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Another report from the internet states: "All Italy is abuzzing today about a Kerry gaffe aired last night on HBO in Italy. As reported in today's Corriere della Sera in Italy, Defense Minister Antonio Martino criticized John Kerry for an incredible remark that the conditions of the Iraqi Army were so bad that even the Italian Army could kick their a**es.

Martino remarked that Kerry, 'instead of saying what he thinks, should think about what he says.'"

1 posted on 10/15/2004 5:24:36 AM PDT by sidewalk
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I'm willing to let John Kerry personally go into Falluja, without bodyguards, and 'negotiate' an end to all Terrorism with Zarqawi's brigade.

After he returns, assuming he hasn't given away or promised them too much, I will seriously consider voting for him.


35 posted on 10/15/2004 10:15:37 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater (FreedomLoving_Engineer)
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>>All Italy is abuzzing today about a Kerry gaffe aired last night on HBO in Italy.


I'd like to see/hear that one myself, and hopefully in some ads in swing states


36 posted on 10/15/2004 10:17:16 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater (FreedomLoving_Engineer)
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God help us if this guy gets elected, and you KNOW the rats are using every devious shenanigan in the book, and probably inventing some new ones. The only way they know how to win is be cheating. This really IS one of the most important elections we have ever faced. GOD BLESS DUBYA!


37 posted on 10/15/2004 10:20:44 AM PDT by Just Lori (Before you can win the Peace..... you have to win the WAR!)
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Just when we thought we couldn't possibly despise him more . . .


40 posted on 10/15/2004 10:29:57 AM PDT by firebrand
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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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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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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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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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Well, in all fairness to John Kerry...


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


62 posted on 10/16/2004 10:46:48 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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