Posted on 05/31/2005 6:29:53 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who lost this crucial swing state in November, sounded Friday as if he were still stumping for Florida's votes.
The Massachusetts senator, at a National Head Start Association conference to tout his plan to provide health care for uninsured children, hammered on familiar themes of values and unity while repeatedly criticizing the Bush administration and Republican leaders in Congress.
"I went back and reread the whole New Testament the other day. Nowhere in the three-year ministry of Jesus Christ did I find a suggestion at all, ever, anywhere, in any way whatsover, that you ought to take the money from the poor, the opportunities from the poor and give them to the rich people," Kerry said.
Kerry has yet to officially announce whether he's in the running for the 2008 nomination, and he didn't take questions from the media Friday.
But while speaking to the educators and child advocates gathered in a hotel ballroom, it wasn't difficult to imagine his rhetoric, unchanged, being said at a campaign rally.
"We need to enlist and join together in a great cause across the country that puts a simple choice before our fellow Americans. It's a choice that, I think, is based on values," Kerry said.
Following Florida's 2000 election debacle, in which Bush emerged the barest of winners over Al Gore after five weeks of partisan fighting, the Democratic Party made capturing the state one of its highest priorities.
But Kerry couldn't pull the state into his column, despite the millions spent on advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts. Bush prevailed by almost 381,000 ballots, for a margin of five percentage points.
"The fact is, 10 million more Americans voted for our idea of what we wanted to do than voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 when he was the sitting president of the United States," Kerry said. "The fact is, a million people volunteered. The fact is, across America we created an energy.
"And that energy is going to keep on going and keep on fighting until we achieve what we want to."
If Kerry decides to run, possible competition for the party's nomination include his former running mate, ex-N.C. Sen. John Edwards; N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton, and retired general Wesley Clark.
Matthew 13
More proof he's never seen the thing.
How he ever won the dem primary with quotes like that is beyond me.
Guess he missed the part "If you teach a man to fish you feed him for life"
That makes sense. I was thinking your response was more along the lines of a typical liberal "the poor are honorable and the wealthy are evil," but now I see that your response was to a thoughtless "the poor are poor because they don't work, and the rich are rich because they slave away."
Of course, there are hardworking wealthy people, and hardworking poor people.
Frankly, I discounted the comment you responded to simply because it started with the taking-the-Lord's-name-in-vain triteness "OMG"....
"Nowhere in the three-year ministry of Jesus Christ did I find a suggestion at all, ever, anywhere, in any way whatsover, that you ought to take the money from the poor, the opportunities from the poor and give them to the rich people."
Also, nowhere did he find a suggestion that you ought to take money from the rich and give to the poor. Many, MANY times the rich are told directly to give to the poor, but never is there a suggestion that any of us are authorized to take from one person to give to another.
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