[OpusatFR]

My middle child at age 14 or so, hard to remember at this point, was invited to summer camp at Johns Hopkins University. He's grown now, incredibly brilliant, and pretty modest to boot. I would never have taken advice from my adolescent son even with his brainpower. Kerry's judgment renders him unfit to be Commander in Chief.

[jocon307]

Who is Peggy Kerry? Is she the other daughter?

[mountaineer]

Good grief.

[jocon307]

Oop! Missed the title, she's the aunt, I get it now.


MORE COFFEE STAT!

[Guillermo]

I don't care how smart, or "in touch" they are, a 16 yr old simply doesn't possess much (if any) wisdom.

[Semper Paratus]

What was the advice? That war is so icky?

[don-o]

Same S*** Different Democrat

[muawiyah]

Amy's advice to Jimmy Carter concerning nuclear proliferation issues didn't stick. The North Koreans, Iranians, and previously Libyans, couldn't have had a better friend than Jimmy.

Hey, where is Amy when we need her? Has anyone asked her if she wanted to see a world where people like Saddam Hussein had nuclear warhead tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles?

[boomop1]

WTF, he is after the adolescent voters, what a thing to say, he must still be in the Dean mode (self destruct).

[cajungirl]

Hey, my eldest daughter went to the Hopkins thing for gifted and talented! We might have met in the carpool line. She loved that program and it has influenced her all her life. She is brilliant, writes like an angel, is accomplished and now stays at home with three children, has a variety of things she does and loves it. One day she will be back in the marketplace but for now her children are privileged to have her home.

[Diogenesis]

"I will be voting to give the President! of
the United States the authority to use force-- if
necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I
believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass
destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat
to our security."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002

[steveegg]

What do you get when you ram together...

• Algore's personality,
• S(l)ick Willie's lying,
• the Peanut Farmer's foreign policy,
• Hubert H. Humphrey's view of the military, and
• just a dash of Ted (Swimmer) Kennedy's special sauce?

You get the current DemonRAT nominee for President, John F'em Ke(rr)y. The scary thing is, the whole is less than the sum of these parts.

[hflynn]

John Kerry claims that during his 19 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he has distinguished himself as one of our nation's most respected voices on national security and international affairs. We now find out his sixteen year old daughter is the brain behind this "respected voice" since 1990.

I think we have uncovered another intelligence failure. Fortunately it happened before the election. John Kerry is unfit and unqualified to be President of the United States. The Clinton's have to be grinning from ear to ear.

[feedback doctor]

Let's see, Saddam HAD invaded another country, their was international support (including France) for the war in 1991, and Kerry still voted against it. Makes things a little clearer now.

[hflynn]

John Kerry claims that during his 19 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he has distinguished himself as one of our nation's most respected voices on national security and international affairs. We now find out his sixteen year old daughter is the brain behind this "respected voice" since 1990.

I think we have uncovered another intelligence failure. Fortunately it happened before the election. John Kerry is unfit and unqualified to be President of the United States. The Clinton's have to be grinning from ear to ear.

[buffyt]

There is a maturing that goes on in the brain at about age 20. At age 14 - 18, girls are not thinking clearly. Boys are bad, too. Formerly good kids turn into hormone raging maniacs. I loved my kids when they were teens, but no way I would ask them about national affairs and war if I were in a position of leadership. It is the adult's job to instruct the child, not the other way around!

[JimRed]

That's the first I've heard of this. But if Dubya was found out to have asked "what do you think about (whatever topic), Jenna?" it would be front page news for weeks!

[DeweyCA]

Remember that Chelsea Clinton sat in with Bill and Yassir Arafat at peace negotiations. Yeah, she is another brilliant person, with so much expertise!! Actually, Chelsea and Amy Carter, and the Kerry kid probably wouldn't do much worse than their stupid fathers.

[Geezerette]

Alexandra ... oh yeah ... she's the one who wore the see-thru dress at the Cans Film Festival. Some smart chick, that one!

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[AllTheRage]

Which cabinet post is she going to fill? LOL!

[NonValueAdded]

I get to sound off on a pet peeve ... cool! Something has bothered me for a long time about how Carter gets slammed on Amy's counsel on nuclear disarmament.

My take on that statement in the debate is that Carter was trying to get cute about how the bomb was hanging over the heads of the next generations. He used a rhetorical device; he wasn't soliciting policy decisions from a 13 year old. Remember, Jimmah was a nuclear engineer as well as a peanut farmer; he is intelligent.

What happened next is that the not-so-intelligent anchors came out with "look, he gets his ideas from Amy" and from that point forward - remember, at that time there was no alternate media - Jimmy was forever damned by that statement. Who would contradict them?

I don't say this in defense of Carter! Far from it. I think he is right down there with Benjamin Pierce when it comes to presidential ranking. But I guess it pisses me off that the press gets away with their stupidity. Or ... Jimmy really did base policy on what his 13 year old said and I'm giving him far more credit than he deserves.

Finally, the above does not apply to the Kerry situation. There, I think Kerry is like Lord Derby (see Steyn's latest).