Friday SSI discussion in NYC, JK there

[TayTay]

From ABC The Note:

Democratic Senators are hitting the road to make their own Social Security arguments, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's office announced yesterday. As we reported in yesterday's Note, the first event is a 10:00 am ET barnburner on Friday, with Sens. Clinton, Schumer, Reid, Durbin, Dorgan, and Kerry at Pace University in New York City. At 2:00 pm ET that day, Sens. Reid, Durbin, and Dorgan join Gov. Ed Rendell and Reps. Chaka Fattah, Bob Brady, and Allyson Schwartz at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238

[TayTay]

1. What the hell

here's the rest of what the Note wrote on JK:

Sen. John Kerry:
It's a right-place-at-the-right-time kind of day for Sen. John Kerry. As we mentioned above, first this afternoon he takes part in the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony honoring baseball great Jackie Robinson — recognition he pushed for with Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA).

Kerry and Rachel Robinson, Jackie Robinson's widow, look at Robinson's life and legacy in a Boston Globe op-ed. LINK http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/03/02/a_pioneer_in_civil_rights/

Then it's all about the Sox!!

The Boston Herald's Andrew Miga looks at how the nation's pastime is bringing Sen. Kerry and President Bush together — and Notes that Gov. Romney will not attend the Sox photo op. LINK http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=71094

Sen. Kerry also had plenty of choice things to say about President Bush's tax and foreign policies, as well as the mainstream media at a forum with Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Monday night. A quick summary: politicians need to focus on accountability; the middle class is getting squeezed by tax cuts for the wealthy; the Bush Administration needs to adjust its attitude on globalism; corporate media owners have killed the investigative spirit and contribute to an atmosphere of fear and lies; and he hasn't thought about a 2008 presidential bid yet. LINK http://www.dailyfreepress.com/main.cfm?include=subApplication&subApplicationName=quickRegister&fuse=registrationOrLoginRequired&thereferer=http%3A//www.dailyfreepress.com/news/2005/03/01/News/Kerry.Talks.Politics.At.Jfk-880946.shtml

Hey Leiby: when you go to his house for the presentation on the PAC, maybe you can ask him about that.


Yeah, they track Kerry stuff all the time. Now you know where I get it. Oh, and note to The Boston Globe. It might have been nice to have a story in the premier Boston paper about the JFK Library Award ceremony. The Detroit FreePress ran a story. The Boston Herald ran a story. But not in the Glob. Sigh! (Bastards. I'm telling ya, Kerry should have gotten those Globe reporters drunk and laid years ago. Then his press would have been better.)

[rox63]

5. Kerry has been quite a busy guy

Sounds like he needs to clone himself to keep this kind of schedule.

[Firespirit]

8. I'm fully in favor of that.

Kerry clones are an excellent idea. :evilgrin:

[Firespirit]

9. "he hasn't thought about a 2008 presidential bid yet"

And I'm a freeper.

:eyes:

Yes, play it coy, JK. Whatever. ;)

[elshiva]

2. Rep. Ben Cardin of MD (great Dem) did a little

tour against Bush's SS BS. He only did his district, but he got on PBS, which is national so it was pretty good. A lot people watch Lehrer News Hour.

[Withywindle]

3. Ooh, this sounds great

...the party really does seem to be organized and standing firm on the Social Security issue. I went to the one in Chicago on Monday, with Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Senators Durbin and Obama. It was quite the barn-burner too -- organizers waaayyy, waayyyyyy underestimated turnout. Two overflow rooms everyone had to work through to say hi to everybody.


I got serious proof they were co-ordinating today too - watching C-SPAN. Was it Sen. Dayton who used that quote from Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "You're certainly entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts!"? Well, BWAHAHAH, because Obama used that _exact same quote_ at the Chicago meeting. What a co-inky-dink. They're putting their heads together. FINALLY!

I would LOVE to hear what Kerry has to say on it.

[TayTay]

4. I wil venture forth into

the world's largest DB tomorrow and find the remarks. (12,000 sources, miliions of text documents, hey there's gotta be some remarks somewhere.)

[TayTay]

6. Here is the news article on this

and on how to get tickets for all 4 events listed. (NYC, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Las Vegas.)

http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_062114417.html

Just keeping you up-to-date

[TayTay]

7. Just got an e-mail from C-Span

This joint appearance will be on C-Span tonight

From C-Span: we are covering their session in NYC today and will air tonight

[TayTay]

10. This is coming on C-Span twice tonight.

Once at now (9:oo pm eastern) and once at around 12:00 pm (eastern.)