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Daily Kerry Crack-ups - August 29-30, 2004 (Photos)
Yahoo! ^ | 8/29/2004-8/30/2004 | Various

Posted on 08/30/2004 5:07:38 PM PDT by itsnevertoolate

I saved yesterday's photos for today, since there were so few. Kerry and Teresa attended church and Kerry's daughters were booed at the MTV Music Awards. Today, Kerry reenacts a Swift Boat pose and windsurfs.

 

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (D-MA) (R) arrives with his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry at St. Mary's, Our Lady of the Isle church in Nantucket, Massachusetts, August 29, 2004. REUTERS/Jim Young

 

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (D-MA) arrives at St. Mary's, Our Lady of the Isle church in Nantucket, Massachusetts, August 29, 2004. REUTERS/Jim Young

 

Vanessa Kerry (L) and Alexandra Kerry, daughters of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, try to quiet the crowd as they speak on stage at the MTV Music Awards at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida, August 29, 2004. The crowd continued to boo throughout their speech. REUTERS/Marc Serota

 

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (D-MA) (C) and his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry (2nd L) look for a place to windsurf off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, August 30, 2004. REUTERS/Jim Young

 

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (D-MA) (L) windsurfs past a sailboat off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, August 30, 2004. REUTERS/Jim Young

 

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (D-MA) windsurfs off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, August 30, 2004. REUTERS/Jim Young

 

Democractic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., windsurfs off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. on Monday, Aug. 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

 

Democractic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., windsurfs off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. on Monday, Aug. 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

 

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (D-MA) windsurfs off the coast of Nantucket, August 30, 2004. REUTERS/Jim Young


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexandrakerry; dork; kerry; teresa; vanessakerry
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To: mass55th

Does anyone have a pic of John Edwards attempting to jog?
Have you seen him? It is hilarious.


21 posted on 08/30/2004 6:17:01 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: jennyjenny
"Have you seen him?"

No, I haven't seen that one. Now you've got my curiosity up.

22 posted on 08/30/2004 6:20:26 PM PDT by mass55th ( “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”)
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To: rineaux

It sure looks like he is making fun of the statue doesnt it?


23 posted on 08/30/2004 6:45:39 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
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To: itsnevertoolate
a 60+ year old man windsurfing.

A Senator.

A Presidential hopefull in a hot campaign.

Way to legistlate Senator Kerry.

24 posted on 08/30/2004 6:48:17 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Zing!)
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To: arichtaxpayer
. . no helmet?

He's been to Church and not had anything fall from the sky before, why would the abortion supporter worry now?!

25 posted on 08/30/2004 6:50:13 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Zing!)
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To: itsnevertoolate

He's locked up the windsurfer vote fer sure, dude.


26 posted on 08/30/2004 7:08:16 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: NewCenturions

Only windsurfers with no backbone.


27 posted on 08/30/2004 7:09:25 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: itsnevertoolate

I rarely post, but this picture of Kerry windsurfing demonstrates how far separated he is from the common folk.

Here he is, taking a break from his campaign, while being paid for his Senate duties, which he has woefully shirked. I'd love to have a job where I didn't have to show up for work, get paid, and flaunt my extravagant lifestye in the faces of the very people who hired me with no fear of being fired.

If I was from Mass., I be organizing a campaign to have this goldbricker outsed from the senate post haste.


28 posted on 08/30/2004 7:20:41 PM PDT by stefeb
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To: itsnevertoolate

"Shhhhh, dad's out saving another hamster. He says a mine blew him off
the boat but we think dad simply made a sharp turn to get out of there."


29 posted on 08/31/2004 9:53:31 AM PDT by OESY
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To: stefeb
WINDSURFER WATERLOO
why the surfboard--not the snowboard--is Kerry's Achilles' heel



by Mia T, 9.26.04




THE HOT DEBATE OVER THE WINDSURFING AD [09/23 11:54 AM]

There is apparently much debate about the windsurfing ad over at the Corner. Here's the CNN summary of the charges and countercharges so far:

Underscoring the Bush attacks was a new television ad showing Kerry windsurfing to the strains of the "Blue Danube" waltz. A narrator reads a list of what the Bush campaign contends are the senator's vacillating positions on the Iraq war, education and Medicare.

The ad ends with the tag line: "John Kerry. Whichever way the wind blows."

The Kerry campaign reacted angrily to the ad, charging that its "lighthearted" approach was inappropriate in the middle of a war.

"This is a shameful advertisement that shows a disturbing disregard for those fighting and sacrificing in Iraq," said Kerry spokesman Mike McCurry, who demanded that the president repudiate it.

Edwards offered a similar critique during an appearance in Miami, Florida.

"Today George Bush is laughing again. Over 1,000 Americans have lost their lives. Americans are being beheaded. Iraq is a mess, and they think this is a joke," Edwards said. "It is clear they have no idea how to protect our troops, but they will do anything to protect their jobs."

Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel defended the ad, saying that "what's disturbing is John Kerry's various shifting positions on the war on Iraq."

"What the ad spells out is that it's important to have a leader whose word we can believe not only on the day they say it but the next day as well," Stanzel said. "There is no weather vane on top of the White House. This country needs leaders who stand for something when the times are good and when the times are bad."

The Kerry campaign released a new spot, denouncing the windsurfing commercial as "a juvenile and tasteless attack ad."

Thought one: There's a quick and easy way that Kerry can stop the ads that are calling him a flip-flopper: Stop flip-flopping.

Thought two: If you don't want the Bush campaign to run ads featuring footage of John Kerry windsurfing, stop inviting television crews to record Kerry windsurfing.

Thought three: If the ad is so "juvenile and tasteless", why does the new Kerry ad not show the picture of John Kerry windsurfing? Could this be because some focus group somewhere concluded that windsurfing looks like a pastime of the idle rich?

Your humble correspondent wonders if the Blue Danube waltz was the wrong music for the commercial. Maybe Doris Day/Mari Wilson/Lila Downs "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps":

You only tell me 'Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.'

A million times i ask you,
and then i ask you over
again, you only answer
perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

if you can't make your mind up,
we'll never get started.'

UPDATE: About a billion Kerry Spot readers point out that the Kerry campaign is complaining about a lack of seriousness right after their man has done interviews with Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Dr. Phil, and Regis.

Kerry Spot
[jim geraghty reporting]
NRO

vehicular SUVicide
NEW virtual john kerry can bore + snowboard at the same time series

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Windsurfing in the Persian Gulf
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA

by Mia T, 9.24.04


Kerry is UNFIT #21:
THUMBSUCKER SERIES
-BOARDHEAD TO THE RESCUE-

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"I mean, I was in Safwan. I went there when the signing of the armistice took place at the end of the war."

John Kerry
The O'Reilly Factor, 2001







ohn Kerry's odd phrasing, above, suggests he was more likely windsurfing in the Persian Gulf than witnessing the signing of the Gulf-War cease fire. (Kerry's prior relevant vote, as well as his tawdry dilettantish tendencies, would tend to support this view.)

Similarly, Kerry's statements about the Iraq War hint at cognitive and ethical, if not corporeal, absence; they tell us more about John Kerry than simply what his Iraq-War politics may be.

WINDSUCKER

Anyway the wind blows is fine with me
Anyway the wind blows, it don't matter to me

--Frank Zappa

Windsurfing, like war, transcends the particular in its revelations about John Kerry. Although windsurfing is delicious metaphor--witness the recent Bush-Cheney ad--windsurfing in its most literal, technical sense is what best exposes Kerry for what he is--a wussy, opportunistic fraud.

RIGGED

Kerry's gear is the dead giveaway.

Kerry sails on what boardheads call "light air,"--one just cannot escape the metaphors here-- i.e., a gigantic sail estimated at 11 square meters, and a humongous board providing redundant flotation.

According to expert windsurfer, Paul Kotik:

"No hard-core windsurfer would be caught dead on a rig like that. If you need a sail that big and a board the size of the Titanic, then guess what ? It isn't windy enough to go sailing! Real sailors head out when high winds call for sails in the 5 square meter size, or smaller, and boards so small (and therefore fast and maneuverable) that they won't even float the sailor unless they are moving along at a decent clip. They are big skis, not small boats. Kerry's wussy rig is what you use when you must be seen to be windsurfing. Sailing a rig like that is to real windsurfing what skippering a supertanker is to riding a jetski... The hardcore windsurfer's credo is "Just say 'no" to six-point-oh", meaning that if you need a sail in a size bigger than 5.0 square meters, there ain't no point."

A windsurfer friend of mine, Rod, adds this observation, "Long boards typically have something called a centerboard or a daggerboard which acts as a fulcrum for turning large boards like [Kerry's]. Daggerboards are for total weenies."

Visible in Kerry's Nantucket windsurfing photo-op video is what appears to be evidence of a daggerboard--the knob on top of the board that controls dagger position.

Rod continues, "Up-hauling is another weenie windsurf situation. If... you [can] stand on top of the board and pull the mast up out of the water to begin sailing, there is very little wind. Water starting is... what keeps most people out of the experienced ranks... It is the only way to start in high wind/deep water conditions."

Conversely, according to Rod, some wind is required in a water start. "In a water start, you are not standing on anything, just floating in deep water. You 'fly' the sail, controlling it just inches above the your head and the water, moving your feet onto the board; the sailor pops the sail up filling it with wind, which pulls [him] up onto the board in one maneuver and propels the board forward."

Kerry's gigantic sail suggests a deliberate wind-avoidance strategy and, hence, an up-hauling, not water-starting, boarding technique scenario. Indeed, given Kerry's reflexive avoidance of high wind/deep water conditions over the years, weenie up-hauling is the only credible scenario.

 

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COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004
 

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30 posted on 09/27/2004 1:55:10 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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