I'm I the only one that is watching Cspan right now to get a glimpse of

[jillan]

MY president???

I'm so excited they are back:)

[karynnj]

1. I just turned it on

I thought it was ending when frist was talking - so I turned it off. has Kerry voted yet?

[whometense]

2. I just got home and turned it on too.

I haven't seen Kerry yet either.

[fedupinBushcountry]

3. He's on the floor

in quite a discussion with McCain. hmmmmmmmmm

[Mass]

5. I see him

The two other ones seem to be Lieberman and Feinstein

[jillan]

4. he is standing there talking to McCain.

C'mon turn around so I can see your face :p

[jillan]

6. what do you suppose he is talking to McCain about for so long?

[Mass]

7. Hopefully remind him that McCain said that Bush was better in security

Or ask him why McCain did not tell Bush to go back to Washington why he was eating the birthday cake.

[karynnj]

10. McCain didn;t look too unhappy with Bush and the cake

He was partying while part of the country was drowning too. Less important than Bush's reaction - but not noble.

[jillan]

11. Maybe Kerry is telling McCain, If you would have run as my VP, we wouldn't

be in this huge (*&*&(*&^&^%#$#^*& mess!

[FreedomAngel82]

20. I'd like toknow too

Or maybe Kerry is trying to get McCain to convert over to "the dark side". ;) Our conventions are more fun anyways. It doesn't remind me of church.

[TayTay]

23. What were they talking about so animately?

There was some sort of big disagreement going on there. The body language showed Kerry with his arms open and those big hands gesturing all over the place. And McCain was making smaller, less sweeping gestures which kept more to himself and was not in agreement with whatever Kerry was saying.

And where was Hagel today? I thought Kerry might meet up with him today, all things considered.


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Tea Leaves galore.

[JI7]

34. at the very least i hope he is calling out McCain on what he does

and says. if asked about McCain i would love for him to bring up that McCain isn't always right and even wrong many if not most times. and bring up McCain's words in support of Bush's leadership while the truth is that Bush has been a disaster.

[karynnj]

8. Don't know but they were both pretty animated

[FreedomAngel82]

21. How so?

Can you explain more? I wish I saw this!

[Mass]

9. Now Obama is with them.

[Mass]

17. Have you heard Obama speech on the floor earlier

I think he nailed it perfectly, particularly this part.

http://obama.senate.gov/statement/050906-statement_of_senator_barack_obama_on_hurricane_katrina_relief_efforts/index.html#more

Which brings me to my final point. There's been much attention in the press about the fact that those who were left behind in New Orleans were disproportionately poor and African American. I've said publicly that I do not subscribe to the notion that the painfully slow response of FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security was racially-based. The ineptitude was colorblind.

But what must be said is that whoever was in charge of planning and preparing for the worst case scenario appeared to assume that every American has the capacity to load up their family in an SUV, fill it up with $100 worth of gasoline, stick some bottled water in the trunk, and use a credit card to check in to a hotel on safe ground. I see no evidence of active malice, but I see a continuation of passive indifference on the part of our government towards the least of these.

And so I hope that out of this crisis we all begin to reflect - Democrat and Republican - on not only our individual responsibilities to ourselves and our families, but to our mutual responsibilities to our fellow Americans.I hope we realize that the people of New Orleans weren't just abandoned during the Hurricane. They were abandoned long ago - to murder and mayhem in their streets; to substandard schools; to dilapidated housing; to inadequate health care; to a pervasive sense of hopelessness.

I know such talks disturbs particularly some people because it is no more only Bush's fault, and it does not fit with their impeachment argument, but in a more "do we care about others" argument, but I know I have been frustrated more than one last week because of people who called themselves progressive, but could not care less about the victims, but only about Bush. It was so frustrating.

[jillan]

12. I'm switching to Oprah

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4665839

[ginnyinWI]

13. Kerry was trying to convince McCain of something,

maybe, by the looks of it. Obama and Feinstein left and Kerry kept on talking and waving his hands around--Hm I wonder what that was about!

[ray of light]

18. McCain is a hawk: kerry is a dove

they're opposites, yet they have made a good team in the past. But McCain is creapy as far as I'm concerned--his behavior with Bush makes me want to barf!

[JI7]

32. i wouldn't exactly call them a "team"

Kerry is nice to almost everyone on a personal level but he is good when it comes to defending the issues that matter.

Kerry kept the investigations into Vietnam together by controlling McCain who couldn't handle it and kept losing his temper.

[whometense]

36. No idea if this has anything to do with

yesterday's discussion, but I thought it was interesting. In Salon today:

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has occasionally been a thorn in the side of the White House. However, he warns against "premature judgments" about the government's response, noting that "we were all surprised" by Katrina's scope, ferocity and damage. McCain does not provide any specifics, but he signals a willingness to follow Bush's lead on investigating any shortcomings. "Just as the president said this morning, we need to find out what we did right and what we did wrong. I agree with him."

Gag.

[karynnj]

14. Thanks for the heads up

it was fun seeing Kerry - arguing (?) with McCain.

[whometense]

15. Don't you think

it would be fun if they would randomly put body mikes on senators like they do on football players? I'm sure they'd hate it, but how much fun would it be to be able to hear all those casual conversations??

[karynnj]

16. I would think it might inhibit Senate floor discussions.

I would think even the cameras might in some cases. It would be interesting to know what Kerry and McCain and the others who joined them were talking about. McCain kept shaking his finger at Kerry and the others, but they seemed ok when each left.

[jillan]

19. Hmm - It was nice to see Kerry :)

It was like a moment of sanity with all that is going on right now.

Even if I had to stare at his backside most of the time. lol!

[FreedomAngel82]

22. LOL

How was his butt doin today? ;)

[TayTay]

24. Real fine, real fine indeed

I wished the C-Span camera would pull in closer, but then it would invade the conversation, rather than just show maddening hints of it. Sigh!

Still, it was good to see the PRez, wasn't it.

[whometense]

25. It really was.

I feel like the grownups are back in town. All - what is it? - five of them???

Did you see that the moron-in-chief said he's going to investigate himself? Now that's a take charge kinda guy.

[TayTay]

26. OMG! You mean he really is going to try and find

his own ass with both hands and a flashlight? Wow! I want the C-Span cameras there to record that one.

He can't investigate anything. He'll do a version of the 'funny piece' he did for the WH Correspondents Dinner last year, when he was pretending to look for WMDs in the WH. "Nope, no evacuees here, nope no FEMA problems under this table. Everything seems fine to me."

Just wait. Feh!

[Noisy Democrat]

27. This is like OJ Simpson

looking for the "real killers."

[JI7]

28. perfect comparison

[jillan]

30. We should change his name to George OJ Bush!

Enuf about him, this is suppose to be a welcome back Kerry page.

Talking about Kerry makes me smile,

talking about GOJB makes me :grr:

[JI7]

33. i'm disappointed i missed it

even if it was just him having a conversation with others from a distance.

[FreedomAngel82]

35. I love what Nancy Pelosi said

All he has to do is look in the mirror. LOL. That was a good one.

[jillan]

29. self delete

[TayTay]

31. It is nice to see Sen. Kerry again.

He looks good. He gestures emphatically. He talks like an intelligent person. He is not a screwup. He doesn't have to call ex-Presidents to make him look like a grownup. And he has wicked big hands. Wicked, wicked big hands. Wow!

Ah, I needed that.