Need links to blogs defending Kerry

[Dr Ron]

The Note has a report today which gives the impression that Kerry is under the attack from liberal blogs. Of course it is only a handful of chronically anti-Kerry people who are doing most of the attacking.

While there is a low liklihood they will post it, I want to send a rebuttal with multiple blogs supporting Kerry. Besides LUTD and the Unofficial Kerry Blog, there's Patriot Diaries and Independents for Kerry. Anyone have any more links defending Kerry from the present round of attacks?

[whometense]

1. Do you mean

on the gay marriage thing, or just generally?

Here's one:

http://upper-left.blogspot.com/2005_05_08_upper-left_archive.html#111574423266915485

[Dr Ron]

3. I meant yesterday's attacks

He doesn't address those.

I'm responding to the two attacks linked from The Note. This includes both gay marriage and the blogs that made fun of Kerry over the Boston Globe article calling him an outsider.

[TayTay]

2. I was actually called out on this DKos thread

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/10/112747/311#69

The thread is probably huge by know, but I think you can tell which poster I am. (Search terri)

LEt me know what you think.

[whometense]

4. Oh my god.

How f***ing stupid are these people. They rip Kerry up one side and down the other, and they don't even understand what the issue is??

You did a great job trying to educate that idiot. S/He may be ineducable, unfortunately.

[whometense]

5. So, if I say this:

He said it was a mistake to include it in the platform. It was a political comment about a political matter, i.e. the state Democratic platform.

do you think that would be accurate? Helpful? Or not?

[TayTay]

6. yup

Kerry doesn't support full gay marriage and wishes it wasn't in the platform of the State Democratic Committee.

This is the offending passage:

Domestic Partnership.
We support equal treatment of domestic partners in health insurance, pension access, and inheritance, and we support the provision of domestic partnership benefits in the private and public sectors, including for both state and federal employees. We oppose actions that would define marriage solely as a relationship between a man and a woman, and that would ban the recognition of any other relationship as marriage or its legal equivalent. We oppose efforts that would ban the provision of any benefits to gay and lesbian families that are now granted exclusively to married couples under Massachusetts law.

Which you can find here: http://www.massdems.org/about/platform.htm

Hmmmm, actually he agrees with most of that. Sigh, a tempest in a teapot.

[Dr Ron]

7. I'd take it further

The response will be that he also opposes gay marriage. They then stretch this to say Kerry is trying to attempt to block gay marriage.

I'd stress that this is his opinion on what should be in the platform, but that he is not actively trying to block either the plank or to prevent gay marriage.