VIDEO – Stephanopoulos Interview with John Kerry
Guest blogged by David Edwards
Kerry does a good job with this interview from yesterday’s edition of ABC This Week. Kerry comments on the GOP’s “Culture of Corruption, NSA’s illegal wiretaps, Alito’s pending SCOTUS confimation, future presidential aspirations and more.
If only words alone could protect our civil liberties and restore democracy for the people.
UPDATE: Pam, from TheDemocraticDaily.com has highlights from, and links to the complete transcript. As well, she’s got the RNC’s “in a tizzy” response to Kerry’s interview. All here…
From what I have read, he was against giving the interview before he was for it.
Yeah, that’s what I hear too.
Similar to how Bush was against the Homeland Security Dept before he was for it, against the 9/11 Commission recommendations before he was for them, against the prohibitions on torture before he was for it, against nation building before he was for it, against violating the constitution before he was for it, against activist judges before he was for them…Should I go on?
John Kerry"s Anti Alito Petition
Brad,
Don’t forget he was compasionate too!
Shown by:
Reduced veteran’s benefits
Reduced funding for mine inspections,
Reduced medicare coverage,
Disorganized medication coverage,
Attempts to dismantle social security,
Sell off of national resources,
Destruction of our environment by rolling back regulations and not approving Kyoto,
$3.19/gallon gasoline,
Record profits for the oil industry,
Over 2,000 Americans dead in Iraq
Up to 100,000 Iraqi dead,
Middle class priced out of home ownership,
Need I go on?
He was against fixing the New Orleans levee before he was for it.
Guys, don’t forget he fired the civilian head of the Corp of Engineers a couple of years before Katrina because the corp, led by a conservative, wanted money to fix the New Orleans levee system several years before Katrina.
The white house vigorously opposed granting money for fixing the levee system. The conservative objected, and was fired.
Then congress rubber stamped the deal and the corps got only 7.2 million … they needed ten times that amount.
Now we are paying dearly for the white house incompetence.
Did Medium Trite say something…or did somebody fart?
Sorry, John, but you stink. You let us down. All we saw were you and Edward’s "asses and elbows" while you were running full speed away from your quick concession speech.
To be fair, Edwards was the one that pushed for every vote to be counted. Kerry was the one that was more concerned with his political reputation.
Kerry is a day late and a dollar short! He missed the boat! Bye-bye!!
I think they black mailed him with something.Just a gut feeling!
Sorry, fellow BradBlogians, but I was for Howard Dean…and the media and the Republicans did a good job "taking him out", so the weak Kerry would be the Dem candidate.
I said before, did anyone ever check the exit poll vs. final count on electronic machines, in the Dem primary? Remember Dean was enormously ahead, then all of a sudden, Kerry came from like 4th place?
Just a thought…
I voted for Dean and Kerry and, I would vote for either of them again in a heartbeat. Ditto Gore, Edwards, Clark. The question is: Can any of them defeat the cheating vote count?
You can just add in the comments box on Kerry’s form that you want a filibuster. We had to hold our noses to vote for him, and we can hold our noses to support his "fight" against Alito’s confirmation. We can even write in that box that we will despise Senator Kerry if he doesn’t filibuster.
Also, just a thought.
John Kerry won’t be a credible person until he answers the following three questions, yes or no.
Question # 1: "Sen. Kerry, if fraud deprived you of the presidency in 2004, what is to prevent the G.O.P. from using fraud to maintain control of Congress in 2006?"
Question # 2: "If fraud did not deprive you of the presidency, then why does your wife think it did?"
Question # 3: "Would you agree that all other issues don’t matter if elections can be stolen?"
Agent99 #13
You said "we will despise Senator Kerry if he doesn’t filibuster" …
A filibuster is not possible for the democrats to do unless republicans join in. The math is simple. 45 democrats and 55 republicans. It takes 60 to stop a filibuster in the text book case (link here).
As you know, I am not one who likes to blame the minority for the wrongs of the majority.
The reason a filibuster might fail is not due to Kerry, it is due to some Zel Miller type "democrats".
It should be obvious to all who have any semblance of common sense that the American public has stood around and let both parties go to the dogs!! And with them, their political system! The politicians are now so corrupt that they don’t even bother pretending to listen to "We the People" anymore. To continue to entertain thoughts of supporting "party favorite" politicians is clear evidence of a public which has been reduced to political zombies, totally devoid of any will to act independently or with common sense. You would think that people would have sense enough to unite against their common enemies in both mainstream parties, Americans don’t seem to think that way. They just do the same dumb stuff over, and over again, and wonder why no one listens to them!
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