Seems like someone wants to get that 2008 Presidential bid lubed up: Kerry Urges Democrats To Fight Values 'Assault'
Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) signaled a return to partisan warfare with President Bush yesterday in an e-mail to supporters in which he accused the administration of preparing a "right-wing assault on values and ideals" and called on Democrats to fight back against what he labeled Bush's extreme agenda.
Ooooh. I can feel those divisions healing right now.
See, here's the deal about political divisions: It's always the Republicans' fault. Never mind that Kerry has "signaled a return to partisan warfare," you see Kerry wouldn't have to get so partisan if Bush weren't such a right-wing, fascist Hitler wannabe. Damn him, anyway.
Two weeks after delivering a generous concession speech that called for a lessening of the bitter partisanship that had marked the contest with Bush, Kerry picked up where the campaign left off and demonstrated his determination to be the leader of the opposition, in spite of his defeat.
That's what I call hypocrisy. Don't believe me? Then how about this:
Kerry's message brought a quick end to the feel-good rhetoric that echoed from ceremonies marking the opening of former president Bill Clinton's library in Little Rock on Thursday. There, Bush and Clinton, along with former presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, shared praise of one another and offered up the symbolism of national unity and bipartisan cooperation.
Kerry's campaign-style rhetoric also was a jarring contrast to his concession speech on the afternoon after the election, when he told his despondent supporters that, in a congratulatory telephone call to the president, the two rivals had talked about "the desperate need for unity and finding the common ground, coming together."
See, there's Bush being all gentleman-like, and Clinton calling for unity, and there goes Kerry, name-calling and putting salt in the wounds of his fellow Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. And don't forget: It's all Bush's fault.
And that presidential thing? I wasn't kidding: "Kerry's aides have said he is weighing whether to run again in 2008, and yesterday's message is consistent with that."
Yep. They's luv to share, they is.
Posted by Clifton at November 20, 2004 08:30 PM | TrackBack