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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (551340)	3/12/2004 9:06:49 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769667

lol---some of those Kerry butt kissers are probably congratulating themselves about now...

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (551340)	3/12/2004 11:05:36 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

Another kiss of death for the stillborn campaign of the slimy traitor, John Kerry...

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (551340)	3/13/2004 6:14:43 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769667

Kerry has made clear that if he is elected president, the nation will never face a caveat shortage. He has established the foragainst method, which has enabled him to be foragainst the war in Iraq, foragainst the Patriot Act and foragainst No Child Left Behind. If you decide to vote for him this year, there would be a correctness in that judgment, but if you decide to vote for George Bush, that would also be correct. nytimes.com

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (551340)	3/13/2004 7:04:00 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Flip-Flop, Hedge and Straddle Thursday, March 11, 2004; Page A26 SEN. JOHN F. KERRY of Massachusetts, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, said last week that he would have saved Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide from forced exile. "I would have been prepared to send troops immediately, period," Mr. Kerry said in an interview with the New York Times. Purposeful and decisive, no doubt, and useful as a riposte to Republican portrayals of him as a waffler. But on Feb. 24, when Mr. Aristide's fate still hung in the balance, Mr. Kerry did not sound quite so decisive. He called then for the administration to "do more to preserve the democratic process" and to support a multilateral force including police from Caribbean nations and others. But the most he was ready to advocate in terms of U.S. troops was "a visible show of U.S. military force off the coast." That kind of bet-hedging helps explain the resonance of some of the partisan attacks on Mr. Kerry. But the hedging and subsequent grandstanding on Haiti raise the same question as do Mr. Kerry's campaign-trail straddles on a wide range of issues (trade, No Child Left Behind, the Patriot Act and more): Where are the bedrock principles that would guide him in office? Mr. Kerry's challenge over the coming months will be to convince voters that his decisions are informed by more than caution and political calculation. A president has to know when to send in the Marines, and when not to. Sending them halfway -- keeping them "visible" but "off the coast" -- isn't often going to be the right answer.