What a jackazz.
Posted on 05/26/2010 12:09:34 PM PDT by presidio9
Times are tough, especially among those still looking for good jobs, but Sen. John Kerry doesn't think Washington's to blame. In fact the former Democratic presidential candidate, concerned with the anger voters are aiming at Washington, says that his party and President Obama are doing a ship-shape job. [See which industries contribute to Kerry campaign.]
"We've come back," he says of the nation, Wall Street, and the economy. "This is an amazing resurgence."
Kerry talked about the voter anger during a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor called to give him time to pitch his expansive climate and energy bill. He was asked if he's ever seen such anger with Washington, in part inspired by the Tea Party movement named after the Boston Tea Party in his home state.
With many expecting him to say no, the 26-year Washington veteran said yes, citing the turbulent 1960s and the Watergate era. "Yes, I have seen it," he said, but while those were focused on the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon's power grab, he said "I think this is less focused."
It wasn't a slam at the Tea Party movement and those upset at Washington as much as a frustration he feels that Congress and the president aren't getting the credit he thinks they deserve for pulling the country out of a second depression.
"I think there's a comprehension gap," said Kerry. His point: While people may not be feeling the benefits of the bailouts and healthcare reform yet, Congress has been working with Obama to right the economic ship. Still, he sounded sympathetic to those kicked around by the economy. "There's a sense of some things unraveling" to them, said Kerry.
But he said that the D.C.-directed attacks are hypocritical, since many of those attacking Washington spending presumably want to keep their Social Security and Medicare and want Washington to play a big role in the Gulf Oil cleanup. "There's a huge contradiction on a daily basis," he said.
Maybe, he concluded, the Democrats should change their communications strategy "to better sell what we've done."
Real unemployment is at about 18% at this point.
He lives in an alternate universe. That’s the problem with living in Washington, they are totally disconnected from reality.
What a jackazz.
“presumably want to keep their Social Security and Medicare”
You mean all that money I payed in isn’t in a lockbox? :)
He actually has been poor before.
Howie Carr from the boston herald claims that in between heiresses he was sleeping in the back seat of his Oldsmobile.
Looks like a couple of Barney Franks buddies standing behind jfk.
“I think there’s a comprehension gap,” said Kerry.
Sure there is. From his perspective, they’ve bailed out fatcat supporters and political contributors on the backs of the taxpayers and their children, he and his are living the life large, and DC is grabbing for more power every day. Things are going great.
Anger at Washington when the GOP is in control is justified.
Anger at Washington when the Democrats are in charge is:
1) racism
2) fueled by right wing extremists on talk radio
3) sore losers complaining
4) unenlightened middle America ignorance
5) greedy exploitative capitalists fearful of economic justice
OK so current voter anger against government is hypocritical but when kerry was flinging his “medals” away and testifying about jengis khan to congress, that anger was AOK, is that it?
What is it about ahole senators from Mass. and oldsmobiles?
You KNEW the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred...
“I think there’s a comprehension gap,”
Keep it up Fn, you washingon whores can’t ever help but call us average Americans stupid.
Who ya gonna beleve, J F’in Kerry or your own lyin’ eyes?
It’s stories like these that displays the contempt that DC holds for the people.
Back atcha, Johnny.
Agree. I’ve been paying into SS and Medicare for approx 40yrs. Kerry and the rest of the Washington set have been spending it out in the general fund, now he is indignant because I don’t understand what happened to my investment?
So he was for the anger, but now he’s against it?
What an elitist fool. It's as if politicians naturally think of themselves as smarter than voters - Just Damn. This man must think he's like some sort of Godlike character out to show the little people the way.
The Spermatozoa-in-Chief
What drugs is this POS on?
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