MyDD :: John Kerry defending Murtha on GMA

John Kerry defending Murtha on GMA

by Paul Goodman, Sun Nov 20, 2005 at 05:21:16 PM EST

Ran across this link to JFK on Good Morning America on the Daou Report.

[http://www.abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1328763]

My take below:

I love John Kerry. I think he is a great man and a good man. I weep when I consider America is losing four years it doesn't have because it chose The Modern Commodus over Kerry. Nevertheless John still owes me four years. What he is doing on the Soccer Mom show Good morning America is what he needs to do every single day: take the fight to the public square (not C-Span) and turn his boat into the fire!

Pique 1: Kerry should have pointed out that the 403-3 vote was against a sham Republican ploy. The Soccer Mom reporter (God bless her soul) wasn't keen enough to realize that. She couldn't have made the error if all the Dems abstained!. This is why I lambasted Pelosi. You have to be smart. You have to be a chessmaster in this game. Lives are on the line. The fate of the world is on the line. The 90s-style "End of History" politicians have to be removed. Soccer Moms don't have a clue about the actual sequence of events: they only know the headlines (if you are lucky). Rove figured this out long ago. Why is Pelosi continuing to be schooled by him?

Pique 2: Kerry keeps advocating the phased withdrawal plan. John. Buddy. It's over. It has been over. Whether it's phased over eighteen months or immediate, Iraq will be what Iraq will be. Don't you see that? Don't you see that you can't ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? You of all people should know that.

If we pull out gradually we expose what troops that do remain to ever worsening military odds. They may still be there, but they will only be hunkering down in their base camps as Iraq becomes what Iraq will become. Don't try to split the middle: there isn't any middle anymore.

Praise 1: As I watch this, I ask myself (as I do every day) how in hell could people pull the lever for Bush, when John Kerry is clearly the better man!? I mean, even a "conservative" has to have some honor, some pride, some love of country and his fellow man!

EDIT: Here is a Kucinich clip. [http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/kucinichnov18republicanstunt.wmv]

This is what JFK feels, why not just say it? Is he afraid of The People? Screw The People.

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Thanks. Kerry is SO MUCH the better man. (none / 0)

btw, for those who missed them, Kerry had several appearances last week:

Tavis Smiley 11/16
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200511/

CNN: The Situation Room 11/17
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1191

Hardball 11/17
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1190

NPR's News & Notes with Ed Gordon 11/18
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1199

Those are just the ones I know about.

by MH in PA on Sun Nov 20, 2005 at 06:07:28 PM EST

I agree on both counts (none / 0)

Kerry is now doing what he should have started doing in 2004, which was state the obvious, "How DARE you challenge the patriotism and fitness for command of a person who bled for his country at war?" I'd really like to have a real "come to Jesus" discussion with whomever Kerry's campaign manager was. It was really sad to see him muzzled so, how much was the candidate and how much was the campaign management I can't say, but he's definitely opened up more in the Senate after the election. Although not in the Senate, the same could be said for Al Gore who after "sulking off to grow a beard" has come back to be one of the loudest, most vocal voices for the things that really matter. And talk about ON POINT, Al has really had alot to say about some of the things that need to be said, like the manipulation of the media, spinning the argument, attack style politics, ect. On the subject of war heroes and polticians, what the hell's with Nancy Pelosi? I'm gonna write her a letter. Oh by the way, i DID write a letter to my local paper, the Austin American Statesman about their slanted coverage of the GOP's "Murtha amendment", I'd suggest everyone else do the same

by billydanielus on Mon Nov 21, 2005 at 03:28:40 AM EST

Kerry's not that impressive (none / 0)

I know this much: given the piss poor job Kerry did defending himself during the election, if I were Jack Murtha I'd beg Kerry to take his bullseye somewhere else.

by jcjcjc on Mon Nov 21, 2005 at 07:50:50 AM EST

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