Posted on 04/09/2007 7:17:58 AM PDT by presidio9
Months after announcing he would not make a second run for US president, the defeated 2004 candidate John Kerry on Sunday pressed a different campaign: to protect Americans from harmful pollution.
"This is about moms and pops in North Carolina and Mississippi, and places where people may be breathing bad air, or getting sick from wells that are polluted, or losing their fish in their lakes," Kerry said on ABC News.
"This is the most compelling issue that I've seen other than war... in all the time I've been in public life."
The Massachusetts Democratic senator and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry used the interview to promote a book they have jointly written, "This Moment on Earth," which highlights cases of the harmful effects of pollution.
Kerry said his decision not to run for president in 2008 allowed him to speak the truth on environmental issues.
"Now I have a chance to talk about these things and people know it's coming from my heart and my gut, not from a political strategist," he said.
Kerry campaigned in 2004 with a liberal stance on social issues, but lost to Republican President George W. Bush.
The 2000 Democratic presidential candidate, ex-vice president Al Gore, has also led a high-profile environmental campaign with his feature film "An Inconvenient Truth," about the climate effects of global warming.
so like, all failed dem pres. candidates now are turning to environmental issues when they fail to be elected?
He can’t even come up with his own scam. Al Gore’s already using this one.
That is all we need. More nuts in the salad...
Following Al Gore.
he is a copycat.
So, Kerry is going to give up his SUV’s, his airplanes, his several houses....and keep to wind surfing?
I guess he would rather do that then fight in Cambodia.
Now that's just not fair. He was actually for greenhouse gasses, before he was against them.
Funny, Kerry rips off Gore.
Notice he doesn't mention his "brain."
What? You actually expect political or Hollywood royalty to practice what they preach? Silly rabbit!
As goofy as Kerry is, I was surprised he hopped on the "global warming" bandwagon since it's so obviously Gore's schtick. I wonder how Al feels about Johnny-Come-Lately trying to get his own piece of the pie.
He IS a green house gas. A Gulfstream III aircraft, large homes in Nantucket, Boston, Pennsylvania, Idaho, etc. and this ahole Kerry and his weirdo wife have the gaul to lecture US? They both can go to hell.
Twenty-plus years in the Senate, and he has yet to have an original idea. Thanks Mass.
John Kerry is nothing but a loony Al wanna be. What a looooooser.
Wow! Looks like the French press really loves him. Of course he is the French candidate......
“He can’t even come up with his own scam. Al Gore’s already using this one.”
Funny, ain’t it?? Kerry is such a total loser, he has to ride on the coat tails of the GORE-SCAM. Well we know how the libs jump from scam to scam in their constant pursuit of money and power to keep them alive and having some (useless) purpose in the eyes of the stupid and ignorant.
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