I think this is what worries some people in certain circles . They thought Kerry was out of the picture and they realize that, once he is in front of real people, the image they and the GOP had carefully crafted disappear.
So, they rush back to smear, and this is just the lastest campaign organized against him, but not the last.
http://www.charleston.net/assets/webPages/departmental/news/Stories.aspx?section=localnews&tableId=114500&pubDate=10/21/2006Kerry Kerry ignites Democratic faithful
Saturday, October 21, 2006
BY YVONNE M. WENGER
Somewhere between a rally and a protest, Democrats at the Charleston County headquarters in West Ashley chanted and hollered for U.S. Sen. John Kerry and Randy Maatta Friday. They clanked and clinked change in empty soda cans and pumped election signs.
They want the troops out of Iraq. They want President Bush out of the White House and they want Maatta in Republican Henry Brown's seat in the U.S. House.
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Kerry, a Democrat from Massachusetts, pulled into the parking lot about half an hour later than expected for the Maatta rally and official opening of the county's Democratic headquarters. He stepped out of a gray Honda Pilot, slipped on his dark suit jacket and headed inside as the crowd took form all around him.
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Kerry, who is considering another run at the presidency, addressed issues such as $9 trillion in national debt and the war in Iraq.
"Iraq is not now and it never has been the center of the war on terror," Kerry said. "Afghanistan has one-seventh the number of troops in it than we have in Iraq, where there is a civil war."
Kerry, who also had stops Friday in Orangeburg, Columbia and Beaufort, said people should vote based on the issues. "You have to vote your concerns," Kerry said.
Kerry called for Maatta, a Charleston real estate investor, to take the heavily Republican 1st District from Brown, who has held the position since 2001. The district is made up all of Horry County and parts of Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester and Georgetown counties.
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"And the Democrats are going to change it," Maatta said. "We are going to take the House back this year. We are going to take the Senate back this year and in 2008, mark my words, we're going to take the White House back."
Reach Yvonne M. Wenger at ywenger@postandcourier.com or 745-5891.
Kerry is also going to TX to support Bell. babylon_sister has a thread in GD.
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