The Speech: John Kerry Returns to His Organizer Roots

[killbotfactory]

I’ve known John Kerry since he was 38 years old. (Yes, many of you knew him much before that.) Now he’s 64. And so I watched these excerpts from his speech today in South Carolina and saw the return of somebody I knew a long time ago: an insurgent and a dreamer.

The years have passed, and now he has more “experience” than any of these Democrats left running for president. And so to see him, once again, as an insurgent today, taking a huge risk to buck the insiders not only in his party, but also in the US Senate where he has to get along - seeing the man many wished we had seen four years ago - is something special to behold.

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But this speech today was bold, interesting, and threw off the shackles of ‘04 - you can see and hear it from the audience response - and an absolute shot across the bow to the Democratic party establishment that took the 2006 congressional and senate victory and turned it into mud.

This is the John Kerry I once knew, when his daughters (now adults) were something like 3 and 5 years old, and I was 22. That guy on stage today would have won the last presidential election by a landslide. And yes, there’s disappointment at what happened. But there’s also that reality that redemption is available to all, and on this day, of 2008, John F. Kerry not only redeemed, but he may have changed the history of the United States of America. Again.

The Money Quote:

“The old guard sometimes has a hard time acknowledging an individual who breaks the mold. Well lemme tell ya something. Barack Obama isn’t just going to break the mold. Together we are going to shatter it into a million pieces.”

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Here's the full video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6465793947428190518

[politicasista]

1. K&R

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[sandnsea]

2. Oh man, that was something

I missed it this morning. That was a "fired up" John Kerry all right. Wowzer. I personally like the comment about Barack really being the ones who "was against the war from the start". ha. Pretty good. I liked his remarks about false hope too. Mostly he gets why it's so important to make a complete "break from the past" and move into a totally new era of politics. Exactly right. Amazing event, just amazing.

[Diane R]

3. It WAS amazing. We desperately need people like John Kerry and Barack Obama in these times.