IT Business Edge website praises Kerry for Small Business proposal

[beachmom]

I always like to find these little articles of how Senator Kerry is doing very good things in the Senate, largely under the radar. He's actually doing what conservatives claim they want to do -- reduce government regulation for small businesses.

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/ssg/index.php/2006/10/

October 2, 2006

Sarbox Struggles? Sen. Kerry to the Rescue

Posted by Lora Bentley on Monday 2 October 2006 at 9:26 am

In case you missed it late last month, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is the latest to attempt to save small businesses from Sarbanes-Oxley. Kerry recently introduced a bill — the Small Business Sarbanes-Oxley Assistance Act of 2006 — that would empower the U.S. Small Business Administration to award grants to small businesses to help allay the cost of complying with Sarbox.


It's a small article, so go to the link to read the rest!

[beachmom]

1. Adding on to little positive articles about Kerry

I liked this one:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-newvoices30b06sep30,0,5489146.story?coll=orl-opinion-headlines

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry came to speak at my university recently, and as I listened to him two thoughts came to mind: 1. He is much taller in person than on TV. 2. He's funny. Now, the real relevant thought here is the second, because as I thought about how funny and approachable he seemed, I wondered why he didn't use the charm when he was a presidential candidate. And for that matter, why didn't Al Gore?

But the real question is why we prefer our senators, representatives and presidential candidates to seem aloof and somewhat mechanical in their responses. Our societal views of people in power are stereotypical, stern and remarkably unbending. We don't want our political representatives to be funny. Yet when they run for office, we think they take themselves too seriously. In Spanish, we call this the "If it's not Juan it's Pedro" syndrome, signifying a lack of decisive action.

Still, I wonder what would happen if political figures running for office acted as Kerry did by telling jokes about Paris Hilton, just one, and taking off his suit jacket. What if all political figures acted as if they were giving a speech at a university instead of being no less mechanical than the recorded responses we hear after calling customer service? In this case, it made people feel more comfortable, more able and willing to listen to his point of view and the issues surrounding our generation.




Answer to why he wasn't more approachable in 2004? Because the media didn't report it. Still, I like that this girl was so impressed with him.

[TayTay]

2. Ahm, yeah, he really is very, very tall

Ah, I guess I have seen him enough now to remember that. Sigh! (Somebody during the election wrote an article about Kerry and trying to talk face-to-face with him and said that was hard cuz he's like, 9 feet tall or something. HAHAHAHAHAHA, no, not really. He's about 6'4". I think the fact that he is on the slim side makes him look taller, plus the hair.)

He is also funny. I wish the media would let people see that side. But it interfered with the pre-arranged script that said this guy is too stuffy and long-winded to be funny. (I thought he was funny on the Stephanie Miller Show. I wish he would go back on that show and do some of those impressions. I thought he did a good Clinton impression. Sigh!)