Reply #102: eh

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kerry was a wimp, in a long line of dem presidential candidate wimps, noble, yet cowardly men who simply let handlers shush them along...humphrey in '68 not speaking out against the Vietnam War until the last week of the campaign...gore distancing himself from clinton...the list goes on and on...the repugs set the tone, and the dems just try to stay in the ring...

kerry never once took advantage of his position, really speaking day by day to people...he spoke from up on the podium, he watched the poll numbers, he dodged and parried...he let bush smear and smear and smear him and decided to rise above it all...so many people held their nose as they voted for him...not wanting him, but wanting bush out...he let his war record be tarnished, he let his peace activism be flushed...

the dems dont want heros and visionaries, they want power, they want influence, they want contracts...the exceptions to this are wonderful but they are exceptions...if the democratic party wants to find its roots again it needs to look at those who stood hard against people with expedient goals and values...they are there to inspire us...kennedy, king, roosevelt...