Posted on 09/20/2005 2:27:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
'We have to get angry, and organize around that," he told the audience of about 800 students at Brown University, deviating from his prepared text.
...And while Kerry's speech was part of an annual political lecture series at Brown, it had the air of a major political moment. The senator was surrounded by family members including his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, daughter Vanessa, and brother Cameron -- each a key member of his inner circle and each in a position to advise him on whether to make a 2008 run. They and the senator's aides scrutinized his performance from the front row somewhat like the judging panel on ''American Idol."
The senator received a thunderous response from the Brown students. During the question period he hinted at deep frustration over not having been able to reach enough people in 2004.
''The number of people out there in America who are not interested in getting [the] facts is longer than you think," he said at one point, bemoaning the ''amount of misinformation out there."
''You've got a whole lot of people who never tune in," he complained at another point, adding, ''More and more people are voting on issues that have no relevance to their daily life, or little relevance, or no facts."
Kerry implicitly blamed the public for tolerating ''the injustice of 11 million children and more than 30 million adults in desperate need of healthcare" and he repeatedly implored the students to ''make your issues the voting issues of this nation."
Making oblique reference to his own history of Vietnam War activism, Kerry implored the students to commit to political activism. Whether he again will join them on the campaign trail as a presidential candidate, he said, is a decision for a later time.
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you people got me cracking apart already this mornig, I love to see you all trash sKerry
What can Brown do for You? For me just a bunch of Ivy League losers. Do I get a standing "O" for that?
I see TaReeza iron must have broke!
If part of the plan for these "progressive/liberal/democrat/scum" is to instill hatred in our society, then for me, it's working! I hate! IN SPADES!
What uniformed public? The police? The firemen? Military?
lol, sorry. No coffee yet.
OH MY GOODNESS!!!
So now SHE'S the "rational Democrat?"
Words fail me . . .
Squid breath.
Is just my eyes deceiving me, or does Tereeza bear a strong resemblance to Cindy Sheehan?
Aaaccckkk...sorry I just can't get past his seriously rumpled wrinkled shirt. Did Tareezzaaa cut off his allowance to such a degree that he can't buy a nice shirt or send it out to be pressed prior to his visit to Brown? He and his ill conceived campaigns are at least great grist for the mill of humor.
I agree. I was one of the token conservatives.
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