"Thank God for Reader's Digest. I just breeze right on through the sucker."
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.
Given how his wife spent her time running around slamming Christians perhaps he was sneaking his reading time with a flashlight under the sheets and grabbed the wrong book.
I hope he paid particular attention to Our Lord's command not to bear false witness against your neighbors. Kerry ignored the commandment 30 years ago when he trashed his fellow Vietnam veterans in lying testimony before Congress and suborned and orchestrated lies by others through Jane Fonda's "Winter Soldier" program, who have now come forward to say how much they regret having done it. He hasn't.
"Thank God for Reader's Digest. I just breeze right on through the sucker."
This arrogant man would never waste his time reading the Bible. Most likely he had one of his "little people" read it for him and give him the highlights. LOL
Its called: the dems need the religious vote!
Well done. Thanks.
Well its a good start. Now, I wish he'd at least make a token effort to live it.
You hit that one on the head.
Kerry is a slime for even trying to use that as a suggestion.
I was thinking the same thing. Is he trying to say he's more popular than Bill Clinton was in 1996?
Why not go back and say, the fact is over __ million more Americans voted for our idea of what we wanted to do than fought in the American Revolution.
Why even bring the 1996 election into anything, unless this is his way of saying quasi-subtly that he is more popular than ANY Clinton.
As much as I can't stand Clinton. Kerry will never ever be as popular as Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton is 10 times smarter than Kerry and a much better politician.
"For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away." -- Matthew 25:29
Hey, SKerry, call again when you earnestly attempt to PRACTICE the whole thing!
Sheesh.
And absolutely NOWHWHERE in the Bible does Jesus advocate FORCEFULLY TAKING money from one group and giving it to another.
That was Al Gore.
OoPS, this=these :0] need more coffee!
"John Kerry, who lost"
Paul said: "If he will not work, neither shall he eat?" Isn't that the New Testament also?
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