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In reply to the discussion: Not my first choice, but I voted for her. [View all]karynnj
(59,498 posts)14. Many many Dean people were less kind
DU was a hostile place for those of us who really respected and liked Kerry in 2005. That was why DU John Kerry was so important to us. It was the only place where a mention of this wonderful statesman was not met with posts using words like held my nose. It is a myth, repeated constantly that no one criticized Kerry after he lost.
And it was not just DU. In 2005 articles there were negative Bill Clinton comments that Kerry and Gore did not understand how to fight the right wing. THAT idea was one part of the 2008 Clinton campaign.
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Perfection was required in 2016 for the first time in American politics.
Eliot Rosewater
Aug 2017
#57
She was my first choice. In the end, this was the FBI's election. Comey dominated it from
StevieM
Aug 2017
#19