Posted on 02/07/2005 12:29:16 PM PST by rightalien
The 2004 election is months in the past, but Sen. John Kerry still seems to be on the campaign trail. As he tries to carve out a postelection life, the Massachusetts Democrat repeatedly has invoked his run against President Bush as his party's presidential nominee. Last week, he both took credit for Mr. Bush's recent embrace of increased death benefits for troops killed in combat and criticized the president for betraying the message of the election, which he said was bipartisanship. And on Wednesday, Mr. Kerry brought up the 2004 campaign during a Senate Finance Committee hearing as he attacked Mr. Bush's proposal to allow workers to invest part of their Social Security in private accounts. "I think I've become an expert on the things President Bush has said or not said. In the course of this campaign, he must have said 100,000 times that he wants to privatize accounts," said Mr. Kerry, who argued that the high cost of creating such private accounts will mean a cut in Social Security benefits. David Wade, a spokesman for Mr. Kerry, explained that although the Bush administration argues that it has a mandate, "in a race that narrow, the only mandate is for unity." He said Mr. Kerry is simply trying to fight for the things he heard Americans talk about on the campaign trail. "The stories of the real problems of real Americans he heard for two years had a real impact on him," Mr. Wade said. "That's why he's here to fight on Social Security, health care and for veterans."
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Didn't John Kerry lose to Pres Bush? Why do we keep hearing from him? i guess he thinks we think what he has to say is relevant!
Hang in there. Mr. Kerry is not nearly as affable as "Bubba", and that means he'll be around for a spell, but not for the long haul. Soon he will become, again, the nearly invisible, junior senator from the Soviet Socialist Republic of MA.
Sen. Kerry has no message, no record of achievement of any kind(political), he's a windbag and a not a nice person. In short - a putz.
I've found that, generally, people like to vote for the nice guy. Kerry is not one of those. Neither is his wife a "trip to Paris." Ugh.
Viva Bush!
Wonder how long te-RAY-za will stick around now that she hasn't realized her political ambitions.
Absolutely, RB. He's gonna get real tired of always having to show up for work. That's just not going to last.....
Carve out a life? First of all to do that he needs to have a life in the first place. He doesn't. What a waste he is. For heaven's sakes... Botox boy...just move on. The world doesn't revolve around him and if he didn't call journalists to listen to his tale of woe and then they report it...we wouldn't know what he was doing and sure as heck wouldn't care.
Does this mean he's actually showing up for work these days?
Senator, what part of "repudiated" don't you understand?
Ardeth Bey?
Kerry's showing up - only because he GETS HIS FACE ON TV.
LOL. There is that :) Let's see how long it lasts, and if vanishes when the cameras do...
kerry is going to be calling us drunk at 3:00 in the morning and begging pocket change for the next four years.
Hey! Anyone know if John Kerry ever served in Vietnam? Thanks.
And if anyone ever had a face least suited to tv, it is he.
Actually, the only time I hear about Kerry is here. I leave my T.V. off.
Yes .. it is he!! LOL!
He carves out life after loss? You mean he gone and got a real life?
He "says" a lot of crap, doesn't he?
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