Thanks for providing the links for Sen. Kerry’s appearance on the Ed Schultz show, Dick. It never fails to lift my spirits to hear him speak out on the issues of the day.

And while I’m not a big fan of radio talk shows in general, I make an exception in Mr. Schultz’s case for the reasons you mentioned above. Being able to catch shows like his via webstream is a real bonus. Ain’t technology grand.

Will a transcript and/or an audio stream of this afternoon’s interview be available here on the JK site afterwards?

inquiring ears want to know,
Otter

Ilise

That’s pretty much the take Kerry had when he smacked McCain down in no time flat after McCain’s statements yesterday:

“He must be trying to burnish his credentials for the nomination process,” said Kerry, who labeled McCain’s comments “flat politics and incorrect.”

“The truth is the Clinton administration knew full well they didn’t have a perfect agreement. But at least they were talking. At least we had inspectors going in and we knew where the (nuclear fuel) rods were. This way, we don’t know where the rods are, the rods are gone. There are no inspectors. Ask any American which way is better,” Kerry said.

Ilise,
Here is a link to the article about McCain’s statement. In it, you will find Senator Kerry’s very apt response. I will actually post the relevant portion here;

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/10/mccain.clinton.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

snip
‘McCain’s criticism elicited a strong response from Democratic Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 presidential nominee and a potential 2008 candidate.

“He must be trying to burnish his credentials for the nomination process,” said Kerry, who labeled McCain’s comments “flat politics and incorrect.”

“The truth is the Clinton administration knew full well they didn’t have a perfect agreement. But at least they were talking. At least we had inspectors going in and we knew where the [nuclear fuel] rods were. This way, we don’t know where the rods are. The rods are gone. There are no inspectors. Ask any American which way is better,” Kerry said.

The Massachusetts senator made the remarks in Nevada during a campaign appearance with Elizabeth Carter, wife of Democratic Senate candidate Jack Carter.
snip

The rest of the article is pretty good, too.

Clearly a case of “spare the rods, spoil the child…”

ahem,
Otter

This war is a complete fabrication—the Senator is telling it like it is!!!!

Go, JK, go!  Tell it like it is.

Yup. Not the best audio quality on the call-in, but definitely top-notch delivery by the caller. Excellent points, presented in calm but passionate tones, leaving no doubt in the listeners’ minds that the Senator is both of the people and well worthy of the highest office in the land.

WTG JK,
Otter

That was sensational.  He is so direct—the truth and nothing but!  Loved how he revealed McCain for who he is—“burnishing his credentials to run for President”!  And loved his clear-eyed exposure of Bush and the rest as incapable, incompetent and uncaring.

United States President George W. Bush today claimed that a less “sophisticated vocabulary” than that used by Democrats justified his characterization of their Iraq policy as “cut and run.”

Bush made the comments at a news conference in the White House Rose Garden this morning.

A transcript of the exchange follows:

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QUESTION: One of the things Democrats complain about it is the way you portray their position—

BUSH : Oh, really?

QUESTION:—in wanting to fight the war on terror. They would say you portray it as either they support exactly what you want to do or they want to do nothing.

BUSH : Hmm.

QUESTION: We hear it in some of your speeches. Is it fair to portray it to the American people that way?

BUSH : Well, I think it’s fair to use the words of people in Congress or their votes. [Laughs.] The vote was on the—on the Hamdan legislation, do you want to continue a program that enabled us to interrogate folks or not?

And all I was doing was reciting the votes. I—I—I would—I would cite my opponent in the 2004 campaign when he said there needs to be a date certain from which to withdraw from Iraq. I characterize that as cut-and-run because I believe it is cut and run. In other words, I’ve been using their votes or their words to characterize their positions.

QUESTION: But they don’t say “cut and run.”

BUSH : Well, they may not use “cut and run,” but they say “date certain” as to when to get out before the job is done. That is cut and run. You know, I—nobody’s accused me of having a real sophisticated vocabulary. I understand that. And maybe their—their words are more sophisticated than mine, but when you pull out before the job is done, that’s cut and run as far as I’m concerned. And that’s cut and run as far as most Americans are concerned.

And so yeah, I’m going to continue reminding them of their words and their votes.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Bush_Cut_and_run_rhetoric_result_1011.html

Dear Mr. Bush:
I think that if the people who voted for you in ‘04 could do it all over again, they’d ask you to “cut ‘n’n run” from the White House, date certain (immediately).........cann ya unnerstann thatt??!!???

The podcast is now available and the link has been added to the blog post above.

But to save you the scrolling upwards, here it is:

JK on Ed Schultz

This is how serious Bush was in March 2001:

Q Mr. President, one more. Was there any discussion concerning the agreed framework, the Geneva agreed framework, at the summit today?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Anybody else?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/03/20010307-6.html 

Also from March 2001, Powell’s response to SFRC:

Kerry said he was puzzled by President Bush’s apparent decision, reported by the press during his meeting with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung March 7, “not to pick up where the Clinton administration left off” in negotiating with the North Koreans. “Earlier you had said we would pick up,” Kerry said. “What changed in those two days?”

“I think the important message that came out of yesterday’s meeting,” Powell responded, “is that President Bush appreciated what President Kim Dae Jung has done with respect to opening that window, as it is often referred to (in meeting with his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Il in June, 2000), and supports him and supports the additional things he’s going to be doing this year ... while at the same time, we’ll review what it is we plan to do with respect to our engagement with North Korea, when we decide it is the appropriate time to re-engage.”

Kerry continued, saying “Given the tensions with respect to China and the questions on the entire Peninsula, the messages we send are awfully important in terms of whether we’re sort of open to engagement…. I have a sense that we may be sending messages that are subject to misinterpretation. Why is it that you would not send a signal to North Korea that the direction they’ve been moving in is in fact welcomed and that you welcome the concept of a dialogue?”

http://seoul.usembassy.gov/030801_2.html

This was a great interview, and should be heard by anyone who doesn’t understand the difference between Republican and Democratic policy re: Iraq.

JK gave a great interview today with Big Eddie!

GWB - a man without a plan: No plan for Iraq, North Korea, Health Care, deficits, budgets, Social Security, Medicare, energy independence or much of anything else.

Bush has no plan and the Republican Party has no plan, just more of the same old stuff - protect the wealthy and corporate interest. I guess you have to know your constituents.