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Rdtf
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 Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject: Kerry Jealous of Hillary; says running for Pres 08 |
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They mentioned this on Fox and Friends this morning. Catch Dayton's quote near end:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5362878.html
| Quote: | Last update: April 22, 2005 at 7:09 AM
Kerry's Minnesota visit may have wider purpose
Rob Hotakainen, Star Tribune Washington Bureau Correspondent
April 22, 2005 KERR0422
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and his wife prepare to visit Minneapolis on May 3, Sen. Mark Dayton said he has little doubt that Kerry is planning to run for president again in 2008.
When New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton attended the DFL Humphrey Day Dinner in Minneapolis less than two weeks ago, Dayton, D-Minn., told the crowd he hoped he was introducing "the next great president of the United States of America."
Two days later on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Dayton said Kerry approached him "with daggers in his eyes and said, 'What are you doing endorsing my 2008 presidential opponent?'... He was very serious."
Kerry's office disputes Dayton's account. David Wade, his spokesman, said "there was nothing but joshing on the Senate floor" between Dayton and Kerry, who have been friends for 35 years.
"Respectfully, some lines must have gotten crossed in his retelling of this particular conversation," Wade said. "If Senator Kerry had anything in his eyes, it was hockey sticks. These two old friends and colleagues spent most of their time joking about pulling on their skates and hitting the rink in Minnesota later this year."
Speculation is growing about Kerry's intentions as he begins traveling the country to promote his "Kids First" legislation, a plan to provide health insurance to 11 million uncovered children. Kerry touted his plan in Atlanta last month and was in Austin, Texas, over the weekend.
Aides said he plans to conduct a "town-hall event" in Minneapolis on the morning of May 3 as part of a coast-to-coast tour. Details of the event haven't been released yet. His wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, will speak at a $100-per-ticket YWCA luncheon at the Minneapolis Convention Center on the same day.
A starting point?
As a battleground state, Minnesota is a perfect choice for an early visit by Kerry, said state DFL Chairman Mike Erlandson.
"I think he'd be the first to admit that he still is looking at the potential for running for the White House again in 2008, so he remains active in Washington, Massachusetts and around the country," Erlandson said.
Said Ron Eibensteiner, chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party: "By visiting Minnesota, Senator Kerry is attempting to buck the long-standing tradition of failed Democratic presidential candidates fading into political obscurity." With Kerry's visit coming on the heels of Clinton's trip, Eibensteiner said, Kerry "is obviously concerned about his standing with Minnesota Democrats."
Early polls show Clinton and Kerry leading the Democratic pack in 2008, but Dayton called Clinton "a national superstar" and said she has "a strong lock" on the nomination if she chooses to run.
Asked about his support for Kerry last year, Dayton laughed and replied: "As Winston Churchill once said, I'd rather be right than consistent."
In an interview on CNN last month, Kerry said that "all of this talk about 2008 is unbelievably premature" and that the focus for Democrats should be on the issues.
Toward that end, he is promoting a bill that would cost $22 billion a year to pay for health insurance for children. He said it would result in improved school performance and would lower long-term health costs by reducing the amount of time children spend in hospitals. Kerry said he would pay for his bill by not making President Bush's tax cuts for wealthy Americans permanent.
Dayton is cosponsoring Kerry's bill, but he appeared to criticize Kerry when he first recounted his interaction with him on the Senate floor during a weekend interview with KTCA-TV's "Almanac." In the interview, Dayton said that "any politician that embraces children clearly has some motive beyond that, because otherwise they would be doing something about it rather than talking about it."
Dayton said his remarks sounded "worse than I intended." He said he has told Clinton that he's ready to help form a committee to help her mount a campaign. He said Clinton has said nothing to him to indicate that she's running, "although coming to Minnesota and reading between the lines, it certainly doesn't discourage" speculation.
Meanwhile, Dayton said he has told Kerry that he won't be able to attend his event in Minnesota because of a scheduling conflict.
Rob Hotakainen is at rhotakainen@mcclatchydc.com. |
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http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/45050.htm
| Quote: | JEALOUS KERRY FUMES AS DEM BOOSTS HILL
By DEBORAH ORIN
April 23, 2005
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WASHINGTON A fuming John Kerry had "daggers in his eyes" after a fellow Democrat promoted Hillary Rodham Clinton for president suggesting the 2004 loser is green with envy at a potential rival.
The flap was touched off two weeks ago when Clinton spoke at a Minneapolis Democratic dinner and Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) told the cheering crowd that he was introducing "the next great president of the United States."
Two days later, Kerry came over to Dayton on the Senate floor "with daggers in his eyes and said, 'What are you doing endorsing my 2008 presidential opponent?' . . . He was very serious," Dayton told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Clinton's office declined comment but a friend tut-tutted: "Boys will be boys, even when they are senators."
Kerry spokesman David Wade tried to make light of the story, claiming "some lines must have gotten crossed in his retelling of this particular conversation" and insisted they were mostly "joshing" about hockey.
But Dayton's office says the "daggers in his eyes" report was accurate and Dayton has no quarrel with it.
At the April 9 Minnesota dinner, Dayton made it clear that touting Clinton for president was his own idea, saying it was an "unauthorized" introduction but she did nothing to dispute it.
Dayton was also quoted as offering a blunt explanation not very flattering to Kerry about why he favors Clinton for 2008 after backing Kerry last year: "As Winston Churchill once said, I'd rather be right than consistent."
Kerry, who will visit Minnesota on May 3, has left little doubt that he yearns to run for president again in 2008, but trails Clinton in every poll of Democratic preference by margins approaching 2-1.
A Marist College poll in February asked Americans who would get their vote if the 2008 primary were being held today. Thirty-nine percent said Sen. Clinton and only 21 percent said Kerry.
In Minnesota, Clinton thrilled Democrats with her red-meat speech, accusing President Bush of ushering in "a brave new world of extremism."
She painted Republican lawmakers as "extras in the movie 'I, Robot' " and said Bush's call for an "ownership society" amounts to trying to turn America into a "you're-on-your-own society."
Clinton's fiery speech contrasted with her recent highly publicized moves to the center.
Meanwhile, Kerry and his outspoken wife Teresa Heinz Kerry are increasingly claiming he was robbed last November and should have won. |
"Meanwhile, Kerry and his outspoken wife Teresa Heinz Kerry
are increasingly claiming he was robbed last November and
should have won."
This is so funny it's pathetic.
You weren't ROBBED!! YOU'RE A L-O-S-E-R!
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LewWaters
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| Quote: | | Meanwhile, Kerry and his outspoken wife Teresa Heinz Kerry are increasingly claiming he was robbed last November and should have won. |
Since it's been his life long goal to grab the Presidency anyhow he can, he'd claim anything he could. I still feel he now actually believes the office is "owed" to him.
But, Hitlery, since she supported her spouse in his quest, also feels it's "owed" to her.
Over 3 years to go before the next election and sKerry is already calling others opponents. Going to be interesting, indeed.
With all their claims of "I wuz robbed," odd that they remain so silent on Washington's Governors theft. If memory serves me right, wasn't it sKerry that funded a large portion of the final revision of the ballots to select Gregoire?
Wasn't it Goebbels who stated something to the effect of you tell a lie often enough and the public comes to accept it as truth?
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Rdtf
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe all the pol-rigging done by all the college kids during the election had him fooled into thinking he was winning. Fell on their own sword, so to speak...
He is reminding me of Al Gore since 2000 with the persistent whining. What's next...crazed ranting at public venues? Oh please let that happen  |
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coldwarvet
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Of cource Kerry is running. He has beeen running for president since he was on Kennedy's yaht. Kerry will still be running for president while he takes his last dying breath.
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