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'Reporting for duty': Kerry's battle starts today in Scranton
Scranton Times-Tribune ^ | 7/30/2004 | Borys Krawczeniuk

Posted on 07/30/2004 5:49:31 AM PDT by Born Conservative

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Local businesses hope Kerry speech leaves past behind
1 posted on 07/30/2004 5:49:35 AM PDT by Born Conservative
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To: Born Conservative
They're Democrats, but they're conservative Democrats. Zell Miller will win them over at our convention.
2 posted on 07/30/2004 5:52:18 AM PDT by no dems (Stupid people get on my nerves; for real.)
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To: no dems

Lets hope so.


3 posted on 07/30/2004 5:54:40 AM PDT by Born Conservative ("Nothing wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot" - Dirty Harry)
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To: Born Conservative

4 posted on 07/30/2004 5:57:45 AM PDT by GailA ( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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To: Born Conservative

"I'm Bill Clinton, and I'm reporting for booty"


5 posted on 07/30/2004 5:57:45 AM PDT by SirLurkedalot (God bless our Veterans!!! And God bless America!!! Molon Labe,F***ers!!!)
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To: Born Conservative
"Reporting for duty!" - a real reuters news photo, undoctored.


6 posted on 07/30/2004 6:00:00 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance ( "Stay safe in the "sandbox", cuz!)
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To: Born Conservative

 
 
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7 posted on 07/30/2004 6:00:32 AM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

Is he saluting Shitrack in that picture? I never could spell that Frenchman's name.


8 posted on 07/30/2004 6:05:37 AM PDT by Piquaboy
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To: SirLurkedalot
"I'm Sen. Kennedy, reporting for a snooty."

"I'm Gary Condit, reporting for a cutie."

"I'm Jesse Jackson, reporting for looty."

"I'm Trafficant, reporting for...er...jailtime."

Lib/dems....crooks, philaderers, and sleazeballs all....

9 posted on 07/30/2004 6:07:29 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
"I'm Floyd R. Turbo....'Mericun...."

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

10 posted on 07/30/2004 6:07:46 AM PDT by mhking (John Kerry & Al Gore: Cut from the same tree.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

AAAAAAAmen.


11 posted on 07/30/2004 6:19:11 AM PDT by SirLurkedalot (God bless our Veterans!!! And God bless America!!! Molon Labe,F***ers!!!)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
Reporting for duty!"

What he really meant was: "Reporting for doodie"

12 posted on 07/30/2004 6:28:06 AM PDT by Edit35
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To: anniegetyourgun

I'm Sen. Kennedy, reporting for a snooty."

"I'm Gary Condit, reporting for a cutie."

"I'm Jesse Jackson, reporting for looty."




I'm Sen Kerry, reporting for DOODIE. Now where's that cat litter box.


13 posted on 07/30/2004 6:30:44 AM PDT by Edit35
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To: Born Conservative

Man, that lying bastard makes me want to barf. I don't know if I can handle the next 3 months.


14 posted on 07/30/2004 6:32:48 AM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: Born Conservative

Let's review:
1. Kerry milked some self inflicted and minor wounds into enough purple hearts to prematurely leave Vietnam.
2. After leaving he slandered his former comrades by calling them war criminals, providing aid and comfort to the enemy and hurting the US war effort.
3. He admitted to being a war criminal himself.
4. He disavowed his service and threw away his (or someone else's) medals (a slap in the face of the military).
5. Kerry is now running for President as a "war hero" based on his Vietnam experience.
6. The DemonRat party (which hates the military) is embracing the self admitted war criminal and calls Pres Bush a deserter.
7. During previous elections the DemonRat party embraced Bill KKKlinton, a known draft dodger, liar, philanderer, etc., while rejecting as irrelevant the service of 2 legitimate war heroes.

John Kerry is reporting for duty? What a laugh.


15 posted on 07/30/2004 6:33:41 AM PDT by BadAndy (Specializing in unnecessarily harsh comments.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
"Reporting for duty!" - a real reuters news photo, undoctored.

This one is from another angle. It's even worse.


16 posted on 07/30/2004 6:45:29 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The john/johns and the RAT party have done a flip flop this week, no Bush bashing.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

He was an officer and on the biggest night of his life can't give a well executed salute? What a LOOSER!


17 posted on 07/30/2004 6:46:48 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance ( "Stay safe in the "sandbox", cuz!)
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To: Born Conservative

Will he be bringing 30,000 pounds of bananas?


18 posted on 07/30/2004 6:51:23 AM PDT by jejones
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To: Fierce Allegiance
He was an officer and on the biggest night of his life can't give a well executed salute? What a LOOSER!

He will be an even bigger LOOSER this November.

19 posted on 07/30/2004 6:52:32 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The john/johns and the RAT party have done a flip flop this week, no Bush bashing.)
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To: jejones

It was just after dark when the truck started down
the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds (hit it Big John) of bananas.

He was a young driver,
just out on his second job.
And he was carrying the next day's pasty fruits
for everyone in that coal-scarred city
where children play without despair
in backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each day
about thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, just about thirty thousand pounds (scream it again, John) .

He passed a sign that he should have seen,
saying "shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my friend."
He was thinking perhaps about the warm-breathed woman
who was waiting at the journey's end.
He started down the two mile drop,
the curving road that wound from the top of the hill.
He was pushing on through the shortening miles that ran down to the depot.
Just a few more miles to go,
then he'd go home and have her ease his long, cramped day away.
and the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas.

He was picking speed as the city spread its twinkling lights below him.
But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of the nights
delights went through him.
His foot nudged the brakes to slow him down.
But the pedal floored easy without a sound.
He said "Christ!"
It was funny how he had named the only man who could save him now.
He was trapped inside a dead-end hellslide,
riding on his fear-hunched back
was every one of those yellow green
I'm telling you thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of bananas.

He barely made the sweeping curve that led into the steepest grade.
And he missed the thankful passing bus at ninety miles an hour.
And he said "God, make it a dream!"
as he rode his last ride down.
And he said "God, make it a dream!"
as he rode his last ride down.
And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars,
clipped off thirteen telephone poles,
hit two houses, bruised eight trees,
and Blue-Crossed seven people.
it was then he lost his head,
not to mention an arm or two before he stopped.
And he slid for four hundred yards
along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania.
All those thirty thousand pounds of bananas.

You know the man who told me about it on the bus,
as it went up the hill out of Scranton, Pennsylvania,
he shrugged his shoulders, he shook his head,
and he said (and this is exactly what he said)
"Boy that sure must've been something.
Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas.
Of bananas. Just bananas. Thirty thousand pounds.
of Bananas. not no driver now. Just bananas!"


20 posted on 07/30/2004 6:58:42 AM PDT by Born Conservative ("Nothing wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot" - Dirty Harry)
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