Why Kerry conceded ("We're in time of war")

[robbedvoter]

With all the threads about kerry's bravery in mounting a new campaign for the White House, I thought this little nugget pf info might be relevant.


http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/11/04/kerry_forces_planned_for_a_battle_that_never_was/
According to Cahill, the uncounted Ohio ballots, on which Kerry's fortunes depended, were not overwhelmingly from Democratic-rich counties and cities in Ohio, but rather dispersed relatively evenly across the state -- meaning a share of votes for Bush as well. And while a team of lawyers pressed to go to court on Ohio at 8 a.m. to challenge the state's vote-counting procedures, Cahill said, Kerry did not see the point.

''He immediately just decided that in order to go forward in a time of war, was not something that he wanted to put the country through," Cahill said.

Since the original link is dead, I shall post the link for my own archive
http://www.smartgroups.com/message/viewdiscussion.cfm?gid=988242&messageid=2227
so you can access the entire article.

I'll add to this a story aired on Ring of Fire (Air America), days after the concession. RFK jr was replaced by a black commedienne who was very angrily questioning Mike Papantonio on the concession.
Papantonio reluctantly confessed that he was one of Kerry's lawyers bound for Ohio and he and the rest were recalled from the tarmac that night by Kerry. It seems, they were told - and papantonio was meekly trying to defend this at the time - that contesting the results "would make us look bad - as some people thought"