Let's see if the democrats are smart enough to pick up on it. 

Conservative. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. 

~Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist.

Kerry served in the Navy for years and in Vietnam. He protested moron chicken hawks who send OTHER people to fight. You know the kind, with tens of millions of Republican supporter left the troops are still left to hang in perpetual Stop Loss and Mandatory Recall because those same folks did not enlist.

But please tell us how Kerry "pussed" out. Compare him, for example to the entire Bush Cabinet, or the tens of millions of Bush supporters who have not enlisted, etc.

And YES, to get out of the bullshit these pinheads think of as military strategy, you want to be rich and/or go to college. Period.

The master manipulating genius Karl Rove has managed to smear genuinely GOOD people in order to make absolute low life look good in the minds of the people they control. Look what they did to John McCain...it has nothing to do with party...anyone who might be a stumbling block on the Bush highway of corruption is a target..

How you can say that Kerry is no better than Bush is baffling at best.. Kerry in the midst of his worst day would be better than Bush in his best hour!

George did not fly in a warzone, nor was he ever in real combat. He wore the uniform bought for him by his daddy and affiliates. Sen. Kerry's comments do not reflect upon the military. I caught the joke... I guess you have to be in a certain frame of mind to understand jokes... let me think.. what is that word... oh yeah, stable... sane... educated? That would leave most of the Republicans out.

Independents love to sit on the fence and claim the higher ground, playing referee, love to support the "flavor of the day" while bashing the opposition. Typical. Can't make up your mind, so you let someone else do it for you.

"I'm not saying I support Bush, but Kerry is no better."

Then say you don't support Bush, don't "mouthed it" say it, because it sure sounds like you support him to me!

Since you obstensibly don't approve of Kerry or Bush, what do you propose the U.S. does? Who should lead our country? How do you suggest we solve the massive problems in this country? How do you propose we end the war in Iraq?

This is what democrats, real democrats and people with a message and purpose propose:

READ IT!

Constitution & Courts

1. District of Columbia: Statehood through Constitutional Amendment
2. Equal Rights Amendment: pass
3. Free Speech: outlaw "First Amendment Zones" limiting protests
4. Habeas Corpus: restore access to courts for all prisoners of the U.S.
5. Judges: block rightwing nominations
6. "Patriot" Act: repeal
7. President: abolish Electoral College through Constitutional Amendment
8. President: abolish pardons
9. President: ban signing statements
10. Privacy: guarantee through Constitutional Amendment
11. "Real ID" Act: repeal
12. Religion: restore separation of Church and State
13. Torts: restore victim access to courts for product liability
14. Treaties: prohibit unilateral Presidential abrogation
15. Wiretapping: enforce laws prohibiting warrantless wiretapping inside U.S.

Economy, Business, and Labor

1. Bankruptcy: repeal 2005 restrictions
2. Competition: end corporate subsidies and tax loopholes
3. Corporations: repeal "personhood" rights
4. Credit: outlaw predatory lending tricks and usurious interest rates, make all interest payments deductible
5. Food: strengthen inspections
6. Immigration: create guest worker program for manual labor with full workplace rights and punish employers who hire undocumented workers
7. Insurance: punish insurers who refuse to pay claims
8. Jobs: reduce payroll taxes to stimulate employment
9. Jobs: eliminate subsidies for exporting jobs overseas
10. Labor: Enact Employee Free Choice Act
11. Livestock: end abusive factory farm practices
12. Minimum Wage: increase to "living wage" above the poverty line and index to inflation
13. Pharmaceuticals: remove lawsuit immunity from Patriot Act
14. Pharmaceuticals: end private patents for publicly-funded research
15. Research: increase funding of scientific and medical research
16. Taxes: shift burden from working families to wealthy and corporations
17. Trade: leave NAFTA and WTO
18. Trade: require labor and enviromental standards
19. Women: enforce anti-discrimination laws and strengthen Equal Pay Act to address comparable worth
20. Workplace: restore mandatory overtime, expand Family and Medical Leave, expand unemployment insurance to part-time jobs

Elections

1. Campaign Finance: full public funding of Congressional races, strict enforcement of 527 rules
2. Congressional Districts: end partisan gerrymandering and mid-decade redistricting
3. Instant Runoff Voting: for Presidential and Congressional races
4. Media: require broadcast licensees to provide free time for debates
5. Party Funds: prohibit "soft money" from corporations and the wealthy
6. States: end partisan activities by Secretaries of State
7. Truth in Advertising: fine campaigns for false claims
8. Voter Registration: make automatic for all citizens over 18
9. Voting Rights: guarantee every citizen's right to vote and have their vote verifiably counted
10. Voting Ease: make Election Day a holiday and expand vote-by-mail to all states
11. Voting Machines: use paper ballots counted by citizens until machines are open-source and unhackable

Environment & Energy

1. Alternative Energy: invest in wind, solar, and geothermal power
2. Cars: significantly increase MPG requirements for new vehicles, tax credits for trade-in of gas guzzlers, fund R&D of electric cars
3. Fuels: invest in biofuels
4. Genetically Modified Organisms: strict regulation
5. Global Warming: sign Kyoto Treaty to reduce emissions, then set more ambitious goals
6. National Parks: increase operating budgets and expand parkland
7. Oil: end dependence on Mideast oil through alternative energy and conservation
8. Pollution: strengthen Clean Air and Clean Water Acts and restore enforcement
9. Public Lands: protect ANWR and coasts from destructive drilling
10. Sprawl: expand public transportation

Foreign/Military Policy

1. Al Qaeda: better plan to defeat worldwide
2. Afghanistan: better plan to defeat Taliban
3. "Enemy Combatants": abolish legal category and treat captured fighters as prisoners of war under Geneva Conventions
4. Iraq: end U.S. occupation as quickly as possible
5. Iran: direct negotiations between U.S. and Iran to avoid war
6. Islam: citizen diplomacy through Peace Corps
7. Israel/Palestine: demand White House leadership in meaningful peace talks
8. Middle East: demand White House leadership in negotating a nuclear weapons ban
9. Military Contractors: establish strict accountability
10. Military Outsourcing: ban armed mercenaries like Blackwater and CACI
11. Military Recruitment: end deceptive practices, ban ROTC in High School, end opt-out recruitment mailings
12. North Korea: direct negotiations between U.S. and North Korea to avoid war
13. Nuclear Weapons: reaffirm Test Ban Treaty and ABM Treaty and implement Start II warhead reductions
14. Peace: create Department of Peace
15. Pentagon: eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse
16. Secret CIA Prisons: ban
17. Space: ban weapons
18. Terrorism: implement 9/11 Commission recommendations
19. Terrorism: require FISA approval for non-Geneva interrogation of terrorists caught planning major attacks
20. Torture: outlaw all internationally-recognized torture by the U.S. military and the CIA and ban outsourcing of torture to countries like Egypt and Syria that torture through "extraordinary rendition"
21. U.N.: reaffirm commitment to U.N. Charter prohibiting Wars of Aggression
22. War powers: repeal post-9/11 Presidential blank check
Veterans: restore medical benefits and expand mental health

Government & Congress

1. Budgets: "pay as you go" (all new funding must have revenue source; no additional deficits)
2. Criminals: automatically expel convicted Members and cancel their pensions
3. Contracting: require competitive bids
4. Contracting: ban companies that defraud U.S. government
5. FEMA: remove from Homeland Security and report directly to President
6. Lobbying: ban all lobbyist-paid trips and tickets, extend "revolving door" period for elected and appointed officials to become lobbyists, adopt stricter definition of "bribery"
7. Pay: tie increases to minimum wage
8. Posse Comitatus: prohibit use of military forces inside U.S. except for disasters
9. Science: punish politicization and suppression
10. Spending: ban earmarks by Members of Congress
11. Transparency: enforce the Freedom of Information Act and stop destruction of public records
12. Whistleblowers: restore protections

Investigations

1. 2000 Election: Florida voter purges
2. 2004 Election: Ohio machine tampering
3. Cheney's Secret Energy Task Force
4. Election machine fraud
5. Homeland Security profiteering: recover stolen funds
6. Impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney: for Iraq War lies, Illegal Wiretapping, Torture, and other High Crimes
7. Iraq War crimes
8. Iraq War lies
9. Iraq War profiteering: recover stolen funds
10. Katrina profiteering: recover stolen funds
11. Oil price manipulation: recover stolen funds
12. Presidential Executive Orders: review and override if unconstitutional or illegal
13. Presidential Powers: investigate the "Unitary Executive" theory and its abuses
14. September 11 lies
15. Wiretapping of U.S. citizens without warrants

Media

1. Cable: per-channel pricing (a la carte)
2. Fairness: restore Fairness Doctrine requiring licensed broadcasters to give equal time for both sides of controversial issues
3. Internet: ban "business practice" patents
4. Internet: create municipal wireless systems
5. Internet: preserve net neutrality
6. Lies: punish licensed broadcasters who fail to correct lies
7. Ownership: reverse corporate consolidation
8. Violence: stricter regulation of violent TV, movies and computer games

Social Policy

1. Abortion: pass Freedom of Choice Act to codify Roe v. Wade
2. Abortion: remove punitive obstacles and expand Medicaid funding for poor women
3. AIDS: expand global prevention (including condoms) and treatment
4. Child Care: expand day care, Head Start, pre-K, afterschool, and summer programs
5. Children: expand programs for autistic and disabled
6. Crime: restore funds for municipal police through COPS program
7. Domestic Violence: fully fund Violence Against Women Act and expand prevention
8. Education: reduce class size, fund new textbooks and computers, build gyms and schoolyards, serve healthy food, reform Special Education
9. Education: reform No Child Left Behind, end "teaching to the test"
10. Family Planning: restore funding for programs at home (Title X) and abroad
11. Gays: repeal anti-gay marriage law (DOMA)
12. Girls: strengthen educational equality (Title IX)
13. Health Care: single-payer health care for all citizens (Medicare for all)
14. Higher Education: reduce interest on student loans
15. Homelessness: eliminate by funding housing and social services
16. Illegal Drugs: eliminate programs that don't work
17. Immigration: reasonable path to citizenship
18. Medical Marijuana: legalize
19. Prescriptions: reform Medicare Part B
20. Prescriptions: permit import
21. Privacy: fight identity theft
22. Public Health: improve infrastructure for fighting epidemics
23. Rape: require hospitals to provide emergency contraception (EC)
24. Sex Education: "abstinence plus" honest sexuality, contraception, and disease prevention
25. Social Security: create "lock box" funding, ban privatization, and end sex discrimination
26. Stem Cells: fund research
27. Urban Policy: invest in mass transit and affordable housing
28. Welfare: end punitive practices, allow college and job training, increase child care, drug rehab, and transportation
29. Women: ratify Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) without qualifications

Got your head spinning? Good!

DON'T EVER SAY DEMOCRATS DON'T HAVE A PLAN! THAT'S JUST PURE FOX NEWS B.S.!!!

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Source:http://www.democrats.com/node/10507/print

"If being liberal means critical thinking and informed dissent, instead of blind obedience and ignorant nationalism, then I am all for it!"

When someone like John Kerry does stand up with some spine and show his disdain for this administration, he is shuffled away from the crowd. I am so proud of JK for standing up for what he feels. Our Dems need to get angry but they just keep walking around like whipped red headed step kids. John Kerry is an old school democrat.

Interesting isn't it?

Aren't these the same people who are short changing our troops
of needed supplies and body armor?And now they're attacking
Kerry, insisting he's not supporting our troops?

WOW- These guys wrote the book on hypocrisy!

about Repubs needing to apolgize for the evil done to this country, this messed up joke will do us no good with the moderates and Indies we need to get ourselves the majority in the Senate. I think it would go a long way in defusing the situation. I tend to live in a world where the political reality is that A) This is a close election in the states we need to capture, and it is a uneccesary distraction from the task at hand B) it would bring this whole mess to an end so we can focus on what we need to do in the next 7 days. The best way to put out a fire is to deprive it of oxygen. Keeping this situation front and center in the minds of the voters we need to win a majority in the Senate will not help the chance we now have for total control of congress, thats all. This thing will snowball, especially in Missouri, where Clare McCaskill and Talent are literally in a dead heat. With Ford behind in Tennesee, we have to take Missouri. We cannot control the Senate without it.
Lets not use a Bush tactic to sink the chances we have for the Senate by continually re explaining and digging the hole wider and deeper. I am not suggesting anything but a temporary political expediency for 7 days. There will be plenty of time for Kerry to make this clear to the public. There is not plenty of time before Nov.7. Just defuse this quickly and effectively and get all the focus back on Bush and Iraq, so we can begin to undo this horrible mess we are in.
BTW, I can close my eyes and see that monkey in his eventual retirement, with laura sweeping the barney poop off the porch. Yall come back now, here?