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Vote Kerry 2004: A Letter from the Publisher
By Edward Campbell
A letter from the Publisher
TUCSON 16 June 2004: The American working class prefers Dennis Kucinich [D-Ohio] to be the next President of the United States of America. It is unfortunate for Kucinich supporters that the democratic nomination for the presidency will go to John Kerry [D-Mass.].
A letter from the Publisher
TUCSON 16 June 2004: The American working class prefers Dennis Kucinich [D-Ohio] to be the next President of the United States of America. It is unfortunate for Kucinich supporters that the democratic nomination for the presidency will go to John Kerry [D-Mass.].
Iran has replied that nuclear weapons proliferation is not within the intentions and morals of the Muslim community. The DPRK says it also wants peace and reunification with the south. The DPRK on the question or arms proliferation remains a problem for western imperialism, and an obstacle to U.S. war plans in Asia, but also has considerable influence over all kinds of opposition movements all over the globe as well. It also does not want to be attacked. Iran and the DPRK have developed peaceful mutual diplomatic relations over the past several months. President Mohammad Khatami received the credentials of Kim Chong Ryong on March 25, 2004 and an Iran-DPRK friendship exhibit opened in Tehran June 15 in honor of the 15th anniversary of Iran and North Korea friendship pact. Austria’s President Thomas Klestil said Iran is forming the axis of peace after his historic visit to Tehran January 25-27, 2004. Progressive should Muslims support Iran, the DPRK and Austria.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) — U.S. Senator and possible Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards blasted the Bush administration on Friday for the chaotic aftermath of the Iraq war and said President Bush, not his underlings, is to blame.
"If you look at what's happening, there's a lot of discussion and debate around the country about Don Rumsfeld and whether the secretary of defense should be fired and whether he should resign," Edwards said in a fiery speech to the Texas Democratic Party annual convention.
"Let me say this very simply -- the person who is responsible is the commander in chief," he said to loud applause from the enthusiastic crowd in Bush's home state.
"Where I come from, we say a fish stinks from the head down," said Edwards, who is from North Carolina.
Edwards is considered one of the top candidates to be Sen. John Kerry's running mate in the November election. He praised Kerry profusely and urged the delegates to work hard for his election.
At one point, his speech was interrupted by chants of "V.P., V.P." which brought a smile to his face, but no comment.
Prominent Texas trial lawyer John O'Quinn, spoke after Edwards and criticized Republicans for questioning the patriotism of Democrats. He ripped off his tie, held it up and said: "They can put that idea where the sun don't shine."
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RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer
Tuesday, July 6, 2004
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(07-06) 15:11 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --
Presidential candidate John Kerry on Tuesday chose former rival John Edwards as his running mate, selecting the smooth-talking Southern populist over more seasoned politicians in hopes of injecting vigor and small-town appeal into the Democratic ticket.
"I trust that met with your approval," Kerry told a boisterous crowd of supporters in Pittsburgh who shouted their consent while waving hot-off-the-presses "Kerry-Edwards" placards.
The two senators -- Kerry of Massachusetts and Edwards of North Carolina -- sealed their political marriage during a 15-minute, early morning telephone conversation that papered over their differences in style and substance.
"I was humbled by his offer," Edwards said in a statement, "and thrilled to accept it."
Kerry, 60, a decorated Vietnam veteran whom critics call aloof, calculated that his ticket didn't need foreign policy heft as much as a bit of pizazz and the quick embrace of party activists who had rallied behind Edwards' stealth campaign for the No. 2 slot.
Edwards, 51, who made a fortune as a trial lawyer before jumping into politics in the 1990s as a self-styled champion for the common man, edged out several Washington veterans under consideration, including Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri and Sen. Bob Graham of Florida.
Along with Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, a veteran of state politics with a low national profile, they were finalists in a process that began four months ago with a list of about 25 candidates.
In March, after defeating Gephardt, Graham, Edwards and several others in the Democratic primaries, Kerry told his vice presidential search team to help him find a political soul mate who would be "ready at any minute" to assume the presidency.
Republicans on Tuesday questioned whether Edwards met either standard. While President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney politely welcomed Edwards to a "spirited race," their allies at the Republican National Committee issued a thick press release that called the first-term senator a politically inexperienced phony who is beholden to the trial-lawyer lobby.
"Disingenuous, unaccomplished liberal," the RNC said.
Edwards' relative lack of foreign policy work -- he is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee -- could be an issue in a campaign shadowed by war, strategists in both parties said.
Privately, Bush advisers acknowledged that Edwards has the capacity to be formidable foe, helping Kerry to broaden the electoral map and sharpen his economic message.
Edwards entered the Senate and public life in 1998 after upsetting Republican Sen. Lauch Faircloth. The son of a mill worker, Edwards worked his way through college sweeping floors before converting his law degree into a multimillion-dollar practice specializing in medical malpractice and product liability judgments.
He jumped early into a Democratic nomination fight filled with more seasoned politicians, including Kerry, who questioned Edwards' decision to seek the presidency so early in his political career. In January, Kerry mocked Edwards' lack of international or military experience.
"When I came back from Vietnam in 1969," Kerry said, "I don't know if John Edwards was out of diapers then."
Mindful that Republicans will seize on the seasoning issue, Kerry assured supporters Tuesday, "John Edwards is ready for this job. He is ready for this job."
Obsessed with secrecy, Kerry kept his decision to himself until the last possible minute, giving Edwards no time to get to Pittsburgh for the announcement. The North Carolinian was at his Washington home, readying his children for summer camp, when he got word. Kerry supporters got word through an e-mail from the campaign.
Democrats predicted the folksy Edwards will help the ticket in rural America, where Kerry's patrician New England manner may not play as well. Democrats have lost enormous ground in the exurban and rural precincts, largely because of social issues such as abortions and gun control.
Edwards may also put his traditionally GOP state -- and its 15 electoral votes -- in play, along with other Southern venues, Democrats said.
During the primary campaign, Edwards did better than Kerry among Republicans and nearly as well among independents, according to exit polls conducted for The Associated Press by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International. By comparison, among all voters in those primaries, Kerry beat Edwards 2-to-1.
Edwards portrayed himself as a positive campaigner, even as he criticized Kerry's trade policies and mocked his long-winded style. Edwards scored political points with an anti-Bush message about "two Americas" -- one for the privileged and another for everybody else.
Kerry, who has had trouble crafting a general election message, said of the new ticket, "I am determined that we reach out across party lines, that we speak to the heart of America, that we speak of hope and of optimism."
Kerry's choice was a bow to party pressure: Edwards was the overwhelming choice of delegates to the Democratic National Convention, according to an AP survey, and party leaders had been urging Kerry to shed his initial resistance to the senator.
Edwards arrived in Pittsburgh in the afternoon for a dinner between the Edwards and Kerry families at Kerry's Pittsburgh estate. The candidates launch a multistate campaign tour in Ohio on Wednesday, ending in Edwards' home state Saturday.
They are the first senators to serve on the same ticket since 1972, when Democratic Sens. George McGovern of South Dakota and Thomas Eagleton of Missouri teamed up. Eagleton dropped out of the race because of his mental history.
A dozen years earlier, a Massachusetts senator with the initials JFK -- John F. Kennedy -- turned to a high-voltage Southerner he wasn't particularly fond of: Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas.
Suggesting that Edwards was Kerry's second choice, the Bush campaign rushed to the airwaves with an ad featuring Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who had rejected overtures from Kerry about a bipartisan ticket. In the spot, McCain praises Bush.
Kerry's team hurried out an ad featuring the newly minted ticket.
Kerry hopes the teaming dominates the political landscape during the three-week run-up to the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Convention delegates will formally nominate the Kerry-Edwards ticket, whose common first names were celebrated at the Pittsburgh rally with a rendition of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode."
Democrats, even supporters of the also-rans, united behind the ticket.
"This is the choice," said Rep. Ike Skelton, a Missouri Democrat who wanted Gephardt on the ticket. "You put everything else behind you."
In a Dec. 3 address to the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. Kerry suggested that the Bush administration's unwillingness to bargain with Tehran is to blame for Iran's harboring of al Qaeda operatives. "It is incomprehensible and unacceptable that this administration refuses to broker an arrangement with Iran," Mr. Kerry declared. "The Bush administration stubbornly refuses to conduct a realistic, non-confrontational policy with Iran."
Mr. Kerry's national security issues coordinator, Rand Beers, said last month that U.S.-Iranian talks have been blocked by the Bush administration, which "is so tied in its own ideological views of Iran and waiting for the Iranian regime to collapse."
On Feb. 8, the Tehran Times published a letter that Mr. Kerry's office sent to an Iranian news agency explaining why he should be elected president. The letter suggests that the Bush administration's objectionable behavior toward other nations is to blame for many of the world's problems. "Sadly, we are also painfully aware of how the actions and attitudes demonstrated by the U.S. government over the past three years have threatened the goodwill earned by presidents of both parties over many decades and put many of our international relationships at risk," the Kerry letter says.
Mr. Kerry's comments suggesting that the Bush administration is to blame for Tehran's animosity have drawn a sharp rebuke from the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran. "Why, Senator? Why and how could a man of your honor and valor disregard the suffering people of a nation and appease a brutal regime?" the group asked in a Feb. 19 open letter to Mr. Kerry (the full text is availableonthegroup'sWebsiteat http://www.daneshjoo.org). Mr. Kerry's campaign has thus far failed to respond to this newspaper's queries about the letter or his position on Iran. But his statements thus far indicate a profound misunderstanding of reality: It is not Mr. Bush, but the Iranian regime's malevolent behavior for the past 25 years, that has damaged relations between the two countries.
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