Kerry Assails Bush on Haiti, Security and Gay Marriage Ban

[NewYorkerfromMass]

He's taking the fight to shrub. Here are excerpts from his sitdown with the NYTimes:

"I think the administration has missed a lot of opportunities, in fact, has exacerbated the situation over the last two years with its cutoff of humanitarian assistance and its attitude towards the Aristide administration," Mr. Kerry said. "So they sort of created the environment within which the insurgency could grow and take root, and now they're trying to manage it...

"The president has made it clear he wants to run on national security, and that makes sense," Mr. Kerry said. "He can't run on jobs, he can't run on education, he can't run on the environment."...

...Pointing out that Mr. Bush also was from a family of privilege and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and two Ivy League universities, he said, "I think people are looking for leadership, not labels, and I think they're looking for answers, not characterizations." Voters, he said, "want to know what you're made out of, not where you're from."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/politics/campaign/24CND-KERR.html?amp=&pagewanted=print&position=

[BayCityProgressive]

good job Kerry

DO NOT let him define you.

[lancdem]

2. Yes, I absolutely agree

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. Yes. He has to get his image out there positively

before they tarnish it.

[peabody71]

1. He could say about gay marriage: "Seperation of Church and State".

A sacred religious bond between a man and a woman, is it not?
Fucking ridiculous.

[maddezmom]

4. good job, JK...don't let up on the chimp. n/t

[MsDemeander]

5. I'll listen to Kerry about Gay Marriage when he supports it

Right now he doesn't so anything he says about it is moot.