Kerry Charges Disenfranchisement in '04 Election (Barf Alert)

AP ^ | Monday, January 17, 2005

[imskylark]

BOSTON — Sen. John Kerry (search), in some of his most pointed public comments yet about the presidential election, invoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy on Monday as he criticized President Bush and decried reports of voter disenfranchisement (search). The Massachusetts Democrat, Bush's challenger in November, spoke at Boston's annual Martin Luther King Day Breakfast. He reiterated that he decided not to challenge the election results, but "thousands of people were suppressed in the effort to vote." "Voting machines were distributed in uneven ways. In Democratic districts, it took people four, five, eleven hours to vote, while Republicans (went) through in 10 minutes - same voting machines, same process, our America," he said. In his comments, Kerry also compared the democracy-building efforts in Iraq with voting in the U.S., saying that Americans had their names purged from voting lists and were kept from casting ballots. "In a nation which is willing to spend several hundred million dollars in Iraq to bring them democracy, we cannot tolerate that too many people here in America were denied that democracy," Kerry said. Voting irregularities in Ohio drove primarily Democratic challenges to the Nov. 2 election, but Congress eventually affirmed President Bush the winner by a slim electoral vote count of 286-251 - plus a single vote cast by a Minnesota elector for Kerry's running mate, former Sen. John Edwards (search).

[Goodgirlinred]

He checks carefully to see if he needs another shot of Botox!

[Tacis]

Hey, he cares! Most of Terry Kerry's household servants who aren't illegal aliens are black!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Didn't TahrayZa say that 'men are all like little boys!"...
Hmmmm. Guess she got that idea from hubby.

[Goodgirlinred]

I wish Teresa would put him in Time Out.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

I have finally gotten a dialog going with my democrat state legislator, not that it has achieved anything yet. Rossi carried the district and she knows she could be vulnerable in two years.

[Cultural Jihad]

You! You! You!

"Integrity! Integrity! Integrity!"

[Goodgirlinred]

You noticed that Clinton is looking bad, too, huh? I thought that was supposed to have been a piece of cake surgery. He seems to look worse and worse all the time. I wonder what is wrong?

[NY Attitude]

Either that or cut off his allowance, shorten his playtime increase in nap time and instill in him the age old adage that children should be seen and not heard.

[Goodgirlinred]

Nixon had class. Even if he was rough around the edges. He did what was best for the country. I am still proud that the first time I was old enough to vote I got to vote for his second term.

[Goodgirlinred]

I hope that you said that tongue-in-cheek. White people are not oppressing the African Americans. That is just another lie the Democrats are spreading.

[Victoria Delsoul]

"In a nation which is willing to spend several hundred million dollars in Iraq to bring them democracy, we cannot tolerate that too many people here in America were denied that democracy," Kerry said.

He isn't even effective fanning the fire of discontentment and rejection. What a loser.

[Goodgirlinred]

LOL! Sounds good to me! I don't know what she sees in him. Yuck. I couldn't look at that across the breakfast table every morning for anything.

[NY Attitude]

Maybe it is the French Connection.

[ItsForTheChildren]

Sen. John Kerry (search), in some of his most pointed public comments yet about the presidential election, invoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy on Monday as he criticized President Bush and decried reports of voter disenfranchisement (search). The Massachusetts Democrat, Bush's challenger in November, spoke at Boston's annual Martin Luther King Day Breakfast. He reiterated that he decided not to challenge the election results, but "thousands of people were suppressed in the effort to vote."

Ok. I'm confused here.

de·cry (d-krî') tr.v., -cried, -cry·ing, -cries.
1) To condemn openly.
2) To depreciate (currency, for example) by official proclamation or by rumor.

"...he criticized President Bush and decried reports of voter disenfranchisement."

Or to state it differently using the above definition...

"...he criticized President Bush and openly condemned reports of voter disenfranchisement."

Then we have...

He reiterated that he decided not to challenge the election results, but "thousands of people were suppressed in the effort to vote."

First Kerry and now the AP. Apparently flip-flopping is communicable.

[Goodgirlinred]

That is even worse. Of course, she looks the type who would go for that. I guess it takes all kinds.

[jimfree]

I hope that you said that tongue-in-cheek. White people are not oppressing the African Americans. That is just another lie the Democrats are spreading.

My point precisely girl. Any big lie when frequently repeated is believed by many including the idiots in the media.

[Joe Brower]

"Disenfranchisement" = Democrat euphemism for "We got stomped in the elections again".

[uncbob]

clinton's health wanning?

At the super market line the other day I tried to read the cover story in THE GLOBE . Didn't get to read ir all before my turn came at the register but gist of it seemed to say his friends were aghast at his current looks and state of health. He was supposedly depressed and not eating well . The cover shot of him looked pretty bad

[uncbob]

See my post 58

[Goodgirlinred]

Rats! I wish you had read it. Of course you can't believe anything in those rags anyway. I wonder why he is depressed? Well, I guess anyone who has been through major surgery like that is prone to depression. After all, you do get a feeling of your own mortality at that point.