I realize this is a little backward. Yesterday, we posted video of the Senator's victory celebration from Tuesday night, and now we're posting him voting on Tuesday morning. Sort of like eating desert before dinner, but we just got some video from Karen at JKMediaSource, and we couldn't pass it up. Besides, I missed yesterday's Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation with India and the video's not up yet at their website. Maybe we'll get to watch that later today.
For now, here's some video of the Senator talking with supporters and the media, and casting his vote in Tuesday's Massachusetts primary.
Bet I know who he voted for.
Note that JK comments in the interview on the current economic crisis, then read this from 2004. There are two very important things to take away from that piece. The date, August 27, 2004, and the last sentence.
Mr. Kerry's principal mortgage proposal would prohibit lenders from using balloon mortgages in most subprime loans, which often go to low-income people at higher rates.
I don't expect there are many Bush voters here, but my mom may be reading and I just have to say, I told you so. Instead of voting for the guy who saw where the economy was headed and had a plan to fix it, you voted for the guy people wanted to have a beer with.
Guess what? You were wrong about that too.
Comments (1)
Posted by mbk | September 21, 2008 8:04 AM
Great find on that August 2004 quote! I'm just now watching Kerry's 1971 testimony on Vietnam (something I missed the first time around, having been studying abroad that famous spring), and I am having the same feeling I had when I read that quote on mortgages, and your comments: JK was right, in 1971, and in 2004, and he is right today.
And those of our fellow citizens who have refused to heed his words; or continue to scorn and slander him because they resent his courage and commitment, his integrity, and his opposition to unjust , pointless wars; or who have chosen to bring superficial criteria to their votes in presidential elections -- these people have brought us to this point as surely as W. and his deputies.