A Class Act Bows Out

John F. Kerry

Today, John Kerry, with dignity and firm conviction still in tact, put to rest all speculation that he would run for the nomination of President in 2008.
John Kerry, the man who asked "who will be the last man to die for a mistake" in Vietnam, asks the same question again in his long explanation of his opposition to the troop surge and Iraq policy.
Many people to this day believe he actually won and the computers rigged it against him.
He said he came close enough to tempt him to run again. That might be the understatement of the century. There are a lot of disturbing questions surrounding his quick concession that do not rest well with people. There were rumors of "unconcession" and people who hoped against all hope and invested their own time, energy and funds for months after his election to prove the official results wrong.
For the first time in about a hundred years, a Senator and Congressperson, Barbara Boxer and Stephanie Tubbs Jones refused to accept the electoral college vote counts from Ohio before a full debate based on a phrase we haven't stopped hearing in two years "election irregularities."
Standing typically Lincolnesque today, the most handsome man in the Senate by lightyears, likely as cheated from his mantle as Gore, he can savor not quite defeat in less privacy than Gore now, because he is still fighting, still in office, still in the Senate and running for Senate re-election in Massachusetts in 2008.
So don't say Good-bye to John Kerry just yet. His second act is likely to be as effective in the Senate as he could have done in the White House in terms of stopping a war.

His race kickstarted a firestorm of election protection movements and organizations fighting for truth in reporting election tallies. His determination to end the war is something we can all stand behind.

THANK YOU JOHN KERRY.
THANK YOU for being the kind of American who takes it on the chin for all of us. The kind who
jumps on the grenade of electoral politics or the kind of authentic Purple Heart that actually hears the cry of the poor and pain of the injured Veteran.
Our hearts are a bit blue but we will get over it and buck up.

I raise my right hand to my forehead and I salute you as my Veteran father taught me as a little girl.

JOHN F. KERRY, a Great American Hero.