That says it all.
Yeah, what he said. I would violently disagree with a committed liberal, but I'd rather live under an honest lefty than an empty suit who would say anything at any time just to hold onto power.
Most politicians are this at heart, I guess, but the left seems to have more than their share. I suppose the collapse of communism weeded out the committed idealogues and left the cynical opportunists to fight over the corpse.
This -- and much more -- might be dismissed as normal political trimming, except that with the Clinton years and 9/11 we have learned the hard way that Presidential character matters. Whether voters agree with Mr. Bush's policies or not, they know where he stands. He is willing to take hard decisions and stick with them, as he has with Iraq and the tax-cutting that has helped the economy ride out some very heavy weather. Mr. Kerry will have to demonstrate similar conviction.Kerry has shown conviction--conviction that the Constitution failed to prevent gross atrocities by the U.S. government.
His conviction should have gotten him convicted.
Yes. There is.
One thing he had been stead fast on is his stance on the death penalty. He says he supports a moratorium on the death penalty at the federal level. Which means there would soon be a national moratorium on the death penalty, because of all the liberal social engineering judges and Supreme Court Justices he'd appoint.
He is OPPOSED to the death penalty for someone who would murder an American child, even a 5-year-old.
As the mother of a murdered 16 year old son, Jeremy Peter Flachbart, who was murdered by a sociopath wanting to see what it felt like to kill, I am APPALLED by this man who would be our president attitude toward crime victims.
He says HE FEELS MY PAIN.
BULL HOCKEY he can't feel my pain, he hasn't had a child brutally murdered. Only people who have lost a Loved One to homicide can begin to know the pain that comes from having a beloved child murdered.
There is a hole in my heart and in my life created by the brutal murder of my beloved child.
To me he is soft on crime just as dukakis who furloughed willie horton was.
His reasoning for opposing it is also faulty his stats are not accurate. Dudley Sharp with Justice For All can supply you with accurate stats if you need them. Dudley Sharp, Resource Director, Justice For All 713-935-9300
Sincerely,
In memory of Jeremy Peter Flachbart
Gail Keasling
KING: I've done a lot of shows recently dealing with the death of little children. A person who kills a 5-year-old should live?
KERRY: Larry, my instinct is to want to strangle that person with my own hands. I understand the instincts, I really do. I prosecuted people. I know what the feeling of the families is and everybody else.
But we have 111 people who have been now released from death row -- death row, let alone the rest of the prison system -- because of DNA evidence that showed they didn't commit the crime of which they were convicted.
After spending -- I myself worked to get a person out of jail who had been there for 15 years for a murder that person did not commit.
Now, our system has made mistakes, and it's been applied in a way that I think is wrong.
Secondly, I don't believe that, in the end, you advance the, sort of, level of your justice and the system of your civility as a nation -- and many other nations in the world, most of the other nations in the world, have adopted that idea, that the state should not engage in killing.
(APPLAUSE)
Because they have very bad memories of what happens when the state engages in killing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10722-2004Feb26_2.html
You can't unveil what you don't possess.
*"Except for terrorists"
See Kerry unveil his character and conviction?
That's like dropping the pants on a department store mannequin - There ain't nothing there.