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Posted on 07/30/2004 6:20:25 AM PDT by crushkerry
After 4 days of John Kerry's coronation and a rambling, incoherent, utterly "theme-less" speech - complete with flop-sweat - we still don't know anything about him that took place between the years of 1969 and 2004. Nor has he ever said exactly HOW he's going to accomplish all these general goals he sets forth.
There are reasons for this. He doesn't want you to know what he's been up to since he's back from Vietnam (he served in Nam, did you know that?) And we, and most importantly, he, has no specific plan for what he will do.
When it came time to stand and deliver, he failed. . And is it just me or did it seem like the speech was on 78RPM's and he thought his mike wasn't working? This was a stylistic performance of a 9th grader running for Student Council, not the most powerful position in the world. What the Dems were hoping for was Bill Clinton or Barack Obama (or even Rev. Al), not Annie Wexler. It's pretty sad when the best part of the speech was the choice of Van Halen's "Dreams" as a finishing song.
And for a guy who said "Judge Me On My Record", he said virtually nothing about it.
The big question everyone had is "Would Kerry Be Able to Make Americans Think He Will Keep Them Safe?". He failed. All you have to do is look at how he glossed over the most important issues of the day - Iraq and the War on Terror (which we think are one in the same).
When it comes to Iraq, I feel my intelligence is being insulted. At least Howard Dean was honest about the war, wrong, but honest. John Kerry acts as if it was his evil twin who was in the Senate when the vote on the war was cast.
To say that he will "restore and credibility to the White House" and making the accusation that "saying there are WMD's doesn't make it so" borders on the pathological. I'm guessing those words were actually notes to himself not to meant to be heard by the general public given that in December, 2003 he discussed the need to disarm Saddam Hussein's WMD programs. And how is he going to ask "hard questions and demand hard evidence" and "reform the intelligence system" when he didn't even read the Intelligence report he so criticizes before voting to send young men into battle?
Thus, he fails the own leadership test of being able to "look a parent in the eye and tell them I had no choice but to send them into battle." He's not only a flip flopper, he's lazy. And the complaint about families spending money on body armor is particularly galling when he voted against the $87 billion to fund it. And please Senator, please explain if you think the troops in Iraq are, as you say, "being held hostage to Mideast oil".
He says that "he knows what to do in Iraq" but doesn't tell us what it is other than making friends. How, pray-tell Senator, are you going to get France and the rest of the Oil for Food cronies to come to your side? And you said that building alliances will allow us to "get them before they get us". Have you noticed nothing has happened here since 9/11 while our alliances were supposedly so bad? And why isn't he specific as to which allies he's talking about? Because that require him to say "France", not exactly a popular word.
His "solutions" on how to fight the larger terror war are no better. Most striking is that his only reference to 9/11 is not the anger and sense of resolve we all felt, but rather how the world was on our side. In fact, to him the whole horrid day of 9/11 seems merely an afterthought compared to affordable health care, the environment, the homeless in Lafayette Square and outsourcing. Perhaps someone should tell him unless you make safety the primary goal, all the other stuff will go to hell and a handbasket. His plan? Again, we don't know other than "being respected in the world".
Look Senator, we honor and respect your service in Vietnam. But being the Commander in Chief is not the same as being a Swiftboat captain. You don't fight the wars personally, but have to look at the macro picture. And on that he has failed. That's the reason you've heard nothing in these 4 days about anything after 1969, or as we call them, "The Lost Years". In the speech you heard nothing about supporting a nuclear freeze, cutting defense and intelligence spending, opposing Gulf War I, and in a year's time, supporting, opposing, and then not funding, Gulf War II.
We're not going to spend much time analyzing his domestic priorities, as every Democratic candidate since FDR (save perhaps JFK) - warmed-over Robin Hood Socialism. Yet, again, he doesn't tell us how he's going to ensure every kid gets to college and how every person will have health care. Sounds good. But so does Santa Claus. Only problem is he's a myth, just like John Kerry's domestic visions. And call us crazy, but where in the Constitution is health care a "right"? Must have slipped in an Amendment while I was on vacation.
One more thing, it's very hard to take seriously any Kerry talk on "values" when he supports partial birth abortion, opposes the Conner Peterson law, and opposes denying welfare to drug addicts. What was that? You say you never heard that in the speech. Big shock there huh? And to reference that little scumbag Ron Reagan's funeral swipe at President Bush is classless.
We'll wrap up where we started. Did John Kerry make anyone feel as if he could make them as safe or safer than George Bush? Given the fact that only about 20% of the speech touched on the #1 job of a President, we humbly (OK, not so humbly) that he failed. George Bush and Karl Rove are licking their chops.
Grade for helping Kerry: D - A horrid performance. And yes, we're biased. Still, this was one of the worst speeches in recent memory. Even Al Gore's "People Against The Powerful" 2000 speech sounds like the Gettysburg Address compared to this abortion (yet another topic not mentioned in the speech)
Grade for helping Bush B+ He's set the bar so low it will be hard not to jump over it. Even though he's not the best speaker, Bush comes off a steady and resolute leader, not a kid in need of Ritalin. And Bush's message is simple - "I Will Keep You Safer Than Kerry". And in the end that' the only question that matters.
Ping.
When someone who is making a speech precedes each sentence with I, it should give one cause to pause and think what kind of person he is.
Explain that?
"savingprivatehamster"
LOL
OK, Kerry threw away his "medals." That much the liberal Senator will admit.
If, at any time, he has petitioned for replacement of medals or ribbons from the Department of the Navy then he
must give them up. After all, they are the property of the people to whom he "returned" them.
Ribbons, medals even atrocities, I don't care. The World Court in The Hague should petition the candidate to
testify, concerning what he knew and when he knew it about any of the villages, people or even water buffaloes he destroyed
during his 4 months in country.
This coward is wrapping the very flag true heroes fought for and he turned his back on around his very rounded
shoulders.
He really does emulate the French doesn't he.
He should now resign the Senate and make his run for the White House. But he is to much of a coward to do that.
Bob Dole did because Bob knows heroes and Kerry is definitely no hero.
"I" "I" "I"
"me" "me" "me"
Let's gag in unison!
When did Kerry become a conservative Republican?? Sheesh, his walk is the most liberal senator and his talk is God, family values, tough on defense and tax cuts. Where's the guy's integrity. He's no more than a trickster.
LOL!
It's from the live thread last night, Dan. First Kerry's daughter claimed he performed CPR on a hamster, and we were laughing quite hard at that mental image....when the Spielberg biopic started. Someone dubbed it "Saving Private Hamster," and I worked up that html to help immortalize the joke.
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The only thing I could think about as I watched Kerry speak was about how much his face was sweating. It looked like his face was about to melt off, Raiders of the Lost Ark style.
My sister, who is a journalism student at Michigan State and by no means a conservative, replied "I know what you mean" when I brought that up.
Whoever was in charge of lighting is going to pay big time. I wonder if any of the pundits (or Rush tomorrow) will pick up on it.
Appeasement.
The same policy which caused a rag-tag gang of thugs to arrive at the profound lack of respect which caused 9-11.
The same faith in "good intentions" which caused Nick Berg to end up with his head chopped off.
Did you leave out a verb, like *suggest* that he failed? Otherwise, HELL of a good review!!
I asked him if Britain were holding an election today and the choice was between a reincarnation of Neville Chamberlain and Maggie Thatcher, for whom would he vote?
I left him mumbling. But as a parting shot to him I asked just when "his" England had become a suburb of Paris?
Thanks. I saw a lot of merriment over that last night in the thread, but not the genesis.
I pity his daughters. But oh well.
(Are they bastards? Aren't they from a marriage he had annulled, or some little sophistry?)
Dan
Did he know which END to blow in??
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