Posted on 01/28/2006 12:40:41 PM PST by Mia T
JIM LEHRER: To the analysis of Shields and Brooks, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks.
Mark, how do you read the John Kerry sudden push for a filibuster, what is that about?
MARK SHIELDS: Well, I think there an unfortunate call for it, the venue is not ideal --
JIM LEHRER: The ski slopes.
MARK SHIELDS: Yeah, the Swiss connection....
Similarly, Kerry's statements about the Iraq War hint at cognitive and ethical, if not corporeal, absence; they tell us more about John Kerry than simply what his Iraq-War politics may be.
WINDSUCKER
Windsurfing, like war, transcends the particular in its revelations about John Kerry. Although windsurfing is delicious metaphor--witness the recent Bush-Cheney ad--windsurfing in its most literal, technical sense is what best exposes Kerry for what he is--a wussy, opportunistic fraud.
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Kerry's gear is the dead giveaway.
Kerry sails on what boardheads call "light air,"--one just cannot escape the metaphors here-- i.e., a gigantic sail estimated at 11 square meters, and a humongous board providing redundant flotation.
According to expert windsurfer, Paul Kotik:
A windsurfer friend of mine, Rod, adds this observation, "Long boards typically have something called a centerboard or a daggerboard which acts as a fulcrum for turning large boards like [Kerry's]. Daggerboards are for total weenies."
Visible in Kerry's Nantucket windsurfing photo-op video is what appears to be evidence of a daggerboard--the knob on top of the board that controls dagger position.
Rod continues, "Up-hauling is another weenie windsurf situation. If the wind is so light that you stand on top of the board and pull the mast up out of the water to begin sailing, there is very little wind. Water starting is... what keeps most people out of the experienced ranks... It is the only way to start in high wind/deep water conditions."
Conversely, according to Rod, some wind is required in a water start. "In a water start, you are not standing on anything, just floating in deep water. You 'fly' the sail, controlling it just inches above the your head and the water, moving your feet onto the board; the sailor pops the sail up filling it with wind, which pulls you up onto the board in one maneuver and propels the board forward."
Kerry's gigantic sail suggests a deliberate wind-avoidance strategy and, hence, an up-hauling, not water-starting, boarding technique scenario. Indeed, given Kerry's reflexive avoidance of high wind/deep water conditions over the years, weenie up-hauling is the only credible scenario.
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POURQUOI JOHN KERRY EST DANGEREUX POUR L'AMÉRIQUE (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) |
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NEW virtual john kerry can bore + snowboard at the same time series (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) thanx to jla for the audio |
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I though the stupid voters in Mass. elected this arrogant a**hole to work for them in Washington not to be on vacation 364 day a year. Well I gues you get what you voted for.
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According to expert windsurfer, Paul Kotik:
Kerry's wussy rig is what you use when you must be seen to be windsurfing.
Kerry (the wus) is a showman, nothing more.
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I guess if HELLary is joining Jean le Kerry in le filibuster from la Suisse, she will discover some long lost French relatives in her family tree. Cheese eating surrender monkeys?
typo... that should read Jean le Kerré.
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I can fetch likewise of Mike Pence or George Allen too. I'll even get you audio of Natalie MacMaster, positively playin' the fiddle.
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