Posted on 06/09/2005 10:58:12 PM PDT by bitt
John Kerry spins further out into irrelevance.
by Daniel McKivergan
IT'S NOT EASY for Senator John Kerry these days. Having failed to capture the White House and facing the likely prospect of getting steamrolled by Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Democratic presidential nod, Kerry has been doing all he can to stay on the national radar screen. His latest tact, on display at a town hall meeting in Massachusetts on June 2 and eventually reported on by the national media, has been to suggest that he lost the presidential election because too many voters were, basically, ignoramuses and that the major media should now seek his guidance on which issues are worthy of extensive coverage.
According to the New Bedford (MA) Standard Times, Kerry launched the usual partisan attack on Bush administration domestic policies. But he didn't stop there. He also drew on one of the themes put forth in the paperback edition of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s book, Crimes Against Nature, recently excerpted in Vanity Fair. In it and in speeches and interviews, RFK, Jr. has claimed that lots of Bush voters actually agreed with Democrats on many issues but "due to an information deficit caused by a breakdown in our national media" they entered the polling booth deeply misinformed, including on the topic of Iraq. Of course, many would argue the opposite: that the national media stacked the deck heavily against Bush; but that's a debate for another day.
To make his point, Kerry cited exit-poll numbers that he claimed showed just how clueless Bush voters were on the facts of Iraq--though he himself frequently spouted misinformation on Iraq to voters while campaigning. He also scolded Americans for not paying sufficient attention to the war today and for failing to recognize the administration's "bait-and-switch" on Iraq.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
LT ping!
Get your coffee, it's a long one...
*cough*
Because there is no there there John. You, who have just recently been revealed to be more intelligent than a chimp should realize that its a memo.....not minutes of a meeting.... Its impressions of an aide of the impressions of British-cabinet officials of the impressions of unnamed people they spoke to in the United States about what they thought the president was thinking.
too many voters were, basically, ignoramuses
Ha, I guess that the grades that he got while in college shows who the ignoramuse is.
Damn, Kerry was so much fun, and easy. Damn, don't go away Kerry.
Hmm...Wasn't there huge fanfare over the weekend that Kerry was to dramatically present the "Downing Street Memo" to Congress on Monday?
Must have slipped his mind.
On another point raised by the article, if the media HAD told the truth about Iraq -- shown the schools, power plants and other improvements that we have made to the country in a very short time -- President Bush would have received MORE support. It's that truth that the MSM is terrified of showing.
I guess Kerry is following Dean's lead and running with the plan that if they insult everyone, they will get more votes next time around.
I hope someone is keeping a list of all the things Democrats are saying American people are and what they hate about them.
voters are ignoramuses. Good one Kerry, but you are still a compulsive liar, who's whole life is nothing but a lie. Plus you are a megalomanic. Get mental help Kerry, soon.
Would it be in really poor taste to put Kerry, Gore, and Dean together in a room with a mic and TV camera and just get a bag of popcorn, sit back, and watch and listen and laugh?
I claim TORTURE to have to look at a photo of lurch so early in the morning.
one ignoramus, two ignorami?
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