http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/kerry/ en-us Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:31:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073864/posts US Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama (D-IL) reaches out to supporters after delivering a Labor Day speech at a campaign stop at the Marcus Ampitheather in Milwaukee, Wisconsin September 1, 2008. Senator John Kerry gestures to delegates at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 27, 2008. Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., left, chats with Annalou Trebitz, 87, of Deerfield Beach, Fla., after a town hall meeting Tuesday, Sep. 2, 2008 at Century Village in Deerfield Beach. Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, smiles as his running mate, vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073864/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:31:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072482/posts Starting at 2:39, on youtube clip of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, August 31, 2008:On Governer Sarah Palin: KERRY: ...You know, she may be — I mean, I’m sure she’s a terrific person. I’m not attacking her. I think John McCain’s judgment is once again put at issue, because he’s chosen somebody who clearly does not meet the national security threshold, who is not ready to be president tomorrow. And there’s just no way to...STEPHANOPOULOS: You heard Senator Graham, though. He said that she has more experience than Senator Obama.KERRY: That’s just ridiculous on its face. I mean, John... youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072482/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 17:49:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071845/posts Democrats have come up with a new line of attack line against John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin, saying she's another Dick Cheney. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) described Palin as a member of the "flat-earth caucus," who McCain picked purely to please the conservative base. "With the choice of Gov. Palin, it’s the third term of Dick Cheney," Kerry said on ABC News' "This Week." "He’s chosen somebody who doesn’t believe climate change is man-made." Kerry added that Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters should be offended if people suggest Palin was selected to draw some of the female vote away... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071845/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:33:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071849/posts Democrats have come up with a new line of attack line against John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin, saying she's another Dick Cheney. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) described Palin as a member of the "flat-earth caucus," who McCain picked purely to please the conservative base. "With the choice of Gov. Palin, it’s the third term of Dick Cheney," Kerry said on ABC News' "This Week." "He’s chosen somebody who doesn’t believe climate change is man-made." Kerry added that Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters should be offended if people suggest Palin was selected to draw some of the female vote away... politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071849/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:38:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071847/posts Democrats have come up with a new line of attack line against John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin, saying she's another Dick Cheney. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) described Palin as a member of the "flat-earth caucus," who McCain picked purely to please the conservative base. "With the choice of Gov. Palin, it’s the third term of Dick Cheney," Kerry said on ABC News' "This Week." "He’s chosen somebody who doesn’t believe climate change is man-made." Kerry added that Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters should be offended if people suggest Palin was selected to draw some of the female vote away... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071847/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:38:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069786/posts Wednesday morning, August 27, between 11 am and 1:30 pm EST or 9 am and 11:30 am mountain time, I'll be chairing a New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force event in Denver at the Colorado History Museum. The keynotes are Senator JOHN KERRY (D-MA), Obama National Security Adviser GREG CRAIG, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School Dean ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, former Congressman and Obama Adviser MEL LEVINE, former German Foreign Minister JOSCHKA FISCHER, and Aspen Institute President (and former CNN Chairman and CEO and TIME Managing Editor) Walter Isaacson. Our panel will be former Israeli negotiator and New America Foundation Senior Fellow... The Washington Note http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069786/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:11:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070105/posts The Observer finds that Teresa Heinz Kerry appears to believe that the results in Ohio in 2004 are illegitimate: This convention, Ms. Heinz Kerry said, is “full of meaning and full of opportunity, and if you, as I, believe, and I know a lot of you do, we did not lose the last election, nor did Al Gore lose his last election. We won it.” While many Democrats remain angry about conflicts over voter registration and the provision of voting machines, in particular, fewer believe that those provided the margin of victory, or that Kerry was robbed of victory the... politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070105/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:43:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070095/posts Our sister-publication The New Republic and its staff are blanketing the Democratic convention, and from their coverage we wanted to return to an underappreciated star of the convention. It was, no kidding, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, Senator John Kerry. Here's TNR's Chris Orr on one speech you may not have watched: Like most, if I'd been told yesterday that John Kerry would give a sharper speech than Bill Clinton, I would have assumed it was because Clinton tanked. The latter didn't (remotely) happen, but the former did, with Kerry giving by far the best speech I've ever seen from him. National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070095/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069101/posts The race between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry is as close as it has ever been, even after the Democratic National Convention last week, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Sunday. Kerry is far out in front of Bush on the question of who would unite the country. Fifty-two percent of all those interviewed said Kerry would, while only 39 percent said Bush would. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069101/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:10:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2069236/posts U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) stands at the podium as he attends a walk-through before the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado August 27, 2008. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2069236/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:45:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068529/posts In the latest volley in the ping-pong match over 1960s radical William Ayers, the Republican National Committee has dug up a snippet of him praising Senator John F. Kerry for throwing away his Vietnam War decorations. "John Kerry's finest moment," Ayers, a founder of the Weathermen, says in the video from C-SPAN of a January 2006 appearance at the National Press Club while promoting a book. In a 1971 antiwar protest, Kerry discarded the ribbons from medals for valor he was awarded for his service on swift boats. Republicans and groups allied with them attacked Kerry's service and record during... The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068529/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:05:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068019/posts DENVER -- From the convention hall: All evidence points to a Democratic convention that will have a take-no-prisoners aggressive approach all week, driving home the contrast between John McCain and Barack Obama at every opportunity possible. An official speaking on background said that they were "not going to make the same mistake that we did in '04." Democratic analyst Mark Siegel said, "We begged the Kerry people to make the election a plebiscite on Bush, and make the '04 convention, from beginning to end the Reagan '80 series of questions: Are we better off now than we were four years... The Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068019/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:21:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2067701/posts Pope Benedict XVI has bestowed a key position on an American prelate who was the leader of a faction in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that believes Catholic voters should judge political candidates primarily by their views on abortion. With a presidential election looming, supporters of the separation of church and state can hope that the appointment of Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis as the head of the Vatican's supreme judicial body will defuse the controversy in the church about single-issue voting. Burke, an icon of conservative Catholics, is best known as the prelate who announced in 2004... The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2067701/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:22:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065705/posts It is now widely accepted that the surge in American troops helped dramatically improve security in Iraq in the last year. But there has been less notice of, or comment on, how the surge has improved the Iraqi oil sector, which contributes more than two-thirds of the country's gross national product and almost 95 percent of the government's revenue, and remains pivotal to the country's development and stabilization. Oil production has risen about 25 percent in Iraq in the past year. It had been flat from 2005 through mid-2007, hovering around 2 million barrels per day before beginning to climb... weekly standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065705/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:12:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066491/posts One of the presidential nominating season's most unusual ideas was proposed again Tuesday, this time by one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, when Sen. Joseph Biden advocated a "unity" ticket of Democratic Sen. John Kerry and Republican Sen. John McCain. MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066491/posts#comment Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:45:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066247/posts The mediaÂ’s ability to shape opinion derives from its power to slant the news―the pervasive activism known as “media bias”―and also from its power to choose what is and is not reported. But 2004 marked a watershed in American political history. That was the year the old media lost control of our national conversation. Accuracy in Media Column http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066247/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:12:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064915/posts WORCESTER, MA - The week before the 2004 Democratic National Convention, John Kerry drafted his presidential nomination speech and then set off on a cross-country trip that brought him home to thousands of delegates waiting in Boston. Four years later, the senator was back on the stump in the second-largest city in Massachusetts, seeking the votes of 60 people who had been lured to a restaurant with a free lunch and Greek pastries. Times have changed, but Kerry insists he’s as committed to seeking re-election to the Senate this fall as he was to campaigning for the White House four... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064915/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:45:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064616/posts Jimmy Carter, John Kerry and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley will be among the speakers at next week's Democratic National Convention, organizers announced today. Former Vice President Al Gore also is scheduled to speak at Invesco Field at Mile High on the night Sen. Barack Obama accepts his party's nomination, according to published reports. The convention will gavel open the first three nights — Aug. 25 to 27 — at 3 p.m. Mountain time, the Democratic National Convention Committee announced. It will end each night at 9 p.m. Mountain time. No times have been annnounced for the final night. The schedule... Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064616/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:19:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2064656/posts Via Glenn Reynolds: "In order to Swift Boat John McCain you will need his fellow POWs to come out and say he is bloviating, etc. Swift Boating means someone who was there who knows you are full of hot air is on your tail. Not, I repeat not, what the left wants it to mean. The only way John McCain can be Swift Boated is if someone who was there with him causes McCain's campaign to scramble to answer the allegations. Otherwise, this is desperation by the left who sees their guaranteed win slipping away." It'll get uglier before it's... The Virginian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2064656/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:56:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064206/posts Is U.S. Senator John Kerry really feeling that threatened by a first-time, relatively unknown, challenger? First it was an allegedly torrid Senate summer schedule that Kerry said made it impossible for him even to think about debating his Democratic primary opponent, Edward O'Reilly, before the Sept. 16 election. O'Reilly, a Gloucester attorney, had asked Kerry for a series of 23 debates in public forums and television appearances. That's obviously excessive, but wouldn't one or two be a good compromise? Apparently not. Roger Lau, Kerry's campaign manager, said on July 28 that Kerry couldn't even discuss debates until he knew when... Newburyport News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064206/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:27:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064170/posts On August 16, 2008, in a CBN News interview with David Brody, Senator Barack Obama said: They're engaging in the kind of politics that I think we've become accustomed to which is you try to tear your opponents down and you engage in sort of slash and burn tactics. And very personal sort of personal character attacks. And one of the challenges for us in this campaign is how do you make sure those attacks are answered quickly and forcefully, but also truthfully and that we don't fall into that same kind of tactic. ... As promised, Mark Levin again... MarkLevinFan.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064170/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:41:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063213/posts Mark Levin announced Friday that 'The Obama Nation' author Jerome Corsi will return to his show Monday night. Here is [the audio about] why: One astute observer put it this way: "I suspect the Obama people would like to take a gun to John Kerry's head [for] calling attention to Corsi's book when the Obama campaign was holding its breath, hoping the NY Times story would just quietly go away." So, now that Corsi's book is selling like hotcakes, Barack Obama has set his attack dogs loose: “The reality is that there are many lie-filled books like this in the... MarkLevinFan.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063213/posts#comment Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:11:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062828/posts It's only dirty pool if you lose. That's the apparent Democratic approach to presidential politics. In 2004, Democrats tried to use film, in the form of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 , to discredit and bring down President Bush in his re-election effort. CBS even got into the fray, using obviously forged documents to try to tarnish Bush's National Guard service. It led to news anchor Dan Rather's retirement. Yet, four years after a group of veterans from Democratic nominee John Kerry's "swift boat" days in Vietnam hit the news media with their concerns about his war record, it was considered... The Augusta Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062828/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:44:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062794/posts Yeah!! Kerry is back. His chance of becoming Obama's VP is now 14%, an 10% jump from yesterday!! Go Kerry! Intrade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062794/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:49:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062722/posts Reporting Jon Keller BOSTON (WBZ) ― Barack Obama has yet to name a vice presidential nominee and some are wondering if he might turn to Massachusetts to round out the ticket. John Kerry for vice president? Don't dismiss the notion just yet. Some political insiders are telling WBZ it could happen. So why would Obama reach out to Kerry as his choice? Kerry brings more money and name recognition to the table than any other name on the Obama list so far. Americans do tend to love a comeback kid and this would be the most amazing political comeback since... WBZTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062722/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:50:52 GMT