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the campaign for health for kids is an authentic campaign, but it is a useless campaign.
I've gotten the call too, but I told the caller that I won't give a cent more to any future Kerry campaign unless and until, at the minimum he personally confronts the current regime's corruption, immediately calls for an end to the war in Iraq, and makes good on the only promise he had the power to keep, which was dealing with the voter fraud issues in the 2004 election which once again illegally selected Bush as leader of the "free world". This done to the devastation of not only the hundreds of thousands of those whose votes were never counted - but to the devastation of America's democracy and our constitution.
As far as "leading" the way on the voter suppression, I beg to differ strongly with you, from all reports, Kerry was essentially AWOL through MOST of the entire investigative efforts in Florida and Ohio - until nearly the very end, and by then it was too little, too late. I also read and heard about numerous reports that Kerry's people actually obstructed investigations and those results, rather than vigorously pursue discovery in many cases, and in other cases, simply put no energy or effort in enumeration the endless list of lingering, unanswered questions.
And let the record again show that it was Rep Conyers, who took leadership action in holding forums on the Ohio voting issues - no one in congress had done that before Conyers.
And it was Conyers who first brought up the question on the DSM. It was Kennedy who was the first SENATOR to bring attention to the DSM matter - we waited for Kerry to do it, but reasons unknown to me, it was Kennedy who brought the matter up instead. One can speculate about what was going on there - but most likely it was inside politics. Which I'm personally sick of.
So should Kerry be, but he seems to prefer the role of the dutiful team player, yielding to his elders instead of the courageous leader. On the other hand, in this case, I'm personally pleased that it was Kennedy, because he did so with out mincing words - which is necessary.
Even though Kerry was the actual winner of the 2004 elections, because of his broken promise on voting suppression, because of his horrible campaign and position the Iraq war, he has since the elections become a failed candidate in the hearts and minds of most democratic voters that I'm in touch with.
In fact, not one single person I know personally who counted desperately on Kerry to win this past election, has a kind word to say about him now, never wants his name mentioned in their presence again, and are vehemently opposed to any future bid for the office.
This sentiment could change if Kerry reacquainted himself with the soul of the man he was in 1971. He had a lot of opportunity to do that during the presidential campaign, indeed just in the hours, days and weeks following the elections - but he refuses or simply can no longer connect to his former self.
Instead, he chose the role of just another sold out politician, an appeaser to the fascists regime that are laughing at the meaningless toothless, health care for kids campaign.
Again, he is in the privileged position to be bold, courageous and to take leadership on a number of very important issues, health care for ALL not withstanding, but first we have to bring sunlight to the corruptions in this administration and and the big lie about our foreign policies in Iraq and elsewhere, most particularly South America, (which he refuses to do)expose the big lie on the so called moral's debate, lead the fight in securing our civil liberties, and the separation of church and state - denounce evangelicals attempts to blur the distinctions between the "10 commandments and the United States Constitution, denounce the usurping tax payers money to promote their cult ideology - expose the elections fraud etc etc etc etc. The list is endless, but to date Kerry seems to be MIA.
He would have to LEAD the struggle to end the war in Iraq, not shy away from it, he would have to LEAD the fight against the rise of Fascism in America and their scorched earth policies which is pretty much dismantled our Constitution, which I was taught, presidents and Congress had a LEGAL and MORAL obligation to UPHOLD AND DEFEND.
If Kerry should take swift and decisive action on these major fronts, he could change the hearts and minds of millions of American's in no time, and maybe Health Care for Kids (or all)could actually be realized.
Sadly, it doesn't appear to me that Kerry even gets it.
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