Posted on April 5th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
New book from Ted Kennedy… America Back on Track: Senator Edward M. Kennedy invokes the leadership of his brothers during the Cuban missile crisis to launch a sharp new attack on President Bush, declaring that Bush should have followed the example of President John F. Kennedy and his attorney general, Robert F. Kennedy, in forging [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2006 by Jeremy D. Broussard
Senator Kerry’s excellent op-ed piece today correctly puts the onus on the Iraqi government, not the U.S., to resolve the impasse in forming the government and stopping the civil war. Unless the Iraqis get serious about governing their own country and solving their own problems, we will have to leave. The role of the U.S. [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
John Kerry was making the rounds today on the Progressive Talk Radio Shows doing a full court press on his OP/ED in the NY Times. He did an interview with Al Franken (see earlier post), one with Randi Rhodes (audio later) and one with Ed Schultz. Listen to John Kerry on The Ed Schultz Show [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
Max Cleland has been vocal over the past year or so, that his support still lies with John Kerry (see here, here & here), so it’s no small surprise that Max has come out strong in support of Kerry’s position on Iraq that was published today’s NY Times. A Brother in Arms By Max Cleland [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
Bush was in Connecticut today pushing his health care agenda – healthcare savings accounts. He urged lawmakers “to expand health savings accounts even though congressional Republicans say that is unlikely in an election year.” “Health savings accounts really mean that the individual owns and controls their health care,” Bush said in a state where 400,000 [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
The Army Times notes today that Democrats have formed “a veterans’ advisory council and a new Website to show support for veterans and military families.” Also noted in the Army Times piece was the fact that the “White House rearranged a major speech on Iraq by President Bush to be held at the same time” [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
John Kerry’s OP/ED in today’s New York Times is getting nods around the blogosphere and amongst his peers. Gary Hart has a blog post on the HuffPo today about Kerry’s OP/ED and Russ Feingold issued a statement endorsing it.
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Posted on April 5th, 2006 by Wade Sanders
John Kerry’s argument in today’s New York Times hits the nail on the head. As someone who has known him since we both served on Swift Boats in Vietnam, I know that John at his best is a voice of reason and action and conscience. Today he clearly understands that we have allowed ourselves to [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, In The News, Iraq, John Kerry, OP/ED's, Politics
