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Kerry Releases Advance Speech Transcript to Public and Press Simultaneously

John Kerry has emailed a link to everyone on his mailing list for transcript of a speech about the impact of Hurricane Katrina that he will make in a few hours at Brown University.

By giving news to the people at the same time it goes to the press, true transparency (jeez that word is getting tired) is achieved.

Here's the gist of what Kerry will say:

"...there's every reason to believe the President finally acted on Katrina and admitted a mistake only because he was held accountable by the press, cornered by events, and compelled by the outrage of the American people, who with their own eyes could see a failure of leadership and its consequences.

Natural and human calamity stripped away the spin machine, creating a rare accountability moment, not just for the Bush administration, but for all of us to take stock of the direction of our country and do what we can to reverse it. That's our job -- to turn this moment from a frenzied expression of guilt into a national reversal of direction.

This is the Katrina administration.

So realistically, I’m sure you’re wondering: How do I change all this? What can I do? The answer is simple: ... it’s to speak out so loudly that Washington has no choice but to make choices worthy of this great country - choices worthy of the sacrifice of our neighbors in the Gulf Coast and our troops all around the world."

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Will this man ever go away? I wish he would atleast say something different.

Posted by: chris at September 19, 2005 3:28 PM

Yes, it really is inconvenient to have people pointing out the current president's massive incompetence all the time.

Posted by: nuiloa at September 20, 2005 3:33 AM

John Kerry is an opportunistic idiot. I shudder to think about how he (or Al Gore) would have handled this. The fact that both state and local administrators (Democrats) not only dropped the ball but punted it goes unnoticed, and the 'Great Satan' George Bush is blamed for everything. I don't exonerate the Federal Government, but the failure in New Orleans goes back a long way and crosses party lines. For the Democrats to try to hang this disaster on the current administration is blatant hypocracy. Not that this surprises me. It's what they're best at.

Posted by: R. J. Ross at September 20, 2005 11:51 PM

That would be "hypocrisy" Mr. Ross. Not that your misspelling surprises me.

Posted by: B.L. Ochman at September 21, 2005 10:50 AM

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