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To: miss marmelstein

John Kerry told you in 2004 that you’d just have to accept a certain nuisance level of terrorism in America.

Keep Calm & Vote Democrat Even After You Are Dead

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/magazine/kerrys-undeclared-war.html
Kerry’s Undeclared War
By MATT BAIOCT. 10, 2004

When I asked Kerry what it would take for Americans to feel safe again, he displayed a much less apocalyptic worldview. “We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they’re a nuisance,” Kerry said. “As a former law-enforcement person, I know we’re never going to end prostitution. We’re never going to end illegal gambling. But we’re going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn’t on the rise. It isn’t threatening people’s lives every day, and fundamentally, it’s something that you continue to fight, but it’s not threatening the fabric of your life.”

This analogy struck me as remarkable, if only because it seemed to throw down a big orange marker between Kerry’s philosophy and the president’s. Kerry, a former prosecutor, was suggesting that the war, if one could call it that, was, if not winnable, then at least controllable.


19 posted on 09/25/2016 5:55:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Kerry almost beats DeBlasio in stupidity and mendacity. May they both die in an iron ring (bizarre curse I read somewhere).


21 posted on 09/25/2016 5:57:22 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: a fool in paradise

FUJK!


45 posted on 09/25/2016 6:22:44 AM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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