kennedy's mantel as a conscience of the u.s. senate. what we need is a fundamental change of course and kerry more than anyone on the hill now has the stature to help us get there on climate change kerry seems to have asked himself, what would teddy do and then he followed suit. he should ask himself the same question on afghanistan. the question answers itself, and i've been thinking the same thing for a couple of months now. who better than john kerry to show courage on afghanistan on a war that has gone horribly off course over the past five years. and remains off course. and we've tripled our troops there. >> he was a guy who thought he was going to be secretary of state. came this close to getting it. was runner-up to hillary clinton. went back to the senate and has been in this position to really emerge as the leader. with hillary out of the senate, ted kennedy passed away. kerry is like the big man on