Kerry On

After having dissed a post on Daily Kos earlier, we were surprised and moved when we found this one tonight. A diary that simply reproduced a photograph of John Kerry (and Ted Kennedy) attending the funeral of a Massachusetts soldier killed in Iraq, became a series of emotional tributes from people who expressed not only their admiration for Kerry's presence (whereas Bush hasn't attended a single funeral for a soldier killed in his Bushwar ), but admiration and affection for John Kerry himself.

It was surprising in light of the revisionism and understandable anguish that results in blaming after an apparently lost election. But a month later, there is still a lot of emotion, and a surprising amount of it expressed here indicates feelings that run contrary to the media portrayal of Kerry as a cold fish who people only voted for because they were voting against Bush. These comments strike us as both healing and resolute. This is one of the most remarkable threads we've ever seen on the Internet.

Daily Kos :: This is what John Kerry did today: