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Chicago1871
17 Jan 2005, 04:30 PM
Kerry Criticizes Election Outcome (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050117/ap_on_re_us/mlk_day_kerry)

BOSTON - Sen. John Kerry, in some of his most pointed public comments yet about the presidential election, invoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy on Monday as he criticized President Bush and decried reports of voter disenfranchisement.

The Massachusetts Democrat, Bush's challenger in November, spoke at Boston's annual Martin Luther King Day Breakfast. He reiterated that he decided not to challenge the election results, but "thousands of people were suppressed in the effort to vote."
I can see where he's trying to use a holiday dedicated to a man who fought for the rights of people as a pulpit to fight for the rights of people, but it just comes across as bitching and moaning.
nsa
17 Jan 2005, 04:50 PM
... it just comes across as bitching and moaning.
Sad, but true.

Give it a rest, JFK. Work for the future; don't live in the past.
Barbara
17 Jan 2005, 05:59 PM
It's perfectly appropriate, on MLK day, to point out that despite all the progress that's been made, there are still pockets of black America where your voting rights aren't assured.

However, he shouldn't have said it because it looks more like sour grapes than actual concern for the downtrodden.
fiddlestick
17 Jan 2005, 06:10 PM
Not to mention Dr. King probably didn't include Millionaire Massachusetts Crackers in his disenfranchised demographic.
IntheNet
17 Jan 2005, 07:25 PM
Kerry Criticizes Election Outcome... it just comes across as bitching and moaning.

I wonder if Mamma Teresa beat him with a stick or her whip?

IntheNet
nsa
17 Jan 2005, 07:45 PM
I wonder if Mamma Teresa beat him with a stick or her whip?

IntheNet
Just because you like being beaten like a draft horse doesn't mean that everyone does. Tighten your cilice and pray.
http://www.odan.org/images/cilice_2004.jpg
DoyleG
17 Jan 2005, 10:20 PM
Kerry Criticizes Election Outcome (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050117/ap_on_re_us/mlk_day_kerry)

I can see where he's trying to use a holiday dedicated to a man who fought for the rights of people as a pulpit to fight for the rights of people, but it just comes across as bitching and moaning.

That's at least 10 Hail Mary's.
christopher d
18 Jan 2005, 12:56 AM
********y. He should have challenged the results if he believed the allegations of improprieties. Maybe he could have backed the recounts. Maybe he could have stood up with Sen. Boxer (who had to be dragged by her nose, BTW), or maybe, just maybe, he could have talked about what he's going to do with his bloody Senate seat to help overhaul the system.

But he gets rich off of Bush administration policies, too, so what does he care? ******** him.