Kerry op-ed

[ProSense]

Posted on Wed, Sep. 13, 2006
On national security, U.S. must walk the walk
By JOHN KERRY
Guest columnist

Five years ago on 9/11, newspapers across the globe proclaimed, “We are all Americans now.” Not since the bombing of Pearl Harbor has a president enjoyed a greater reservoir of support. Never before were Americans more ready to sacrifice for victory.

And today, five years later, where are we? Bogged down in Baghdad, beleaguered around the world and bitterly divided at home.

Those of us who dissent from this administration’s policies have a unique responsibility not just to oppose what has failed but to propose a new course that can defeat jihadist terrorism once and for all.

There are many things we must do — redeploy from Iraq and recommit to Afghanistan, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, restore America’s moral leadership — but here’s one idea that should’ve begun long ago: reform our homeland defense.

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http://www.thestate.com/mld/state/news/opinion/15504991.htm

[karynnj]

1. Interesting translation of Saturday's speech into editorial

How can anyone not see that this makes sense?

[wisteria]

2. This reads very well- plain and sensible. I really liked it. n/t

[TayTay]

3. It's just a coincidence that it ran in South Carolina

and that Sen. Kerry was in New Hampshire on Sunday and will be in Iowa next weekend. Just a coincidence. (Where are those Nevada newspaper html's anyway?) LOL! I loved the 'invisible primary.'

[whometense]

7. I noticed that too,

and it had me laughing.

What was it Kerry said to Wolfie on Sunday???

Oh, yeah...
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/10/le.01.html

BLITZER: We're almost out of time, Senator. A little politics. You want to run for president again?

KERRY: I don't know. I haven't made up my mind yet. I think if you've run before and if you've come as close as I did, and you obviously ran for a reason in the first place, those reasons don't go away automatically. But I have to take a look at whether or not the support will be there and what I feel about it, what my family feels about it, and I'll make those judgments over the course of the next months.

BLITZER: You still have a lot of money left over from the last campaign if you want to run again, is that right?

KERRY: Well, we have some left over but it's going to take a lot more than that. You're going to have to go out and raise a lot of money if you're going to run.

BLITZER: And you would decide when?

KERRY: Well, I think somewhere after the elections. Look, my focus right now is on winning Congress, winning the House or winning the Senate, winning both. And I'm going to be campaigning very, very hard across the country for candidates in an effort to change the direction of our policy in Washington on health care, on education, on the budget deficit, on our foreign policy.

There isn't one issue where this administration, frankly, has simply either failed to do the job or avoided doing the job, and you can look to border security and immigration as the latest example.

BLITZER: And you'll be doing that in New Hampshire tomorrow, right? KERRY; I'm going up this afternoon to help some candidates there, and then I'll be traveling around the country over the course of the next weeks.

BLITZER: A key state as all of us know, looking down the road. Senator, thank...

KERRY: Yeah, but I'm going to states that have nothing to do with presidential politics also.

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[wisteria]

8. Yeah! LOL. n/t

[ProSense]

4. Nice

alliteration:

"Bogged down in Baghdad, beleaguered around the world and bitterly divided at home."

[Mass]

5. Great column. It ran in the Boston Herald sunday. A slightly different

version ran in the Union Leader.

I wonder if it will run in other papers.

[Island Blue]

6. This is HUGH!

The State is South Carolina's largest newspaper. Though there are other dailies, it is considered the paper of record throughout the state (thus the name I suppose). This is great.