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Compromising Position: A Letter to John Kerry

Boston Phoenix | July 22, 2004

"I am endorsing you and voting for you, Senator, because you have done two things a simpering daddy’s boy like George W. Bush never would: you have marched both to and against war," political satirist Barry Crimmins writes to the presumptive Democratic nominee.

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Tags: Iraq, WAR, DNC

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