Kerry in NH Blasts Frist & Administration

[_dynamicdems]

Campaigning in NH for State Senate candidate, Elizabeth A. Roth, senator Kerry came down hard on Bill Frist, the Bush Administration and their inability to address North Korea . The senator visited a Pelham nursing home before attending a fundraiser luncheon for Beth Roth in Salem.

PELHAM, N.H. -- Democratic Sen. John Kerry ridiculed Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist for trying to clarify his comment on bringing "people who call themselves Taliban" into the Afghanistan government. "They're not clarifying. He did another Terri Schiavo diagnosis from a one-hour tape," Kerry, the party's 2004 presidential nominee, said yesterday of the Tennessee Republican. On Monday, Frist said the war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and that he favored bringing "people who call themselves Taliban" into the government. The remarks drew immediate criticism from Democrats. They argued Frist was waving the white flag of surrender to the Taliban, who harbored the al Qaeda organization blamed for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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Kerry said Frist's Taliban comments sound like claims by the Bush administration about progress being made in Iraq, despite differing reports from those directly involved. The Massachusetts senator said he requested a private briefing with CIA officials earlier this week.

"I will tell you their outlook was bleak. It was completely different from what the administration is saying publicly, and they told me that is what they are saying to the administration today," Kerry said.

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Kerry also said North Korea's threat to carry out an unprecedented nuclear test underscored the Bush administration's failed foreign policy. He said U.S. officials should engage North Korea directly in one-on-one talks that put all unresolved issues on the table instead of ignoring the situation as he claims administration has done.

"This deal with North Korea has been waiting to happen for six years, and they've made the world more dangerous while ignoring it, just as they ignored Iran during the same period," he said. "They're ideologues, their minds are closed, and it's time to show them the door."

complete article:
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg...

After his visit to the nursing home, Senator Kerry joined Beth Roth at a small fundraiser in Salem, NH. I was lucky enough to be there and listen to the senator. He spoke "off the cuff" without a microphone in a soft voice, far different from the barn-burner speeches he's given at Faneuil Hall lately. Most of the 80 or so people in the room had worked on his 2004 campaign and the senator, standing in the center of a horseshoe of tables, joked and interacted with the folks in the room. He talked briefly and spoke about the Republican incompetence and corruption and he stressed the importance of small local elections as part of the solution to the overall problems we are facing.

Salem – Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said yesterday New Hampshire conservatives should be "riled" by what he calls an ongoing string of corruption in Congress.

He said allegations that former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., sent inappropriate messages to underage congressional pages and leaders failed to act on them are just the latest examples of decaying values in Washington. He said congressional leaders are failing to live to the same standards as the public.

He said it's troubling that some people in Congress knew about the allegations before they became public. If teachers and administrators failed to act on allegations like that in a school, he said, no one would stand for it. The same should go for Congress, he said.

"I've never seen ... more willful denial of a fundamental responsibility to heed the law and live by a certain standard," he said.



more:
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=55940...

[soothsayer]

1. Keep pounding 'em, baby! congressional approval is at 20% or

something, so keep the pressure on these GOP losers and get 'em OUT!

[_dynamicdems]

7. AMEN! We can't get lax, we have to keep slamming them while they are

down so they don't get a chance to get back on their feet.

[blm]

2. They're ideologues...minds are closed, and it's time to show them the door

Amen, Senator.


That's the reality of the Republican Way.

[_dynamicdems]

6. And LET it hit them on the backside on their way out!

;)

[rodeodance]

3. keep it up Kerry

[BOSSHOG]

4. Go John - Nuance em to death

"I've never seen more willfull denial of a fundamental responsibility to heed the law and live by a certain standard." Said by a great American Statesmen, not some drug addict who thinks he's a cowboy.

Give em nuance John!!!!!!

[_dynamicdems]

11. No kidding! Call it nuance or common sense: the senator is a great

statesman!

Senator Kerry's got an understanding of history and that is fundamental to understanding the implications of the present. The "pseudo cowboy" (I know I've never seen him on a horse) thinks only in terms of today and tomorrow. He never looks back, not even on his own disasterous decisions, which makes it impossible for him to learn from experience. Scarey to think this is the leader of the free world.

[babylonsister]

5. Those that can, do. I wish there were more like him. nt

[BOSSHOG]

8. One of my favorite quotes:

Henry Ford - Era 1903:

"Whether you think you can or you can't you are right."

I had it carved in a rock on my desk. A sailor only came to me once to tell me he/she could not do something.

[_dynamicdems]

10. LOL!

Great quote. How true!

[_dynamicdems]

9. You have a lot of company in that wish. n/t

[Blaukraut]

12. Thanks, DD!

Kerry calling it like it is. He hit on every republican screw-up, didn't he? And found time to serve old ladies food. What a guy! :loveya:

[_dynamicdems]

13. I was just told the links aren't working. Here are updated links to the

complete articles:

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=55940533-e575-4745-bd3b-5fc098dd8ca2&headline=In+NH%2c+Kerry+assails+GOP

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=141994