Reply #78: He never took a sabbatical!! But I suppose since neither the media

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nor much of the left wing blogosphere chose to cover JK's good works, I suppose that MUST mean he's been nonstop windsurfing in the Caribbean for 18 months on this "sabbatical" you speak of!

John Kerry was literally back in the Senate and on the Senate floor at a lame duck session 2 weeks after the election. Between his emotionally felt concession speech and his tough grit of withstanding the ridicule of showing up at a Senate session that he didn't have to go to, the man has literally stolen my heart. And he has been fighting every day to stop the madness from the WH -- little things that maybe don't warm your cockles like Small Business legislation, Congressional oversight on these "CIA prisons", and more and better benefits for veterans. These are bills that have been PASSED.

But timing is everything. This speech could not have been made any other time but now. If he had given this speech in January '05, right after the Iraqi elections, he would have been booed, ridiculed, destroyed, and dismissed. But this 35 year anniversary has turned out to be the right time for him to call it as he sees it.

What a lot of people here seem to want from Kerry is to act like a raving lunatic; that's not who he is (just read his anti-war protest history), and that's certainly what I don't want from such a respected U.S. senator.