Ouch! Neva Caucus intimdation story blogger slammed on DKos

The situation is not as black and white as liberal blogger Taylor Marsh says it is. Marsh did not respond to an e-mail seeking an interview. Here are some questions the Sun sought to ask her.

1) Marsh did not identify the eyewitness to the Paris incident as a Clinton supporter. Why not?

2) Marsh did not include any interview with the actual alleged victim, Sylvia Antuna. Why not? In an interview with the Sun, Antuna said the incident may have been more misunderstanding than intimidation.

3) Did Marsh attempt to reach the Culinary Union to get its response to the allegation? If not, why not?

4) Last year, Marsh accepted money from the Association of Federal, State, City and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), to blog at a Democratic event. AFSCME has endorsed Clinton and is a longtime ally of the Clinton family. Has Marsh taken payment from AFSCME recently? If so, how much?

Phone calls galore yesterday, ranging over all different types of subjects. But one conversation out of the blue stunned me.





Oh God. This had to be a joke. You're kidding, I assumed. No. It's for real. Even worse is that the person to whom I was speaking gave me the impression that John Kerry didn't get the irony, or rather, the lunacy in his statement. I got a good cackle out of it. I also hadn't intended to write one word about it. Then Kerry let fly on Clinton, through a cold-call no less, to Nevada reporter Jon Ralston. Via the Las Vegas Sun, which I posted yesterday, Kerry spoke about Obama: "He produced one of the most significant ethics reform bills we passed. He has been a legislator longer than Hillary Clinton." And then this zinger: "Health care didn't pass in 1994 if I recall."

Now this is where this gets ugly for me. John Kerry is a bona fide war hero, someone who I have supported, admired, met and... but this just tears it. To hear him talk about a failure of someone else's considering his football field of flaws from the 2004 election stuns me into abject disbelief.

Adlai's ghost is going to teach the next generation's Adlai, Mr. Hope, how to fight?

Excuse me while I pick myself off the floor, dust myself off, then try to immediately rip from my mind the flashing memories of the disaster that became the 2004 campaign, which ended with Kerry losing a presidential election that was the easiest gimme in political history. No, in world history. Nah, in the history of universes, galaxies and beyond. That John Kerry could actually hand George W. Bush a win in 2004 defies all political competency when you look at the ammunition we had to run on. Kerry faced the most incurious, stubborn, ill-informed, misdirected, incompetent man to ever live in the White House. A war so mismanaged that the entire country was about to explode. A film by Michael Moore that made the case against George W. Bush for us. Money-Money-Money. And a Texan who half of America detested and who originally rode into Washington backwards on a lame mule with the help of the Supreme Court. But Kerry allowed himself, the Democratic party and the American people to be taken to the cleaners, because John Kerry served up one political gaffe gift after another.





When this beauty was unleashed with a straight face I and no doubt millions of others said If we lose this election, this is the reason. Too bad Mr. Kerry wasn't content with that monumental screw up. Instead, this quote became the model for stumble after stumble. He became the political nightmare that kept on giving and giving until many activists working on his behalf watched him on television with a bottle of booze and one eye half closed waiting for another whopper to drop from his privileged puss. Sadly, it always did.

But in a peak of amnesia that rivals any case in the most vaunted medical journals, John Forbes Kerry has the audacity to cold-call a reporter in an upcoming caucus state to talk about Clinton's 1994 health care failure. Mr. Kerry is fortunate I have a heart, because if I went back and listed all of his failures during the 2004 election (not to mention his 2006 beauties) we'd be here until after Super Tuesday and he's back in Massachusetts fighting for his political life because he opened his mouth once too often.

This is the same guy who sat on his privileged posterior while Swift Boat Veterans for Truth took him to the cleaners in the press, creating free media across the landscape of the United States, right after the Democratic convention that was a love fest of nauseating proportions without one iota of contrast drawn between Democrats and Republicans, because somebody had the bright idea that going negative would be a no-no. So right after he accepted the nomination, what happened? The swiftboaters went straight into Kerry's bona fide war hero status, while he sat back and... ... ... and... ... ... did absolutely nothing because he actually believed the American people would never buy their bull because after all he was John Kerry Democratic Nominee For President, while the rest of us twisted in the wind waiting for this guy to do something.

Instead, Kerry let weeks and weeks go by until the narrative was sewn into the fabric of the traditional media, while people like me, before I went to blogging, busted my butt in abject obscurity but with the passion of a well paid pol, putting out the real story of his amazing heroism, of which to this day I stand in awe, which is why this latest event from Mr. Oh God What Will He Say Next has me in such a fury.

And now John Kerry wants to teach another Democratic presidential nominee how to fight?

Watch out if he asks you to go wind surfing.

And no Democrat I know has ever gotten over Ohio. The sight of all those voters waiting in line for all those hours still haunts me. But to Mr. Kerry it couldn't have been won. What about fighting because the fight needed to be waged? What about standing up for the voters whether you win or not? I guess saving your own prestige and presidential hopes was more important. Fighting for Ohio to some of us was as elemental as fighting in 2000. It was the same issue, different year, same opponents, a message still needing to be delivered. Ask John Edwards. But instead Kerry folded, leaving all of those voters, the Democratic party and the American people hung out to dry in the Ohio cold. How fitting that Kerry's new protégé agreed with him.





Two political peewees in a kumbaya pod.

Now the ghost of Adlai of one generation has endorsed the Adlai of another. How perfect.

I've got one word for Mr. Obama: run.

God save us from Adlai's ghosts. The world can't afford another Republican.

John Kerry has endorsed Barack Obama. Sorry, but this is just classless. John Kerry didn't even tell Edwards he was going to endorse Obama. Is all manner of, well, manners ignored now? I didn't understand why Gore didn't tell Lieberman first either and I'm no fan of Joe, believe me. Of course, there is no rule on this, but when you go through the fire of a presidential campaign, it isn't a small event you're united in. Evidently Kerry tried to reach him but blah-blah-blah.





I've had the pleasure of talking to John Kerry and dealt closely with his team before the 2006 elections. He is a true American patriot. So I don't say this lightly. It also doesn't have anything to do with Kerry not endorsing Hillary Clinton. But frankly, his nod is the last thing she needs.





Rush is an incoherent bloviating gasbag. Alert the media.

But these establishment endorsements are just silly, even insulting. It's long past time to begin unsubscribing from all of these DC Democrats who use their mailing lists to push the Democratic faithful into thinking that their opinion is more important than what the people think. These mailing lists are also the remnants of the big old boy network that gang up on candidates The Establishment has decided aren't passing muster. John Edwards comes to mind.

Edwards has a passionate agenda. He deserved better than this from John Kerry.

Most of us ignore these mailers. Instead, it's time to start unsubscribing and taking the power away from people like John Kerry who wield it through his mailing list from the last presidential election.

Message sent, received, and totally rejected.



UPDATE II: Kerry doesn't want a certain female to win the nomination. Via the LV Sun:





UPDATE: This is just too priceless not to share. From reader PamelaB on Kerry endorsing Obama.:




Ouch.