That just makes me grin ear to ear every time I read it. 
Posted on 11/14/2004 1:08:09 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
On the afternoon of Aug. 9, John F. Kerry stood on the lip of the Grand Canyon, about to make one of the biggest mistakes of his three-year quest for the presidency. A stiff wind was blowing across the canyon, and Kerry, whose hearing was damaged by gun blasts in Vietnam, had trouble understanding some of the questions being thrown his way. But he pressed on, coughing from the pollen blowing on the breeze.
Would Kerry have voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq, one reporter asked, even if he knew then that Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction? "Yes, I would have voted for the authority; I believe it's the right authority for a president to have," Kerry replied, as aides stood by, dumbfounded.
Kerry's answer ricocheted around the political world. Faced with the revelation that almost all the prewar arguments for invading Iraq were wrong -- the existence of weapons of mass destruction, close links to Al Qaeda -- President Bush had nonetheless insisted that he would do nothing differently. And he had been challenging Kerry to do the same, hoping to catch the Democrat changing his position on the unpopular war.
The senator explained to aides that part of the question had been lost in the wind; he thought he was answering a variation on the same basic query he'd been asked countless times: Was it right to give Bush the authority to go to war against Iraq? Kerry had simply given his standard "yes," with the proviso that he would have "done this very differently from the way President Bush has" -- yet the misunderstanding now muddied Kerry's message.
Worried advisers briefly considered issuing a clarification, but feared it might further feed Republican efforts to portray Kerry as a "flip-flopper."
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Yes.
It will be interesting to watch Hillary.
No doubt she and Bill will adopt a child to use as a campaign prop.
It has everything but the kitchen sink.
Note this was about the time that he stopped giving press conferences.Wonder why?
That just makes me grin ear to ear every time I read it.
Let me guess. Kerry, for reasons of personal vanity, would have preferred to keep the hearing problem(?) concealed indefinitely, thus creating a long stream of verbal understandings while in office.
Kerry is disqualified from high office for being incapable of telling the truth in a timely manner.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....
Nice BIG grin.
Because Kerry, overall, is a girly man, and it's the one thing he can point to, other than giving
mouth to mouth to a hamster named Lemiwinks or some such.
Do you remember that during the primaries, the Kerry Kampaign fired Chris Lehaine(sp?) for suggesting
that Kerry back off the Vietnam thing?
He never takes responsiblity for anything.
We really dodge a bullet with his loss.
Bump!
Big time loser.
The people of Mass must be nuts to have the Kennedy/Kerry duo.
BAWHAHAHA
I think you're right.
He was too much of a loose canon, just like Teresa.
Not likely. The Springfield Republican's (newspaper, not political party) below-the-fold lead article had words to the effect that not a single pro-gay marriage legislator was defeated. It went on to say that they were considering a move to DROP consideration of the state constitutional amendment to ban the marriages, implemented by appointed (not elected) state supremes. I'll try to find the article.
Where's the PH from his hearing loss?
John F*ckin' - who lost his presidential bid in the shifting wind. How fitting.
Not just damaged hearing. Vietnam-damaged hearing. Hah!
LOL
He just won't give it up.
On the trail of Kerry's failed dream
No kidding.
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