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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (19053)	4/29/2004 12:12:00 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Its About Time commondreams.org

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (19053)	4/29/2004 9:42:33 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Evidently the story broke over the weekend before the GMA appearance on Monday. I get the impression that you're defending Kerry for the way he went on the attack during the interview. Essentially the "Republicans started it." The truth is that this has been a campaign of attacks on both sides. The Democratic primary process was a bash Bush fest from start to end. You engage in that stuff, you have to be able to take it. I'm focusing on Kerry's personal mistakes. He came off like a small person. Childish and petulant. Since I admittedly haven't liked him from the outset, this doesn't surprise me. I think it bespeaks his true nature. However, I don't think that my impression of his behavior was necessarily colored (at least not too much--gg) by my dislike of the man. I'm a trial lawyer and have both prosecuted and defended many civil suits. There have been times when I defended people I disliked or where I had to put the best face on their behavior. I'm therefore accustomed to looking at actions from that POV and evaluating how average people ( e.g. juries) will look at a situation. In injury cases with bad injuries, smart plaintiff lawyers don't have the injured plaintiff go on and on about the effect of the injuries on day to day life. Instead, they have the wife/husband/child/brother whatever come in and describe the devastating differences. This makes the plaintiff look like a stalwart, not a whiner. Kerry came off as a whiner, even though he claimed it was all a tempest in a teapot (no big "wound") When it's "no big wound" and a lot of whining at trial, plaintiffs are usually sent home packing in a hurry. Nobody likes a whiner.