Posted on 01/31/2005 2:45:39 AM PST by kattracks
Sen. John Kerry [related, bio] yesterday described the elections in Iraq as ``significant'' and ``important'' but said they should not be ``overhyped.''
``It is hard to say that something is legitimate when whole portions of the country can't vote and doesn't vote,'' the Massachusetts Democrat said in an interview on NBC's ``Meet the Press.''
Although the Bush administration has said the mere fact that elections take place is a huge sign of progress, Sen. Kerry said the next step is more important.
``What the administration does in these next few days will decide the outcome of Iraq. And this is - not may be - this is the last chance for the president to get it right,'' Kerry said, urging Bush to involve other nations in training Iraqis to take responsibility for their own security.
Kerry rejected a recent call by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy [related, bio] (D-Mass.) for an immediate withdrawal of some American forces, a call Kennedy repeated yesterday.
``The best way to demonstrate to the Iraqi people that we have no long-term designs on their country is for the administration to withdraw some troops now'' and negotiate further withdrawals, Kennedy said in a statement.
Dumbass.
I wish that John Freakin' Kerry would just run away with the Co-chair of the Losers Convention - Arianna Huffington (and maybe take John McLame with them)!
THe last time I looked, a 72% turnout is about as right as you can get, given the environment.
Sheesh.
J F'n K just needs to fade away, and STFU.
He's Sooooooooo old news..
FoxNews reported this AM that in some Sunni areas they had to open up more voting booths as turnout was larger than expected. I hadn't heard that before.
I also read where the turnout was better than expected in some of those areas. We won't be seeing that reported extensively in the MSM. They're going to stick to their "if everyone didn't vote it's an illegitimate election", mantra.
THANK GOD! this idiot did not become President...THANK GOD.
I think you summed it up beautifully. Could he possibly have made himself look smaller and more out of touch with reality than he did in that interview?
Kerry is going to play "Shadow President".
BUT, but, but, he has talked to foreign leaders.............
What on earth does this fool think has been going on in Iraq? Oh Right, John Kerry wants France and the OFF crooks to take charge, he doesn't think the Coalition is good enough; they're doing one hell of a job senator! You may know where the snow moguls are Kerry, but you haven’t a clue as to anything else…and by the way no entitlements for ‘the children’… that ain’t agonna sell!
I hope Kerry, Kennedy, et al keep making these absurd statements, thereby ensuring the decline of the Demoncrat party for decades to come!
It seems this man cannot help himself. He takes every opportunity to make himself look like a weasel.
Beckel went after Kerry yesterday for his comments
Shut up!
I am not mistaken whatsoever. I know fully the "ilk" of the liberal wing of American politics.
I concur - "Shadow President"; holding the marker for whomever will become the Dem "nominee" for president in 2008. They are splitting their party for political purposes. One part to be the insane wing (uber liberal); the other part to be the false front of pro-American, so-called (msm "coined) "centrism". I fully expect to see John Kerry dance, over the next four years, between those positions.
I now expect John Kerry to be CONSTANTLY dogging the President, criticising every move, acting like he's the President in exile.
President Bush has already laid out the strategies and goals. John Kerry will stick a fork in the President, and then re-iterate the President's goals (with the insertion of a one or two-word arabesque; BUT while asserting these goals and aims as HIS OWN.
It's called "attempts to co-opt". What Kerry may not realize.. red countyers aren't really big on numbing themselves through sex or drugs as a focus, ergo, red staters have memory. :)
HAVE MEM0RY, WILL SWAT.
Blu countyers, OTOH, have little to no memory -- they and their minions in MSM will proclaim the Kerry Doctrine as "brilliant" and "sorely needed".
This a**hole hasn't been newsworthy since early November. To give him so much time on Meet The Press is, in itself, a glaring example of political bias. On the substance of what he said I am reminded of the immortal words of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman who said," Phased withdrawal is all hell."
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