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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (754)	1/6/2007 9:34:25 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

You haven't come up with a single person who is writing about Kerry. And "loved by millions". LOL!! Another howler from AS. But here's someone who's just written about Kerry... KERRY'S MISSTEPS THE SPINE BLOG [TNR] Franklin Delano Roosevelt believed that America had a rendezvous with destiny. What is wrong with John F. Kerry is that he seems to believe that it is he who has a rendezvous with destiny. One of his good friends should tell him, as this culture endlessly advises other obsessed people, "to come to closure." Put it behind you. You will not be president of the United States. At least then, Kerry will not feel obliged to write, as he did Thursday in The Boston Globe, a fatuous and ignorant article , "A Crucial Time For Saving Lebanon's Fragile Democracy," which I cannot believe even he thinks of as an honest--let alone deep--analysis. Even his first line is, if not a lie, a deception: "I traveled throughout the Middle East this winter." Please, you spent a few days in the Middle East, and you came back with the same cliches with which you went. And the same deceiving cant. Kerry compares Lebanon's prime minister, Fouad Siniora, with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Siniora may be the best the Lebanese people can have now but such portentous analogies only demonstrate the flabbiness of Kerry's, no, not of his stomach, but his mind. Why does he exaggerate? So that he can compensate with grandeur for the shabbiness of his analysis, the way perfume can sometimes cover a rotten stench... _____________________________________________________________ Rest of it at Message 23159460

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (754)	1/6/2007 10:08:14 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

If you want President McCain, go ahead and give the GOP what they want, an untested black guy to run against, or a woman who nobody really feels comfortable with as president. But if you want to make sure McCain never becomes president, get real. There are only two people who can certainly beat McCain in moderate-conservative white swing districts, and those are Gore and Kerry. If Gore runs, Kerry is probably an also-ran, alhtough I'd like to see them vie for it mano a mano. If Gore doesn't run, then Kerry could and should become the one we all get behind in the end. Unless Biden comes from the back of the pack to challenge. Because this time, the GOP will not be able to beat Kerry. And the smearvets and "flipflopper" ads are ancient history never to be repeated again. Afterall, McCain is the enemy and was the victim of the smearvets too. Sp poetic justice the smearvets actually end up putting Kerry in the White House. What a story that would be. Let me tell you, Kerry may not be a perfect candidate, but he would be a great president. And he is a much better candidate now than he was in 2004, when he came within one dirty trick of taking out a war-time president for the first time in US history. After cancer surgery and long bouts of laryngitis I might add. I understand the Dem base is energized by Obama, but that happens every four years. Some new face who talks outside the mainstream gets shoved onto the altar, and "establishment" candidates get poo-pooe'd. But the alternative guy never wins, and if you think Kerry is establishment, just remember all the establish sacred vows he's taken on, risking his own life to do so. And enxt time, he's going to take on Big Oil. Want that to happen? I do.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (754)	1/6/2007 10:22:23 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

If you think Bush won any debates against Kerry, you're blind. On every single issue, he pounded him into submission. In one out of three, Bush pulled almost even with a charisma burst, but there was nothing factual about it. One thing is clear, Kerry did much better than Gore did against Bush. And Gore would walk away with the White House in 2008 if he really-really wanted it. Gore's greatest strength now is being the #1 advocate of environmentalism. And finally most people are really serious about it. But who founded Earth Day? Who was there back in '72 trumpeting the initial charge? Kerry was. I was too. I saw him speak. Kerry was the only name politician who showed up. He helped organize it. So don't worry, Kerry will do every bit as much as Gore would on the environment. Another big reason Bushies fear him so much. Bottomline, if you want someone to really change things, don't look for the rookie, look for the long overdue veteran who can still hit the longball.