John Kerry on Fire
John Kerry responds to Colorado Senator Wayne Allard's attack on Kerry's demand for deadlines in Iraq:
...I’m not going to listen to the Senator from Colorado or anyone else question my motives when young Americans are dying on a daily basis or losing their limbs because Iraqi politicians won't form a government from an election that they held in December. That is just inexcusable; let me ask the Senator from Colorado, it is okay by him that young Americans are dying right now while politicians in Baghdad are frittering away the time and the opportunity that our soldiers fought to give them? Does he think that's a plan that's working? Does he think that's serving the needs of the American military?...
And I’m not going to listen to the Senator from Colorado or anyone else questions my motives when young Americans are dying on a daily basis or losing their limbs because Iraqi politicians won't form a government from an election that they held in December. That is just inexcusable; let me ask the Senator from Colorado, it is okay by him that young Americans are dying right now while politicians in Baghdad are frittering away the time and the opportunity that our soldiers fought to give them? Does he think that's a plan that's working? Does he think that's serving the needs of the American military?...
You want to run down the list of things that are egregious with respect to this war? I tell you one thing I know well, and I’ll remind the Senator from Colorado, half the names on the wall of that Vietnam Memorial, half the names on that wall became names of the dead after our leaders knew our policy wouldn't work. Well, our policy isn't working today, and I’m not going to be a United States Senator who adds to the next wall wherever it may be put that honors those who served in Iraq so that once again people point to a bunch of names that are added after we knew something was wrong....
I have never in my life seen a war managed like this one where there has been zero accountability at the highest levels of civilian leadership and people have been able to make mistake after mistake after mistake, and people want to come to the floor and defend it as somehow justifiable.... We're on the wrong course. And the plan needs to be changed.
Right on, John.
posted by Rez Dog at 7:11 PM
1 Comments:
John Kerry has always been on target. I listened to him in 2004. He sounded just as on fire as he does now, but the general public didn't get to hear most of what he said.
The effing media would take the worst clips possible and play them over and over and over again much the same way they did to Howard Dean over his "scream." They crucified Dean over nothing more than showing enthusiasm at a rally of his supporters. That was pretty low IMO. And then they went after Kerry with one objective: make him look bad. It worked.
People were stupid in 2004. I think they are a little more informed now. Sad that it had to take a succession of administration screw ups to wake people up. Let's not mention the indictments and the numerous ways in which our "Presnit" has broken the law.
I'm proud of Senator Kerry and I think he got a raw deal in 2004.
I remember how emotional it got at his rallys. People LOVED him. I personally saw people moved to tears by his words and the emotions with which he spoke them. Hey, I don't mind saying I was one of them. This man was inspiring. Damn shame not everybody got to see that John Kerry.
They butchered him on television, showing the worst parts of his speeches and the worst possible photos of him. The guy is very personable and very gutsy. The general public wouldn't have known that by watching the news.
John Kerry's learned how to sound better on television where the attention span of viewers is about the the same as that of a two year old. He's playing the media now so he can get his message out. He knows what a hatchet job they did on him and he's learned from that. What you are seeing now is a much more media savvy individual.
Kerry has been really tough lately: you bet, but he's always been this tough. If he hadn't been, he wouldn't have gotten back on his feet after the election.
It takes a lot of guts to fight on after all the shit and lies that they threw at him. Sure they knocked him on his ass, but he got right back up stronger and tougher than ever.
JOHN KERRY ROCKS!
HE'S THE MAN!
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