Hotline: "Arguably unfair to Sen. John Kerry..."

[ProSense]

From Hotline:

Arguably unfair to Sen. John Kerry, but the share the wealth story is now in the Globe.

From the Globe article:

Many prominent Democrats, including DCCC chairman Rahm Emanuel, an Illinois Democrat, have praised Kerry for spending his time and money helping candidates. Hassan Nemazee , the DSCC's national finance chairman, said criticism of Kerry is misguided.

"People have notoriously short memories in this business," Nemazee said. "Cumulatively, John Kerry has done as much if not more than any other individual senator."

Critics in his own party excoriated Kerry for leaving $16 million in the bank after his 2004 presidential campaign. Though federal spending limits kept him from using it all on his own campaign, he could have given away what the law said he couldn't spend; that year, Democrats lost seats in both the House and the Senate.

Kerry aides said the senator saved the cash to cover leftover presidential campaign bills and to pay for lawyers in case he had to challenge voting irregularities in some states or if his race against President Bush had to be settled in court.

Though he quickly kicked in $1 million to the DSCC, gave $500,000 to the DCCC, and $1 million to the Democratic National Committee, Kerry has held on to the bulk of his campaign money as he prepares for a possible second run at the White House in 2008.

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[orpupilofnature57]

1. Kkkarl is busier than a cat covered in shit these day's

[MADem]

2. I vote that it's someone behind the scenes at the GLOBE, IMO

Someone, somewhere in that outfit has a major bug up their ass about JFK. I don't know who, I don't know why. But you can SMELL it when they get shitty about him--there's a PERSONAL flavor in the coverage. It's been going on for YEARS. It's not all the time, but often enough. It's the oddest thing....

[saltpoint]

3. Although History shows that George W. Bush won the 2004 election

-- and this may be a bit old-fashioned for some -- well, I would have preferred a candidate with a sense of History generally and particularly, an acumen in tracing the connections of the Founders to current policy; a candidate very strong on the environment and its role as refuge for contemplation of the natural world; a candidate strong on education as the overriding necessity of a civilized society; a candidate with a knowledge of and respect for our allies and all the cultural variants in play for U.S. foreign policy; a candidate with a gentle sense of humor rather than a strident, monkey-like rat-a-tat-tat chortle; a candidate with a strong, independent First Lady equally versed in worldly matters and problem-solving, and equally rich in personal integrity; a candidate who counts among his supporters James Taylor and Carole King; and a candidate who can speak English and use it to build aspirations and possibilities in our divided country instead of a philistine nitwit who struggles to put a single sentence together.

The recent infection of anti-Kerry pieces in some media suggesting he is stingy with funds is baseless and demonstrably incorrect; it is in fact horse shit of the worst kind, and repeated only because some people harbor ill will toward Kerry and not because it is true.