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Bright and early in Concord, NH

We're up bright and early here in Concord, New Hampshire today. John Kerry knows something about New Hampshire mornings from high school playing hockey here - he's looking forward to the winter and the black ice when he can lace up his skates again and play some hockey again. I'm sitting in the studio at New Hampshire NPR listening to The Exchange -- they're asking John Kerry about his life, his service in Vietnam, and his fight for veterans when he came home -- it's something I forget about working for him every day, taking for granted the quality of the person leading this campaign -- a powerful reminder of the life experiences that shaped him and have made him ready for this moment in our country. This is the guy who at 27 had the guts to speak out against Richard Nixon's policy of false pride in Vietnam -- and he's ready to take the fight to George W Bush and hold him accountable for the truth on every issue in 2004. - David.


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By davidwade on August 8, 2003 at 10:00 AM

But I might say something the next time someone starts a Dean bashing thread with the subject being "Dean stole X idea from Kerry!"

This just goes to show you Kerry just has no originality .....he is complacent and scared as hell.

The point is that We the People are being heard! Kudos for any politician who LISTENS to the people, and gives them a voice.

Serious question. Please speak English! (Or Spanish at least.) Read this stuff out loud. Does anyone actually talk this way, except on the Senate floor?

On edit: I'm not asking for "Dick sees Jane" sentences. Just a period here and there, that's all.

71 posts yesterday and zero so far today. Seems like a hopping place!

Gary Hart was the first to start blogging.

Dean stole the idea of a candidate's blog from Hart.

Then came everyone else one.

Joe Trippi was the first campaign manager to start blogging. (He worked for Hart, remember.) Also the first campaign manager to use public e-mail (Jerry Brown).

It was a staffer. I don't see how Kerry can "copy" an idea from a Dean staffer and be sited for lack of originality. And Kerry had a website first.

PS - I listened to Nirvana way before you.

Let's get to the bottom of this.....

Who started this whole election thing anyways?

For that matter......was it the chicken or the egg that came first?????

It's not about who uses what campaign tactic first, it's about who will be a better President.

So Dean should be the only one who has a blog? As somebody said earlier, Dean wasn't even the first person to implement a web log, just the most successful.

WASHINGTON - Tom Daschle is coming soon to a blog near you.

The Senate minority leader and South Dakota Democrat will post a daily diary on his official Web site as he drives around the state next month during Congress' annual August recess, he said Wednesday. The diary is modeled on the growing phenomenon of the online journals known as Weblogs, or blogs for short.

"At the end of the day, wherever I am, I can just type up some thoughts and tell stories about things that happened," Daschle said. "I'm always up for trying something new."
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http://www.argusleader.com/news/Thursdayarticle1.shtml
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=48207&mesg_id=48207

Travels with Tom
http://www.senate.gov/~daschle/travels_with_tom.htm

I wonder what could have convinced them to re-$hape their online $trategy?

Dean and Trippi were as clueless as the next guy about the internet. They just happened to have connections with one of the founders of MoveOn, who hooked them up.

I don't see Dean as some sort of internet pioneer. He admitted that he is clueless.

Damn, I wish I knew that guy's name!

Hey, if Dean can get called a copycat for stating the same unoriginal ideas that Kerry supports, I can call Kerry a copycat for.. well.. copying Dean's online strategy.

Pretty soon, hastily thrown together clip art and money meters will become standard in presidential elections. Truly, we have reached a new paradigm in electoral politics.

:kick:

Bob Graham has a blog, too--which is perfect for him as he has always kept a detailed journal of his daily activities.

Is how little time it has taken Kerry to nearly catch up with Dean in online presence. If the current rate keeps up, he will pass Dean in Internet presence and contribution by the middle of September.

Perhaps he decided to wait, as most politicians to, until fall, before putting ALL of their resouorces and abilities into the fight.

kerry has over $11 mill. in presidential funds already - more than any other candidate by only the end of the 2nd quarter. what dean has raised is just peanuts compared to kerry: http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/kerry/kerrfin.html

Dean may be the Nikola Tesla of Of Internet Campaigning....

Kerry is going to be the Thomas Edison...

I dont really care who started the web movement, even though we all know who leads on it. I am happy to see at least kerry waking up to the reality that the net is possibly the most powerfull tool for comunication on the face of the planet! The fact that most of the candidates are being dragged to this realization doesnt inspire me in thier thought processes but I am happy to see them at least start to realize the potential when it is shoved in thier faces.

Blogs can only enhance the democratic experience for all and will become a mainstay in american politics. Good on you Kerry for starting to pay attention to what the people actually have to say. I hope you also take another lead from the dean camp and listen to what your supporters post. Some of the ideas that people come up with on these blogs are nothing short of amazing! Dean wouldnt be where he is today if he hadnt taken a lot of the feedback he got from his blog and run with it!

WTG John quite possibly the first step you have taken in this race that gives me hope in you.

I hope you are right about blogs enhancing the democratic experience but so far the Kerry blog looks like a replay of the P&C forum here with a lot of Dean supporters posting negative attacks, sniping and heckling. I'm not sure what to think - any thinking Democrat knows that we need to stay united for the 2004 election. It's just too important to do otherwise. Perhaps a lot of the Dean supporters are new to politics and don't realize the corrosive effects of negativity. Perhaps some of the postings are actually from Republicans. Doesn't matter. My attitude is the same. Don't let attacks go unanswered, but don't respond with retaliatory attacks. I'm confident that the positives of my candidate will win the day, and if not, I want to be ready to support the nominee to my fullest abilities.

I didnt read kerry's blog at all. If what you say is true and it is littered with negative comments then I am concerned. Mostly because it shows a lack of the Kerry' campaigns attention to thier own website. Blogs are editable and trolls should be removed on a website designed to show support for kerry.

I am not in the kerry camp by any means. Not because I think hes the devil or anything he just doesnt excite me. I will happily vote for him if he gets the nod hes just not my chosen one.

I would never ever ever post negative comments on his blog unless it was in response to a post made by his campaign attacking Dean. If people are doing it just out of spite then i think its repulsive.

However again I must say the idea that what sounds like a good start for kerry in getting a line of comunication going with the people out there that support him is being ignored by his own campaing staff to the point that it is being allowed to be filled with rants, My hope that he is actually paying attention to what has proven for dean to be a virtual cornicopia of GREAT ideas is diminished.

Further it would apear that they are doing it just for show and dont really get it. So sad what apeared to be a promising step for him now apears to me as nothing more than a stunt.

Suprise suprise but who is the third post from? Nick j bashing Dean as he is wont to do. Yet again throwing nothing positive about kerry into the discusion only bashing dean supporters. Not a great start IMHO.

As far as bashing of other candidates goes you would be well served to look to your own camp

Are you saying that Kerry supporters are disrupting Dean's blog? Yes or no?

On edit: I find it interesting that you don't report on whether or not you saw the disruptive postings of Dean supporters. Are Dean supporters disrupting Kerry's blog? Yes or no?

I was commenting on kerry's blog and the post I read there from our friendly neghborhood dean basher nick.

I wouldnt know about kerry or other bashers on the dean blog really cause they are actually paying attention to thier blog on the dean site and negative comments dont stick arround very long.

Again let me say I see this as nothing but a positive step for the kerry camp and kudos to them to not bowing to what have been a compeling urge to not be seen as copying dean. I truely believe that given the attention they deserve Blogs are an incredible tool for any candidate. I am geniunely happy to see them doing it. I am saddened however that it seems to go unwatched. I base this impresion on the bickering I see there on the only thread I read. And the fact that Deans name is mentioned more times than kerry's. It comes off very sloppy to me. They are new to it though I hope that thier dlligence increases as time goes by.

The Kerry campaign doesn't seem to be censoring the blog. Is that what you are suggesting they do?

Do you think DU should allow frepers to post here freely? Or are you trying to make kerry out as some great suporter of civil liberties because he allows people to post flaimbait and negative attacks on his campaign website?

Get real man

I'm not saying any of the things you are trying to put in my mouth. It looks to me like the campaign doesn't think the sniping is important enough to spend any energy on. Now that a few hours have gone by there are probably as many posts from Dean supporters apologizing for the earlier posts as there are hecklers. So perhaps these things have a way of working themselves out.

Do you think he should censor his own blog?

Or are you just trying to call me out somehow while agreeing with me?

I definately do think he should. Do you?

Is this some game of 'get the last word' you are playing? What am I trying to say? What I already said:

It looks to me like the campaign doesn't think the sniping is important enough to spend any energy on. Now that a few hours have gone by there are probably as many posts from Dean supporters apologizing for the earlier posts as there are hecklers. So perhaps these things have a way of working themselves out.


That's what I'm trying to say. ok? lol

It apeared to me that you were trying to state that somehow censoring his blog would be a bad thing. Which i dont hapen to agree with.

I apreciate your feeling that things have worked themselves out and am happy that you feel that way.

I am not looking to fight with you in any way. I Do not wish any ill on kerry whatsoever or any of our candidates for that matter, except perhaps leiberman, I happen to love the fact that we have so many different voices weighing in on such a wide variety of issues getting the word of bushes failings out in so many places at the same time!

In the end there will be only one and I think we will have lost something when it gets to that point, but at the same time i eagerly await that day so that all of the bickering will be gone and we can line up behind our choice and get to the real meat of this election that is defeting bush!

on the one thread I read I saw a few dean supporters post but it certainly wasnt bashing other than perhaps one, The majority were very supportive of kerry and in fact called on Dean supporters not to post disruptive comments there. Example

"I have read reports on the official Dean website that some Dean "supporters" have been posting inappropriate attacks on John Kerry.

Most of us at the Dean website are horrified and very embarrassed at this type of immature behavior, and many there are calling for a stop to these attacks. Such attack posts against Kerry do not represent the vast majority of Dean supporters.

It is possible that some of the attack posts might even be coming from people who are pretending to be Dean supporters, in an attempt to "divide and conquer" the Democrats.

John Kerry is an excellent person and a highly qualified public servant, and if he is elected as the Democratic nominee I will support him in a heartbeat.

No matter who wins the nomination, we will all need to gather together to support the Democratic nominee to win against Bush. We must remain united against Bush, and united toward restoring and improving our democracy!"

It is starting to apear to me that you are just looking for reasons to be mad at dean supporters

I'm sorry you misinterpreted. I'm not mad at Dean supporters, I'm not looking for a reason to be mad at them and I'm not interested in attacking any Democrat. I thought I expressed my feelings very clearly above so I'll just repeat it here: Any thinking Democrat knows that we need to stay united for the 2004 election. It's just too important to do otherwise. Perhaps a lot of the Dean supporters are new to politics and don't realize the corrosive effects of negativity. Perhaps some of the postings are actually from Republicans. Doesn't matter. My attitude is the same. Don't let attacks go unanswered, but don't respond with retaliatory attacks. I'm confident that the positives of my candidate will win the day, and if not, I want to be ready to support the nominee to my fullest abilities.

That's how I feel about it, if you want to draw some type of negativity out of it, it's in your head, not in what I said.

And again I think that the fact that kerry now has a Blog up and running is excelent! I am discouraged by the seeming lack of attention given to it at this point but I have high hopes that this will resolve itself in the future.

Like i said before kerry is not my guy but that does not mean i dont stand ready to support him should he get the nod. Nothing is more important than getting bush out of office. I will be dissapointed for sure if Dean doesnt win but it will not affect my complete commitment to ousting bush one iota!