John Kerry on Meet the Press (9:00 AM EST)

[Karmadillo]

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[Karmadillo]

1. Today we have the tough questions for Democrats Tim Russert

Kerry is actually doing OK defending his vote on the IWR (not that I agree with it). Russert is clearly hoping he'll get the headlines tomorrow for making him look bad. So far, it's not working.

I remember the Dean interview, which had a similar tone. Does Russert ever ask Republicans hard questions? I'd like to hear him ask Rice or Rumsfeld or Powell (assuming Bush knows better than to submit to live interviews) with equal tenacity to explain their lies about WMDs.

[SayitAintSo]

3. I thought Kerry did great.

Good job explaining the IWR vote. I think he also did a good job explaining Dean's support of Biden Lugar and how he has been able to be "perceived" as anti war because he didn't have a 'vote' to which he was accountable for. He said voters were wising up that now though. He also did a job differentiating himself between Gep and Lib - and how they 'cut their own deal' with Bush on Iraq...

[GiovanniC]

2. That Was Horrible

Kerry has definitely dropped a few rungs in my book... he was #3 until today, behind Clark and Dean.

The thing about Dean not being qualified to be president because he said that America wasn't safer after the capture of Saddam... WTF? We AREN'T safer. But instead of pointing that out, Kerry takes a cheap shot at Dean by practically tongue-kissing Bush's so-called reason for war. In one thirty second period, we had Kerry up there talking about Saddam using every Republican talking point in the book... "He gassed his own people", "He tried to assassinate a president", etc. His answers today convinced me that he is not the man to fight Bush.

[jpgpenn]

5. I agree with ya..

Kerry more then just dropped in my book, this guy is pathetic!

[Cheswick2.0]

6. did he literally say those things?

I thought a few weeks ago, he was going with "we were lied to and the war was wrong". Now he is actually defending bush? Why not just endorse bush like the ABD people have, drop out and put his supporters out of their misery?

[Gman]

4. Overall, I think Kerry did a lot for his cause

this morning. He handled the curves Russert threw very well including not specifically saying Dean is unelectable ("I think that's for the American people to decide" Good place for a thrown-down politician line but also notable in its attempt to avoid the obvious pitfall.)

Leave the "Dean's unelectable" line to the rest of us!

[imhotep]

7. Every time I give Kerry a chance

he ends up being repulsive.
Why does he sit there and repeat the Republican propaganda?
He sounded exactly like Lieberman today.

[matcom]

8. Kerry should have stayed at home

MISERABLE performance IMHO (and remember i volunteered for his Senate campaign)

what was with the laughing as Russert was asking him the tough questions? that fucking laugh was HORRIBLE! those were serious topics!

Kerry stick with your day job.