Positive DU-Politics thread on who still loves Kerry

[karynnj]

There are many, many nice posts - some from posters I don't recognize - only a few negative ones.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1784118&mesg_id=1784118

[whometense]

1. Thanks!

The positive ones are all too rare.

LOVED the studmuffin comment. :evilgrin:

[karynnj]

3. I was mostly surprised that there were lots of unfamiliar names

mixed in with those I knew - and the "new" swiftboat thing here IS a sendup. (ie "If Kerry was in VN why didn't we see him in any of (list of VN movies)")

[whometense]

4. Odd uptick in new

Vietnam smear stuff. DId you see this post? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=273x27624

I'm still wondering why people are bothering to send this stuff to Kerry supporters right now.

[karynnj]

5. What garbage I wonder if they're really resending that nonsense

on purpose or if it's some email glitch. It still talks about 2004. I feel so sick when I see these things and there's no process that can monitor them. (At least with consumer products, even though it takes forever to go after a bad ad the fines and awards are great enough to discourage it.) It's too bad there isn't a non-partisan (or a 50/50 split) board to review any political ads with the power to ban them. (I've never been for censorship - but before this year I never saw anything this slimy. It seems if you have money you can say anything with no regard to truth and put it on TV.)


I looked at the website and they are STILL making a big production about the 1993 Kerry photo in VN. The year should be a real clue that he was a Senator heading a committee - They take advantage of the fact that in the small picture, Kerry could pass for being in his late 20s, as they seem to want you to think this was during the war. Surely a certain Arizona Senator should have spoken out about this interaction with the VN, even if only for the fact that he can be attacked the exact way. These people are beneath contempt.

The link on the still loves Kerry thing is NOT a Kerry smear.

[whometense]

6. oh, I know

The link on the still loves Kerry thing is NOT a Kerry smear.

It just made me think of that other thing. It was weird because that email was sent to only about 5 other people, all people with pro-Kerry blogs.

[karynnj]

7. That is weird, almost like someone presumes that after

all this time you will see the light about Kerry (from their perspective Or maybe it was just to give you a nauseous feeling when you open the email and see these evil hateful things. Maybe a warning shot, that you and the others are wasting your time supporting Kerry.

I can't imagine how Kerry and his family and close friends feel.

[ginnyinWI]

2. here's what I posted over there---

Yes, love is a very good word for how I feel:
To me, loving someone includes needing them--and we certainly need a leader like John Kerry. I'm glad he is able to do as much as he is, given that his influence is limited to being a U.S.Senator in a minority party. But I also think that the election empowered him and the other Democratic Senators and Congresspersons to get tough and speak out. They realize how many of us are out here believing in them and hoping they will fight hard for us on the Hill against the GOP and the WH agenda. During the campaign he began the fight to take our country back, and though he didn't take the WH, the fight goes on, the momentum continues. I don't think for a minute that the Dems in the Senate would be acting as tough and unified as they have been, had John Kerry not gotten the 59 million votes (at least) he did last fall.

John Kerry is the politician I had been waiting for my whole life, without really being aware of it. Ever since Bobby Kennedy was shot, there was never, for me, any politician I really could whole-heartedly believe in. Not until I discovered John Kerry in 2003. That's a long time to be cynical about politicians. I liked Clinton, and liked Gore, but--you know, you can never tell. But I looked at Kerry's life, and listened to him speaking so sincerely during the primary season, and found that yes, here was a politician who was in it for the right reasons and who I could put my trust in. So I did! :)