[lbo-talk] Kerry, slow on the uptake

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 14 09:46:07 PDT 2006



>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>[since he's only now responding to the Swift Boat gang, it's appropriate
>that he's just developing a position on Iraq]
>
><http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238>

[At least he's, ah, swifter than Hillary:]

Liberal Activists Boo Clinton: Rejection of Iraq Timetable Gets Cool Reception at Conference

By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) drew boos and hisses from an audience of liberal activists yesterday as she defended her opposition to a timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq, and later she received an implicit rebuke from Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) for failing to acknowledge that her support for the war was a mistake.

Clinton's and Kerry's appearances at the Take Back America conference at the Washington Hilton put on vivid display the Democratic Party's divisions over the foreign policy issue that dominates this year's midterm elections, and the two possible 2008 presidential candidates offered a preview of the debate that could dominate the battle for the party's nomination. ...

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061301449.html?sub=AR>

Carl



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