Comments on: Vennochi Got It Half Right

By: Tela Zasloff

Tela Zasloff — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:19:27 +0000

Thank you, Mary Beth. All those Dems you list who jumped on Kerry to the tune of the Republicans’ carnival music, should read your expanded letter, in this column, which is even better than the original one. Please send it to them all.

How can we get this in the Globe?

By: pen

pen — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:04:30 +0000

I agree a 100% that Kerry is the standard bearer of the democratice party and he is way passed due of getting some respect from these people.

But it seems the dems and especially the DC establishment is more interested in going back to the 90′s with their CLinton nostaglia, and their weak-kneed reaction to Rove is truly sickening.

There are people out there in the party that damn tired of the dems knuckling under to the GOP and many were disguted by Hill this week.

I don’t think JK views the world through his loss in 04. I think out of all the party members he learned the most from it.

Let them toast hillary, obama, and who ever else is the flavor of the week.

Kerry is the one the country needs to be the next president and in the primaries it depends on the people not the media and not the DC establishment.

I think the more the country see’s of the JK we see the more they will pick him over hill.

but I’m not one to leave things to chance so the senator is going to have to make his case one day at a time.

Isn’t it funny that several of those who canceled campaign rally’s with Kerry are now slipping behind or in a dead heat while those who spoke up for him are doing better?

Karma can be a real you know what some time.

By: Dotti Janiak

Dotti Janiak — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:38:00 +0000

mbk

Thank you wholeheartedly for your wonderful post regarding the real deal – John Kerry.

I especially appreciated your statement ……..’it’s about time we gave John Kerry the credit he so eminently deserves.’ We at the grassroots level get it. When and how do we get the other so-called Democrats to swallow their attitude and accept him as the standard bearer? OMG one only needs one eye and half a brain to see the consistent, tireless efforts he has put forth for the party, the people and the country. John Kerry is not a follower — he is a *leader.* Truthfully, I am pretty sick and tired of him being brushed aside because he speaks truth to power, and if he sees wrong, he works diligently to make it right. I work earnestly each day to get his message out far and wide because I respect him, trust him, and believe he deserves to be President.

Once again, thanks for the time and energy you spent on your message.

By: kcjhmom

kcjhmom — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:49:28 +0000

mbk
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your comment. I am a lifeling resident of Massachusetts and will never understand the attitude of my fellow Bay Staters about Senator Kerry. As for Joan Vennochi’s column – I share your sentiments exactly! If you haven’t already done so, I hope you will send this comment to the Globe (and to johnkerry.com). She did get it half right, but she is also one of many (most?) people in the news media who are, as Paul Krugman notes in today’s NYTimes column, “still willing to be played like a fiddle” by the Republican noise machine. Where oh where is Tom Oliphant when we need him? Thank you again for your eloquent defense of John Kerry.