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.
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You just cant make up stuff like this!! Self destruct sequence armed!
Yes....BUT it's a heck of a good idea!
Regards,
Where are editors when you need them? Either "tack" or "tactic" works here, but "tact" is just wrong in this context.
Saddam Hussein, a devout Muslim, was not a tyrant. He was a Progressive Agrarian Reformer. When the Bush Family attacked Iraq on the trumped up pretext of WMDs, it was to get more oil money!
The UK, a small island nation, was dragooned into helping us when we threatened to cut off their supply of used rust-free '60's sports cars from California. The Poles, The Italians, The Ukrainians, The Japanese ... all of them forced to help us by the Bush Family.
I blame myself. If the
(The world-famed Kerry Ketchup & Kondiment Trust For Uniting a Better America Re-Election Foundation, which I serve as PIO ) had been fully operational just a few short months sooner, the woefully ignorant American Peasant in the Street could have been much more fully informed, and with the help of our poll workers, could have cast the correct vote.
However, as the incontrovertible record shows, The Bush Family used its influence to flatten previously burgeoning Ketchup Sales, which cost our Foundation many $billions. By the time Mrs. Heinz-Kerry was able to make up the tragic shortfall from her household funds, the election was over. An uninformed public had been hoodwinked. Sad.
But let me assure you VRWC nut-jobs over there on the far right fringe...We will not be making the same mistake next time. We keep our word here at KKKTFUBARF. If you recall, I had promised all of you VRWC nut-jobs that my former CO, the former War Hero and present Junior Senator from Massachusetts, would definitely be signing that DoD Form 180 thingie ... and so he did.
Those records were released,not to a corrupt press dominated by The Bush Family, but to the Navy, which has wisely deleted any material that might compromise the top secret "Christmas in Cambodia" operation, or literally scores of other highly classified materials, such as the Senator's personal, medical, and discharge records, which would give aid and comfort to the enemies of America.
You VRWC guys watch out. We're coming at you again and this time, I can promise you
Are we allowed to'Med up' first?
missed you, KB!
I love the "th" reminding us of the Rather/Memo lies...
We need to keep these types of things alive.
Just like:
Sandy Berger and Trousergate
Donna Shalala saying we didnt send the best and brightest to VietNam,
Clinton & Wen Ho Lee,
Al Gore and the Bhuddists,
Hillary & the 900 FBI files
Hillary & the billing records
Clinton giving away our nuclear secrets to the Chinese
HOW MANY MORE CAN YOU THINK OF????
Y'know, given enough time, they might produce a coherent thought between the 3 of them. It's kinda like if you put enough monkeys in a room with typewriters, and give them enought time, they'll produce all the works of Shakespeare.
(Don't you just love those people who drive around for YEARS after an election with pol stickers for the losers still on their Volvos?)
Thanks for the ping!
I have an ancestor who was adjudicated to be an ignoramus by the federal court sitting in Philadelphia in 1794. Of course the court ruled this way about all the men under 25 who were arrested for their participation in the Whiskey Rebellion, so as to avoid finding them guilty of treason and sentencing them to death.
Hey John, why the long face?
As much as I despised Tom Daschle at least, as far as I know, he went away after leaving office. Haven't been hearing from him. Now if only these other losers would follow his lead.
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