What foreign leaders support John Kerry?

[cmayer]

Surprise! Could Tony Blair be one?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1163828,00.html
(noted via The Washington Monthly)

[LividLiberal]

1. I doubt Tony Blair, but Kerry didn't actually say

"foreign" leaders, he said other leaders, or more leaders, or something like that. Kerry was misquoted.

[cmayer]

3. Read the article.

Just a musing from one of Blair's top advisors.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi LividLiberal!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[tom_paine]

8. Welcome to DU LividLibral

:toast: :toast:

I am Radicalized Moderate.

Pleased to meet you.

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[LividLiberal]

10. Thanks, I could use a cool one and put my poor ole dogs up after a

long day. My dogs are barkin'!

[rinsd]

11. Sort of.....

""foreign" leaders, he said other leaders, or more leaders, or something like that. Kerry was misquoted."

He may have been misquoted but he ran with it early. Hey it works with the base.

Statement today from Kerry's campaign (sorry Fox is the only one who seems to have it so far):

“This election will be decided by the American people, and the American people alone. It is simply not appropriate for any foreign leader to endorse a candidate in America’s presidential election. John Kerry does not seek, and will not accept, any such endorsements,” Beers said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114568,00.html

[Deb-Ter]

2. This isn't going to be good....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040318/ap_on_el_pr/malaysia_mahathir_kerry&cid=694&ncid=2043

[stewert]

4. Almost All of Them.......

I believe they all do except for Tony Blair and Ariel Sharon.

I found these comments in a couple news articles. The last paragraph was taken from a Molly
Ivins article.

John Kerry, asserted that foreign leaders want him to defeat Bush in the November election, a
claim that the Bush Administration has challenged. However, Richard Holbrooke, former delegate
to the United Nations under President Clinton, told the New York Times: It's obviously the truth what Kerry said -- everybody knows it's true. In the last few months I've been to Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. I've met with
leaders in all of those regions, and they have overwhelmingly said that they hope that there's a
change in leadership.

A Pew survey supports Holbrooke's claims, finding that a large majority in every country, except for
the U.S., hold an unfavorable opinion of Bush. And Bush only has a 50% approval rating in the U.S.
Bush was rated Unfavorably by 57% in Britain, 60% in Russia, 67% in Turkey and Pakistan, 85% in
France and Germany, 90% in Morocco and 96% in Jordan.

It is so obvious foreign leaders favor anyone over Bush, it's painful. A year ago, I quoted Fareed
Zakaria's observation in Newsweek: I've been all over the world in the last year, and almost every
country I've visited felt humiliated by this administration. The only foreign leader I can think of who
would prefer Bush to Kerry is Ariel Sharon.

[cmayer]

5. I thought Tony Blair didn't either, but read the article.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1163828,00.html

[patricia92243]

6. Blair really did like Clinton. Blair is also a progressive. He gets along

with Bush because he has to. I'm positive if Blair had his way he would rather deal with another progressive.

I'll bet in private he thinks Bush is a regular nut-case.

[jerseygirl]

9. Re: "What foreign leaders support John Kerry?"

Hi, I'm a newbie. :) I was at the town hall meeting in PA when a Republican in the audience confronted Kerry on this issue. This guy was really argumentative. It was interesting to see Kerry's people start to whisper to each other, then to see the Secret Service guy come to the area where this guy was sitting, er standing up and yelling. Kerry did an excellent job in handling the situation. He was very polite and tried to clairfy his statements. Of course he can't say who the foreign leaders are, because we all know how vindictive the Bushies can be, and they still have to maintain diplomatic relations through 1/19/05. Maybe I'm biased, but it seems like anyone should be able to understand that rationale.

[chaska]

12. HI Jerseygirl!!!

We like girls. Especially from ... did I mention we like girls? :^) Welcome to DU.

[chaska]

13. I was thinking about this the other day.

I can't imagine that Blair wouldn't be for Kerry. The obvious reasons aside, I think a Kerry victory may be the only thing that could save him from being voted out.