Kerry Gets Tough

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:19 pm

With Eye On 2008, Kerry Goes After Bush

By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 15, 2006

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) barely said hello to the New Hampshire Democrats who filled a banquet room here Friday night before unloading on President Bush.

"This war in Iraq is a disgrace," he said in the second sentence of his speech at a party fundraising dinner.

Thirty-two minutes and 14 standing ovations later, the man who lost the 2004 presidential campaign left little doubt that if he runs again in 2008, he intends to be the chief prosecutor of the record of the Bush presidency.

"A lie, a lie, a lie and a lie," he said after recounting Republican claims that Iraq is not in a civil war, that North Korea's nuclear advancement is former president Bill Clinton's fault and that Democrats were behind the release of salacious e-mails that Mark Foley sent to former House pages.

It was as if the Kerry of 2006 was channeling the Howard Dean of 2003. "What we have in Washington is a house of lies, and in November, we need to clean house," he said.

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Barbara Fitzpatrick · Post by **Barbara Fitzpatrick** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:41 am

Kerry is a good man and would make a very good president. Reading his book tells you much more about him than the MSM ever will. He not only understands the security situation, he understands the energy situation big time. However, I am opposed to sitting senators - ANY (Dem) sitting senators - running for president. We need them in the Senate. Unless somebody who really gets my attention (like Bill Clinton in 1992) shows up, I'll be rooting - and working - for John Edwards in 2008. (Well, whoever wins the primary, of course - but in the primaries I'll be doing Edwards & hoping for the "final match".) I want somebody in office who understands domestic economics and knows the "two America" scenario - like the Europe my several-times great grandparents left - is a short-term win for the wealthy and a long-term loss for everybody. A "jobless recovery" isn't a recovery, it's a political spin.