For Kerry, a Strategic Return to the Limelight

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Published: January 23, 2005


WASHINGTON — A new old face popped up in the Capitol last week, just in time for President Bush's second inauguration. John Kerry was back.

He had a prominent seat - front but not quite center - at Thursday's inaugural ceremony, where he gamely smiled when the Republican crowd on the National Mall booed his image on the giant television screen. Earlier in the week, he made headlines with his aggressive questioning of Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's nominee for secretary of state, and his announcement that he would vote against her.

Like an actress arriving fashionably late for the Academy Awards, Mr. Kerry's return to the Senate - two weeks after the new Congress got underway - seemed intended to make a splash, as well as meet the delicate problem of how to re-enter the same political theater as the president he fought so hard to unseat.

The last losing presidential contender to return to a prominent job in Washington was George McGovern, the Democratic senator who lost to Richard Nixon in 1972. Defeated presidents and vice presidents - Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush and Al Gore among them - quietly retreated to private life. Bob Dole, the Republican former senator who lost to President Clinton in 1996, became a pitchman for Viagra and Pepsi. Michael Dukakis, who lost to the first George Bush in 1988, went back to being governor of Massachusetts and wound up a pariah in his own party.

more: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/weekinreview/23stol.html

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Petty Attacks on John Kerry Do Not Impress Me.

Nor attacks on any other good Democrat who is working against the Bush agenda.

there are only one or two democrats who are working against the Bush agenda.

sure there are a handful more who are talking about it, but only one or two will actually vote against the fascist regime because they have no conviction..

..... helping ranchers secure their barn doors after their horses got out. "I plan to
introduce some strong Close the Barn Door, legislation when I return to the Capital."
The senator was quoted as saying. He is also reported to have sent a team of lawyers
to the Idaho countryside to look for hoof prints. Although the lawyers are not going
to leave downtown Boise but they will have their cell phones ready incase a quarter horse walks into the dinning room as they are eating and billing out at $225.00 per hour.

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actually redirected your energy towards exposing and fighting our real enemies, not dissing Senator Kerry.

......... at a Rally for Sen Kerry in October in Columbus, Ohio while at the same
time working 30 hours (for free) for him ..... sang along w/ the Boss "No Retreat, No
Surrender" .... felt a tear of pride on my face ...... put on the T shirt ....1/6/05 ......
and found out the Senator Kerry was not going to be in the Senate that day .....


Sure, I am more than willing to fight but when somebody promises to be there with you in the fight and he is not there when the fight starts you feel a little used.

Long Live the Boxer Rebellion

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He's going to be a force to be reckoned with, guaranteed.

I worked for him too, also for free, long hours (and somewhat benignly neglected my career and three kids to do it). I'd do it all over again.

I remember him well from my days marching and protesting the Vietnam War. I don't agree that he's abandoned any of us and please don't tell me I'm in denial because I'm not. If you know anything about Senator Kerry's modus operandi, he is prosecutorial, not flashy, but he is tenacious. Remember BCCI, that was a huge deal, integral in exposing Iran-Contra, and it wouldn't have happened without JK.

It is unbelievable to me that Kerry also voted and is voting nay right along with Barbara Boxer but she is a hero (and she is) and he is 'too little too late'. I heard BB interviewed and she said that it was agreed that only she needed to stand up and prompt the debate in Congress on January 6th. Kerry was in Iraq and meeting with world leaders in crucial efforts at diplomacy so sadly lacking in our own fearless leader. What a wuss huh!

ROFLMAO! :D

My mistake.

Buh-bye!

We should support him in that role, and help to keep him viable, regardless of our own presidential nominee preferences.

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you will find that it is quite fair to Kerry.