Posted on 05/26/2010 12:09:34 PM PDT by presidio9
Times are tough, especially among those still looking for good jobs, but Sen. John Kerry doesn't think Washington's to blame. In fact the former Democratic presidential candidate, concerned with the anger voters are aiming at Washington, says that his party and President Obama are doing a ship-shape job. [See which industries contribute to Kerry campaign.]
"We've come back," he says of the nation, Wall Street, and the economy. "This is an amazing resurgence."
Kerry talked about the voter anger during a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor called to give him time to pitch his expansive climate and energy bill. He was asked if he's ever seen such anger with Washington, in part inspired by the Tea Party movement named after the Boston Tea Party in his home state.
With many expecting him to say no, the 26-year Washington veteran said yes, citing the turbulent 1960s and the Watergate era. "Yes, I have seen it," he said, but while those were focused on the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon's power grab, he said "I think this is less focused."
It wasn't a slam at the Tea Party movement and those upset at Washington as much as a frustration he feels that Congress and the president aren't getting the credit he thinks they deserve for pulling the country out of a second depression.
"I think there's a comprehension gap," said Kerry. His point: While people may not be feeling the benefits of the bailouts and healthcare reform yet, Congress has been working with Obama to right the economic ship. Still, he sounded sympathetic to those kicked around by the economy. "There's a sense of some things unraveling" to them, said Kerry.
But he said that the D.C.-directed attacks are hypocritical, since many of those attacking Washington spending presumably want to keep their Social Security and Medicare and want Washington to play a big role in the Gulf Oil cleanup. "There's a huge contradiction on a daily basis," he said.
Maybe, he concluded, the Democrats should change their communications strategy "to better sell what we've done."
Yeah that’s it John, insult the voters.
Nope. Even a public educatred nitwit understands 10% unemployment.
What about that little war in Vietnam Skerry?
Mr. Kerry, you have never been poor one day in your life.
Amazing resurgence?
No.
The only thing that is surging or resurging is the oil from the leaking pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico.
Is that the amazing resurgence you’re talking about?
I’m going to hire a midget to punch him in the groin.
TRANSLATION: You're stupid.
John, you aren’t eating beans and rice to support your useful idiot constituents!
We gave you the bucks and unemployment has gone to 10%+ and stuck there.
Only a brain dead moron with utterly no grip on sanity would think what we are seeing in our economy right now is “an amazing resurgence”.
No one really cares what Kerry has to say...he is yesterday’s news. He was in VietNam, Ya know.
Kinda like a sorry you don't understand what's good for ya?
Is THAT it, F'n?
The antiwar movement was up and running when LBJ was president. While more came on board against it after a Republican was in the White House, it wasn't exclusively a partisan attack.
The antiwar movement that existed in the US from 2003-2008 is silent today even though we have no direction in Afghanistan (which was supposed to be the Good war).
Even the outrage over Darfur has gone silent.
By the way, John Kerry supported going to war against Saddam Hussein back in 1998. Said that Hussein had been given plenty of opportunities to comply and that we didn't need any international concensus to do what WE needed to do for our own security.
What changed all of the sudden when it was Bush in the White House?
Why are we listening to a man who lied to Congress during the vietnam war spout more lies about hypocrisy?
The veil of stupidity is lifting off the voters.
I'm starting to think that he probably really believes future-president Nixon sent him on a secret Christmas mission to Cambodia in 1968, and he heroically completed the undefined mission because he's a superbad warrior god.
And he STILL doesn’t know why he lost to Bush in 2004?
(eyes rolling)
Why the long face, John?
Kerry really is stupid,.
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