JK’s statement on the strengthened FOIA bill with the blogger provisions has gathered some attention in the blogosphere:

Susan H at BelowBoston.com posted: “John Kerry goes to bat for bloggers re: FOIA” – (hattip to IanDB1 at DemUnderground)

David Sirota noted it at Sirotablog: “Kerry Pushes Strengthened FOIA Power for Citizens”

Ron Chusid at Liberal Values noted it in “Kerry Calls For Extending FOIA to Support Bloggers”

Alice Marshall at Presto Vivace Blog put it this way: “John Kerry: FOIA should cover bloggers”

Diane at ToughEnough.org noted JK’s FOIA move with this comment:

“One of the benefits of not running for president is that you can do things like this, and not have to consider who you might be pissing off in the process.”

Jerome Armstrong highlighted it on myDD for us: “Kerry Sponsors Senate bill giving bloggers FOIA powers”

Cliff Schecter spotted it on mydd and put it on his blog: “Very Cool & Big News!!”

Left of Ohio picked it up from myDD: “John Kerry Want’s FOIA Powers For Bloggers”

There were other items on the blogs besides JK and the FOIA. <!-more-> Beachmom had a highly-rated diary at dailykos titled “(Update) Swift Boat Financier appointed Ambassador to Belgium. Watch Kerry grill him.” Lots of interesting conversation and comments on that one. Plus links to video of the “grilling” in case you missed it the first time around.

Joe Kozlowski of “For What Its Worth” points out the follow-up post on the Fox nomination hearing by MaryAnn Akers in The Sleuth column of the Washington Post with the title, “Kerry isn’t giving up”. PS:  I like Joe’s tagline on his website: “Boredom is a self-inflicted wound!” So true, Joe, so true.

ProSense started a vigorous discussion at Dem Underground with the post: “Kerry calls for thorough investigation of New Bedford immigration raid”

The 92nd Street Y blog did a roundup of blog posts (and borrowed a couple pics from the jk blog) about JK and Teresa’s book event at the Y on Monday evening.

Big Roy of The Imus Show Blog pulled an audio clip of JK on the Imus show on 3-16-2007: “Senator Kerry: I Was At Building 18 Weeks Before Washington Post Story”

Josh Holland of Alternet pointed out the dichotomy between the way MSM reacts to Bush and the way they reacted to JK in the post, “Cenk Uygur: Osama’s still being forgotten by this administration!”

The Wichita Eagle Editorial Board blog made somewhat the same point in a post titled, “Public not buying Iraq-terrorism link”.

A new poll found that 51 percent of Americans see no link between the war in Iraq and the broader anti-terror effort. I disagree slightly—though not the way that President Bush argues.

I think Iraq is a frontline fight against terrorism, but that it became one because of our invasion and botched occupation. As columnist John Young wrote on Tuesday’s Opinion pages, "What we did in Iraq was create a cataclysmic vacuum that has drawn blood-oath jihadists like flies to a carcass."

I also think John Kerry was correct that international police work and shared intelligence should be the focus of the war on terror, not invading countries that had no meaningful ties to al-Qaida.

We agree on that!

Kos defended JK in the process of pointing out Maureen Dowd’s issues and defending Barack Obama – he based his post on Eric Boehlert’s work at Media Matters in which Eric completely defends JK.

Reaching way back for these entries (and this shows how long it’s been since I’ve done a regular JK on the blogs—there have been a couple special editions)...

Bob Geiger on The Huffington Post wrote about JK and Feingold speaking out about Afghanistan

Just as the United States Senate was dominated last week with the fight to raise the Federal Minimum Wage, the next few days will see a heated battle over what sentiments - if any - the Senate should formally express in opposition to George W. Bush’s plan to escalate the Iraq war.

While that issue will dominate the woefully single-threaded media on Capitol Hill, a Senate resolution proposed by John Kerry (D-MA) is also very relevant to America’s national security and should at least get some mention as it waits in the wings.

A couple of weeks ago, Kerry introduced S. RES. 34, which calls on the White House to start focusing on something vaguely related to the attacks of September 11 and beef up ”...the efforts of the United States to defeat the Taliban and terrorist networks in Afghanistan.”

Last but not least, Beachmom posted a comment in a diary on dailykos which had information I’ve not seen anywhere else. Her comment contained a lengthy account from a friend of hers in Europe who watched JK at the World Economic Forum in Davos live. Beachmom noted that her friend said that she was very impressed with JK and that “it was weird how the AP only took his Bush critique remarks and left out all of his very thoughtful remarks which impressed everyone there.” Check out the comment for the more detailed report.