[freedom1st]

I'm sure JF'nK used "you know" because he admired how Hillery always sounds so intelligent using "you know", you know.

[Paul Atreides]

My first reaction — like that of millions of parents and schoolteachers around the country — was to wince at a prominent politician's use of "you know," a halting interjection that has been cluttering the speech of teenagers for years.

When it was played on Fox News, I thought that Kerry was saying "the most crooked...," then pausing to think of something to add, and they guy to whom he was speaking said "I know," during the pause, and John F'n finished with "lying group I've ever seen."

[BluH2o]

I'm sure JF'nK used "you know" because he admired how Hillery always sounds so intelligent using "you know", you know

Hildabeast is best known for her faulty memory ... "I don't remember" or "I don't recall"!

[BenLurkin]

I miss Jim Healy. He had a battery of sound bites featuring "you know".

[freedumb2003]

But does a bemedaled veteran — his physical courage proved four decades ago — need to demonstrate a phony toughness today, by defending a silly insult?

That's not the real John Kerry, a dignified man long steeped in civility

Does Safire want his phone number? Kerry wasn't "brave" in Nam, he was the victim of an accident. He went there ONLY to curry points to be like his model, the original JFnK.

It is impossible for a gigolo Liberal to be "dignified."

FR has taught me at least 2 things:

1. Homeschooling is good
2. Safire ain't one of us.