Kerry: I learned my lesson in 2004

[politicasista]

If no one minds this in here. Hat tip to NYCGirl in GDP.

A lot of people are saying, no offense, that they wished they had seen that John Kerry last night four years ago. Do you feel like ...

Well, I feel like -- no, on the contrary, I was that John Kerry four years ago ... particularly in the last six weeks I was. I won three debates against the sitting president. And I think that I'm proud of what we did. We should have taken those Swift boat attacks on more directly earlier. We just made a miscalculation. The calculation was that we had put the truth out and people saw through that kind of attack. The miscalculation is that if you put a lot of money behind a lie, there are some people who don't . And that's where we made a mistake. We should have put more money behind the truth.

And I think the Obama campaign has learned that, and they're not going to give any quarter on these smears, lies and attacks. And I think that's what's important. You know, there are plenty of places where I let fire and let loose, like I did last night -- believe me. If you go back and look at my convention speech it was a strong speech, well received at the time. But people tend to blur that and they don't see it in the context of the attacks that came out afterwards. Yeah, we could have done a better job at making certain that we absolutely murdered those . Believe me, part of the message I was sending last night was I learned that lesson -- and never again.

More and pic here: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/08/28/kerry/index.html

[ginnyinWI]

1. he looks happy in that pic.

Very happy. Pink shirt and brown jacket. :)

Good interview too. :blush:

[Democrafty]

2. It takes a real man

to wear a shirt that pink.

:)

[MH1]

3. Oh yeah !

But he carries it off quite well. :P