Kerry's message to the special interests: "We're coming, you're going, and don't let the door hit you on the way out." Washington Post article a few days later: Kerry is the leading recipient of special interest contributions, second only to Bush. Kerry's new message about companies who export jobs overseas: "Benedict Arnolds," he calls them. The reality?
Executives from these very same companies are on Kerry's list of campaign contributors. "The Real Deal"? Far from it.
Not only is it bad that these facts seem to contradict Kerry's rhetoric, but equally worse is Kerry's half-assed "solution," if we can call it that, to the problem of jobs being exported overseas. He wants companies to give three months' notice to the Labor Department of where the jobs are going and why. Do you really think this will stop job losses? Corporations have been giving us excuses for years for all kinds of things they do, and nothing has changed their practices other than tough government regulation.
This is not to say that protectionism is the answer, but this is the umpteenth time I've found Kerry's rhetoric, stances, and background clearly contradictory and utterly disappointing. Kerry supporters who can't understand why some of us independents will support a Dean or an Edwards but not your candidate, here's just another reason. Say what you want about uniting for the general election, but it's still primary season, and dadgum it, we want the right candidate in the presidential spot on the ticket come the convention in July.