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LisaM

(28,564 posts)
3. Agreed, a thousand percent.
Thu Aug 9, 2018, 01:49 PM
Aug 2018

I get cross at people who think we don't have good candidates. Well, in a way they are right - we have GREAT candidates.

A country where Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton had served as president, without the damages wreaked by Bush and Trump, would be a country we could all rejoice in. On environment and healthcare alone, we'd have moved the needle way ahead.

NBachers

(18,107 posts)
6. President John Kerry would have been strong and effective at home, and respected worldwide.
Thu Aug 9, 2018, 02:17 PM
Aug 2018

I had wanted to see him president since his Winter Soldier days in Michigan.

 

liberalnarb

(4,532 posts)
7. Bless John Kerry. An intelligent, honorable man and a strong leader.
Thu Aug 9, 2018, 02:27 PM
Aug 2018

Had he become President in '04, I think the world would look much different now. Though that could be said about most any election in modern history where the Dem did not take office.

erronis

(16,785 posts)
9. Pity to see the same RW/greedy scumbags still stealing democracy
Thu Aug 9, 2018, 02:31 PM
Aug 2018

Kochs, Murdoch, Mercers.

I don't know if foreign interests (russian/ukrainian/etc.) were involved in the swift-boat subterfuge but it wouldn't surprise me.

The problem with being an honest star is that all the slime-balls of the universe are gunning for you.

Thank you, Senator Kerry for fighting the good fights!

MBS

(9,688 posts)
10. Wonderful statement from Sec. Kerry.
Thu Aug 9, 2018, 04:30 PM
Aug 2018

We all need his realistic optimism right now- the "realistic" part being that he understands the full depth and urgency of our current crisis, while still maintaining the faith that we can get ourselves out of this.

He is a first-class person, and a patriot of the highest order.
Thanks so much for posting this.

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