Kerry Vs. Kerry (Kerry’s Top Ten Iraq Flip FlopsFrom First Debate)

Republican National Committee ^ | October 1, 2004

[Grampa Dave]

Mr. Lockhart, GW whacked old Lurch really hard during the first debate! GW let Lurch Rather America for 2/3's of the debate. It didn't help our side that Lurch had the questions ahead of time, as Lurch did a lot of Rathering. Lurch is badly hurt, Mr Lockhart!

[goldylight]

WHAAAAAAA!!!!!! i cant view it - Bandwidth exceeded.

[dc-zoo]

Thanks for such a great post.

[topdog1]

Rush is reading this as I type this posting.

[AJM085]

just watched the video... good times... Rush is now playing the audio... bahahaha! way to shoot your own foot Kerry!

[NativeNewYorker]

He also damned W for not backing Kyoto, while he himself voted against it, twice.

[i_dont_chat]

Concerning #3 flip-flop:

THREE: Claimed “This President Has Made, I Regret To Say, A Colossal Error Of Judgment. And Judgment Is What We Look For In The President Of The United States Of America.” (Sen. John Kerry, First Presidential Debate, Miami, FL, 9/30/04)

Immediately after this statement, Jim Lehrer followed with a question thus so:

Q 3 (to Kerry): "Colossal misjudgments." What colossal misjudgments, in your opinion, has President Bush made in these areas?

It seems to me that Kerry had been supplied with the questions ahead of time. His answers where too pat, exactly filled the time slots. Further, and this exchange tells me that Jim Lehrer knew ahead of time exactly what Senator Kerry was going to say. Where else could he have come up with "colossal"?

What about that? Wasn't Jim Lehrer supposed to have prepared his questions IN ADVANCE? How could he have come up with this question unless he knew what Kerry was going to say?

Comments?

[Spacewolfomega]

Link no longer available... does anyone know where I can watch this?

[christie]

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Kerry had once supported removing Saddam Hussein from power but now "says it was all a mistake."

"My Position Has Been Consistent: Saddam Hussein Is A Threat. He Needed To Be Disarmed."

They connected the dots in 1998 but Senator Kerry and MSM can't seem to connect the dots in 2004.

Here is an easy to read chart of what the media was saying pre-911 (and after): Connect the Dots...Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

Lots of facts and quotes about the president-wannabe at the John F. Kerry Timeline.
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[jimthewiz]

Add one more


I mean, this is the president who said "There were weapons of mass destruction," said "Mission accomplished," said we could fight the war on the cheap -- none of which were true. (Sen. John Kerry, First Presidential Debate, Miami, FL, 9/30/04)




And now we see beheadings. And we got weapons of mass destruction crossing the border every single day, and they're blowing people up. (Sen. John Kerry, First Presidential Debate, Miami, FL, 9/30/04)

[sitewriter]

Regarding Flip-Flop #10...it seems that recently (possibly last night...early in the debate) John Kerry said publicly that Saddam/Iraq was not a threat to us because of the no fly zone in his country and the UN sanctions that were in place against him. Yet, at the end of the debate last night, Kerry agreed with President Bush that Saddam/Iraq was a threat and needed to be removed, but that Bush went about removing him in the wrong way...he needed to give the sanctions more time to work.

Does anyone else remember hearing Kerry say this? If so, we have another major flip-flop, but this one happened within an hour of each statement.

[KavMan]

anyone have a new link to video?

[zip]

ping

[EdReform]

BTTT

[RWR8189]

Link is working fine for me

[finnman69]

Awesome video. Kerry is pathetic.

[finnman69]

I heard Kerry say Saddm was a threat is his closing statement and it perked my ears up too. He flip flopped within the debate.

[KavMan]

yea looks like they fixed the problem

[Murph]

Wasn't Jim Lehrer supposed to have prepared his questions IN ADVANCE? How could he have come up with this question unless he knew what Kerry was going to say?

I agree with your suspicion. I'm not so sure Jim Lehrer knew what Kerry was going to say, but rather that Kerry new in advance what the questions were, which was reflected in the phrasing of Kerry response.

Pursuing that idea, -- and this may have been mentioned before -- at the end of Kerry's response to the very first question, he went through a litany of what he was going to "do better" than Bush, -- and he finished with: "...All of these, and especially homeland security, which we'll talk about a little bit later."

How did he know what was coming later? OK, not exactly a smoking gun (since HS was considered a subtopic of the entire debate), but suggests to me Kerry may have had a pretty good feel for the specific agenda to follow (i.e. the actual questions and their arrangement).

The strongest evidence of Kerry's "exposure" to the questions ahead of time was his slick, "rehearsed", and well-timed answers. He was literally TOO smooth -- especially compared with other interview situations he's been in, IMO. All of these, and especially homeland security, which we'll talk about a little bit later.