http://www.concordmonitor.com/...
So what's the policy around here about posting entire articles? Is it allowed, or like DU, is there a limit of a few paragraphs so as not to violate copyrights and such.
Otherwise I'd have copied the whole thing down below.
But still, I think I hit some of the best bits. More at the link provided if you wanna read the whole thing.
Some highlights:
"It really comes down to the kind of values you have, and how you take those values into public office and live them out. Not talk about them, folks -live them out," said Kerry, who lost last year's election, in part, because of President Bush's sway with evangelical Christian voters.
"As a Christian, as a Catholic, I think hard about those responsibilities that are moral and how you translate them into public life. And I'm tired of watching a whole bunch of people who talk about that faith not go out and live it."
He said the September images of Hurricane Katrina brought "the stripping away of the fakery, of the spin, and what it left behind is people's understanding of the reality of this connection of the choices government makes or doesn't make, and what happens to people."
"That guy Brownie - you know, the Brownie guy, 'You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie'- Michael Brown, who still incidentally is on the payroll at $140,000 a year or whatever," Kerry said. "He is to Katrina what Paul Bremer was to post-war Iraq management, what Paul Wolfowitz is to our troops . . . what Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy, what Tom DeLay is to ethics in government, what George Bush is to 'mission accomplished.'"
(My note: Eh, that's an old one. But good for him to point out that Brownie is still on the payroll.)
Afterward, some spoke with a certain wistfulness about what might have been. But everyone said Kerry's visit was about strengthening the party at the local level, not about nostalgia. Through his political action committee, Kerry has raised or contributed nearly $2.5 million to candidates across the country, including Baines. Before the rally, Kerry met privately with a group of local candidates, community advocates and union leaders. Afterward, he headed west for a Vermont Democratic Party event.