She spotted the Kerry button I still wear on my bag (still carrying that torch for the Kerry presidency), and said, ""Do you like Kerry?" In response, I went into my Kerry-spiel about how honest he is, how much I admire and trust him as a person, what a great father he is - the basic character witness testimony.
When I finished she looked at me and said, "I wish I'd talked to you about him before. I didn't know that." After a little more chat I asked if she liked *. Her answer, "Not so much. But I didn't know if Kerry would be better."
Please, don't bother flaming Kerry's campaign to me. I know mistakes were made, but that's not what this is about. I do think, with the hindsight of three months, that the Democratic party as an entity did a terrible job of backing him up. The Democratic media presence was completely pathetic.
An article in Political Strategy dated January 26, Tom Ball is titled Could Ted Turner Become a New Progressive Sugar Daddy?
- Earlier this month, a group of politically progressive billionaires -- including George Soros, Herb and Marion Sandler, and Peter Lewis pledged millions to the long-term construction of a critically needed progressive intellectual infrastructure of think tanks and other institutions.
With a little luck, we may have another billionaire jumping on board. Indeed, it appears that Ted Turner has just about reached his limits with the Bush Administration and their neocon agenda.
Turner, already revered for his selfless investment in wildlife preservation, sent another cue to the right that he has had enough.
Ted Turner called Fox a propaganda tool of the Bush administration and indirectly compared Fox News Channel's popularity to Adolf Hitler's popular election to run Germany before World War II.
I'm hoping this is true, and that Turner is ready to jump in. We sure could use his money. But even more than his money, we could put his media and marketing savvy to good use. Fear and ignorance are our real enemies.
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