Kennedy calls for Democrats to unite behind Kerry

[NNN0LHI]

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ALBANY - Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Democratic icon from Massachusetts, took the stump on behalf of Sen. John Kerry Friday and slammed President Bush on everything from education to the economy to health care. snip

Kennedy spoke about hard-core Democratic issues to a receptive crowd of about 200 at the Albany Labor Temple. In a thundering voice, the 71-year-old told the crowd that the Bush administration and other Republicans refused to raise the minimum wage, which he said has the lowest purchasing power in history. snip

"It's an American issue because it's one thing Americans understand. Listen to this Mr. President, listen to this Republicans, if there is one thing Americans understand, it is that anyone who works 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, should not live in poverty," he boomed to rousing applause.

The senior senator said the "overarching and overriding" issue is Bush's handling of the economy.

"It makes a difference when you have a president who says everything is hunky dory. ... It is going along well on Wall Street so Main Street just be quiet," he said. "That is not the kind of president we are going to elect."

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[Voltaire99]

1. Too bad Teddy isn't going to be the candidate (n/t)

[aquart]

2. A little bit soon, Teddy.

Talk to me in November.

[jsw_81]

3. You think we should wait until November before uniting?

Now there's a recipe for electoral disaster.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Yes, but you have to admit. The creepers would have great fun watching...

...us kick shit out of each other over here for the next 9 months though. Yea, man.

Don

[jsw_81]

4. Senator Kennedy is absolutely right

The Bush people are already trashing Kerry's record and spreading nasty rumors about him, and it's time for us to unite and hit back before it's too late. Senator Edwards is a good man, but he's too far behind to even be a real factor at this point; he'd have to win something like 60 percent of the remaining delegates to win the nomination and that simply isn't going to happen.

[izzie]

5. If he was a foot ball game, or bloody movie every one would.

Dean seemed to turn on people as McCain did hardly Kerry or a Bush. I will vote for him but it is not like I think he gets the blood moving. I also think he would be a pretty good President.I get this funny feeling that people are not thinking what(I said what) they vote for at all. It may be my own trouble as I believe things should be such a way and the party I am in is running to wards the middle. I am sure I am what would be called a Social Dem.And tend to be very anti-war.

[fearnobush]

7. I think its JFK II from this point on. If Edwards had a merical

run, sure, I'd send him fifty in a heart beat. For me, the candidate is only an instrument of what can be accomplished by the greater good of the whole. Thats why so many people have embraced ABB so long as it's a D Dem that is.