Rerun

John Kerry is making the same pitch that he made in his losing effort to gain the presidency in 2004:

Those who disagree with the Bush Administration's policies in Iraq face the same scornful charges that they are unpatriotic as Senator John Kerry did 35 years ago when he spoke out against the Vietnam War, the Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday.

"I have come here today to reaffirm that it was right to dissent in 1971 from a war that was wrong. And to affirm that it is both a right and an obligation for Americans today to disagree with a president who is wrong, a policy that is wrong, and a war in Iraq that weakens the nation," Kerry said to a standing ovation Saturday at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall.

So who's stopping them? Where are all these people stifling poor Lurch's dissent? I'm so glad he affirmed our right to disagree with the president. I was worried about that.

"We are in the same place as we were when I came home from Vietnam and spoke out against the civilian leaders who were willing to sacrifice America's best in the interest of political self-preservation," he said.

Is that chutzpah, or what?