{"id":214,"date":"2003-04-05T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2003-04-05T13:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/214.html"},"modified":"2003-04-05T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2003-04-05T13:53:07","slug":"kerrys-speech-responding-to-his-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/kerrys-speech-responding-to-his-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry&#8217;s speech responding to his critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on my post yesterday about Kerry taking off the gloves with his chickenhawk critics, Salon was kind enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2003\/04\/05\/kerry_speech\/index.html\">post the transcript<\/a> of Kerry&#8217;s speech in Georgia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really a good speech, well worth reading. The more Kerry gives speeches like this one, the better he&#8217;ll do in the campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, DeLay, Hastert, and Co. may have accidentally given Kerry a new motivation in this campaign. This hasn&#8217;t been Kerry&#8217;s best week. First, he saw the Q1 reports showing that Edwards had better fundraising in the last three months than he did. Then a poll out of New Hampshire reflected that he is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewmurchannel.com\/politics\/2090253\/detail.html\">tied with Howard Dean<\/a> in a state he had been way ahead in.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, I think it&#8217;s possible that the criticisms from the GOP may have re-ignited the &#8220;fire in his belly.&#8221; The attacks also give his campaign a new focus that should resonate well with primary voters: Vote for Kerry, because Tom DeLay really hates him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on my post yesterday about Kerry taking off the gloves with his chickenhawk critics, Salon was kind enough to post the transcript of Kerry&#8217;s speech in Georgia on Thursday. It&#8217;s really a good speech, well worth reading. The more Kerry gives speeches like this one, the better he&#8217;ll do in the campaign. Oddly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}