NY Times: "Kerry...drew the best reception" [View All]

[DJcairo]

"A lot of people have asked me if we can have a president who doesn't have a prostate. Well, I answer them, we've had a lot of Republican presidents who didn't have a heart."
-J. Kerry

Unlike others, this guy has great new applause lines every day. Go Kerry!

From the NY Times:

Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, for one, promised to take the fight on national security to Mr. Bush.

"We need to go right at him," Mr. Kerry said. "Remember, they thought that was their strong suit. They can't find Osama bin Laden. They can't find Saddam Hussein. They can't even find a leaker in the White House."

Mr. Kerry cited a Republican aide's remark that the administration's strategy was to "slime and defend," by tarring Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former American official in Iraq whose wife was disclosed to be an intelligence officer after he had accused the administration of twisting intelligence information to make its case for war.

"Mr. President, it's time to come clean," Mr. Kerry said. "Slime is not a way to restore honor and integrity to the White House."

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Three times, he said he had stood with "the Democratic wing of the Democratic party" to fight off attacks on Medicare, turning one of Dr. Dean's best-known campaign lines against him for having called Medicare a disaster in 1993.

Mr. Kerry took aim, too, at General Clark, a fellow Vietnam War hero who has captured much attention since entering the race two weeks ago. "I am proud that I stood against Richard Nixon, not with him," he said. "I know what it's like to be spied on by the government, because that's what they did to me when I came back and stood up against the war."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/politics/campaigns/04DEMS.html?pagewanted=1