[Cincinatus' Wife]

Sen. John Kerry answers questions after speaking to packed house at Brown University in Providence, R.I., Monday, Sept 19, 2005. Kerry and former Sen. John Edwards spoke separately Monday on the government's handling of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe and on the broader issue of poverty in the United States. (AP Photo/Joe Giblin)

***.........CBS News Senior Political Editor Dotty Lynch reports that while at first blush these speeches might appear to be a coordinated Democratic attack on the President, the former running mates and their staffs engaged in a bit of jockeying for attention to their remarks.

Sen. Edwards has been sending e-mails and appearing on TV for the past few weeks talking about the hurricane and the "Two Americas" he spoke about in his 2004 campaign, Lynch reports. He spent Saturday in the early caucus state of Iowa talking about Katrina and poverty and set Monday's speech at lunch time in Washington where he would get maximum attention from policy wonks and national political reporters.

The Kerry camp took pains to alert reporters that Kerry would also be speaking on Monday although at Brown University in Rhode Island three hours after Edwards in Washington, Lynch reports.

Kerry aide David Wade said in an e-mail said that Kerry would be "provocative" and that while "this forum has been long on the schedule... as he thought about the meaning of Katrina, John Kerry threw way his original text and rewrote his speech to lay out what he believes is the challenge for America after Katrina."

The Republican National Committee said that while the country has pulled together during the crisis, "Democrats' efforts to politicize this tragedy are unsavory at best." The GOP organization said of Kerry's criticism: "Such tactics haven't served him well in the past and today is no exception."............ Source

[jslade]

This creep is so OVER.

[Beckwith]

whether to make a 2008 run

They must be talking about the Boston Marathon.

Who knows, maybe he'll run the whole 26 miles and 385 yards this time?

[beyond the sea]

"Democrats' efforts to politicize this tragedy are unsavory at best."

Pathetic and despicable sound like pretty good words.

[backhoe]

I had hoped to never have to drag forth this "click the pic" link, ever again...

John Kerry- some selected, informative links...Click the picture & goto "last" for the latest:

[kcvl]

He needs to get his butler to iron his shirt before he makes an *ss of himself.

''More and more people are voting on issues that have no relevance to their daily life, or little relevance, or no facts."

How the hell would he know what is "relevant to our daily lives"? He should really sit down and shut the hell up since he has no "facts".

[beyond the sea]

Kerry could use an iron and an ironing board.

[Semper Paratus]

Kerry better not be standing on the tracks when the "Hillary Express" cames barreling through.

[JohnLongIsland]

did you know he served in vietnam redux

"ill make sure this country loses the war in iraq better than we lost the war in vietnam"

a loser giving a speech to a bunch of kids that their parents are paying 60gs a year to have brainwashed

[hershey]

Kerry's such an expert on the effects of poverty. He who's done nothing but chase rich women all his life. Please. If Kerry did what Libby Dole and Sen. Dole have done for years, volunteered weekly at a local shelter, or if his annual charitable donations were anywhere near the Vice President and Lynne Cheney's donations....ahh, but then he wouldn't be the John Kerry we know and loathe.

[Solamente]

The senator was surrounded by family members including his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry:

[Pete'sWife]

Sorry, my uniform is at the dry cleaners.

[muir_redwoods]

Please, Please, Please let him run in 2008 with Hilary and Al Gore.

It would be so much fun to kick the crap out of one of them.

[mmercier]

>> ''More and more people are voting on issues that have no relevance to their daily life, or little relevance, or no facts."

And therefore they should not be allowed to waste our time voting on these important issues when someone like me is here to decide for them.

Kerry sucks, Massachusetts sucks, and the leftist rats in general suck.

He is my so called "senator".

[thelastvirgil]

This sounds like an opportune time for the Swifties to get back into gear, and nip this sham of a campaign in the bud.

John Effin will not find every venue as accepting of his crap-smearing as the friendly confines of Brown, but he will pick and choose carefully, knowing full well that the media whores will report his every utterance as earth-shaking policy statements.

This has got to be the biggest goofball ever to grace a stage, yet he will be treated as a serious candidate by the wackos. The common thread among the terminally stupid is to oppose and hate George W. Bush, and they will accelerate the hatefest from now until '08.

Sickening.

[OpusatFR]

I spent some time looking for Kerry's vote on levee spending, or barring that, some of his votes on environmental matters with Mississippi Delta wetlands environmental fiasco funding in mind.

No luck. I hope someone with better skills than I can find it.

[Watery Tart]

Making oblique reference to his own history of Vietnam War activism...

If he would have mentioned this, he might have won in '04!

Say...doesn't he look French??

[clee1]

What a maroon.

[MissAmericanPie]

His problem is that everyone did "tune in", were completely informed, and rejected his snake oil sales pitch.

[cvq3842]

Kerry seems to be following Gore into "unhinged loser" territory . . .

[saveliberty]

LOL! I can hear the soundbyte now.

{tone of a pompous [***]} "Do You Know Who I Am?"

LOL LOL LOL