! As for John Edwards? He been tending to his family and his presious wife who is recovering from cancer. In addition, he is teaching, and speaking all over the country about the "TWO AMERICAS" So I would say they've been pretty busy, out there WATCHING OUR BACKS!! I think we owe it to them, to WATCH THEIRS!!
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Kerry's is certainly much more critical of the Bush administrations failures overall,detailing their many shortcomings, and Edwards takes a humanitarian approach by associating poverty with response.I don't think they planed to give their speeches on the same day, it just worked out that way. Interesting, perhaps we have a tag team.