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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 05:52 PM
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Kerry's More Than Anti-War
Invigorated Kerry outlines updated energy plan

http://www3.whdh.com/news/articles/local/MI2401 /

BOSTON (AP) -- {snips}

Kerry proposed three ideas, including a hard target of reducing U.S. oil consumption by 2.5 million barrels per day as of 2015. That amount equals the daily volume of Middle Eastern oil currently used in the country.

He also suggested achieving that goal by requiring oil companies to provide at least one ethanol pump at their stations by 2010. In addition he called for a series of tax credits so consumers and carmakers will ensure 20 percent of all passenger cars and trucks as hybrids as of 2020.

The third element of Kerry's plan calls for an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reverse greenhouse emissions growth by 2010, as well as a program aimed at lowering emissions by 2050 to 65 percent below what they were in the year 2000.

Two months ago, the senator used another speech at Faneuil Hall to outline a military withdrawal timetable from Iraq. A Kerry plan to have the troops withdraw by July 2007 died last week in the Senate on a 86-13 vote.

full article: http://www3.whdh.com/news/articles/local/MI2401 /
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 06:43 PM
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1. I know people get tired of all the Kerry news, but why aren't there
more Dems walking and talking the walk/talk? I can give him nothing but praise for being out there!
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 06:48 PM
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2. Me too, John Kerry has been fighting for us his whole career
I think it was something that happened in Vietnam, he obviously came back a changed man as many did. myself included
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 07:44 PM
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8. He was politically active before Vietnam - he campaigned for Kennedys as
a 13yo, from what I recall. And raised funds for civil rights workers in the south in college.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 06:51 PM
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3. Me three
outstanding advocacy, right on the issues,

still fighting for us
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 07:49 PM
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9. The problem is that media targeted him for takedown in the 80s and no one
Edited on Mon Jun-26-06 07:50 PM by blm
is willing to change course on that two decade old marching order.

The blackballing that happened to Robert Parry over IranContra, also happened to Kerry in other ways as his work caused his ostracization by most of DC. So the kind of media he has gotten for all his work never gets above tepid with the DC press corps. It's ingrained.

Funny, though, how both Parry and Kerry have never stopped fighting them, even with the rest of the press ignoring them for the most part.
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Monkeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 06:57 PM
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4. Yep
Veterans For Kerry all way know that he would stand up
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ray of light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 06:58 PM
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5. welcome to du!!!
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ray of light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 07:03 PM
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6. His speech earlier was terrific!
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 10:15 PM
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11. transcript
Three New Bold Ideas for Energy Independence and Global Climate Change
As prepared for delivery

Boston, MA -

Here in Faneuil Hall, America’s first great gathering ground of free speech and dissent, we came together two months ago and nearly two and a half centuries after the voices of patriots were first heard within these walls.

We came together to affirm that the patriotism of 2006, no less than the patriotism of 1776, demands that we speak truth to power – that for love of country, we must end a war in Iraq that kills too many of our sons and daughters, betraying both our national interests and our ideals.

Last week, in the Senate, we stood against appeals to politics and pride and demanded a date to bring our troops home. We did that because that’s the way you get Iraqis to stand up for Iraq and fight a more effective war on terror.

We defied the White House tactics of fear and smear. Presidents and Republican politicians may be concerned about losing votes or losing face or losing legacies. We told the truth because we are more concerned about young Americans and Iraqi civilians losing their lives. And I guarantee you, our success would bring less loss of life, less expenditure of dollars, and it would make America safer.

I say “we” because even though our resolution only won 13 votes this time, I know every minute of the debate you were there with us -- there with Russ Feingold, there with Ted Kennedy and there with us as we voted our beliefs and yours – that a policy based on deception and filled with blunders is no excuse for its own perpetuation.

But while we lost that roll call, I guarantee we will win the judgment of history because Washington is wrong and Americans are right, and we must set a new course in Iraq.

Yet our challenge is not just to end this war, it is to prevent the next one. The arrogance of ideology and the willful ignorance of the intelligence led us into a war of choice in Iraq. Now we must act so that at some future date America will never have to fight for its economic security because we are permanently held hostage to foreign oil.

We must make the hard choices – about alternative energy and clean coal, conservation and fuel efficiency – that will free our future from the dominance of big oil and yesterday’s fossil fuels, a dominance that in the era of global warming threatens the future itself.

So I come here again to Faneuil Hall, which is also the cradle of American independence, to set out a strategy for energy independence. To propose specific steps for an energy revolution as far-reaching as the industrial revolution. And to oppose the procrastination, the Washington evasion and the Cheney-run secret task forces by and for big oil.

How insulting and ridiculous it is to be told that the solution to our problems is to drill in and destroy the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that would yield a few months of oil when we are already importing 60 percent of our oil and climbing? God only gave us 3% of the world's oil reserves. There is simply no way to drill our way out of our problem. We have to invent our way out.

more: http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2006_06_26.html


Environmental Leaders Praise Kerry Plan on Climate Change, Energy Independence
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2006_06_26.html

Fact Sheet: Three Big New Ideas To Achieve Energy Independence And Combat Global Climate Change
http://www.johnkerry.com/features/energy/facts.html

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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 07:40 PM
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7. Doesn't Kerry know that Dems don't have a plan?
Silly Kerry.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 10:03 PM
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10. he's leading
it comes natural to him
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