Reply #31: You Said It Much Better Than I...

[ChiciB1]

I honestly find it very very sad. I wrote in another post that I had waited for years for Kerry to run for President and I was so sure his goodness would pull him through. I recall many instances throughout 2004 and my ire with "the corrupt ones" grew and grew. I vividly remember his acceptance speech and what I was doing, so he obviously affected me.

Part of my reasoning for thinking as I do could be that I live in Florida and in the District that used to be Cruella's. Further north of here they were much kinder about him, and that is where I went to see him, in Tampa. The crowd was huge and most people said that if he lost they just knew the election would be stolen again. I do think it was to this day. I recall watching returns and I won't go into all of it, but I still have a break-down of each county somewhere and even the Democratic counties were off by huge numbers. In a way, I finally just gave up on it because I sort of saw that he just couldn't catch a break after the election. No matter what he did, or how he did it, he got criticized. I don't know how it can be repaired.

I KNOW he's come from behind on more than one occasion, but reality tells me that it's too much to overcome. I know I battled with many people in this area because they constantly talked about Teresa, and when they would repeat actual lies and I would show them proof that they were lies, it just didn't seem to matter. Now more than ever, after the flap with the joke when the pundits began the negative reporting, they weren't very subtle about any of it, I felt the mountain just grew even larger.

I DO agree with you that he more than anyone else would probably make the best leader and has the capacity to pull us together as a nation, but he's like a David against Goliath. Maybe if I lived in a more Liberal place I might fight harder, but from where I'm at too many people, many many Democrats have just written him off. I have never attacked him or put him down as I've seen so many others do, but I just moved on. As I said it IS a very sad and troubling situation. If, by some miracle he can plow his way through I will gladly work for him again. I wonder sometimes what HE must be thinking.

So for now, I'm supporting Edwards because I think he might be able to excite the younger generation and we can find a way to move on from the nightmare we've had foisted upon us. It's still very early, but the negative treatment they've given Kerry is just way over the top. Even his fellow Senators haven't been there for him and it does upset me a lot. I realize Hillary doesn't come to his aid because she is probably running, but still she could have come to his defense more strongly.