I Can't Take Gun To Debate With Me

AP ^ | 9/8/04 | DARLENE SUPERVILLE

[beyond the sea]

Bush, in Missouri, defended his decision to go to war, saying "it was right for America and it's right for America now that Saddam Hussein is no longer in power."

In West Virginia, Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, gave Kerry a rifle as a gift. Kerry, a self-described gun-owner and hunter, quipped: "I thank you for the gift, but I can't take it to the debate with me."

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[alwaysconservative]

Charming, just charming. A man "jokes" about taking a gun to a debate with the President of the United States, and NO ONE calls him on it?

[fetts]

I strongly disagree. This is a stupid and dangerous remark. We all know there are crazies out there who might think that "Kerry can't but maybe I can" -- I believe the President's Secret Service is going balistic over the "quip"

[superiorslots]

If Kerry had his way the coal jobs and coal fired plants would be abolished. Why do these coal people still support Kerry? Unbelievable.!!!

[Piranha]

Yes, I forgot about that. Kerry is joking about shooting the President in the very state where someone shot into the Republican campaign headquarters just last week!

This is not something to laugh off.

[sr4402]

"but I can't take it to the debate with me."

It means he is sorry he can't use it on Bush.

[Cobra64]

I just sent Rush an email containing Lurch's quote. Y'all might want to do the same.

[crushkerry]

Let it be noted that crushkerry.com were the first ones to pluck this Kerry quote from obscurity, where it had been languishing all day yesterday.

Don't beleive us? The check out this thread that was posted at 10:55 last night as well as the original source. (Hint: It was us)

[aft_lizard]

We need to email FoxNews, they can grab it and run with it, along with Joe Scarborough from PMSDNC

[dixiechick2]

The thing that struck me is that Kerry cannot even make a "joke" without putting his foot in his mouth. He doesn't know what is proper and what is not because he really hasn't been around regular people.

You just don't make a statement like that with all the problems we've had re: the Washington Sniper and all the added protection for the President since 9/11...

But WAIT! He was at that meeting back in the early 70's where they discussed the killing of certain senators.....

Boy, what a dumb comment to make! Unreal! But, the MSM won't pick up on it.....

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

It was a shotgun before it was a rifle, geeze old media has now joined in the flip-flopping.

[5by5]

It's not so harmless if it encourages one of his supporters to act on it.

I have a very low tolerance for jokes about shooting the president no matter how harmless the intent.

Remember how Hinckley shot Reagan because he thought it would impress Jodie Foster? Who's to say that Kerry's thoughtless remark won't plant the same idea in some unhinged supporter? Remember too how the 'rats have cultivated an atmosphere of extreme hatred for the president...

[Pinetop]

Well, according to Drudge, he probably couldn't take the gun to the debate because he sponsored a bill to ban that particular piece!!! Something is wrong with that man. I believe his brain has been raah-vaahh-ged...(What kind of accent is that?)

[Cobra64]

We need to email FoxNews, they can grab it and run with it, along with Joe Scarborough from PMSDNC.

Good idea. If Rush mentions it on the EIB, then Sean will talk about it for hours.

[Piranha]

Thanks for another great insight into his tortured psyche.

Thirty years ago Kerry was at a meeting of VVAW where they discussed assassinating Federal officials who supported a war to which they objected.

Yesterday Kerry slams President Bush for supporting a war to which he objects. Then, holding a shotgun in his hand, Kerry "jokes" that -- unfortunately -- he can't bring the shotgun to his debate (and, by implication, assassinate that President).

I hope that this comment brings more attention to his actions as a leader of VVAW, possibly the most treacherous and least explored part of Kerry's past.

[Pinetop]

I think you are so dead-on. I think there is something very disturbing about Kerry that goes waaaay baaacck. He is either a very dangerous or a very stupid man. It is just as alarming that the MSM absolutely refuses to look at it.

[shhrubbery!]

What if a Republican said that?

If GWB had said that, the media's reaction would've been equivalent to what they did when Reagan joked into an open mike: "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I have signed legislation to outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

IOW, the media would have gone thermonuclear.

[George Smiley]

I have a very low tolerance for jokes about shooting the president no matter how harmless the intent.

The Secret Service feels very much the same way you do.

At least they won't have far to go to interview him about his comment.

[marty60]

Now now, we all love you. and know how efficient and on top of it you are.

[beyond the sea]

It would be hysterical if the Secret Service patted Kerry down onstage before the debate starts but after the network coverage starts.

LOL. Perhaps the Secret Service guys who he called 'sons of b*tches' out on the slopes!

[crushkerry]

thanks. Thinking warm and fuzzy thoughts now. LOL