Kerry Without Tears ...( His career one of the most disgraceful of his generation)

NY Sun ^ | January 25, 2007 | Editorial

[IrishMike]

Senator Kerry had to choke back tears as he announced, on the floor of the Senate, the end of his long quest for the presidency, but our own eyes are dry. His career, by our lights, has been one of the most disgraceful of his generation. It was begun, in 1971, with his testimony before the Senate, besmirching the honor of the GIs along with whom he'd had the honor to serve in Vietnam and whom he left on the battlefield to meet in Paris with envoys of our enemies. He sought, in his vainglory, to advance the notion that he was a "winter soldier" who was not abandoning the fight but carrying it on in a different way. Well, one of the great things about a democracy is its long memory, and Mr. Kerry was exposed, in 2004, in a way that couldn't have been more dramatic — by a grassroots campaign of the swift boat veterans he'd betrayed.

It is typical of Mr. Kerry that he tried to wrap his decision yesterday in all sorts of high minded motives. He had become damaged goods in his own party because during the 2006 campaign, he insulted our GIs by suggesting they were stuck in Iraq because they were uneducated losers. It was quickly recognized as a profound error, one that, the more Americans thought about it, echoed in subtle ways his derision of American GIs in the earlier war. Mr. Kerry spent a good bit of time yesterday in a reprise of his own return from Vietnam and relating those times to Iraq, saying he wanted now to do "all I can to end the war." Quoth he: "I don't want the next president to find that they have inherited a nation still divided .....

[2banana]

What is up at the NY Sun? Have they become a middle of the road publication? They are sure are different from what I remember them being in the 1980s...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Now if we can just get him out of the Senate...

[IrishMike]

It's fast become a daily read for me.
I frequently post from it.

[dinasour]

Dear F'in.

One of the greatest failures of Richard Nixon was that he didn't hang you.

Now, because of the example that you set, treason is a popular position among Democrats.

[maryz]

Excellent editorial! Would that the Boston Globe would pick it up! (I know, when donkeys fly . . .)

[IrishMike]

.... treason is a popular position among Democrats.
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Not to mention a campaign tactic.

[Rummyfan]

Quoth he: "I don't want the next president to find that they have inherited a nation still divided .....

The hypocrisy is .... breathtaking! Here's a man who has worked day and night the last six years to divide the nation, and now he's concerned about that division.

I wonder if Te - ray - za will dump him now?

[layman]

he announced, on the floor of the Senate, the end of his long quest for the presidency

I wonder where he got the idea that this announcement was necessary. Doesn't the Senate have more important things to spend its time on? What a buffoon!

[maryz]

This New York Sun didn't start until 2002. Can't find that the old New York Sun existed under that name in the '80s. See Wikipedia.

[redstates4ever]

"I don't want the next president to find that they have inherited a nation still divided ....."

Divided thanks to the likes of YOU.

Chuck you, Farley. And the horse you rode in on.

[IrishMike]

.... the end of his long quest for the presidency ??
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I don't believe he had previously announced his quest FOR the Presidency.

[maggief]

This image from video provided by Senate TV shows Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., becoming emotional while speaking about the U.S. policy in Iraq, which he said threathens everything he's been fighting for since his return from Vietnam, on the floor of the U.S. Senate in Washington Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. In his closing remarks Kerry, the Democrats' losing presidential candidate in 2004, said he will not run for the White House again in 2008. (AP Photo/Senate TV)

[TommyDale]

Kerry missed 72% of the Senate votes in 2003.

http://www.johnfkerrysucks.com/kerry_missed_votes.html

[Red6]

This thing disgusts me.

He's a fraud, a fake. Someone who has lived on other peoples purse all his life and today has made a political career by being a demagogue. This guy represents ideas and pushes them politically all to well knowing they are nationally damaging in economic, security, and social aspects. He chases votes like some lawyers do ambulances, he flips and flops on issues in accordance to what the latest poll says. This guy is a political amoeba with no values other than his political career.

Yuck.

[sgtbono2002]

I want him out of the Senate and out of the country. Let him go to Switzerland or Denmark or friggin Cuba to live.

Let him take his rich wife and her raisins anywhere but America.

This slime dosnt deserve to live in America,after all he has done to destroy it.

[roses of sharon]

What an embarrassment to America.

[IrishMike]

What an embarrassment to America.
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That is a prerequisite to higher position in the DRat Party.
Hillary the yankee fan, Robert KKK Byrd, Teddy the Swimmer, Pat Leaky, John Christmas in Cambodia .........

[stylin19a]

It was begun, in 1971, with his testimony before the Senate

Not quite true...those hearings weren't official. No one, including Kerry, was sworn in.

It really was a Rat staged media event.

[Caipirabob]