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Title this pic of John Kerry windsurfing, July 17,2004
yahoo news ^ | july 17,2004

Posted on 07/18/2004 1:22:33 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776

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To: Watery Tart
Jerry Stiller is the king!

And as we all know: "It's good ta be da king."

141 posted on 07/19/2004 6:36:07 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid
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To: AmericanMade1776

Doesn't John kerry also play a dentist on ABC Monday's?


142 posted on 07/19/2004 6:37:43 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: Lokibob

George Plimpton for President.


143 posted on 07/19/2004 6:41:21 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: GeronL

Hello, calling The Bush Campaign. Excellent!


144 posted on 07/19/2004 6:43:13 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: Brad's Gramma
Hans:

Jess, he ist a girliest of girly men! Ve vill pump his patetic girly butt up!

Franz:

Dat is vy ve are here.

Both, (in unison):

Ve are here...to pump...HIM UP!

145 posted on 07/19/2004 6:44:09 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid
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To: normy

You're correct.

Kite boarding is very difficult, and it may take months of effort to master.

No wonder why he doesn't have any time for security briefings.

Gotta admit though, John Kerry is pretty athletic.


146 posted on 07/19/2004 6:46:57 AM PDT by Guillermo (It's the 99% of Mohammedans that make the other 1% look bad)
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To: TomGuy

The last time I knew someone who took frequent vacations, he became a she. Nah, that's not it.


147 posted on 07/19/2004 6:47:22 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Festivus For the Rest of Us! And let the airing of grievances begin!


148 posted on 07/19/2004 7:12:02 AM PDT by Watery Tart (You sayin` you want a piece of me?")
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To: GVgirl

"Actually, I saw the film of Kerry getting dumped on his tookus on FOX."

It's the Secret Service's fault, those bastards.


149 posted on 07/19/2004 7:13:45 AM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: Watery Tart; Happygal; GVgirl; jocon307
Geez, wouldn't that be an awesome idea for a holiday?

Especially for us tormented Irish families.

Everyone could join in the fun!

Eugene O'Neill could write a really cool, depressing yet deliriously amusing play.

150 posted on 07/19/2004 7:19:04 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid
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To: gathersnomoss
Of course, you had to clean up the language a bit for it to be suitable for FreeRepublic.

We're not foulmouthed Democratic presidential candidates, now are we?

151 posted on 07/19/2004 7:20:56 AM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid
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To: Mrs. P

Can this be a captioned quote? "Do you think this wetsuit makes my butt look big?"

Consider it done.

152 posted on 07/19/2004 10:04:48 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776
Kerry says he has no time for terror (see below),
yet manages to squeeze in
a Hollywood-Radio City Bush bash and a windsurfing holiday in Nantucket.





WINDSURFER WATERLOO
why the surfboard--not the snowboard--is (to mix war metaphors) Kerry's Achilles' heel



by Mia T, 9.26.04




THE HOT DEBATE OVER THE WINDSURFING AD [09/23 11:54 AM]

There is apparently much debate about the windsurfing ad over at the Corner. Here's the CNN summary of the charges and countercharges so far:

Underscoring the Bush attacks was a new television ad showing Kerry windsurfing to the strains of the "Blue Danube" waltz. A narrator reads a list of what the Bush campaign contends are the senator's vacillating positions on the Iraq war, education and Medicare.

The ad ends with the tag line: "John Kerry. Whichever way the wind blows."

The Kerry campaign reacted angrily to the ad, charging that its "lighthearted" approach was inappropriate in the middle of a war.

"This is a shameful advertisement that shows a disturbing disregard for those fighting and sacrificing in Iraq," said Kerry spokesman Mike McCurry, who demanded that the president repudiate it.

Edwards offered a similar critique during an appearance in Miami, Florida.

"Today George Bush is laughing again. Over 1,000 Americans have lost their lives. Americans are being beheaded. Iraq is a mess, and they think this is a joke," Edwards said. "It is clear they have no idea how to protect our troops, but they will do anything to protect their jobs."

Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel defended the ad, saying that "what's disturbing is John Kerry's various shifting positions on the war on Iraq."

"What the ad spells out is that it's important to have a leader whose word we can believe not only on the day they say it but the next day as well," Stanzel said. "There is no weather vane on top of the White House. This country needs leaders who stand for something when the times are good and when the times are bad."

The Kerry campaign released a new spot, denouncing the windsurfing commercial as "a juvenile and tasteless attack ad."

Thought one: There's a quick and easy way that Kerry can stop the ads that are calling him a flip-flopper: Stop flip-flopping.

Thought two: If you don't want the Bush campaign to run ads featuring footage of John Kerry windsurfing, stop inviting television crews to record Kerry windsurfing.

Thought three: If the ad is so "juvenile and tasteless", why does the new Kerry ad not show the picture of John Kerry windsurfing? Could this be because some focus group somewhere concluded that windsurfing looks like a pastime of the idle rich?

Your humble correspondent wonders if the Blue Danube waltz was the wrong music for the commercial. Maybe Doris Day/Mari Wilson/Lila Downs "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps":

You only tell me 'Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.'

A million times i ask you,
and then i ask you over
again, you only answer
perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

if you can't make your mind up,
we'll never get started.'

UPDATE: About a billion Kerry Spot readers point out that the Kerry campaign is complaining about a lack of seriousness right after their man has done interviews with Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Dr. Phil, and Regis.

Kerry Spot
[jim geraghty reporting]
NRO

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NEW virtual john kerry can bore + snowboard at the same time series

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Windsurfing in the Persian Gulf
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA

by Mia T, 9.24.04


Kerry is UNFIT #21:
THUMBSUCKER SERIES
-BOARDHEAD TO THE RESCUE-

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"I mean, I was in Safwan. I went there when the signing of the armistice took place at the end of the war."

John Kerry
The O'Reilly Factor, 2001


"Well, I haven't been briefed [about the new al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States] yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me; I just haven't had time."

John Kerry
Larry King Live
July 8, 2004






ohn Kerry's odd phrasing, above, suggests he was more likely windsurfing in the Persian Gulf than witnessing the signing of the Gulf-War cease fire. (Kerry's prior relevant vote, as well as his tawdry dilettantish tendencies, would tend to support this view.)

Similarly, Kerry's statements about the Iraq War hint at cognitive and ethical, if not corporeal, absence; they tell us more about John Kerry than simply what his Iraq-War politics may be.

WINDSUCKER

Anyway the wind blows is fine with me
Anyway the wind blows, it don't matter to me

--Frank Zappa

Windsurfing, like war, transcends the particular in its revelations about John Kerry. Although windsurfing is delicious metaphor--witness the recent Bush-Cheney ad--windsurfing in its most literal, technical sense is what best exposes Kerry for what he is--a wussy, opportunistic fraud.

RIGGED

Kerry's gear is the dead giveaway.

Kerry sails on what boardheads call "light air,"--one just cannot escape the metaphors here-- i.e., a gigantic sail estimated at 11 square meters, and a humongous board providing redundant flotation.

According to expert windsurfer, Paul Kotik:

"No hard-core windsurfer would be caught dead on a rig like that. If you need a sail that big and a board the size of the Titanic, then guess what ? It isn't windy enough to go sailing! Real sailors head out when high winds call for sails in the 5 square meter size, or smaller, and boards so small (and therefore fast and maneuverable) that they won't even float the sailor unless they are moving along at a decent clip. They are big skis, not small boats. Kerry's wussy rig is what you use when you must be seen to be windsurfing. Sailing a rig like that is to real windsurfing what skippering a supertanker is to riding a jetski... The hardcore windsurfer's credo is "Just say 'no" to six-point-oh", meaning that if you need a sail in a size bigger than 5.0 square meters, there ain't no point."

A windsurfer friend of mine, Rod, adds this observation, "Long boards typically have something called a centerboard or a daggerboard which acts as a fulcrum for turning large boards like [Kerry's]. Daggerboards are for total weenies."

Visible in Kerry's Nantucket windsurfing photo-op video is what appears to be evidence of a daggerboard--the knob on top of the board that controls dagger position.

Rod continues, "Up-hauling is another weenie windsurf situation. If... you [can] stand on top of the board and pull the mast up out of the water to begin sailing, there is very little wind. Water starting is... what keeps most people out of the experienced ranks... It is the only way to start in high wind/deep water conditions."

Conversely, according to Rod, some wind is required in a water start. "In a water start, you are not standing on anything, just floating in deep water. You 'fly' the sail, controlling it just inches above the your head and the water, moving your feet onto the board; the sailor pops the sail up filling it with wind, which pulls [him] up onto the board in one maneuver and propels the board forward."

Kerry's gigantic sail suggests a deliberate wind-avoidance strategy and, hence, an up-hauling, not water-starting, boarding technique scenario. Indeed, given Kerry's reflexive avoidance of high wind/deep water conditions over the years, weenie up-hauling is the only credible scenario.

 

John "One Position on Iraq" Kerry's 1971 Replay

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COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004
 

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WINDSURFER WATERLOO
why the surfboard--not the snowboard--is (to mix war metaphors) Kerry's Achilles' heel

Windsurfing in the Persian Gulf

John "One Position on Iraq" Kerry's 1971 Replay

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154 posted on 09/27/2004 2:28:42 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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