Posted on 01/04/2005 6:56:46 AM PST by dukeman
As witnessed by this recent thread from DU, there is no one "accepted view" of John Kerry on the Far Left:
Magic Rat
I Still Feel Sorry For John Kerry
I'm reading the last part of this Newsweek article on him and its just sad the way folks never connected to him.
The deeper problem may be Kerry's personality, which may be too distant or reserved to win mass affection. As this reporter left his house in November, Kerry called out and followed him down the street. He wanted to show a letter from a schoolgirl that had been left on his stoop. The letter read, in part, "John Kerry, you're the greatest!" Kerry looked into the reporter's eye. "The pundits have never liked me," he said. "Is it the way I look? The way I sound?" He seemed vulnerable for a moment, then caught himself, smiled and walked home to his empty house.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6777696/site/newsweek /
I know what that's like. I was kinda funny looking in school and other kids never really warmed up to me. I've also been called kinda aloof and distant.
Its not elitism as much as it is a deep internal shyness. I think Kerry had that, which is odd, considering how much inner strength he has being a veteran and war hero and all.
JohnKleeb
1. I can see that, in that way I too sort of identify with him
NVMojo
2. I feel sorry for Kerry cuz of the losers who ran his election they had not CLUE ONE about the crap going on with the RNC and the re-election efforts for GWB ....they were totally unprepared and arrogant. I know, I watched it happen in Nevada...
tridim
8. But Kerry won. Those "losers" have won the past 4 presidential elections in this country.
robbedvoter
I feel sorry for me. Kerry stopped representing me as of November 3rd. Folded like a cheap umbrella.
Magic Rat
he feels like he let you down
its in the article. He's really depressed that all the folks who worked so hard were disappointed by him.
Not by his concession, but by the fact he didn't win outright on election day.
StephanieMarie
I do because I know in my heart that he won.
I just hope that behind the scenes somehow he's actually fighting for the victory that was his but stolen.
Clark2008
Awww... [cute little heart graphics]
for Kerry.
No, John, it's not YOU, it's that the pundits are bought and paid for by the neo-con wing of the Republican Party.
elshiva
I still love you Kerry
"John Kerry you're the greatest." That letter was from me, hon. (not really, but it could have been.) Yeah, I and my other nerdy friends identify with Sen. Kerry cos he was/is an intelligent caring mensch, but the election was rigged by an oily chimp. He does great in the Senate like we nerds get good grades, but can't get in the WH cos the School Bully got it wired for himself.
Feel sorry for Kerry, but thank God he's still in the Senate and is still married to supersexy Momma T.
n2mark
I do still feel sorry for Kerry
No matter what he said or did, his wife the same, Edwards the same the media excuse me ****ed them. They could have not done anything different, the media was there to screw them royally, but the saddest thing was, the DEMOCRATS WERE NOT THERE FOR KERRY they were like puppets on a puke string. Excuse me DNC where were you during the election?
LittleClarkie
Remember how the media kept saying "Where's Edwards?"
They knew damn well where to find him. They were determined not to show him. It would have been too much of a help to Kerry!
"Where's Edwards?" my ass! As if he were sitting somewhere eating bonbons.
surfermaw
I think Kerry is a man that is what he seems
Intelligent, reserved and well educated, it just that most in the south wouldn't recognize and intelligent person if they saw one.
Republican grass roots , were connecting in 2001, we have to get on the ball...you have to hand it to the stupid looking Rove, he knew how to get the grass roots to move.
raysr
When I think of
Kerry, I think of John O'Neill, who has been hounding him all his life. And I think what I would do about it if I had the ways and means Kerry has.
HypnoToad
I feel sorry for the Dems who won't stand up to the idiots they vote for.
The DLC runs the Dem party. And corporations rule the DLC, it seems.
They also said they don't want people like Michael Moore speaking up for the Dems. And the moment they said that, the urinated on everybody who believes the Democratic party is the party of the people.
They're no better than the repukes; they can claim to be pro- this and pro-that to get our votes. But I've had it.
Forgive me, I refuse to forget. Or forgive. They've proven they don't deserve the votes of Lefties. And it's going to cost them the next election and make the repukes think they really did win in a landslide.
amjucsc
Hell, I still feel sorry for Al Gore
Kerry would have made a great President. His performance in the debates--especially the third IMHO--suggested what might have happened had he had a competent campaign staff.
roguevalley
I'm too tired to care about him anymore. Maybe later. But right now?
nope. Can't do it. I feel for everyone who is suffering REAL things right now. Kerry has left us alone in silence too long. I wish he would come out and say something, even good morning. I feel too tired to care about him right now. Maybe after Jan. 6th, but I won't hold my breath. I have wanted things too much to get that involved right now. Show me your money, Mr. Kerry.
I won't be voting for him in 2008.
MercutioATC
I don't. I feel sorry for the people who were duped into thinking he
was "electable".
Yupster
I think Gephardt
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only because this election needed someone who looked sincere and down to earth who could sit down and explain calmly to people that what Bush was saying didn't make decent sense.
I think of the available candidates Gephardt was the most likely to break through the noise to do that.
LittleClarkie
I wonder why he never seems to break through
He's tried before, but he always just lays there. What's not clicking? He seems decent enough.
LittleClarkie
I was that kid in school
Damn it, just thinking of him in that role makes me want to cry. I know what that's like. I used to be shy. Now if anything I'm overly agressive. Finding the between ain't easy.
I think he was that kid in boarding school. He wasn't rich enough (not at all really -- he was there because of a rich auntie and because he still had the right pedagree). He wasn't Republican like the other rich kids. He was to serious and ambitious at a time when it was chic to be unconcerned.
He learned to guard his heart. If he let's you see it, it's a compliment to you.
As I just said in another thread, he's the debate geek. He's more qualified than most for the job of president, but it's a popularity contest.
Why is it the pundits never seem to connect with him, but sometimes I'm so connected it hurts? In that article, they talk about the intensely loyal. Well, we may not be enough to swing an election, but he sure has that kind of loyalty here. We're not be all that widespread, but damn it, we're here!
Is it the pundits themselves? I would assume most of them are just too jaded to not assign political motives to almost everything he or anyone does. Does Bush get a pass because of 9/11? Or because he wines and dines the damn bastards until they're drunken, whoring hearts are just pining for that Texas drawl.
Damn it. I want Kerry! Why aren't there more of me!?
elshiva
I'm a LittleClarkie Fan
Hi, there neat person. I love your posts cos I am still in love with Kerry. I like the painting you put on your posts, too. I got really connected to him after "The Choice" Bio on PBS. He was such a great college student, anti-war leader, and (is) senator. I didn't want to love him after I fell in love with Dean, but God knows Kerry was/is dedicated and passionate.
I feel worse than with Gore... What broke my heart was Kerry's Washington Blade(DC gay paper) interview, where a lesbian who married in Mass interviewed him and asked why he has consistantly stood for gay rights since '85 and he said he had plenty of gay friends and gays fought with him in Vietnam. Then the third debate when he said, "We're all God's Children, Bob," and went on to represent my feelings as a pro-gay Christian. I saw the concession speech and I loved that he wanted to hug all his supporters. Damn it, he is so femmy and sexy, he puts my bisexual heart in a flutter. (Don't get me started with Momma T!)
LittleClarkie, I like you and look forward to your intelligent, distinctive posts.
LittleClarkie
(Blush) Thank you
I connected to Dean alittle too. It was a Meet the Press interview I saw where he all gracious and talking about how even some evangelicals liked him because he was passionate.
That is a lovely painting, isn't it. I copied it out of the NYT. I have to tell the artist one of these days what it has meant to me.
I like you too dear. I look forward to seeing more of your posts in the future.
Still_Loves_John
That was a beautiful post
I can't even really think of anything to add, except to say that it's nice to see someone else who really liked Kerry, when so many people seem to go out of their way to find a reason not to.
Clarkie1
I don't feel sorry for him; I feel sorry we nominated the wrong guy
BlueManDude
It's not Kerry. The DC pundits find every Democrat "unlikeable".
vitoria
I don't understand the "looks" issue
I think Kerry is gorgeous, especially in person. I would melt if I actually got real close to him. He was nice looking when he was younger, also. And I love his personality.
Ok - I admit, I love the guy.
Lavender Brown
neither do I
They made such a big deal out of his having a long face - what about Bush's vacant, smirky face?
MsTryska
I love me some Kerry,
but you know what? I loved him on paper before i ever watched him interact.
Once i got to see how he interacts, i loved him even more!
so i'm not gonna blame Kerry, i'm not gonna blame his campaign exactly, i AM however, gonna blame the press and their unwillingness to give him a fairshake. I'm sorry that he ran his press junta like a bunch of professionals, and not that margaritaville partybus that dubya ran, and i'm sorry Candy Cruller couldn't get anyone drunk and take advantage of them, but they could have at least treated him with a modicum of respect.
DistressedAmerican
Poor, Poor, Rich John Kerry
Sorry I find it hard to feel sorry for the guy just rattling around his empty multimillion dollar home. I can't feel bad for any rich, Yale educated, Skull and Bones frat boy that gets to run for president then blows it!
Darth_Kitten
Kerry is no sociopath like your current "president"
Funny, the rest of the world connected with him, wanted him as president.
Bush is not a likable character no matter how many times the lapdog american media tries to tell us he is.
politicasista
On Election Day
I saw pics at Yahoo.com and on the news of Kerry and his daughters voting in Boston with Momma T. I remember thinking that the this was the day we were going to change the world. He was also on Tom Joyner Morning Show (A radio show where us Blacks get our info) that morning also. Kerry looked so presidental, like a president-elect waiting to give his victory speech and party. I do feel sad for him on some days, cause he would have made a cool president. Way, way better than that convict-in-chief that occupies the White House.
knight_of_the_star
I don't
He could have shown what stern stuff he's made of by standing his ground and fighting and following through with what his running mate said to his partisans at 2 am on that cold night in Boston, not folding up like a pair of twos. He lost because of his own mistakes and his own hesitancy. He hasn't EARNED my sympathy, and he will have to be a HERO to even come close to that for the next four years.
njdemocrat106
I'm more sorry that we won't have Kerry as President.
John Kerry is the greatest President this country will never have. As far as I'm concerned, he IS an American hero, and Bush is nothing more than an idiotic coward. He really did connect with me, and his style came across to me personally as "down-to-earth" (something the freepers and even many of you DUers will disagree with me about). Yes, he is rich, but I felt as though he would put the welfare of all Americans, not just the upper-class, first. The man was more than qualified to be our President, yet 59 million Americans voted for a man who isn't even qualified to dump bed pans at a nursing home. Yes, I do feel his campaign could have been run better (Carville should have been directly involved, IMO), and he needed to respond quickly to the flip-flopper and Swift-Boat lies, but all in all, I think if Kerry won, our country would have been better off 4 years from now.
LoL!!! Its not the people's job to connect to him, its his job to connect with them. dunderhead.
What the?? What planet is this guy living on??
Pleeeeeeeeze. Someone call a Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance!
Nothing like the irony in a screwed up insult.
you have to hand it to the stupid looking Rove
So we cannot recognize an intelligent person but they call Rove "stupid looking"? Beautiful.
They never VOTED for him either. Haha.
PEST-induced psychosis, being spread by the DUers. It's becoming an epidemic, folks!
Wow, am I glad I didn't have breakfast yet! And these mental midgets think they can run the country? Just... Wow.
they always have to get a threat of some kind in there, sad people the lot of em.
Yes, irony lives on DU!
I know what that's like. I was kinda funny looking in school and other kids never really warmed up to me.
Was?
What a simpering bunch of saps. I’m betting his coworkers like him no more than his school mates.
To say the least, they do seem to have a lot of unresolved anger. :-)
I was that kid in school Damn it, just thinking of him in that role makes me want to cry.
Fag.
The planet that men like Kerry love, you know, the one called "consprazoid", where all fundraising begins!
Their "leaders" pretend, and make-up faux boogymen and plots, by corps, media, oil, government, elections, ect, then extract millions from their "followers".
Sort of cult-like, will suicide be next?
He learned to guard his heart. If he let's you see it, it's a compliment to you.
Geez, usually one must purchase a Maya Angelou Hallmark greeting card to get so lathered with trite saccharine goo.
Thanks for posting this thread. You made my day!
Whatta bunch of whimpering, simpering clowns. "I'm just like Kerry...I was lonely/nerdy/shy/awkward and still am! Those mean ol' other kids didn't warm up to me!" From the posts I've seen, half of DUh is on some kind of medication and the other half are just plain nuts.
They're going to continue licking their wounds for decades.
wait till they get Post Inaugeral Silliness Syndrome
These people are crazy. Literally insane. After the 20th they will have Post Inaugeral Silliness Syndrome
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