Posted on 10/31/2006 9:37:49 AM PST by Mo1
Washington – Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerry’s comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record:
“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.
I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.
The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it. These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.
Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they’re afraid to debate real men. And this time it won’t work because we’re going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq.”
Seems that they had this statement waiting and ready to do, didn't they?
There are people around here to always buy the liberal spin... there are others who help perpetrate it.
Ok...I sent emails w/link to Brit, Bill O'Reilly, Sean, John Gibson, and Chris Matthews.
Thank you for providing all the addresses...you made it easy. Good job!
sKerry is slime, through and through....and he wants to be Commander in Chief??
Snobbery drips from his mouth.
Gee guys, I didn't mean what I said, even though I said it, because what I really meant to say before I denied it was taken out of context..
response... John you're such an oxymoron...
He wasn't talking about our President...he was talking about our military...plain and simple.
To think otherwise...is, well, unthinkable. IMO
Double ditto:
My son-in-law is a U.S. Navy pilot - his brother, a Seal/demolition expert, is now on his way to Iraq. One of my grandson's, Army Airborne Task Force - stationed in Italy, just got back from more training in Germany - and will soon be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
There aught to be a law that the freedoms our brave troops fight to assure us should not be extended to the likes of Kerry.
Second, he says he was talking about GW Bush?
Third, it was a joke that went awry?
Now he claims he was tired and misspoke?
Next he will claim that he was for the Iraq troops before he was against them????
Then he will be blaming Teresa???????
Kerry to hold news conference at 2 PM EST
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1729287/posts?q=1&&page=251
They don't give a damn about the truth: that has been made abundantly clear. Here's their mode of operation, as I see it...
1. ALLEGATION/RUMOR HITS THE EAR OF THE LAMESTREAM MEDIA "JOURNALIST"
2. QUESTION ASKED: DOES IT HURT THE CONSERVATIVE POSITION/PRESIDENT BUSH/REPUBLICAN PARTY? (Note: the question is not 'is this true/relevant/refutable in any way?')
3. IF THE ANSWER IS "YES", REPEAT IT AD NAUSEUM. IF THE ANSWER IS "NO", DISCARD THE INFORMATION.
Keep digging, Ketchup Boy...
The best the Democrats can do is supply some Hollywood actors who can ACT like real men!
On second thought, many Democratic women are real men.
You should soon be contacted by the Rat spinners - you're even better than they are at spinning the unspinnable -
Turn on FOX right now and see the truth
I'm will to bet it's higher and smarter thananything Kerry did in the education area.
Kerry has a history of saying things like this or worse about the troops.
No need to apologize for him...unless you are paid to do so.
HorsesH_t!
Fox played more of the video and everyone laughed and Kerry smiled and it was right out of the Vietnam era.....disdain for soldiers. I was military then, and I went on to a career, and I'm certain what he meant.
Those laughing kids knew what he meant.
We're supposed to think it meant: "get an education and you won't end up in Iraq like George Bush?????"
Bush isn't in Iraq. He's in the WH.
"Get an education and you'll be too smart to end up in IRaq?????"
Meaning that the nation is TOO STUPID???
Nope.
Had to have meant the soldiers.
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