[q_an_a]

The polls may look tough, but if this is how he turns on his base, help is NOT on the way. This is too fun for junkies to not read.

[Boundless]

Also discussed last night at:

Kerry vs. His Script -- Why can't the man read a simple speech?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250706/posts

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the article
is that Slate ran it.

[flashbunny]

The author's name is really Chris Suellentrop, not sullencamp - but sullencamp captures the mood of the kerry camp now.

[atomicpossum]

This is a great illustration: Kerry is all about Kerry.

[Cicero]

Some of those departures from the prepared text are pretty comical:

Kerry's Script: I believe we need a fresh start on health care in America. I believe we need a President who will fight for the great middle class and those struggling to join it. And with your help, I will be that kind of President.

Actual Kerry: I believe so deeply—and as I go around, Bob and Bill and I were talking about this coming over here from other places—that the hope that we're seeing in the eyes of our fellow Americans, folks like you who have come here today who know what's at stake in this race. This isn't about Democrat and Republican or ideology. This is about solving problems, real problems that make our country strong and help build community and take care of other human beings. I believe we need a fresh start on health care in America. I believe we need a President who's going to fight for the great middle class and those who really are struggling, even below minimum wage now. And they won't even raise it. With your help, ladies and gentlemen, I intend to be that kind of President who stands up and fights for the people who need the help.


Notice, among other things, that he doesn't seem to know where he is or where he's just come from. That's elementary politics. Your handler gives you a 3x5 card that says, "Senator, you're in the town of Waxahachee," just in case you forget.

[happydogdesign]

[crushelits]

[Wild Irish Rogue]

A great read.
Imagine if this had been George Bush:

" During his stump speeches and town halls, Kerry makes the occasional Bush-style error, such as the time I saw him tell a blind man in St. Louis that he would "look you in the eye."
Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio, Kerry tried to thank teachers for spending money out of their own pockets on students,
but instead it came out as a thank-you to Mary Kay Letourneau as he said,
"And they're putting out for our kids."
His pronunciation of "idear" grates on my ears far more than Bush's "nucular."

[GoldwaterBooster]

Why is John Kerry a sad case? Let me count the ways.
Language is thought. Kerry cannot speak in simple declarative sentences because he cannot think in simple declarative sentences. He is not as good at dissembling as Bill Clinton is but it is not for lack of trying.
He has odd disjointed gestures that he once saw in a grainy black and white newsreel of Jack Kennedy 44 years ago and he decided to copy them as if they were his.
He windsurfs and goes skeet shooting and paints both of his faces with Botox and orange Man Tan to disguise the age issue--the fact that he would be at 61 the fifth oldest president if inaugurated and his wife would be the oldest First Lady ever.
He defended his gratuitous remarks about Mary Cheney by saying he respected the Cheney family for loving their daughter. If that is not patronizing what is?
Suppose that Bob Schieffer asked a question about how the high divorce rate in America destroys families and Bush gratuitously turned to Kerry to say, "Gee I think it is great how Sen. Kerry keeps in touch with his first wife and I am sure she does not resent the fact that he married again after receiving the Catholic sacrament of matrimony once and moved on to a new life with a very rich widow of a former colleague." Its called damning with faint praise and Kerry knew what he was doing. Kerry learned from the master demagogue in America, Ted Kennedy, and he has been a good student of that old patron saint of Left Wing buffoons.

[js1138]

Bush has great speechwriters. They have found his voice.

[xjcsa]

Kerry was here in town today....I work at the airport and had my picture taken in front of Kerry's plane....while wearing a Bush-Cheney sticker!

A bunch of Secret Service guys flew out later in the day; I really wanted to ask which of them had "knocked Kerry down" in the infamous snowboarding incident. Chickened out.

[DSBull]

Would someone confirmed something that I saw in all the debates and on the few speeches that I have heard him give.

He seems to have the shakes. If you look at his hands they are shaking in the debates, especially in the 3rd one. I wonder if he has come down with something or maybe he's scared.

Just wondering if I was the only one who noticed it.