Kerry's speech at Cooper Union was excellent. Based on the reference to it in yesterday's NYT and Oliphant's remarks that phase 2 is coming, I expected a more direct challenge to Bush's complicity in SBVT crap. Maybe that's what I wanted. But Kerry delivered another speech that was full of succinct criticisms that, on whole, was optimistic and visionary.
Later today, at a Philadelphia fundraiser, Kerry framed his post war protest in a way that reaches across the divide that Viet Nam still creates.
At the fund-raiser, Kerry defended his anti-war activism as ``an act of conscience.''
``You can judge my character, incidentally, by that,'' Kerry said. ``Because when the time for moral crisis existed in this country, I wasn't taking care of myself, I was taking care of public policy. I was taking care of things that made a difference to the life of this nation. You may not have agreed with me, but I stood up and was counted and that's the kind of president I'm going to be.''
Entire story here:
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