MSNBC reporting Gephardt to endorse Kerry. 4:30 PST n/link

[pinto]

[freetempe]

1. Interesting...

Wasn't it Gephardt's "murder-suicide" strategy that took down Dean in Iowa? Who benefited from that????

[pinto]

2. yeah, this continues to be interesting. n/t

[Born Free]

7. yeah, this continues to be interesting. n/t"

I find it odd, perhaps I am a cynic but it seems the corporate establishment had picked our candidate. I say picked because it surely appears to be a done deal according to the media and most the people that parrot eveything they hear from the media. I got a bad feeling about all of this, something just doesn't seem right. I'm a "anybody but bush" person so I will support the democratic candidate, but believed it would be a Dean-Clarke
type of thing - and apparently a lot of others including Al Gore believed the same thing - just doesn't seem right that Kerry, once of the poorest choices we had is now loved by the corporate controlled media. I fear the GOP has a hand in all of this and democrats are being set up.

[styersc]

9. Kerry was the front runner and hands on favorite for the longest time

until a fiscal conservative, social moderate, pro-NRA, Governor from a state smaller then a large city all of the sudden said nasty things about Bush and took the spotlight for a while. Kerry regains the lead by winning the vast majority of caucii and primaries so all of the sudden there is foul play?

The mystery is not how Kerry came back but how did he ever falter to begin with?

[Just Me]

3. I hate to say this BUT I don't believe this action is inspiring,...

,...to all the "revived" democratic base. I wish Gephardt would have held off because there are a good many who will interpret this as "establishment" games.

Oh, well,...what the heck do I know *LOL*!!!

[freetempe]

4. You are right...

this might be a poor time to come out with this endorsement on Kerry's part. Nerves and emotions are still a little frayed among those of us who back Dean. I wonder what Dean's response to this is going to be.

[ozone_man]

6. Maybe it doesn't matter to the people that vote for Kerry.

A pretty uninspired bunch IMO.

[freetempe]

5. Here's the link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4185530/

Feel free to copy and paste this into your thread Pinto.

[onehandle]

8. And a buttload of Unions (Link)

Kerry spokesman David Wade said the Missouri lawmaker will give Kerry his backing on Friday in Warren, Mich., a blue-collar suburb of Detroit. The endorsement is a huge boost for Kerry who has been aggressively pursuing the backing of labor unions who had thrown their support to Gephardt.

Kerry was poised to make considerable headway with organized labor. The Alliance for Economic Justice, which was formed by the Teamsters and more than a dozen industrial unions, planned to endorse Kerry after a morning meeting with him in Boston, two labor officials said Thursday, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/02/05/gephardt/index.html