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."
Guess whose head is up where the sun won’t shine?
Apparently, most of the voters in Massachusetts enjoy being condescended to and spit upon by their elected representatives.
Here is to a sudden and lasting contrition.
Actually, he is correct, in that HE doesn't "get it".
“Wee Man” from the Jackass/Wild Boyz show would probably be willing to do it, although I think technically HE is a dwarf.
“Hypocritical” is liberal speak for “I don’t like this”
Goes back to Karl Marx and Lenin. They ranted about middle class “hypocrisy”.
Often Democrats use it when there is nothing hypocritical about a stance someone takes. Many of them do not know the real meaning of the word.
And they certainly do not understand the virtue of hypocrisy: having standards and failing to live up to them, preaching virtue while not always being virtuous is far better for society than preaching moral relativism and living in a sewer.
The Victorians knew this. There were no Rosie O’Donnell around in 1900 preaching to 15 year old girls who couldn’t afford it, “Hey...look at me! I have all the kids I want and there is no father in sight” Upper class Victorians were as raunchy as anyone else. Often more so. But they knew better, unlike elites today, than to promote a depraved life-style to those who could not buy their way out of the consequences.
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“What we have here is a failure to comprehence!”,
said Kerry
It is hypocritical.
Back in 2008 I had smug, holier than thou little bastards running around lecturing me about my “extremism” and “partisanship”. They were voting for “moderate” candidates - and Obama was in their view a “moderate” candidate.
Well in 2010, they’ve got what they voted for: a group of left wing extremists buying out their precious moderates with bribes and corruption. This is what the “moderate” government looks like. It’s exactly what they asked for.
I warned them of all of this.
I guess when these know-it-alls said they wanted “moderates”, what they meant was that they wanted people who would “weigh every side” and then agree with them.
The depressing part is that the worst offenders in our Congress will coast to easy re-elections. Even if 100 seats are “in play” that’s less than 25% of everyone up for re-election.
No kidding. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Ya mean like comimg home from Viet Nam and sitting a few feet away from Hanoi Jane at an anti-war rally in D.C.???...and then try to run for POTUS on your "Valiant war record"???? Ya mean like THAT kind of HYPOCRITICAL J F'n K?????
One of the strongest traits of a liberal is the inability to face the possibility that they a just WRONG...can’t be them...can’t be their policies......no, the poor ignorant voters are just uninformed, or hypocrites.
This from one of the foremost hypocrits of all time. Feh.
funny that he didn’t think this when Bush was president.
Turn about is fair play and the tar baby is going down!
Yep, my voting is going to be "hypocritical" too!
Look at that picture. What the hell happened to Kerry’s eyebrows??? They point straight up.
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