Posted on 02/25/2008 8:26:09 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Lessons Learned, Kerry Hits Trail for Obama
By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 25, 2008; A04
DALLAS, Feb. 24 -- Sen. John F. Kerry is attending to some unfinished business.
Four years ago, his bid to topple President Bush fell short, damaged by a series of Texas broadsides that became known as the Swift boat attacks. His demise spawned a term that came to signify a political low blow. Now Kerry has returned to the campaign trail, this time as a spirited foot soldier for Sen. Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat who aims to succeed where Kerry did not.
Carrying his own overnight bag and following another candidate's script, Kerry jetted to small gatherings around Texas this weekend, telling audiences that Obama, 18 years his junior and barely schooled in Washington's ways, could lead a "transformational presidency." He said the way Obama thinks about politics and foreign policy is uplifting.
"You read all the tea leaves. You can understand the dynamics," Kerry told an audience in Brownsville on Saturday. "I believe Barack Obama has this moment of history to be able to change these politics and take the negative off, to take the politics of destruction away. He isn't seeking to perfect Swift-boating, he's seeking to end it. This is a man who understands we've got to talk to each other."
Kerry, who is seeking reelection, is making time to travel to Texas and Ohio for Obama. He dearly wants Obama to succeed, saying he sees a chance for the first spate of "progressive legislation in this country since Kennedy and Johnson."
"It is gusto," Kerry said as a five-seat jet shuttled him between events in Brownsville and Del Rio. "I really believe in him."
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That’s only a rumor.
Nothing like an extreme liberal senator that failed to win campaigning for another extreme liberal senator trying to win.
Lessoned learned? Like the one how Kerry is one clown you want no where NEAR you on the campaign trail?
And since when did Jean Francois carry his own bag?
bump
The “Democrat Attack Machine” is better known as the mainstream media.
>> Didn’t he serve in Vietnam during the Vietnam War???
Depends on what the meaning of “serve” is. ;-)
Isn’t it just a **weeeeeee** bit insulting to Democrats that their experienced politicians are stuffed into attics?!
Senator Kerry came within a single state of winning just 4 years ago, and he’s not even in the running this year!
And former VP Al Gore...he won a Nobel Prize, the popular vote in 2000, and served two terms in the White House.
But instead of that experience, Dems are going with two junior Senators who between them have only managed to rename 4 Post Offices despite a decade of combined Senate experience?!
Did he sign the SF180 yet?
No mention ever made about the really false attacks on George Bush’ National Guard. I guess the term “Rathered’ isn’t as popular as swiftboating. The Swiftboats Vets ads have never been proven false.
“I believe Barack Obama has this moment of history to be able to change these politics and take the negative off, to take the politics of destruction away.”
those comments come from one of the leaders of the dims “politics of destruction”
once an immoral, traitorous hypocrite always one
Did Kerry ever “prove” that the Swift boat claims were false? I’m tired of the media reporting as if they were. Didn’t someone offer $1 million for each point that was proven false? Any updates?
Thanks,
In fact, the group's founder, former Rear Admiral Roy Hoffmann, is from Virginia. And their 102,000 donors came from everywhere.
Clinton may as well throw in the towel when you have a proven “winner” on the stump for your opponent. (/sarc.) Don’t forget that Teddy, Caroline and Kerry all campaigned for Osama-Obama in their homestate of Massachusettes and Hillary still won.
Never underestimate the diabolical schemes of the Clintons.
“Kerry Hits Trail for Obama”
Carey really has a death wish, doesn’t he?
roflmao!
Could Kerry be hoping for a VP consideration??
//shudder//
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