Reply #15: The Speech To The Fire-Fighters, Ma'am, Was Hardly A Water-Shed

[The Magistrate]

And was, as events proved, grossly insufficient to achieve the object of the aside on this topic buried in a much longer oration.

It is the leader who sets the tone for response to charges against him or her, and the responsibility of no one else to set and maintain that tone. Your efforts to portray this as the responsibility of anyone but Sen. Kerry are futile, and the transparency of your attempt to suggest his defeat is really the fault of President and Senator Clinton far too obvious to make any appeal to anyone who does not already share that view.