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Respond to this article JOHN KERRY EFFECTIVELY ENDED HIS political career on February 28, 2005, d uring a little-noticed event at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. Senator Kerry was being presented with the library's "Distin guished American Award"--a bust of John Kennedy. The artist had portraye d JFK with head slightly tilted. The award was presented by Senator Ted Kennedy, who phoned it in. Supposedly Kennedy w as rushing to catch the "last plane out of Logan" to get to Washington f or a vital debate on bankruptcy reform legislation. Why the other senato r from Massachusetts wasn't vital was not explained. Nor was it explaine d why any Democrat was vital to a debate on legislation that was simply to be passed by the Republican majority and signed by the Republican pre sident. Paul Kirk, chairman of the Kennedy library, former Ted Kennedy staffer, a nd head of the DNC back when Kennedys mattered, introduced Kennedy's dis embodied voice. Kennedy praised Kerry's "passion for the value of politi cs" and "practice of the politics of values." He added, "I can't wait for Kerry in oh-eight" and suggested this as a bumpersticker. The rest of the evening was devoted to "A Conversation with Senator John F Kerry." Acting as interlocutor was Boston Globe columnist Thomas Olip hant, who simpered and fidgeted and compared Kerry to Adlai Stevenson. Addressing the audience of tame Democrats, Kerry explained his defeat. "T here has been," he said, "a profound and negative change in the relationship of Am erica's media with the American people. If 77 percent of the peopl e who voted for George Bush on Election Day believed weapons of mass des truction had been found in Iraq--as they did--and 77 percent of the peop le who voted for him believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/ 11--as they did--then something has happened in the way in which we are talking to each other and who is arbitrating the truth in American polit ics. When fear is dominating the discussion and when there are fal se choices presented and there is no arbitrator, we have a problem." It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable. Henry Wallace never quite managed, or George Wallace either. American free speech needs to be submitted to arbitration because Am ericans aren't smart enough to have a First Amendment, and you can tell this is so, because Americans weren't smart enough to vote for John Kerr y "We learned," Kerry continued, "that the mainstream media, over the cours e of the last year, did a pretty good job of discerning. But there's a s ubculture and a sub-media that talks and keeps things going for entertai nment purposes rather than for the flow of information. And that has a p rofound impact and undermines what we call the mainstream media of the c ountry. And so the decision-making ability of the American electorate ha s been profoundly impacted as a consequence of that.
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