You know what I liked and continue to like about Kerry

[JohnKleeb]

Great all around issues guy. He's great domestically both socially and economically and foreign policy wise. Sigh, I wish he was president really, what a great man we had, the best we had in my life.

[elshiva]

1. Yes, hon. Just an all around sweet guy.

He really does care about this country and do a lot for it.

[JohnKleeb]

2. Its one of his best attributes really

Show me a guy who can deliever domestically and foreign policy wise and you got me impressed. People should damn apologize to blm for calling her a liar when she said that Kerry didnt introduce gay rights legislation in the mid 80's, he did, I researched it at work, he sponsored a bill with Alan Cranston.

[elshiva]

3. He is one of the best Senators on gay rights!

Ever since he has been Senator he has supported it and in the mid 80s before it was trendy.

Yes and I also admire the fact finding tours, too.

[JohnKleeb]

4. This was also a man who bucked his own party

in investigating Iran-Contra and BCCI, I believe one of the benefactors of BCCI or whatever was a man by the name of Clark Clifford, a man who had been involved with democratic adminstrations since the time of Harry S Truman, the party leadership apparently didnt like Kerry doing this. Its things like that make me laugh when Kerry is called part of the party establishment.

[elshiva]

5. What do they mean by "party establishment?"

I don't get that. Also, when he is called a "career politician/Democrat." WTF is wrong with that? So that his career, so what?

[JohnKleeb]

6. Whats wrong with spending your whole life in a party or in politics

A lot of great men and women have been career politicans.

[elshiva]

7. Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Boxer, Kucinich...

all these people were career politicians...

[JohnKleeb]

8. Not Kucinich really, he would have been

had it not for how he was treated after what happened in Cleveland in the 70's, he was a rising star in the party at the time. Boxer definely is a career politican, she represented where Lynn Woosley represents now in the 80's.

[elshiva]

9. Kucinich, though has been in politics for a while like the last

thirty years or so. What constitutes a career politician?

[JohnKleeb]

11. Hes been in and out

After he got beat by Voinovich for mayor, he became a journalist, professor, etc. He was actually elected to his first office while Kerry was in Vietnam believe, a city coucilman or something like that. Had Kucinich been understood right for the power deal, he wuold be with Kerry in the senate IMO, he really was going places.

[elshiva]

12. Do you still think Kucinich could be a Senator some day?

I would hope so, but I hope at least he can be congressmen for a while now. The whole power deal, wasn't he correct with what he did? Wasn't it a campaign promise? Why'd it cost him so much politically?

[TayTay]

10. Kerry is a career pol

it's his calling in life. I don't see anything wrong with that. It's what he's been doing all his life. I like it.

[elshiva]

13. Yes it is his calling. I think he was called by God to be of service

this way.