Day 53: Kerry

[memphis]

Pretty good senator. Terrible presidential candidate.

[adam]

On my list of worthless people in the senate, he recently bumped Barbara Boxer for the top spot.

[Gabu]

Pretty good senator.

Well, actually, he forgot Poland.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Pretty good senator. Terrible presidential candidate.

[Rob]

He voted to authorize use of force against Iraq solely to further his political career. That doesn't exactly endear him to me, and his reputation for liberalism is overblown in any case.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

A clueless Presidential candidate who has said some really dumb sh**t.... but IMO, a great man with good character.  Hey, it takes a lot to be some rich kid who decides they're gonna send themselves over to a bloodbath like Vietnam out of love for their country.  He followed it up by doing everything he could to correct that massive mistake we got ourselves into. 

Freedom Fighter....no doubt. 

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

He voted to authorize use of force against Iraq solely to further his political career. That doesn't exactly endear him to me, and his reputation for liberalism is overblown in any case.

I disagree, I think a lot of good, smart people voted for that resolution, their only mistake being putting their trust in our President.  Sad really. 

[CPT MikeyMike]

I usually don't do this to people but he deserves it...

He is total scum. By far the worst Senator in the current congress (Frist had that honor in '06).

I don't understand why the Democrats nominated him of all people. You know what you were going to get with Dean or Edwards or Clinton. Kerry is a total flip-flopping fraud.

Furthermore his comments about the military and the educated is a total slam on our Soldier and myself. It was total disrespect to our armed forces. Most Soldiers (including myself) would love to punch him in the nose about that comment. Thank god most people realize now he is a has-been.

Bottom line: I prefer any Senator over him.  As much as I dislike Barney Frank or John Oliver, I would prefer them as a Senator over Kerry because you know what you will get with them even if it is horrible stuff.

P.S I promise that this will be the only Senator I will be this critical on. Unless Jim Jeffords or Bill Frist comes back.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I never saw his 'liberalism'. I thought he was a very conservative candidate actually. (Ignoring the hot button issues of Abortion and gays, which aren't really important at all.)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I never saw his 'liberalism'. I thought he was a very conservative candidate actually. (Ignoring the hot button issues of Abortion and gays, which aren't really important at all.)

If he'd ignored those issues, and moved to the left on everything else he'd have won so...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I never saw his 'liberalism'. I thought he was a very conservative candidate actually. (Ignoring the hot button issues of Abortion and gays, which aren't really important at all.)

And you want to abolish public schools.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I never saw his 'liberalism'. I thought he was a very conservative candidate actually. (Ignoring the hot button issues of Abortion and gays, which aren't really important at all.)

If he'd ignored those issues, and moved to the left on everything else he'd have won so...

But that would meant lesser corporate funding to himself and the DLC.. and that would just not do.

You think had, say, Gephardt, been the nominee we would looking at a President Gephardt now?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Furthermore his comments about the military and the educated is a total slam on our Soldier and myself. It was total disrespect to our armed forces. Most Soldiers (including myself) would love to punch him in the nose about that comment.

Oh geez. The comment was aimed at Bush. He just forgot one word and should've said "get US stuck in Iraq". It was hardly intended as an insult to the military and you'd have to be an idiot to take it as one after this has been clarified a million times.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I never saw his 'liberalism'. I thought he was a very conservative candidate actually. (Ignoring the hot button issues of Abortion and gays, which aren't really important at all.)

And you want to abolish public schools.

And Dare I ask, What does that have to do with Anything to do with Senator John Kerry?

[CPT MikeyMike]

Furthermore his comments about the military and the educated is a total slam on our Soldier and myself. It was total disrespect to our armed forces. Most Soldiers (including myself) would love to punch him in the nose about that comment.

Oh geez. The comment was aimed at Bush. He just forgot one word and should've said "get US stuck in Iraq". It was hardly intended as an insult to the military and you'd have to be an idiot to take it as one after this has been clarified a million times.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda! Once he said it, he opened the can of worms. Clearing it after the fact was like Lott's comments in 2002. He made his bed and now he lies in it.

[Gabu]

Furthermore his comments about the military and the educated is a total slam on our Soldier and myself. It was total disrespect to our armed forces. Most Soldiers (including myself) would love to punch him in the nose about that comment.

Oh geez. The comment was aimed at Bush. He just forgot one word and should've said "get US stuck in Iraq". It was hardly intended as an insult to the military and you'd have to be an idiot to take it as one after this has been clarified a million times.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda! Once he said it, he opened the can of worms. Clearing it after the fact was like Lott's comments in 2002. He made his bed and now he lies in it.

It seems to me that it's one thing to assert he messed up, but it's another thing to continue to claim he meant something by his comments that he clearly didn't.

[Joe Republic]

P.S I promise that this will be the only Senator I will be this critical on. Unless Jim Jeffords or Bill Frist comes back.

Whoa whoa whoa, do not speak ill of Jim Jeffords.

[CPT MikeyMike]

P.S I promise that this will be the only Senator I will be this critical on. Unless Jim Jeffords or Bill Frist comes back.

Whoa whoa whoa, do not speak ill of Jim Jeffords.

You mean BENEDICT Jeffords?

[Joe Republic]

Hey, I strongly admire him for removing one-party control of all three branches of government, if only temporarily.  I also admire him for being relatively close to myself on the issues, and also for being an official Independent.

I'm getting off-topic here, but Jeffords won't be getting one of these threads, so I may as well say it here.  (The topic of John Kerry has been done to death anyway.)

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Pretty good senator. Terrible presidential candidate.

[JSojourner]

An American hero, a great Senator, a horrible candidate who nonetheless would have made a great President.  A truly decent human being as well.

While I feel America completely missed the boat in not electing him, I am still glad he has taken himself out of the 2008 mix.  Now, Kerry can get back to work on fighting for the liberal values that made our nation great.

And yes.  I do think he looks like Lerch.  <shrug>  Beats Alfred E. Newman any day...  <grin>

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I never saw his 'liberalism'. I thought he was a very conservative candidate actually. (Ignoring the hot button issues of Abortion and gays, which aren't really important at all.)

And you want to abolish public schools.

And Dare I ask, What does that have to do with Anything to do with Senator John Kerry?

That it's rather silly you're accusing people of being insufficiently liberal on issues other than abortion and gays, since that actually describes you fairly well.

[Alcon]

Considering that abolishment of public schools is not a popular enough political idea to be valid, it would be irrelevant in a presidential vote, BRTD.  And where did he say it was an accusation?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I never saw his 'liberalism'. I thought he was a very conservative candidate actually. (Ignoring the hot button issues of Abortion and gays, which aren't really important at all.)

And you want to abolish public schools.

And Dare I ask, What does that have to do with Anything to do with Senator John Kerry?

That it's rather silly you're accusing people of being insufficiently liberal on issues other than abortion and gays, since that actually describes you fairly well.

Ignoring my views on Education; I still don't know what Kerry's supposed liberal views were on any of the major issues, he supported the Iraq War though and was not very clear what he would do different (in regards to the war) if President due to his fuddy-duddiness, the Democratic platform on issues such as the Enviorment was weak. Where was Kerry's supposed liberalism? With views he put in the election he would belong in any mainstream European conservative party. (And I felt the same way about Gore and Clinton aswell. Though Gore less so.)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

He wanted to repeal Bush's tax cuts and to say he had the same position as Bush on the war is pretty ridiculous.