Obama picks John Kerry to play Romney in mock debate rehearsals

[karynnj]

51. True, but as the article says, the debates were what made it even close

The fact was that GWB entered 2004 much stronger than any President who lost. In addition, you had the media clearly siding with Bush. Consider that in the last several decades, all the networks did puff piece biographies on both major party candidates. These were all scripted to imply that a Presidency made sense from the biography. They even did this in 2000 for Bush - a challenge.

Now consider how the media reacts when there is any criticism of Ann Romney - and think back to how the media was almost totally negative on the awesome Teresa Heinz Kerry. Very little she accomplished was even discussed. This was so bad that I never learned large things she did until the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh in 2009 - and then from Pittsburgh articles commenting on the history of the city. How many here know that in the 1990s when the city was in sad shape, it was Teresa who led all the city's philanthropists in a series of joint projects that were essentially a stimulus to revive the city as well as make it greener.

The media condoned character assassinations of both of them - when in fact they are two of the finest people in American public life. One reason might have been that the winner would pick at least two supreme court justices - including at least one replacing a conservative. Consider that had Kerry won, it is completely unlikely that Citizens United would have happened as it did.