Happy Birthday to one of my true heroes - John Kerry

[Siwsan]

I was so honored to have been able to meet him, courtesy of Governor Granholm. He was so kind and gracious, and when I told him I was also a Navy veteran, he smiled. IMHO, he would have made an incredibly great, honorable and effective President. Thank goodness he stayed engaged in our government. We need thousands more like him.

[brer cat]

1. I agree that he would have been a great President.

The swiftboating of his service was one of the most disgusting republican ratf$%&ing I have seen.

[zeusdogmom]

2. I volunteered locally for his campaign

Got to meet him and the Edwards family. The entire experience of working with the campaign and talking with potential voters was incredible. And OMG so was the pain on election night. Still have a few campaign mementos tucked away.

We are blessed as a nation to have John Kerry in service to our nation.

[pazzyanne]

9. + 1 nt

[brer cat]

10. That is a wonderful experience you had.

But the pain...

[dlk]

6. Our country has paid dearly for Republican scorched earth tactics

N/T

[Hortensis]

3. Hope he's home with family and friends. Busy, busy, busy man

working on developing international climate actions. They're working on, among other things, a "big cooperation agenda" to make quicker changes economically viable.

“Trillions can clearly — and will need to — be invested,” said Kerry. That would come from a variety of sources, including partnerships under development among rich countries, multilateral development banks, philanthropies and the private sector.

[Hortensis]

4. Hope he's home with family and friends. Busy, busy, busy man

working on developing international climate actions. They're working on, among other things, a "big cooperation agenda" to make quicker changes economically viable.

“Trillions can clearly — and will need to — be invested,” said Kerry. That would come from a variety of sources, including partnerships under development among rich countries, multilateral development banks, philanthropies and the private sector.

[marble falls]

5. Genuinely good man.

[amuse bouche]

7. I grew up near him. He was my first hero

An incredible guy

[BlueMTexpat]

8. There are so many Democrat nominees

who would have made MUCH better Presidents than the Republicans who "won."

I had the honor of voting for all of these candidates but Humphrey. I would have voted for Humphrey and was otherwise eligible to, but I had no voting residence in the USA at the time. I had left to live and work abroad when I was 20 and the voting age was 21. I was not able to register to vote until my return when I was 27. So George McGovern was the first Dem Presidential candidate that I was able to vote for.

1968 - Hubert Humphrey

1972 - George McGovern

1980 - Jimmy Carter

1984 - Walter Mondale

1988 - Michael Dukakis

2000 - Al Gore

2004 - John Kerry

2016 - Hillary Rodham Clinton

All of these losses were heartbreakers.

But Hillary's loss was the absolute worst for me. And for our country and for the world!