Positive Kerry article in the LA Times

See it here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-kerry18mar18,1,5081061.story?ctrack=3&cset=true

Not a word in today's Boston Globe. Sigh! The Senator is doing some of the best work of his career and nary a word in the hometown press. Even the idiots at the Boston Herald are running a lot of (snarky) articles. But not the Globe. Honestly, what do they have against Kerry? I can't figure it out. (Maybe if he took some steroids and went a little nuts at Fenway, the Globe might deign to notice. Sigh! Give the man a bat, a big bat and well, maybe he'll get some coverage.)

Ah well, I likes ya! :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

How sulky do the *'s defenders sound?

The White House declined to comment on the speech Kerry made Thursday, but took a swipe at his political aspirations in the process. "The president's not on the ballot in 2008," spokesman Trent Duffy said.

Wah, wah, wah.

I like this:

Kerry's tough words were the latest example of his rapid reemergence as a leading critic of Bush after the presidential contest.

Damn right!

Where do find good pols like that? Guys who won't roll over and play dead just because they had to take a bad punch in the last fight. Oh yeah, I'm feeling just full of pride today. :loveya:

(This is my gloat, I'm expressing hometown pride in strong and oblique terms so that it is acceptable to everyone else and won't seem like I'm bragging. Sigh! I think I'm a little unclear on this gloating thing. I'll work on it. BTW, I really love your Sens. too!)

I think they're pretty great too.

Stephanie Miller is playing a Hannity clip from last night, where he accuses Kerry of being "unhinged." Hahahahaha.

The more such quotes are prompted by Kerry's forcefulness, the better he knows his opposition is working!! Piss off the wingnuts!! Go, John!!

Kerry is a lot of things: Lucid, articulate, brilliant, insightful, knowledgeable, polite, well-mannered - he is probably the least unhinged person in the world.

Now, Bush - unhinged may be the kindest word to use. He sounds weird whenever he speaks, he frequently bruises his face, he makes funny faces.
Sen. Stevens - unhinged (Kerry didn't wear a Hulk tie - how much negative news would HE have gotten? ) and ranting and raving.

This is cool that they are so upset that Kerry won't go away or shut up. The funny thing is unhinged is so counter to his image that it can't work. If speaking in clear concise sentences saying things that are obviously truth and proposing sensible plans is unhinged, I think a lot of us would love to be as unhinged as Kerry.

I personally would love to rise to Kerry's level of unhinged-ness.

Stephanie Miller had a good laugh about it. She refers to him as the "cool, calm, and collected war hero."

He just seems to be incredibly stable and rational and able to make good split second decisions.

he is very smart and can write some very good and informative and very detailed articles on what is going on in politics. but seeing him on tv was a total turnoff.

"David Wade, a Kerry spokesman, said the nonprofit organization would attempt to "help Democrats reframe and take on issues," while the political action committee, called Keeping America's Promise, would focus on political organizing.

Kerry said the organizing effort would pattern itself after the 2004 Bush campaign.

"We had … millions of people traveling and … working and doing things," Kerry said of his campaign. "What we didn't have was enough local people in some places who were engaged in that effort. And you don't begin 4 1/2 , five months out. You begin now."'

VERY encouraging. :-)

I'd heard about the pac, of course... awhile back there was something about Kerry founding a 'thinktank'... I wonder if this is what that report was about...

I spend more time reading the Boston Globe, NY Times and WP than I do the LA Times and I live in LA.

Thanks Tay Tay!

I have an alert at work that combs all my global sources and compiles a list of articles with John Kerry' in them. If they are actually about KErry, I post.

"Mike, I take exception to your description of John Kerry as a puppet. He's been working his ass off these last few months to oppose the Bush Administration. He's been pushing for children's health care, aid for military families, truth in the media, election reform and now ANWR, speaking out over and over against the Bush Administration, voting against Condi, Gonzalez, that horrendous bankruptcy bill and other good votes.

Not all of us out here in liberal land were ABB in the last election. Some of us were honest to God Kerry supporters, and that support continues. And no, we're not puppets either. If you have access to the message boards at www.democraticunderground.com, there's a John Kerry supporter group that's quite active. Come up and see us sometime.

Aside from being somewhat hawkish (something I attribute in part to his background in the Iran/Contra and BCCI investigations), he has a quite progressive record. Try looking up his record on www.vote-smart.com and you'll see what I mean.

Here's an example of what I'm saying from a recent article of the LA Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-kerry18mar18,1,5081061.story?ctrack=3&cset=true

Kerry Intensifies Attack on Bush
# The senator continues to criticize the president's choices by disparaging World Bank and U.N. nominations and the proposed budget.

By Ronald Brownstein, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), continuing his sharp attacks on the man who beat him in last year's White House race, on Thursday denounced President Bush's budget and his recent nominations of leading conservatives to two high-profile foreign policy posts.

The budget Bush submitted to Congress failed to uphold basic values of "honesty, opportunity and responsibility," Kerry told the Center on National Policy, a Democratic think tank.

In response to a question, Kerry charged that Bush's nomination of Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank would undermine the administration's efforts to rebuild ties with allies frayed by strains over the war in Iraq.

"Here are two people who come to the jobs quite dismissive of the very fundamental purposes and engagements that those entities have been involved in, and it will be felt in the rest of the diplomacy of this administration," Kerry said.

(more)

Mike, you are a good and strong voice against the current administration. But what you said about John Kerry was both unfair and showed a certain lack of information on your part. I rather like to think of you, and we on the left, as being better than that. I hope you can recognize that Sen. Kerry is also trying to be a good and strong voice against Bush Co. as well, one that didn't deserve your comment.

Thanks for your time"

What do you guys think? I titled it "John Kerry is not a puppet."

Definitely makes your point and as others have pointed out some of the left wing bashers seemed to have softened their criticisms somewhat.

With the far left it may be that Kerry's UNWILLINGNESS to be THEIR puppet either in the 1970s or in the last few years is their real problem - although he is probably the closest to what they say they want of any possible candidate, they resent that he won't go further.

:thumbsup:

When is the left going to start going after Republicans instead of Democrats. I have disagreements with Dems all the time. But, dammit, a Dem Senate would be much, much better than a Rethug Senate. (ANWR never would have come up for a vote.)

I wish the Left would take aim at the true enemy. We need to be united and stop bickering of our guys. (Even Biden and Leiberman.)