Drudge digs out Kerry's 1984 (or 1988?) quote on Reagan

[zulchzulu]

Drudge is pulling out a quote from the Bastin Globe where Kerry lambasted the Reagan administration. Actually, he quotes it as a 1984 quote, although the reference is to 1988 in the archive reference and refers to Dukakis. Drudge can't get anything right. Either way, Kerry's quote is very timely.

Here's the quote so you don't have to poison your browser:

1984 Flashback: Kerry calls Reagan Presidency "Moral Darkness" in convention speech
Fri Jun 11 2004 12:32:42 ET

*** The Boston Globe Archives | July 21, 1988 | Walter V. Robinson ***

ATLANTA -- Michael Stanley Dukakis, a self-described "very, very long- shot" candidate just 16 months ago, last night became the Democratic nominee for president and his party's best hope to win the White House since 1976. Earlier, Sen. John F. Kerry took to the convention hall podium, telling the delegates that the "moral darkness" of President Reagan's presidency will soon end.

"A Republican president once reminded us, 'There is absolutely nothing to be said for a government of powerful men with the ideals of pawnbrokers,' " Kerry said.

"That president's name was Theodore Roosevelt. And today Theodore Roosevelt would be ashamed to be a Republican."

Said Kerry: "It is time we once again had a government of laws and not of lawbreakers."

[Scoopie]

1. Well, Teddy's statement is true

and Teddy is my favorite president of all time.
Why can't Kerry repeat his statement?
And, if anyone follows Drudge without question, they deserve what they get, anyway.

[flpoljunkie]

2. John Kerry had the courage to tell the truth...not a small thing

Last Two Paragraphs of article From David Corn, written for the March 2 1998 issue of The Nation Magazine...

66 (Unflattering} Things about Ronald Reagan

http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=18874

Michael Deaver's conviction for influence peddling, Lyn Nofziger's conviction for influence peddling, Caspar Weinberger's five-count indictment, Ed Meese ("You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime"), Donald Regan (women don't "understand throw-weights"), education cuts, massacres in El Salvador.

"The bombing begins in five minutes," $640 Pentagon toilet seats, African-American judicial appointees (1.9 percent), Reader's Digest, C.I.A.-sponsored car-bombing in Lebanon (more than eighty civilians killed), 200 officials accused of wrongdoing, William Casey, Iran/contra. "Facts are stupid things," three-by-five cards, the MX missile, Bitburg, S.D.I., Robert Bork, naps, Teflon.

[DrFunkenstein]

3. Tasteless To Pull This Up, But If They Really Want To Get Into It...

Bring it on. But I don't think that Republicans really want to discuss the details of Reagan's tenure, especially when it comes to someone that headed the Iran-Contra investigation. Even for conservatives, selling arms illegally to Iran sounds bad.

[DaveSZ]

4. This is why I've warmed up to Kerry

He's been sticking it to the neofascists since I was born!

I hope he also admires Teddy R as I do.