Just read that Senator Kerry will be on CNN/Late Edition on

[babylonsister]

Sunday. The more face time, the better!

This week's guests

# Condoleezza Rice, U.S. secretary of state
# Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts: Foreign Relations Committee member
# Said Jawad: Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States
# Mark Malloch Brown: U.N. deputy secretary-general
# Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie: Iraqi national security adviser
# John Miller: Assistant director of the FBI for public affairs
# Brian Jenkins: RAND Corporation; author, "Unconquerable Nation" and terrorism expert

[globalvillage]

1. Yay!!!

Thanks for posting this. Just set the DVR.

:-)

[europegirl4jfk]

2. Cool!

That's the only show I can actually watch on TV here in Europe. :bounce:

[ProSense]

3. Cool! Thanks! n/t

[JI7]

4. i really hope he goes after Condi Rice

so he can respond to whatever she will spew.

[babylonsister]

5. Up momentarily! nt

[TayTay]

6. Excellent appearance!

Wolf Blitzer went over all the Repub 'gotcha' points on Kerry and even replayed a portion of Kerry's Senate floor speech on the IWR vote in 10/02. The Senator did a great job refuting these and not allowing Blitzer to entangle him in a web of minutae.

Darth Cheney this morning on 'Meet The Press' said that even the Democrats have to acknolwedge that the US hasn't been hit by the terrorists since 9/11. Kerry did a great job saying that while this is true, it is also partly not due to what Cheney says it is. The Dark Prince of Evil, Cheney, then went on to say that the US is lucky that we haven't been hit by a nuclear 'dirty bomb' because then there would have been hundreds of thousands of casualties. Kerry said that this is not due to anything the Admin has done because they have failed to secure and inspect the cargo coming into the United States. The Admin conceives of the war on terror almost exclusively as something that is happening on foreign soil and is not taking the measures necessary to actually 'protect the homeland.'

Blitzer showed a bizarre clip of Sen. Bill Frist saying that he calls the Democrats the Defeatocrats because they want to surrender in the war on terror and 'cut and run' out of Iraq. (Kerry actually sort of laughed at this, as it is so blatantly political and, ahm, nutzo. Frist has gone off the reservation on this one and is clearly desperate to fling some kind of mud at the Dems that will stick.) Kerry noted how that is political and that it's the Republicans whoh have failed to develop the plans and secured the backing of our allies that would really effectively fight the war on terror.

Obligatory 'are you running for President.' Ahm, not yet. We have a midterm to get through and the focus is there right now.

[blm]

7. There's a Wolf thread in GD that could use your summation, Tay.

We didn't get many details onto the thread.

[Blaukraut]

8. Great recap, Tay

I missed the appearance, so your summary is welcome :-)

[Dr Ron]

10. More recap here

I only mentioned some of the topics discussed assuming a full transcript will be out later, but here is a bit more information on what was said--along with an interesting news item scrolling across the bottom while he was talking:

http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=275

[whometense]

11. noted by the WaPo:

Kerry, in a rhetorical twist that invoked one of the worst moments of his 2004 campaign, also took note of Bush's speech this week about the treatment of terrorist suspects who have been held at secret CIA prisons abroad. "Let me say it plainly," he said. "No American president should be for torture before he's against it."

[wisteria]

12. Gore is beginning to annoy me.

He isn't, then he is-maybe.Didn't he play this game before. Is it for attention? What is he waiting for? A draft Gore campaign? I won't jump on that bandwagon in any case.If he becomes the nominee I'll vote for him, but I'm not enthusiastic about him. He may have become angrier and honest, but he still is in a lot of ways the same old Gore. Although, like you mentioned, a lot more knowledgeable than most others running except Kerry.

[karynnj]

14. I actually think there would be issues

that divide them. Gore has spoken only on what he has chosen to speak on - which given that he is not running, is his priviledge. If he were running, he would need to speak on a broader array of issues. Gore was a centrist Democrat over his entire political career. Kerry was far more liberal -

Now, DU assumes Gore is with them on everything. I'm not sure he is. You say he is a foreign policy expert, but there are many foreign policy issues that he stays quiet on. Even Iraq - where it's clear he was not in favor of war, nor was Kerry - there was only one very ambiguous comment on what should be done - he didn't like K/F. (Some Gore fans opted to take that to mean he wanted out sooner.)

[rox63]

9. I did catch this appearance after all, and he did great

Once I was sure Condisleazy was done spewing her lies, I tuned back in to catch our taller Senator. He did well navigating Wolfie's little minefield. And he sounded so presidential. I miss having a president that sounds presidential and can speak in full sentences. Sigh...

[ProSense]

13. Thanks for this

and for the excellent job you did live blogging yesterday's speech!

I missed Senator Kerry on CNN this morning, and now I'm trying to watch:

http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=24493

I haven't been able to open it!

[ProSense]

15. What is up with

Frist? He looks weird and sounds a card short!

[wisteria]

16. He looked like what he was saying was stupid- which it was.

Then, he tried to explain what it meant. :eyes: