Kerry at GOTV rally at SC State College campus (video)

[ProSense]

Rally in Orangeburg, South Carolina

Video: GOTV rally at SC State College campus

[SouthernBelle82]

1. Great pics!

Kerry is still so unpopular and a loser! :sarcasm:

[rockymountaindem]

2. This is the Kerry we would have seen in 2004

Had CNN not continually cut away after the introduction promising to return "if anything noteworthy is said". I guess the fact that the Democratic candidate for President making a speech isn't "noteworthy". Thanks, media, for hiding this man from the public! :sarcasm:

On edit: You need to post this video every day so people can see the real Kerry that has been there since before the Presidential race. Sadly too many DUers have also fallen for the media line. I can think of a few people who should sit down and watch this video from start to finish. Hopefully they'll get to see this at some point.

[blm]

4. Geez....did you listen to that speech? I love how he talks to his audiences

all the same - all involved in the same serious matters, with no pandering language, whatsoever.

This is something that sets him apart from way too many politicians. He goes in front of ALL audiences to talk about the same serious matters he'd discuss to the Council on Foreign Relations. That's talking TO your audience with RESPECT for their intellect.

[rockymountaindem]

5. This speech is just, rediculously awesome.

If any politician could be half as articulate and charismatic John Kerry is they'd have quite a future.

[SouthernBelle82]

8. Bingo

That's one of the thing's I like about Kerry. He doesn't talk to me like I'm an idiot who can't understand but he treats the person with some type of respect. I've heard so many people say that Kerry should do soundbite responses and dumbdown his message for people but I don't like that. I feel disrespected and like the person thinks they're better than me and everything.

[blm]

15. I cringe when I hear politicians pander or stereotype their audience.

I say speak to them all the same with the same respect as any citizen DESERVES.

[SouthernBelle82]

7. Oh sure

I also suggest going to c-span.org and seeing some of his earlier campaign video's. One of my favorite's is when he's in Littleton, New Hampshire from August of 2003.

[saltpoint]

3. I want to say something about John Kerry's face.

I like it.

This time, he's in South Carolina, and surrounded by (presumably) Democrats, urging a big voter turn-out.

That's the ostensible goal, and it's a damned good one, and I'm all for it.

The other accomplishment, though, is the way his face looks when he's talking to voters. He talks to them as if they are -- no -- BECAUSE they are -- the inheritors of the founders' best wishes for the future of the country.

I've watched Kerry do this all over the place. Not just this week in South Carolina, but in Iowa in 2004 and other states, other cities. Watched Kerry and John Edwards in SW Ohio in Springfield one evening light up the damn town with this energy, this connection.

It isn't merely "There's an election soon and we need your support." It's also -- very much also -- "People whose names we don't know died in the Revolutionary War so that a more independent Constitutional democracy might flourish, and we owe it to their sacrifice and memory to participate in it with our hearts and minds."

That's in Kerry's face when I hear him talk, as well as his words.

[WildEyedLiberal]

9. Beautiful post OC

You just summed up in a nutshell why I support John Kerry.

[saltpoint]

10. Hi there, WildEyedLiberal. The thanks is owed to my Aunt, who was

an early operative in the Democratic Party in a family of mostly Republicans.

She stood her ground and took on all comers.

She worked for Vance Hartke (D-IN) and Birch Bayh, and the whole grocery list of local Democrats.

When her two sons and I were 12 or 13, she'd supervise games of 500 rum at her kitchen table. We played 500 Rummy for electoral college votes.

Before my voice changed, I knew Ohio was a battleground state!

By the 1970s the U.S. citizenry had come to question our commitment in SE Asia, and one of the first faces I saw on the tv doing the questioning, and questioning it with unbelievable eloquence, was John Kerry.

CBS ran a brief segment on the news about his testimony before the Congress regarding the Vietnam War.

You never saw a game of 500 rummy stop in its tracks as fast as ours did that day.

From that point forward, John Kerry has been a guide for me. I'll support our ticket no matter what. But I'll like it even more if his name is at the top.

[blm]

13. He is so SERIOUS about doing what is RIGHT and JUST and that's what shows

I see the same thing. He doesn't think justice is a just an election speech word - he LIVES it.

[saltpoint]

14. He does. Exactly right. In Dubya's face you see this twitching,

nervous, unfocused, smirking 7-year old who has to pee real bad if he's asked to tell the truth.

With Kerry there is a seasoned patience. No hocus-pocus, just heart.

He has the face -- and the skills -- of a president.

[blm]

16. Kerry's is the face of a man who contemplates deeply and acts bravely.

You don't see ONE INCH of that in Bush's face.

[saltpoint]

17. Agree wholeheartedly.

I saw it also in the face of Robert Kennedy. There is footage of RFK climbing up on a small platform to address a mostly-black audience in Indianapolis to tell them that he had very sad news to convey, that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis on that day.

This was pre-CNN, and so 24-7 news didn't really exist in any real form, so RFK, against the advice of many -- including then-Indianapolis Mayor Dick Lugar -- went out to personally address the audience who had come to hear him speak.

He thought enough of them as Americans to address them as Americans. Nothing less would have done.

Kerry is cut from the same cloth.

[blm]

20. I have seen that footage of RFK.

And, of course, I agree that they have definite similarities in how they view citizens.

[saltpoint]

21. Yes.

Would that our next generation of Democrats view the footage. Kerry. Kennedy. Abzug. Cuomo.

Those are potent models for any new generation of public figures.

[saltpoint]

6. Recommended. These photos are terrific, ProSense.

[ProSense]

11. Thanks OC!

It's that face! :)

[saltpoint]

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:thumbsup:

[zulchzulu]

18. Thanks for sharing

Fantastic stuff!

[Sensitivity]

19. Thanks for posting pics.