NY Times: Kerry Seeks Momentum From Focus on Experience

[La_Serpiente]

Kerry Seeks Momentum From Focus on Experience

DOVER, N.H., Jan. 8 — He bellows in outrage at what has become of his country in three short years, at the upside-down ethos of cronyism and unfairness that he says has taken hold in the White House.

He promises to rescue the economy, education, health care and the environment. He says he will take back the flag for Democrats and take the fight to the Republicans as only a decorated war veteran and seasoned foreign policy hand could.

And yet, in the climax of his forceful, upbeat stump speech these days, after the stentorian rebukes of President Bush and the scornful derision of Howard Dean, there remains a plaintive note in Senator John Kerry's appeal to voters.

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Kerry Seeks Momentum From Focus on Experience

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[maddezmom]

1. good article

I think a lot of folks in Iowa are giving him a second look. :)

[IndianaGreen]

2. Kerry is partly responsible for the sad condition of our country

Kerry voted to suspend the Bill of Rights when he voted for PATRIOT Act. Kerry voted to give Bush Fuhrer-like warmongering powers when he voted for the Iraq War Resolution.

Kerry echoed the Bush White House when he said we were "safer" after the capture of Saddam.

Somehow Kerry sounds as phony and hollow as some of those pundits on Faux news.

[sandnsea]

3. Man, get a grip

The country WANTS many of the investigative powers in the Patriot Act. Kerry has already introduced legislation to fix it. It was NOT a mistake to vote for it. We lost 2002 because the country perceived us as weak because we were holding up Homeland Security and because so many had gone against Patriot Act, NOT because we were Bush-Lite.

And we ARE safer after the capture of Saddam. We're safER any time an enemy of the country is out of commission. That's just plain logic. That was not a reason to go to war and Kerry never supported going to war for that purpose and never supported going to war unless there was no other means to get weapons out of Iraq. He supported letting the inspections continue for as long as was necessary.

If the Democratic Party went down the path you're supporting, we would never win another election. This IS NOT a socialist country.

[zulchzulu]

5. You have a 30-mile wide brush

The Patriot Act was passed during a very dark time after 911. What Ashcroft did after the law was passed is despicable, yet it did not "suspend the Bill of Rights". Kerry is for sunsetting almost all of the Patriot Act, if not repealing it altogether.

Kerry's position is identical to Dean's who has said:
“I will oppose expansion of the Patriot Act, efforts to remove sunset clauses included in the act, and I will seek to repeal the portions of the Patriot Act that are unconstitutional.”

As for the IWR, Kerry voted for the UN to do its job with continuing inspections and to have a multinational force go to Iraq to disarm Saddam and only as a last resort. What Bush did with his lies about WMDs and choosing to go to war first was not Kerry's idea.

[adadem]

4. Excellent

article...points to why Kerry is my number one pick...I wish it also pointed out that Kerry does not accept PAC donations. That, in itself, is telling of what the man is about. I could live with any of the candidates, except for two...but of them all Kerry has the experience, expecially the foreign policy experience coupled with domestic experience, that our country needs.