KERRY APOLOGIZES FOR "DIAPERS" REMARK

newsobserver.com/Drudge ^ | 1-19-2004 | John Wagner

[EggsAckley]

KERRY APOLOGIZES FOR "DIAPERS" REMARK

(01/18/04)

U.S. Sen. John Kerry called U.S. Sen. John Edwards late Sunday night to apologize for suggesting Edwards might have been in diapers when he returned from Vietnam, aides to Edwards said.

While campaigning in Iowa Sunday, Kerry was asked how he differed from Edwards. Kerry touted his foreign policy experience and said that when he returned home after serving in Vietnam in 1969, "I don't even know if John Edwards was out of diapers."

Edwards responded Sunday evening before a stop in Mason City that drew an overflow crowd.

"I honor his service in Vietnam," Edwards said. "In 1969, I was sitting around the kitchen table with my parents trying to figure out how we would pay for college like so many Iowans do. ... And that is a difference between me and Senator Kerry."

Edwards attended Clemson University and then transferred to N.C. State when he could not get a football scholarship. Kerry attended prep schools and Yale University.

Edwards spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said Kerry called Edwards to apologize and that Edwards accepted. --John Wagner

[KC_Conspirator]

Really? Had me fooled, but then again that was before my time.

[Cobra64]

Kerry is an idiot.

Looks like Lurch too.

[Dave S]

Yeah, but was Edwards out of diapers....

Should have been, he was 16 in 1969, not that many years younger than Kerry.

[Dave S]

Even if Edwards was born in, say, 1966, and was still in diapers when Kerry came back from Vietnam, then what was Kerry expecting to gain by pointing that out?

Actually he was 16 years old. Edwards had a good shot at Kerry. Told him, no he wasnt in diapers he was sitting around the table with his parents trying to figure out how he was going to afford college, something that a lot of Iowans have to do but the privileged Kerry didnt.

[weegee]

The media ran it as a story and Kerry was the one who released the photo. Was there ever a retraction?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/944146/posts

July 11, 2003 -- Sen. John Kerry is distributing fliers in New York with a 30-year-old photo of him and Beatle John Lennon to woo anti-war presidential voters as he competes with rival Howard Dean in blasting President Bush on Iraq.

[exit82]

Why am I the last to know--Kerry was in Vietnam????

[fish hawk]

Well, Edwards is a lawyer, dosn't that make him diaper material.

[John Lenin]

[Howlin]

Since the draft didn't end until 1973, how is it that Edwards didn't think HE would be drafted?

[shiva]

Kerry was in Vietnam? John F'ing Kerry? The french looking one? ARE YOU SERIES?

[BlueAngel]

ROFLMAO!

[John Lenin]

On April 23, 1971, Kerry led members of VVAW in a protest during which they threw their medals and ribbons over a fence in front of the U.S. Capitol.

[EggsAckley]

Is that guy in the front REALLY Kerry??

[John Lenin]

No, Kerry was busy giving an anti-war speech while his comrades were dieing in the rice paddies.

[shiva]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!Excellent job!!!

[MeekOneGOP]

Dean wants it BAD !! Now look what he's done ! ...

[N. Theknow]

You mean to tell me that John F'n Kerry was in F'n Vietnam during the F'n Vietnam war when he was in F'n Vietnam?

Who knew?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Too bad it wasn't "Red Doper diaper Baby ".

[Dante3]

Since Kerry is not Irish as he pretended to be for a long time, what is he? I heard his wife was Welsh.

[mewzilla]

LOL. Maybe we should start referring to Edwards as Captain Underpants.