Reply #1: Really nice editorial [View All]

[karynnj]

It's interesting that the Globe (owned by the NYT) is coming close to saying that they were pushing New York's (read Hillary) Senators to lead a filibuster. It is the only explanation of their scizophrenic coverage - strong editorial for a filibuster on Wednesday and a hit piece ridiculing Kerry on Friday followed by an article (by the same reporter) that the Democrats should have and could have won on the following Wednesday. You get the feeling they went ballistic because not only did their clear favorite fail to step up but the Senator that they hate to even mention did.

Hillary grudging supported the filibuster because she didn't have a choice, but I would assume if she (and Bill) had championed it and tried to sell it, they would have had the ability to do it. Not because they're better than Kerry, but because they could get the media. (Imagine Hillary or Bill, making Kerry's Monday arguements on the constitution.) I can't imagine she got credit for her vote from those who considered it important, while some on the other side may fault her for her filibuster vote

The listing of "quirks" that they list for Kerry are the type that you put down on self evaluation forms at work, which are really virtues. (He talks to international leaders (horrors!) and he's above it all (they now say determined, but wouldn't high minded and principled be more accurate). Compared to Reagan (bellicose rhetoric), GHWB (preppy expressions), Dole (grumpiness), or McCain (too tightly wound ), Kerry's "quirks" are easy to accept.

This is one of the nicest things they ever wrote about him.