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John Kerry
Related: About this forumA few personal thoughts and testimony on 2004 Election night
I just add my bit in a old debate ....
November 2, 2004 , I was sitting in front of my TV watching CNN satellite from France.
What I have seen is appalling.
At 3am local time , Kerry was head figure numbers in the electoral college . I am confident aisles to bed .
But in the morning , and I noted the numbers statements by states, I could contater with horror that the figures were , yes, REVERSE !
And then in the evening , rentrand dy high school, I then learned that Kerry conceded the election, and not not try in any case has to publicly recount the votes in Ohio.
At the time, yes, it got me a little upset.
I jush whished I could have kept my notes I made save, and not throw it in trash a few days after that so awful event, so I would have copyed it to share with you...
Then came the concession speech ....
See " my candidate " so saddened by his loss , hardly contain his tears throughout the dicours , while , at the same time , showing a fair play examplaire , thanking all who had accompanied him , also visibly affected by the meeting they had made during the campaign , I was equally affected , and me came the certainty that Kerry did not believe for a moment the fact that he REALLY aND wORSE FARLY LOST ..... PRECISELY .
And the worst ing all this is that John Kerry has NOT LOST DUE TO HIS PROGRAMME not ... he lost the monstrosity lies peddled against him , the unspeakable hatred and BushandCo SBVT surmounted by knockout, By a deliberate fraud orchestrated in Ohio, by all these same corrupt bastards.
By a deliberate fraud orchestrated in Ohio, by all these same corrupt bastards.
Besides, I 'm Still asked if he and his family and relatives had not received threats. This remains speculative, but given the obvious despair on his face and in his voice ..... Moreover, if we examine carefully the personal journey of Mr Kerry , this was not the first time.
( While JK led his first campaign in 192, a filthy stunt was set up to lose . Reminder, he and his wife lived on the same physical and political violence generated by a climate of hatred itself generated by the dirty tricks of the Nixon administration against JK . their home was vandalized , according to his ex-wife Julia Thorne , bricks were thrown through their windows and their tires slashed several times , it has circulated against JK insulting leaflets .... )
Already, the filthy and disgusting rumors .....
Thorne (or Kerry) stated that these persecutions were a major element in the disintegration of his marriage , and his depression, which is leading to divorce from JK
And do not forget the other unjust and false statements, insults through the press that JK could be Noble when his investigations led him to expose the Iran-Contra and BCCI scandal.
Certainly traumatized by what happened, maybe John Kerry did not want to relive another rumor campaign against him, and so, and certainly painfully he conceded.
I'm still marked by this story, and although very happy that since 2008 the nightmare, not only American but world is finished, I wonder even today .... The U.S. Still it was democratic.
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A few personal thoughts and testimony on 2004 Election night (Original Post)
mylye2222
Feb 2014
OP
raging moderate
(4,503 posts)1. Merci beaucoup!
Tres emouvant.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)2. He and Gore both bowed out without a real fight. My money is on Rove's dirty tricks being involved
Those assholes always cheat.
Inuca
(8,945 posts)4. Sorry, but that's nonsense
About both of them
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)5. Is that you Karl?
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)6. Sorry, no place for Karl here!
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)3. Gore fought publicy,
but when he complained before the Supreme Court, he was told that it was " Florida's affair, not federal justice's". Kerry concedes, but then joined the collective coplain for Ohio, along with John Conyers and Barbara Boxer. However, this case, he unlike Gore, acted apart from spotlight