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Kerry's Promises (Kerry insult to Italians)
Washington Times ^ | October 15, 2004 | Diana West

Posted on 10/15/2004 5:24:36 AM PDT by sidewalk

Italy, a nation that has bled for Iraq, is smarting anew over an old Kerry slap broadcast on Italian television this week. "The Iraqi army," Mr. Kerry said before the war, "is in such bad shape, even the Italian army could kick their butts."

So much for politesse, or lack thereof — something to expect in a Kerry administration.

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KEYWORDS: allyitaly; army; iraq; italian; italy; kerry; napalminthemorning; smear
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To: Edgerunner
"...so Italy is no friend of Kerry's...

That's because Silvio Berlusconi is no friend of socialists and communists. In May of last year, Berlusconi said in response to cummunist anti-war rallies:

"Those flags are red because they are stained by the blood of 100 million innocent victims.... I think that putting them together with the flags of peace is a real blasphemy against peace. I really consider the communists a risk to my country, liberty and well-being."

Italy is itself facing a war on two fronts, by pressures from secular communists and from Islamists. The major factor is the Vatican's presence there. If the Islamists and the cummunists take control of Italy, the Vatican will be in real trouble.
41 posted on 10/15/2004 10:31:15 AM PDT by Outland (A vote for Kerry is a vote for his boss, George Soros, supervillain.)
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To: adam_az

Gandolfini is a coked up light weight anyway. Who cares what he thinks.


42 posted on 10/15/2004 10:31:25 AM PDT by Right Wing Puppy (Bush is stronger than you think.)
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To: firebrand

Have at it! That bum would go running back to Boston.


43 posted on 10/15/2004 10:50:25 AM PDT by stanz (Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
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To: firebrand; RepubMommy

He's got a lot of nerve saying that.


44 posted on 10/15/2004 10:56:14 AM PDT by Coleus (Brooke Shields killed how many children? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1178497/posts)
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To: sidewalk

Real coalition builder that Kerry.


45 posted on 10/15/2004 11:01:25 AM PDT by NavVet (“Benedeict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
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To: NavVet

AS Kerry continues to berate the present coalition, I would think that if he is elected, they should all decide to pull out of Iraq immediately afterward. It would be an insult to them if they stayed. Afterall he doesn't need any window dressing.

He will send Liz Edwards over there to handle the insurgents and SHE WILL EAT THEM!


46 posted on 10/15/2004 11:45:06 AM PDT by Always Independent
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To: sidewalk
On the front page of USA Today, Kerry's quoted referring to Tony Soprano in an analogy. Again, the possibilities are: 1) that Kerry isn't serious about becoming president; 2) that he's stupid; 3) that he's arrogant and thinks all voters are stupid and forgetful; 4) that he's under the influence; or 5) some combination of 1, 2, 3, or 4.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

Election 2004 threads on FR

47 posted on 10/15/2004 11:56:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"he would be such a disaster"

right on target....thats the whole idea..kerry would be a UN stooge ...period..THATS HIS PLAN !

48 posted on 10/15/2004 12:19:57 PM PDT by kingattax (FreeRepublic leads...others follow)
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To: NavVet

No no you don't get it: Kerry wants to build a coalition between himself and others who hate America. Not with friends of the Republic like Italy.


49 posted on 10/15/2004 1:21:12 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: sidewalk

That moronic shiite-head doesn't even remember that it's "even the FRENCH army could kick their butts" that makes the joke funny.

What a putz!


50 posted on 10/15/2004 2:14:32 PM PDT by rockrr (I can't wait until sKerry is reduced to the level of a nuisance)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Hell he's already driving the Russians into Chinese arms and he hasn't even been elected yet. But from what I hear, the Chechins are awaiting CIA aid ala KLA from KlinTON.


51 posted on 10/15/2004 2:19:04 PM PDT by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: sidewalk

Seems Kerry loves to insult people!!
God help us if he gets elected the world will really hate us!! ;(


Heard the one about Kerry's sense of humor?
Jeff Jacoby (archive)


September 13, 2004 | Print | Send

Just for laughs, you want to hear a little joke about shooting the president?

Presidential assassination -- now there's a funny topic. Just ask John Kerry. When the head of the United Mine Workers presented him with a semiautomatic shotgun during a Labor Day campaign stop in West Virginia, Kerry chortled, "I thank you for the gift, but I can't take it to the debate with me." High-larious!

How can you not love a candidate with such a robust sense of humor? The Massachusetts senator brings so much wit to the presidential race. Remember his wisecrack last spring about a bicycle accident that left President Bush with bruises on his face, hands, and knees? "Did the training wheels fall off?" He asked. Or his line in January about the man who is now his running mate? "When I came back from Vietnam in 1969," he said in Iowa, "I don't know if John Edwards was out of diapers then." Oh, that Kerry -- what a stitch!

For some reason people are forever commenting on how dour and stiff Kerry is. But it's a bum rap. As anyone who has followed his career knows, the guy's a regular Jackie Mason.

Take his great quip about Saddam Hussein's military back in 1997, when he was advocating an expansion of the NATO no-fly zone. "The Iraqi army is in such bad shape now," Kerry said, "even the Italians could kick their butts." Everyone split their sides, they were laughing so hard. Well, almost everyone. For some reason the Massachusetts state auditor, Joseph DeNucci, accused Kerry of uttering a "degrading, disgusting" ethnic slur. And a spokesman for the National Italian American Foundation said, "It was a totally inappropriate comment. What could he have been thinking?" Talk about your killjoys. There's just no pleasing some people.

A year earlier, when Kerry was running for re-election, he uncorked a priceless rib-tickler about his opponent, Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld. "This guy," he said on Don Imus's radio show, "takes more vacations than the people on welfare." Is that a hoot? And yet, believe it or not, some people didn't think it was funny. "I'm very insulted, very insulted," one welfare recipient told the Boston Globe. She obviously has no appreciation for sophisticated comedy.

Speaking of sophisticated comedy, have you heard the one about the camel and the ass? This must be Kerry's favorite joke, to judge from the frequency with which he told it during last year's primary campaign. Here it is, taken verbatim from his remarks to the Florida Democratic party convention in December:

"A little more than 5,000 years ago, Moses said, 'Hitch up your camel, lift up your shovel, mount your ass. I will lead you to the promised land.' Five thousand years later, Franklin Roosevelt said, 'Light up a Camel, lay down your shovel, sit on your ass. This is the promised land.' Today, George Bush will outsource your camel, tax your shovel, kick your ass, and tell you there is no promised land."

No doubt there are some grouches who would regard this as excruciatingly unfunny, not to mention an insult to FDR. ("Lay down your shovel, sit on your ass" was not exactly the motto of the Works Progress Administration.) But as any connoisseur of good humor will attest, you can't hear jokes like this even in the best comedy clubs.

Not only is Kerry a very funny fellow, he is a critic of other people's material. He certainly let Bush have it a few months ago for some dubious gags at the Radio and Television Correspondent's Dinner about the lack of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. As Bush showed photographs of himself looking under furniture and behind the drapes in the Oval Office, he made comments like "Those weapons of mass destruction have to be somewhere" and "Nope, no weapons over there."

Apparently Bush never learned that some topics are not appropriate fodder for jokes, particularly from someone of national political stature. Kerry firmly set him straight.

"That's supposed to be funny?" Kerry asked. "If George Bush thinks his deceptive rationale for going to war is a laughing matter, then he's even more out of touch than we thought. Unfortunately for the President, this is not a joke." Thank Heaven at least one of the candidates for president knows that certain subjects are too grim to make light of.

Anyway, to get back to Kerry's jest about shooting the president: This is not a new theme for him. Back in 1988, during the first Bush administration, he made headlines with a similar knee-slapper about then-Vice President Dan Quayle.

"The Secret Service is under orders," Kerry told a business audience in Lynn, Mass., "that if Bush is shot, to shoot Quayle."

And to think that some people don't find him funny.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/jj20040913.shtml


52 posted on 10/15/2004 2:19:44 PM PDT by FactsNotHearsayPlease
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To: Rutles4Ever

Yeah and look what happened to that republic.


53 posted on 10/15/2004 2:20:56 PM PDT by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: jb6
We'll be lucky if we last as long.


FREEPER (PARodrig) PAUL RODRIGUEZ FOR CONGRESS

54 posted on 10/15/2004 2:54:00 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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To: gridlock; Hi Heels

I thank you for remembering this Italian hero who was executed by slimy cowards hiding behind hidden faces. It doesn't matter what the nationality of the people that are fighting these terrorists with US and the fact they are doing something.
Kerry and Edwards are doing.......NOTHING!
They should just shut up!
PS....I wonder if Kerry & Edwards know NOW that France, Germany, and Russia (recieving bribe money from the UN Iraqui so called "Oil 4 Food" program) are clearly the only 3 members of his "coaliton of the bribed".


55 posted on 10/15/2004 3:40:02 PM PDT by cowboy_code (Live by the Code!)
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To: sidewalk

Well, in all fairness to John Kerry...


56 posted on 10/15/2004 3:42:43 PM PDT by Redbob
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To: sidewalk

I'd bet he tell Cesear that.


57 posted on 10/15/2004 4:59:38 PM PDT by John Will
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To: sidewalk

Amazing. Just amazing. This guy is a perfect example of giving someone enough rope to hang himself.


58 posted on 10/15/2004 6:23:53 PM PDT by Wneighbor
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To: Outland

Would the Vatician have to peform an Emergency move to Warsaw or Mexico City?.


59 posted on 10/15/2004 8:31:18 PM PDT by John Will
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To: Leofl

She reminds me of my Grandma, who came from the south of France(Basque). She came over as a young adult, and so did most of her siblings. She was so proud of becoming an American, and wanted to be included in everything in her new country!

She also learned English pretty fluently, but with a charming accent that she never lost. Furthermore, she wanted her children to learn English, rather than Basque. And claimed she never wanted to go back to her native land.(economic problems in the region she lived, also her fiance had come before her, she wanted to join him.)

That's because America was still a land of great opportunity then, as it still is to many! I also had immigrant relatives that came from Germany, and they probably felt much the same way.

Finally, she became an ardent Republican! She owned a small hotel, restaurant complex in her town, and when the politicians came to town, they would stay at the hotel; particularly an old senator(McCarran(sp?)). This was way back in the 40s and 50s.


60 posted on 10/16/2004 10:32:27 AM PDT by dsutah
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