At last, a real test for Kerry

[AmyStrange]

At last, a real test for Kerry
By Mickey Edwards | June 19, 2004

FROM: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/06/19/at_last_a_real_test_for_kerry/
NOW THAT John Kerry has accepted the fact that the person he wants to take to the big dance just isn't interested (that's OK, John, it was an ill-advised dalliance all along), he can finally get serious about choosing a running mate.

And "getting serious" is a good idea. That's because the person we call a "running mate" is far more than that: He or she is a person who might become the vice president of the United States.

This was once a job no serious-minded man would aspire to. Even John Adams didn't think much of the job, and he was the first to hold it ("the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived," he said). But that was in the 18th century.

This is the first real defining moment of the Kerry candidacy. Everything to this point has been rhetoric: Propose this, blame the president for that, criticism but no accountability. Now Kerry must stand alone: He must make a decision that actually matters.

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[Jim Sagle]

1. Here's another snip, way at the bottom:

Mickey Edwards, a former Republican congressman from Oklahoma, teaches at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International affairs.

Edwards is a militant right-winger who wouldn't tell the truth about a Democrat to save his own grandmother.

[Syrinx]

2. there's only one reason McCain embraced * like that

Threats. Of one sort or another.

[DEMVET-USMC]

3. Sen. Kerry is a man who has passed a very many real tests,and that snip

you failed to include provided by Jim Sagle says a lot about your selective snipings < typo intended >. Who`s side are you on ? ...Oscar

[AmyStrange]

4. I didn't selectively snip...

I included the first four paragraphs and snipped the rest (I do this for almost all my post). I would include the whole article, but DU only allows four paragraphs to be posted for copyright reasons and it's easier to post the first four and snip the rest then try to pick out four paragraphs that will please everyone.

Complain to the mods not me,

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[DEMVET-USMC]

5. This article was written by a former GOP Congressman and all around

right winger. I feel that fact should be considered by all who read it. This Information was pointed out by Jim Sagle. ...Oscar