The Guild 3-30-2004 Kerry cuddles KKK

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[BigWaveBetty]

Good Morning!

[Carolina]

Morning, BWB. I swear. Jean Klod Kerry's real name, according to the media, is Kerry Slams. Sometimes, he's called Kerry Blasts. He earned the face he wears.

[BigWaveBetty]

Kerry's media name should be the Human Sominex. I can't listen to him speak more than about two sentences before my eyes glaze over.

[BigWaveBetty]

March 30, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Former President Clinton will be on the hot seat over Osama bin Laden when he testifies before the 9/11 commission, panel member Bob Kerrey told The Post yesterday.
Kerrey, a former Democratic senator from Nebraska who is now president of the New School University in Manhattan, said he wants Clinton to explain why bin Laden's death threats against the U.S. went unanswered.

Kerrey also said he may ask Clinton to discuss whether he was so distracted by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal that he was unable - or reluctant - to muster U.S. military forces for a campaign against the world's No. 1 terrorist.

"There's only one question I have for President Clinton," Kerrey told The Post. "Why didn't you consider Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda a strategic threat? Why when they declared war on us - give me your reason for not declaring war on them."

Clinton will appear before the committee soon, possibly as early as this week, and will testify behind closed doors.

Kerrey's questions for the former president come after CIA Director George Tenet last week recounted before the bipartisan 9/11 panel how bin Laden declared war on America in August 1996.

In 1998, bin Laden extended it with a fatwa declaring that all Muslims had a "religious duty" to kill Americans.

Kerrey said that failing to answer bin Laden's war chant allowed him to plot other attacks.

But the outspoken ex-senator also said the intelligence agencies failed by relaxing their vigilance.

"It's not just what you do on the offensive side. It's what you do on the defensive side," said Kerrey.

"With all the anecdotal and CIA evidence that hijacking planes and suicide was becoming the technology of choice for poorly funded military and terrorist groups, why was the FAA on the morning of Sept. 11 so surprised by the hijacking?" Kerrey asked. "We shouldn't have been surprised."

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/22158.htm

[Carolina]

All the pictures of a sweaty Kerry Slams serve as an emetic, plus knowing that he shops for unmentionables with his daughter in tow...YUCK! Also, Tuh-ray-za cringes when he kisses her. HLL, do you have a copy of that picture in your Kerry Library? That would be a great pic for a "priceless" ad.

[BigWaveBetty]

Transcript: March 23, 2004 9/11 Commission Hearings

Transcript: March 24, 2004 9/11 Commission Hearings

[BigWaveBetty]

Kerry, the aging lesbian.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., ponders if he's gay with students in an auto shop at the Charles A. Jones Skills & Business Education Center in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 29, 2004. At right is school principal Kirk Williams. (AP Photo/John Decker, Pool)

[BigWaveBetty]

Ze masion le France.

The Les Essarts family estate, bought in 1920 by the maternal grandparents of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), sits on a bluff over the sea in Saint Briac, Brittany, Wednesday March 24, 2004. (AP Photo/Franck Prevel)

[mountaineer]

Cindy Adams reports:

HILLARY on the presidential election:

* "It will be incredibly close."

* "It will be outside forces - something unforeseen that suddenly happens - that tilts the election one way or another."

______________

Holy smokes, her plans are in place!

[mountaineer]

WASHINGTON - As Sen. John Kerry prepares to go under the knife for a shoulder injury tomorrow, he got grim news from his doctor. For a regular person, his prognosis is excellent. But for a politician in the throes of a major political campaign, it was close to terminal:

No handshaking for at least three weeks.

No high-fiving or fist-pumping for five to six weeks. [We hope he'll have nothing to celebrate in the next 5-6 weeks]

And no baby-hugging for at least eight weeks.

"This will be done on an out-patient basis and I expect a full recovery," said Dr. Bertram Zarins, head of sports medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. "Within two or three weeks, he'll be shaking hands again."

rest of story

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

No handshaking for at least three weeks. No high-fiving or fist-pumping for five to six weeks. [We hope he'll have nothing to celebrate in the next 5-6 weeks] And no baby-hugging for at least eight weeks.

Why not just cut his arms off so he can't sign any more tax hikes?

[mountaineer]

Lloyd Grove reports:

Fit of conniption: I hear that "Plan of Attack," supersleuth Bob Woodward's still-secret study of President Bush's war on terrorism, will be very bad for the Bush reelection campaign - which is still reeling from gun-toting former terrorism chief Richard A. Clarke's critique of Bush, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and other administration figures in "Against All Enemies." Woodward's book, to be released next month, will receive not only a multipart series in The Washington Post, but also the Mike Wallace treatment on "60 Minutes" April 18 - when I am absolutely confident that the common corporate ownership of CBS and Woodward's publisher, Simon & Schuster, will be mentioned. [sarcasm] link

[mountaineer]

Considering his lousy attendance record while in the Senate, and all the missed votes, can you imagine Effin' if he actually won the presidency? He'd take more vacations than Clinton, and that's saying something. Maybe that would be a good thing - more time on the slopes, less time destroying the country?

[Carolina]

Why not just cut his arms off so he can't sign any more tax hikes?

He'll learn to sign with his wrinkles.

[pubmom]

I really didn't want to read about Eff's prostate first thing in the morning, thanks alot.

Good news for potential voters, no Kerry cooties for several weeks.:)

[BigWaveBetty]

Let's pray she means when she pulls out the October surprize for Kerry.

In a story about the start of liberal radio a dem finally admits dems aren't funny...

"A lot of times Democrats have been accused of being boring because, you know what? We are," says Mark Walsh, CEO of Progress Media, the network's parent company. "We're very 'eat your vegetables' and wagging our finger at people, and those days have to end. Humor is a more efficient way to wrap important messages and get them out to people."

But then there are the ones who won't let go...

...when I listen to Rush, Hannity, Laura Ingraham and all the other gasbags, they seem to have all the answers and to be know-it-alls. Then people call in and basically agree with them."

What Air America is trying to do, she says, is "to bring another voice, another dialogue, pundits who have experience and can drive conversation with our hosts."

Winstead scoffs at the notion that she and her colleagues might be considered lowbrow because they present serious information in a lighthearted way.

"Are you telling me Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter are heavyweights?" she says. "That's laughable. Al Franken's book is more researched than the Bible, quite frankly.

"Al, Janeane and myself aren't people who are frivolous about this. Just because we do it with a satirical spin, the only way to do it well is to be incredibly well-informed." lifeless liberal radio debut

[BigWaveBetty]

Clarke smells like a crusty pantsuit.

What was particularly frustrating was that Clinton had pulled Joint Staffs Chairman Hugh Shelton and me aside after the Cabinet Room meeting, saying to the former Special Forces commander, "Hugh, what I think would scare the shit out of these al Qaeda guys, more than any cruise missile . . . would be the sight of U.S. commandoes, Ninja guys in black suits, jumping out of helicopters into their camps, spraying machine guns. Even if we don't get the big guys, it will have a good effect." Shelton looked pained. He explained that the camps were a long way away from anywhere we could launch a helicopter raid. Nonetheless, America's top military officer agreed to "look into it." (Clarke, Against All Enemies, pp. 189-190)

Still frustrated, President Clinton tried to get the Pentagon to think about a Special Forces operation. In late 1999, he suggested to [Joint Chiefs Chairman Hugh] Shelton, "You know, it would scare the shit out of al Qaeda if suddenly a bunch of black ninjas rappelled out of helicopters into the middle of their camp. It would get us enormous deterrence and show those guys we're not afraid." But Shelton "blanched": The generals subsequently argued to the NSC that a small operation was too risky: "The White House had little recourse; it would not work to order the military to undertake a mission it believed to be suicidal." (Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars, p. 661) Link

What do you all think about Clarke being the WH leak who outed Mrs. Joe Wilson? Clarke and Wilson both disdain GWB going into Iraq. Clarke leaks the info to make the WH look like they have to defend Iraq with devious measures, the whole lying montra starts then Clarke heads for the finish line with his attacks.

[BigWaveBetty]

montra - mantra

[Carolina]

Good news for potential voters, no Kerry cooties for several weeks.:)

It's just a sympathy ploy. He probably doesn't enjoy rubbing shoulders with the unwashed masses. Now he has an excuse to keep his distance from the plebes.