[scan58]

Is he irresponsibly playing to that lunatic fringe...

Poor Kerry. I guess it's the only angle he's got.

[johniegrad]

It is impossible to take any of these Democratic candidates seriously anymore. They are a collage of cartoon characters.

[ClearCase_guy]

Everyone don their tin-foil hat: it's those mysterious folks at Halliburton who ordered Karl Rove ("the puppetmaster") to order George W. Bush ("the puppet") to attack Iraq in a fiendish plot to steal Iraqi oil.

Dems are so lame.

[monocle]

How many oil wells did oil companies take over after Kuwait and Iraq were liberated? Every time I hear one of these idiots saying such wars are all about oil I see red. Never do these zombies cite examples or how the oil companies profit other than from negotiated service contracts or purchase agreements. Oil is a worldwide freely traded commodity and the entire world benefits immensely from reliable oil production. Someone should remind Kerry that his dearly beloved motorcycle consumes products from oil and should suggest that Kerry forego all campaigning except where he travels by horse or sailboat.

[McGavin999]

Kerry has shrunk to the point where you can hardly see him anymore. What a waste of Theresa's fine first husband. He's probably rolling in his grave about this.

[Diogenesis]

Kerry, who is a veteran (did you know?): "Thank you for these detailed strategic
reports which I will now use in my campaign"

[cynicom]

Kerry would rather we live on our knees without oil. He and his ilk stop us from exploiting our own oil, yet will not assure us of foreign oil. The nine dem candidates have got to be the love of most of the rest of the world.
All of them would hasten our descent and or downfall.

[Hannity4prez]

How many more houses does he have to take "loans" out on? Cause he's gonna need em.

[Gritty]

Sure, this slogan is patently silly and untrue. That doesn't matter. It's part and parcel of the Liberal strategy to own the language and direct the perceptions of the general public through propagandistic means.

An example: How many people ever heard (or cared) about "Haliburton" before Cheney was picked? How many in this country now automatically react against "Haliburton" in a negative way every time the word is mentioned, including those who know better - including you right this minute? Don't you prefer it is not brought up?

Don't ever assume a lie has little effect merely because it is a lie, even an obvious one. It needs to be effectively refuted and countered with the same enthusiasm with which it was mouthed. Our side is very poor at doing that, even taking into account the heavy one-way bias of the Media.

[yoswif]

The Balkans War was more about debt relief for big Clinton contributor and media darling, the Investment Banking Industry, than Iraq is about oil. Yet no one in the corporate media or any "peace activists" are questioning the Clinton Administration for using the Social Security Slush Fund to pay off the debt of corrupt governments throughout the Balkans region, debt owed to the Investment Banking Industry. A "No blood for huge payoffs to the Investment Banking Industry" response would challenge the Dems, "peace activists", and the corporate media on an American blood for corporate welfare claim.

[RightlySo]

Actually, securing oil for trade *IS* a legitimate reason to go to war. Without oil, Western civilization (not just USA) ceases to exist as we know it. I should think everyone here knows that oil is used extensively in plastic manufacturing, lubricating machinery, and a host of other uses besides fuel.

Indeed oil was a critical factor in the first Gulf War, and much less a factor in the second Iraq war. Terrorism, of course, is the primary factor in the current war.

I think we're simply seeing any desperate attempt to ring the chords that liberals resonate to... "No war for oil", "No killing overseas", "No honor for the military-- they kill people", "Kill our unborn babies in the USA, it's ok", etc., ad nauseum.

[Nick Danger]

No American should have to go to war for ketchup.

[Cobra64]

I'd vote for the real Lurch before I'd vote for Kerry.

[genefromjersey]

There isn't a damn thing wrong with "war for oil",and we should take as much Iraqi oil as needed to pay off the costs of liberating that country...if only in order to reduce our dependence on an increasingly shaky Saudi Arabia.

[international american]

Note to John F'ng Kerry. Go back to your 5 million dollar townhome on Beacon Hill, and leave the leadership problem to someone with a brain:)

[Paul_B]

If these people keep telling it like it is, one suspects John Kerry is about to get creamed in NH. As in MAJOR humiliation. Kerry continues to reveal himself as a man without character.

[joesnuffy]

No war without oil....