Kerry video from Truthout!

[ginnyinWI]

http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

This is a 7 min video about immigration from LA, and there are TWO absolutely melt-worthy clips of JK speaking on the subject. Must see!

JK's first appearance occurs at about 3 min. in--but the mayor's speaking to the crowd which comes first is also noteworthy.

Okay, now I'm set for the day!! :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[karynnj]

1. Thanks for posting this

The mayor was really really good. Kerry's answers were good, especially to the high school kids -his explantion of the difference between the Senate's bills and the one the House passed was great. It was also nice that he didn't speak down to them at all, but made sure he gave them enough information.(Maybe he needs to pretent that he's speaking to high school kids all the time.)

[ProSense]

2. Thanks!

That was terrific!

:loveya:

[whometense]

3. Thanks, Ginny!

Wow. That voice. I have to laugh at myself - I swear, there's this warm, intimate quality to it that makes me want to say, ok, sign me up, before I even know what he's talking about. :D Does that make me a Kerrybot, or just a sap??

[Island Blue]

4. I don't know what that makes you Whome but I feel the same way!

I love how he explains things without ever sounding condescending (unlike Chimpy who always sounds like he's talking to a group of slow 2nd graders). IMO that's a quality that's important in a president. Clinton was very good at this too. I guess maybe it has to do with the intelligence of the speaker.

Thanks for posting Ginny!

[whometense]

5. Did you hear the

explanation for chimpy's 2nd grade level speech? I forget where I heard it first, but someone said the reason he talks that way is that that was the way it was explained to him. How utterly pathetic - and yet believable!

[ginnyinWI]

6. me too--hence the melt-down comment.

Also, he knows what he's talking about and you can hear his certainty in his voice and see it in his gestures. Calm and presidential--especially when you look at our fast-deteriorating current imitation president and compare with the guy who most likely really was the majority's choice.

I think that's what first impressed me when I saw him on TV--he made so much sense, he was like a breath of fresh air. I guess hearing the truth will do that.

[MonteLukast]

7. a theory

especially when you look at our fast-deteriorating current imitation president...

Now he's the way he was in the debates, every day.
And I do mean both of them. Kerry presidential; Bush losing it.

I once read an Atlantic article that said Bush may, in fact, have a condition called pre-senile dementia. It's similar to early-onset Alzheimer's, and it's a very sad and serious thing to have, even for our Leaker-in-Chief. It could have been brought on by his earlier drinking and drugs, or he could have inherited it... whatever, the author makes clear that Dubya's prime was when he was TX Governor, especially in speeches; and he's been going downhill ever since.

[ginnyinWI]

8. another theory is that * is drugged up on anti-depressants.

I don't know what the side effects of those would be, whether they would cause the mental vacuousness and inability (more than even before) to put together coherent sentences. Anyone here know if they could?

But yeah, I read that theory in the Atlantic, too. In that case he may not even know it, himself, and just puts it down to stress, or his dyslexic tendencies, or whatever. It would have been so much better if he had been retired, along with his sidekicks, Rummy and Cheney. I posted a comparison of those three this morning to the Three Stooges:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=929666&mesg_id=929697


Your observation is right on target: they both are being like they were in the debates, except I think Kerry is even better, and * is even worse!

[karynnj]

9. A teen I know suffered from depression and

was on anti-depessants for about a year- She had absolutely no impact on her natural articulateness. The year she was on medicine, she was choosen as the top English student out of a class of over 400. (As none really helped, she tried 4 kinds - none had that kind of side effect.)

[ginnyinWI]

10. that's kind what I thought, too.

My daughter was on Zoloft for some time while in grad school and did fine. She found out, the hard way, that you must not quit suddenly--it kind of freaked her out. So she went back on and started cutting pills in half, then in fourths, and so on. But here's the kicker: in most cases the benefit of anti-depressants is only because of the placebo effect. That's why she quit them: it was expensive, and she found she did as well without them. Maybe this isn't true for everyone, but it's something to think about. Your comment about "none really helped" confirms this.