Kerry at HuffPo: Standing With Harry Reid

[ProSense]

John Kerry at HuffPo:

04.26.2007

Standing With Harry Reid

They're at it again. When I came here to the Huffington Post and supported Speaker Pelosi when she was attacked by the right-wing, I said, "They thrive on destroying our leaders - we can't let them." I take no pride in my prognostication.

Now they're going after my friend and Majority Leader Harry Reid.

And once again, it's up to us to defend him.

There's a very strange dynamic at play right now. When I talk to a people on my book tour, and when I take part in online discussions or calls with bloggers, I see an America that is sick and tired of politicians in Washington who refuse to change course in Iraq; an America that doesn't believe the words that comes out of Dick Cheney's mouth about everything from escalation in Iraq to global climate change; an America that wants our troops taken care of and knows that George Bush's policy has not just been a failure, but an unmitigated disaster of arrogance and isolation from day one.

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I ask you to join me in hitting back. The time is now to take the fight to the other side. The GOP machinery is tottering and creaking. Dick Cheney has the approval ratings of the Yankees in Fenway Park, and he has zero credibility. I set up a page on my site defending Harry Reid, and calling attention to Dick Cheney's long run of, yes, misleading and uninformed comments on Iraq. And, most of all, calling out the failure of this administration to make us safe.

Because that's what they're really trying to hide. It's no coincidence that they step up these attacks on the very day that the bill setting a deadline to change course in Iraq, get tough on squabbling Iraqi politicians, and get our troops out of the middle of a civil war moved to the floor of Congress.

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The Repubs and their shill media are launching a full assault on the Dems' Iraq position:

David Broder

Michael Ware

[ginnyinWI]

1. K&R n/t

[TayTay]

2. I saw the Broder column this morning

How sad. David Broder used to be a respectable political columnist. Now, he just seems to be shilling for the Repubs.

I agreed with Sen. Kerry when he stood up for Speaker Pelosi, and I agree with him on Harry Reid. This is just a RW attempt to turn the argument away from the disaster that is the Bush Administration in everything it does.

[blm]

10. Not me - not for the last 14 years. He has been transparently proBush since Poppy left

office.

The mythology they created about Poppy's unquestioned 'integrity' was always too much for this BFEE watcher.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. There is nothing wrong with saying the war is lost.

The sky is blue and grass is green, too.

[TayTay]

4. I agree with you

But it seems to be all that is motivating the Repubs right now. If it wasn't for the criticism of Reid and Pelosi, they would have to face what they have actually enabled, a failed war. So, they make stuff up about the Dems.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Well, if the Republicans had their way, the sky wouldn't be blue

It would be a hazy auto-exhaust brown.

[ginnyinWI]

7. I understand that they're going to do a big photo-op

when * vetos the war funding bill. How is that supposed to garner them some support? It's so "through the looking glass". Don't they realize how many of us out here are against this war?

[ProSense]

8. This is Repub gotcha time!

Notice Michael Ware, the guy who has presented some of the most damning footage of the war in Iraq, now saying immediate withdrawal would be devastating. If the shills don't confuse the issue, leave it to some self-serving individual (he could be among the former). From his presentations, There is absolutely no way to conclude that there is an advantage to staying in Iraq.

There are reports about the situation in Iraq that go much further than Ware's, though his have been in video form.

[beachmom]

6. Thanks for posting. Democrats must back each other up. Good for Kerry. n/t

[slipslidingaway]

9. Media matters on Reid statement, video clips and links.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200704200012


"However, these outlets did not also report that, later during the press conference, Reid added that "the war, at this stage, can only be won diplomatically, politically, and economically." Other news outlets reporting on Reid's statement -- for example, Agence France-Presse and Reuters -- noted Reid's further comments. Moreover, during a speech on the Senate floor the same day, Reid reiterated his stance, advocating a "political solution" in Iraq and asserting that "there is still a chance to change course."

[ProSense]

11. Senator Kerry has a diary on this up at

Daily Kos

[politicasista]

12. K&R

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