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My Face Time With Kerry [Mark Steyn............]
New York Sun ^ | Mark Steyn

Posted on 11/06/2006 3:51:01 AM PST by Sub-Driver

My Face Time With Kerry

By MARK STEYN November 6, 2006

My face time with John Kerry has been brief but choice. In 2003, I was at a campaign event in New Hampshire chatting with two old coots in plaid. The Senator approached and stopped in front of us. The etiquette in primary season is that the candidate defers to the cranky Granite Stater's churlish indifference to status and initiates the conversation: "Hi, I'm John Kerry. Good to see ya. Cold enough for ya? How 'bout them Sox?" Etc. Instead, Senator Kerry just stood there nose to nose, staring at us with an inscrutable semi-glare on his face. After an eternity, an aide stepped out from behind him and said, "The Senator needs you to move."

"Well, why couldn't he have said that?" muttered one of the old coots. Why indeed?

Right now the Democratic Party needs the Senator to move. Preferably to the South Sandwich Islands, until Tuesday evening, or better still early 2009.

He won't, of course. A vain thin-skinned condescending blueblood with no sense of his own ridiculousness, Senator Nuancy Boy is secure in little else except his belief in his indispensability. We've all heard the famous "joke" now: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." (Rimshot!) Yet, tempting as it is to enjoy his we-support-our-dumb-troops moment as merely the umpteenth confirmation of the Senator's unerring ability to SwiftBoat himself, it belongs in a slightly different category of Kerry gaffe than, say, the time they went into Wendy's and Teresa didn't know what chili was.

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americangigolo; johnkerry; kerry; marksteyn; steyn
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1 posted on 11/06/2006 3:51:03 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
"Senator Nuancy Boy"

God, I love Steyn.
2 posted on 11/06/2006 3:55:27 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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To: Sub-Driver

What a great read. Steyn absolutely nails the Democrats and what they mean when they pretend to "support the troops".


3 posted on 11/06/2006 3:57:26 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: Sub-Driver
"The Senator needs you to move."

Too elite to even say excuse me!

His disdain for the common man is always present, it is in fact why he couldn't apologise and instead threw a temper tantrum.

This is a great article, a must read.

4 posted on 11/06/2006 4:00:25 AM PST by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and Apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is a STERLING article...Thanks very much for posting it!


5 posted on 11/06/2006 4:02:33 AM PST by rlmorel (The US Media...Where you get Million Dollar Words From people with a Ten Cent Fart for a brain.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Good down to the last straddle and rimshot.


6 posted on 11/06/2006 4:03:04 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Sub-Driver

The frightening thing about Kerry is that despite the fact that he is obviously delusional to the point of mental illness, he still convinced many American's to cast their precious votes for him.


7 posted on 11/06/2006 4:15:48 AM PST by Dark Skies ("He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that" ... John Stuart Mill)
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To: Sub-Driver

Did TaaRayZaa really not know what chili was???

The article says it all. Thanks for posting.


8 posted on 11/06/2006 4:17:09 AM PST by tuffydoodle (Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
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"The frightening thing about Kerry is that despite the fact that he is obviously delusional to the point of mental illness, he still convinced many American's to cast their precious votes for him."

He sounds like Reverend Jim Jones, doesn't he?


9 posted on 11/06/2006 4:18:59 AM PST by tuffydoodle (Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
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To: Sub-Driver
"The Senator needs you to move."

"The Senator can kiss my..."

"I need the Senator to go 'round thattaway."

(squinting) "What Senator?"

10 posted on 11/06/2006 4:19:20 AM PST by ExGeeEye (Day 171 (counting up))
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To: Sub-Driver

blueblood? More accurately 'fake' blueblood.


11 posted on 11/06/2006 4:21:20 AM PST by Dudoight
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To: Dark Skies
The frightening thing about Kerry is that despite the fact that he is obviously delusional to the point of mental illness, he still convinced many American's to cast their precious votes for him.

Even more frightening is that millions of Americans do just that. Scares the daylights out of me.

12 posted on 11/06/2006 4:23:08 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Prayers for our patriot brother, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub. Brian, we're all pulling for you!)
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To: Dark Skies

If you take out the fraud, probably about 10% and the 10% garnered from the sheeple by the MSM you see that the gigolo didn't earn much respect on his own.


13 posted on 11/06/2006 4:32:35 AM PST by OldFriend (VOTE AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDED UPON IT.......IT DOES)
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To: Sub-Driver
"After an eternity, an aide stepped out ..."


If he's got more than one, I guess we can honestly report that "John Kerry has aides".
14 posted on 11/06/2006 4:36:26 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: merry10

ping to read later


15 posted on 11/06/2006 4:37:07 AM PST by merry10
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To: tuffydoodle
"He sounds like Reverend Jim"


From Taxi?
16 posted on 11/06/2006 4:46:02 AM PST by Maximus of Texas (On my signal, pull my finger.)
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To: OldFriend
"A vain thin-skinned condescending blueblood with no sense of his own ridiculousness,"

The absolute best description of Kerry I have ever seen. Kudos to Mr. Steyn.

17 posted on 11/06/2006 4:53:00 AM PST by defconw (Gearing up for W2 in 08!)
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To: Sub-Driver
A vain thin-skinned condescending blueblood with no sense of his own ridiculousness...

Perfect!

18 posted on 11/06/2006 5:10:06 AM PST by TankerKC (I Predict that over 50% of the Major Party Candidates Will Lose on Election Day!)
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"And as Kerry demonstrates effortlessly every time he opens his mouth, if you detach the heroism of a war from the morality of it, what's left but braggadocio?"

He said a mouthful there!!!


19 posted on 11/06/2006 5:23:38 AM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: tuffydoodle

Don't some folks put 'Heinz' in their chili??


20 posted on 11/06/2006 5:28:41 AM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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