Reply #11: I don't think it's that with the MFSO group

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and the other groups affiliated with them. They have profound reasons to expect their Reps and Senators to respond to them.

It may not be 'fair' to some to target one Senator over another, but it does make sense. I would also target the person who so publicly asked who would be 'the last man to die for a mistake' in another war. That has resonance. It's probably not fair, but the request for a moral voice to speak up is not wrong. (And it's Kerry's job to respond to appeal from constituencies.)

I think Kerry is trying to do the right thing here. I also think he should be challenged on it (it's part of his job as a US Senator.) These people are bearing the cost of the war in the US. They have a perfect right (and some might even argue a duty) to bring protest of that war to the doorstep of those who sit in the US Congress. This is a sign of a healthy democracy. (It would be even more healthy if it was Bush seeing the protest, but that is apparently asking too much.) I very much doubt that Sen. Kerry will be displeased to see healthy protest in Cambridge.