Posted on 10/28/2004 12:15:23 AM PDT by MadIvan
SOUNDBITES have no greater enemy than John Kerry.
While all politicians pledge to remove spin from politics, the Democratic presidential candidate has gone one further: he is murdering one-liners on sight.
To the dismay of his speechwriters, Mr Kerrys attempts to "make it real" at rallies has led him to ramble so much that any snappy phrases composed for him are drowned in a sea of verbosity.
The result has presented journalists with a problem when covering his remarks - should they stick to the intended script or report the mess of platitudes Mr Kerry utters?
During one speech, Mr Kerrys script writers had crafted the concise pledge: "I will work with Republicans and Democrats on this healthcare plan, and we will pass it."
In the candidates hands it became: "I will work with Republicans and Democrats across the aisle, openly, not with an ideological, driven, fixed, rigid concept, but much like Franklin Roosevelt said, I dont care whether a good idea is a Republican idea or a Democrat idea. I just care whether or not its gonna work for Americans and help make our country stronger.
"And we will pass this bill. Ill tell you a little bit about it in a minute, and Ill tell you why well pass it, because its different from anything weve ever done before, despite what the Republicans want to try to tell you."
The Massachusetts senator, who has spent his life with an eye for political office, is showing daily refusal to read simple declarations, preferring to ad-lib.
It can be a simple statement of the obvious - "thats whats at stake in this election" - or an attempt at adding the evangelical at random - "we can just hope and pray".
His scriptwriters snappy attack on Mr Bushs healthcare plan - "Dont get sick" - became: "And dont get sick. Just pray, stand up and hope, wait - whatever. We are all left wondering and hoping. Thats it."
And Quayle was crucified for "potatoe" ......
Made our bones during the 60 minutes disgrace.
We're on the map now.
Inside kerry's head
bttt
How about this -- at a verbal buffet, Presidential hopeful, John F. Kerry PIGs OUT!! (and also messes up his lipstick!)
You must have heard the great one-liner by Cheney earlier this week regarding Kerry: Where I'm from in Montana, we have a saying -- you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig!!!
And he's drowning in it!
Lots of words make it easy to nuance what he says into something he did not mean at the time. It is typical sociopathic tactic.
Blovating, pompous bull $hit that he perceives us lessor mortals will swallow hook, line and sinker.
Steyn is usually correct, but in this case, he was prescient...
the infowarrior
H.P. Lovecraft comes to mind.....:)
Considering what he sacrificed himself to err... married, you're probably correct...
the infowarrior
Regards, Ivan
A point which British FReepers may appreciate. At times Kerry reminds me of Neil Kinnock - his sentences become so long and rambling, that by the end of them everybody (including the speaker) has utterly forgotten what the beginning was.
This was the man whom John Major beat in a general election; he later became a European Commissioner.
Inside his head? Who cares, just waiting to see this FRAUD punished severely.
We band of brothers must "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined."
Patrick Henry, Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution (1788).
Wilbur Whately liiiiiiiives!......LOL!
Yog Sothoth!
"1.You live in the first County in America to be named after our first President."
Maryland got it first:
http://www.washco-md.net/public_info/flag.htm
Kerry can say nothing in 500 words or more.
The MSM protect Kerry from himself. This article about Kerry's rambling verbosity is the exact reason only short soundbites of Kerry's stump speeches are shown. Even the cable news channels cut away from Kerry stump speeches before the speeches are finished.
The RNC should buy time on TV, run full Kerry speeches, and have their analysts give short commentaries on the verbose empty verbage that says nothing and the ramblings that end up presenting contradictions in the same long sentence.
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