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Kerry's Comments worse than you think
fox news ^ | 10-31-06 | fox news

Posted on 11/01/2006 4:07:28 AM PST by paul in cape

Not only was Kerry's comments an insult to our military and their families, it was also a huge dig (unreported) at anyone who decides to forego college and enter the workplace out of high school. In effect, "Don't go to college, and your stupid." Doesn't look like the Democrat 2004 standard-bearer is working hard for the "working man," does it?

Sounds a bit elitist, doesn't it? Every Dem candidate should be asked to tell Kerry to apologize not only to soldiers, but to every blue-collor worker in America

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To: Clara Lou
I really do think he was taking a jab at the POTUS and not the troops.

Last night I thought Kerry meant to diss Bush and he made a Freudian slip and revealed what he subconsciously thought of the troops.

Today I think Kerry meant to imply that Bush is endangering the lives of students who don't do well in school.

41 posted on 11/01/2006 5:14:02 AM PST by syriacus (MJ Fox tells the US, "Show me you love me, baby, by obliterating the most vulnerable.")
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To: marlon
Well, the Democrats now have their 2006 Scapegoat (same as the 2004 Scapegoat, curiously enough). Now they can lose with peace, and will not have to get all introspective and mushy about why the people just don't seem to like them very much.

I can hear them now... "We would'a won in 2006 if it weren't for that moron John Kerry... We would'a!... We would'a!... We would'a!"

(Time to come home now, Trelayne...)

42 posted on 11/01/2006 5:21:30 AM PST by gridlock (The GOP will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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To: gridlock
I just heard a blip on the news.

Kerry has canceled all campaign appearances for today!

43 posted on 11/01/2006 5:23:15 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("I don't know how anyone can go to Church on Sunday, and vote for a democrat the following Tuesday.")
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To: Clara Lou

Where in that "joke" is the jab at the President?

Pray for W and Our Troops


44 posted on 11/01/2006 5:25:04 AM PST by bray (Voting for the Rats is a Death Wish)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Would you have Kerry come and campaign for you, if you were a Donk?


45 posted on 11/01/2006 5:27:43 AM PST by gridlock (The GOP will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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To: Allegra
I wouldn't have to be a dumbass "stuck in Iraq." (We're getting some mileage out of that one here...LOL)

LOL! Literally. :)

46 posted on 11/01/2006 5:30:09 AM PST by proud American in Canada (Thy Will Be Done.)
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To: don-o
To me, what I found most offensive about Kerry's non-apology was his terming the Iraq war a "mistake." It reminded me of his 1971 Senate testimony and the question, "How do ask someone to be the last man to die for a mistake?" In essence, Kerry is saying that the almost 3,000 Americans who have died in Iraq have made a worthless sacrifice, i.e., they died in vain.

It took the military almost 20 years to recover from Vietnam. If the Dem defeatists have their way and we cut and run, how many Americans will volunteer for the military in the future? If you can't support the mission, you can't support the troops.

47 posted on 11/01/2006 5:30:57 AM PST by kabar
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To: paul in cape
I think the problem (actually one of a myriad) with Kerry is that when he joined the military it was not out of a sense of patriotism or duty. It was solely with the intention of parlaying his service into a future political career. He wanted to be able to wear his service as a banner and play up his "veteran" status. Because of that, he has never really seen himself as having been a part of the military. It never soaked into who he is as a person.

I believe that all along he has looked with disdain at the military (even while he was enlisted). What happens then, is that he forgets sometimes that he is supposed to be a concerned vet and he lets his true disdain and contempt slip out. When that happens he has to remind himself to put on his veteran persona and go on the offensive, acting indignant.

What he doesn't understand is that only those idiots who have imbibed of the liberal cool-aid will fall for it. The rest of us see it for what it is.

48 posted on 11/01/2006 5:31:27 AM PST by Pablo64 ("Everything I say is fully substantiated by my own opinion.")
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To: gridlock

Not just no, but #e!! no.

My computer was down yesterday, and I didn't get to check FR. I have a bunch of work to do, but must check some FR articles.


49 posted on 11/01/2006 5:31:38 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("I don't know how anyone can go to Church on Sunday, and vote for a democrat the following Tuesday.")
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To: Allegra
"Sorry...that one GLARED, though...

Yep. It's a mistake I make often, but in this case, coming from a journalist who earns a living by writing, it's inexcusable, even more so when the article is about stupid people who don't go to collage.

John (f(ing) Kerry is living, walking and talking proof that his statement is so very untrue.

Look at Kerry, he went to the finest schools money could buy, groomed by the best groomers elitists use to refine their brats,

but he's still an idiot.

50 posted on 11/01/2006 5:32:21 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: mariabush

Amen.
It's like when you tell the kids to apologize to each other. Yeah, that's sincere.


51 posted on 11/01/2006 5:35:28 AM PST by regularperson (St. Louis Cardinals.....World Champions)
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To: Mad Dawg
"Probably the only reason there's not a sex scandal is he couldn't get any woman to hold still long enough for him to misbehave ...."

LOL!

Carolyn

52 posted on 11/01/2006 5:37:59 AM PST by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: Arrowhead1952
I just heard a blip on the news.
Kerry has canceled all campaign appearances for today!

That can only mean one thing. Kerry is going to come out with a great big lie tomorrow that will explain it all away, as well as attack us for attacking his 'war hero' military service. We'll hear jabs at the "right wing co conspirators, Bush and his goons, Swiftboat Vets, Veterans for truth, etc etc.
He's going to unload.

53 posted on 11/01/2006 5:40:11 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Allegra
What are you talking about???? Your posts are pretty much always perfect.

You're either a robot or a Virgo. :^)

And my pet peeve is "definitely."

54 posted on 11/01/2006 5:40:13 AM PST by IrishRainy (The only way BJ Clinton would have nailed bin Laden is if Ossama had been a White House intern.)
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To: Arrowhead1952
Kerry has canceled all campaign appearances for today!

Now this disappoints me. He really needs to keep stumping for those Dem candidates.

C'mon, John Effin'. Don't wimp out on us NOW!!

In fact, keep up the GREAT work!

55 posted on 11/01/2006 5:41:28 AM PST by Allegra (Proud to be "Stuck in Iraq" - Shove it, Kerry!!)
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To: paul in cape

Kerry has been making disparaging remarks about our military for years now. He hates the military and he hates our Country. This is no surprise to those who follow politics closely. But the shocker is that he would voice this a week before the election, educating the entire electorate as well as everyone else on the planet.


56 posted on 11/01/2006 5:41:45 AM PST by Hattie
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To: Nathan Zachary

Yeah, he'll try to explain it away again. Just another skerry flip flop as in the 04 elections.


57 posted on 11/01/2006 5:42:40 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("I don't know how anyone can go to Church on Sunday, and vote for a democrat the following Tuesday.")
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To: paul in cape

Kerry has cancelled his scheduled appearances for today.


[Rumor: Kerry is to undergo emergency surgery --- to have his foot removed from his mouth.]


58 posted on 11/01/2006 5:43:15 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: YellowRoseofTx

I thought reservists were considered in the military.


@@@@@

I never knew that civilians could learn to fly jet fighters on the Government's dime!


59 posted on 11/01/2006 5:44:30 AM PST by maica (9/11 was not “the day everything changed”, but the day that revealed how much had already changed.)
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To: XenaLee
Who Are the Recruits? The Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Military Enlistment, 2003–2005
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On News/Activism 10/31/2006 5:56:48 PM CST · 26 replies · 841+ views


The Heritage Foundation ^ | October 27, 2006 | Tim Kane, Ph.D
Center for Data Analysis Report #06-09 The current findings show that the demo­graphic characteristics of volunteers have contin­ued to show signs of higher, not lower, quality. {snip} Given the nature of the military rank structure, most enlisted recruits do not have a college edu­cation or degree. Members of the armed forces with higher education are more often commis­sioned officers (lieutenant and above). In 2004, 92.1 percent of active-duty officer accessions held baccalaureate degrees or higher.[5] From 2000 to 2005, between 10 percent and 17 percent of active-duty officer accessions held advanced degrees, and between 35 percent and 45 percent of...

60 posted on 11/01/2006 5:44:33 AM PST by TomGuy
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