Posted on 10/31/2006 4:03:25 PM PST by MadIvan
Did John Kerry (D-Mass.) help himself in his Seattle news conference this afternoon to explain his astonishing remarks yesterday which sounded like an elitist shot at the intelligence of members of the U.S. military serving in Iraq? Short answer: no.
An angry Kerry tried to give his supporters and Democrats something to fight back with when he said: My statement yesterday, and the White House knows this full well, was a botched joke about the president and the presidents people, not about the troops.
If anyone thinks that a veteran, someone like me whos been fighting my entire career to provide for veterans to fight for their benefits, to help honor what their service is, if anybody thinks that a veteran would somehow criticize more than 140,000 troops fighting in Iraq and not the president and his people who put them there, theyre crazy. Its just wrong .
But heres the problem. In his moment of high dudgeon, he may have made matters worse. It probably wasnt a good idea to accuse everyone who saw the video of his campaign appearance and thought he was disparaging the IQ of U.S. troops of being crazy.
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John Kerry put on a pair of pants that belonged to a fellow Senator, and a republican at that, and took his bank account, and his wife. The pants were too big for him, the wife was too big for him, and the country saw that. He still doesn't.
Two words Lurch: "Genghis Khan".
The only one who's crazy here is John Effin' Kerry.
I'm thankful, tonight, that the Dems have somebody like Kerry to represent them so accurately. I hope he continues to have a lot of press conferences to speak his mind freely.
;-D
He would have deserved a b@tch-slap for this, too.
What do these cretinous traitors think they are? Their culture is only fit for a petri dish. They should be driven into the seas so they can be with the gelatinous slime from whence they came. Just pick a coast.
I would be able to better understand if John Kerry would tell the unbotched version and let me decide for myself.
U D besses.
How is what he "should've said" any better than what he actually said? Figures...if that's his "communications" director speaking, they have a huge problem.
Maybe people would be more willing to believe that Kerry misfired a joke if it was not for his history of bashing active US military troops. Got Vietnam??
A botched attempt to become president preceeded this rancorus hissy fit.
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There were drafted E-1's, in country, during Vietnam that served more time than this self-writing, award grabbing, bozo. In fact, if you served more than 121 days in Vietnam, you served more time there than this low-life.
This oxygen thief and spread the manure as thin as he can but those that have served know who he is. (And, that may be the reason for the sleeze and sludge he slings at military folks). All under the guise of politics.
What this ketchup married monkey needs to have is his gonads splintered by a bouncy betty.
His father prolly survived on his civil service pay which is why he (the father) took so many overseas assignments. Following WWII, the greenback was god, even our NCO's in the Army of Occupation (Germany) had maids and servants.
Notice all the photos such as him with John Kennedy. Everyone is in casual shorts and the like, but there is Lurch in a suit?
Can you imagine when he visited his cousins in France? (His cousin speaking to her mother in French: Mama!, do I have to be seen with Le cousin Horseface? I'd rather give up my virginity to a Bosch infantry Division!
Her mother replies, " Hush child, your grandmer and I have already done that! Now be nice and get him some apples or carrots)
If you are the type who has sleeping problems, MSNBC has an early am program titled MSNBC investigates. There are lots of murder for hire programs where the Teresas and Johns try to wipe each other out for monetary gain.
If Kerry does not apologize tomorrow, the Senate leadership, democrat and republican, should ask for his resignation! Abraham Lincold would have had him hanged for less........
I believe it was a Freudian slip.
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I disagree. He was at a campaign event for a Democrat. His audience were Dem community college kids, and he made the assumption that they all supported Moveon, ANSWER, Michael Moore and Air America - in other words he was speaking in normal Dem conversational terms.
Oh, damn. My weak post should be deleted. Your's is perfection.
Exactly. I had someone try to pull this on my earlier today. I've found the best way to address this it to just turn away and speak of them in the third-person:
"Here we have someone so wrapped up in ideology and a hatred for another ideology that they simply cannot admit to an obvious wrong. Had Bush ever made comments as ignorant and hateful as these, I would have roundly condemned and though a heck of a lot less of him."
Really, outside of attacking Bush, though, what other escape route is there? Kerry's comments are indefensible.
Isn't this how Kerry got one of his Purple Hearts?
So glad to see you are back!!
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