What was John Kerry doing yesterday? Thought you should know.

[Historic NY]

Penelope Gavriel (bottom L) kisses the U.S. flag that draped the casket of her son, Lance Cpl. Dimitrios Gavriel, as U.S. Senators' Ted Kennedy (2nd-L), D-MA, and John Kerry (news - web sites) ®, D-MA, stand alongside other family members during his honor guard funeral at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington DC, December 2, 2004. Gavriel, from Haverhill, Massachusetts, died November 19 while fighting in Al Anbar Province in Iraq (news - web sites). REUTERS/Jason Reed REUTERS

Former U.S. presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry (news - web sites) (D-MA) hugs an unidentified member of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Dimitrios Gavriel's family during his military funeral at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington DC, December 2, 2004. Gavriel, from Haverhill, Massachusetts, died November 19 while fighting in Al Anbar Province in Iraq (news - web sites), and his funeral was the 99th 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' funeral at Arlington National Cemetery. REUTERS/Jason Reed

[Zuni]

1. So sad

I hope all the people who call Kerry a 'traitor' could see this. Obviously this Marine's mother doesn't think so

[raggedcompany]

2. How many funerals has Bush attended? n/t

[wildflower]

3. Thank you so much for posting this. n/t

[Moloch]

4. I would have been proud to call him my president.

I've yet to see shrub attend a military funeral.

[shack]

23. He may yet be president

I have to be an optimist; once the recounts are finished in Ohio and New Mexico JK gets elected 277 electoral votes to 261 for shrub.

[Left Is Write]

32. I, too, would have been so proud to say "President Kerry"

and truly call him my president.

:(

[texastoast]

5. This is Bush's JOB

But, like his mother, I guess he just doesn't want to "clutter (his) beautiful mind" with thoughts about the war's casualties.

The twins really should enlist.

[Demit]

6. That's the man I voted for.

Was over at Daily Kos where this was posted and somebody said,

"We HAVE a narrative, and John Kerry personifies it. It's called simple common decency. Values begin with simple common decency."

I copied that for myself because it is so true. John Kerry personifies common decency.

[Maat]

7. Thanks for the post.

This is so inspiring! The Senators are men of class, dignity, compassion and honor.

Kerry is the REAL leader.

Blessings to the two senators who did what was right!

[SnoopDog]

8. I am new so I do not know how to...

I think you should also put this in the 2004 Election area. It is very uplifting to see a man of honor helping others cope.

[newyawker99]

34. Hi SnoopDog!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Fleshdancer]

9. And to Bush, this marine is just a statistic...collateral damage.

In death, Kerry honors the life and sacrifice of a young man who was sent to die for his country. Honoring this soldiers life is the true definition of pro life.

[lectrobyte]

27. doesn't * have a nickname for the troops, "fodder units" or something?

[vickie]

10. Thank you so much for posting this. What a difficult time we are

all going through. These pictures convey the sadness and tragedy that no words, can. Oh, and God's smite on the Kerry trashers (both Dem and especially Republican) who say that he doesn't connect with people.

I think over the next four years, the rest of America will learn what many of us already know about John Kerry. That he is a very fine man and an outstanding leader.

[proud patriot]

11. When I think of 1200 families all having to suffer through this

I cry :cry: Kerry is a good man , and would
make a fine President

[Arkana]

12. That's super of Kerry...hope the fuckers who called him a traitor saw this

[Gothmog]

13. I am so very proud of John Kerry

Bush should be attending these funerals.

[Historic NY]

14. a few more pics can be found here

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=john+kerry&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&c=news_photos

[ElsewheresDaughter]

15. Nominated Topic for Homepage

[ObaMania]

16. That's nice but...

.. so what? Maybe if he did that a little more of that before the election he would be prez now and it would be more meaningful.

Next photo-op should maybe be him in the Senate voting!

[peacebird]

18. diebold would still have handed the election to *

regardless of what kerry did.

[ObaMania]

21. Not too sure about that!

Anyone who really believes the country is divided in half I have a bridge to sell ya.

With that said..

What I was trying to say is that if Kerry really got out there and made himself more visible performing presidential things, it would click with 'Murican folks that he would be a better choice for prez... and by thinking that, they would swing more support to him giving him a wider margin to win by.

Hard to commit fraud if one of the candidates got a double digit lead over the other.

IMO, the states were so close that it was easy to steal a couple thousand votes here or there making it almost impossible to detect (or suspect) fraud. I'm pretty sure a few of these western red states actually went blue this time around.

With such a lead, Diebold could not have frauded Kerry without the majority of clear thinking 'Muricans seeing through the scam!

JM .02

[K-W]

25. The Media didnt cover him.

The man campaigned his ass off. He went all over the country, made speeches on a huge variety of issues. He talked economy, he talked enviroment. He talked to vetrans groups, he comforted widows.

He did it all.

But you didnt see it or hear about it because the media didnt cover it, and Kerry had to spend all his ad money in swing states because he had to keep up with Bush and his PAC money.

You have to learn to phrase this properly.

What you are actually saying is that you wanted to SEE Kerry doing certain things.

So rather than asking yourself why Kerry didnt do them, why dont you ask yourself why you didnt see Kerry doing them, when 90% of the time he actually did do it.

[K-W]

19. Yah, its his fault he got runover by the most currupt political machine

in decades.

[coreystone]

17. Still I'm sad !

:cry:

[NamVetsWeeLass]

20. RIP, Lance Cpl. Dimitrios Gavriel....

MY PRESIDENT, John Kerry was there for your Family.

Thanks so much for posting this. :cry:

[AP]

22. Ugh. Two sad things: the sodliers death and that that man is not...

President-elect John Kerry.

And then there's the feelign that if that man were president-elect soldiers wouldn't be dying.

It's hard to look at that picture.

[akwapez]

24. I thought that was the gravesite of democracy...

until I read the caption.....RIP Lance Cpl. Dimitrios Gavriel

[Used and Abused]

26. Why did he authorize the invasion in the first place?

Just kidding. Kerry should be our President right now.

[lojasmo]

28. He voted for the war....he SHOULD be there.

[K-W]

29. This war was never voted on by anyone.

But thanks for taking the most critical stance possible against a democrat who reached out to the parties liberal community more than Clinton or Gore.

[lojasmo]

35. Oh, don't forget...

No child left behind and the patriot act. He voted for them too.

Thanks for giving a pass to the guy who voted yes on three of the most regressive pieces of legislation to be passed in the last 40 years.

On edit "The Iraq War Resolution" Better?

:eyes:

[jdots]

30. that was all over the A.M. dial and Fox,CNN, yada yada

What did Bush do? helped ban some books,fuck over the U.N.
helped to call the A.C.U.L. a commie plot,read an Archie comic book,picked his nose,met with his mandate team to decide on what to eat for dinner.....1 month and 4 years......

[lildreamer316]

31. Now THIS makes me....

very proud to be an American. The first thing to do so in a long, long time.

[fryguy]

33. wanna bet he's criticized by the right

can see hannity and the others deriding him for using the military for political gains.....