Kerryism (Victor Davis Hanson comments brilliantly on Kerry flap)

Corner ^ | 11/1/2006 | Victor Davis Hanson

[knews_hound]

Outstanding, this is VDH at his very best.

If he were to give personal advice about making it, it would have to be to marry rich women. Nothing he has accomplished as a senator or candidate reveals either much natural intelligence or singular education.

That is going to leave a mark.

Cheers,

knewshound

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[EQAndyBuzz]

"John Kerry: The "charles emerson winchester" of vietnam. "

With a touch of Frank Burns tossed in.

[cookcounty]

Boom!

[Valin]

The mea culpa that Democrats are blaming the war and not the warriors is laughable

For years now I've trying to get my arms around "we support the troops but not the war" that the left keeps spouting...so far, no joy. This joke (and a darn funny one it is) really shows just what the left thinks of those who have gone or are now in the military....that we're stupid boobs.

[twhitak]

I can tell you, my Naval Officer husband who is in possession of FOUR degrees was not amused!

Tell your husband to not feel bad. Kerry obviously thinks we're all idiots after the flimsy excuses he gave for his comment.

[Valin]

Hint: go over to DU. They are having an absolute cow, coming down with a darn near terminal case of the vapors.

BTW they think (and I use 'think' in the loosest sense of the word) we're all stupid for not getting the joke.

[headsonpikes]

"Without being gratuitously cruel, the problem of mediocrity is not in the ranks of the military, but on our university campuses, where half-educated professors and non-serious students killing time are ubiquitous."

No gratuitous cruelty at all - just a small but necessary amount!

Thanks for posting this insightful piece.

[AFreeBird]

This has to be one of the most retarded pictures I have ever seen of a grown man.

I don't like Kerry at all, but I fail to see what is moronic about snowboarding. I'm a grown man and I like skiing, and I wouldn't mind trying boarding, but since I live in a relatively flat state, I don't get much chance to try without having to drive 3~4 hours which isn't an option right now.

Don't denigrate a sport just cause some moron partakes in it.

[highlander_UW]

Brilliant piece...typical of VDH. Too bad he isn't required reading. Perhaps someone can sue for equal access to the media and give him a front page spot in the NYT.

[BIGLOOK]

VDH ping......

If you've already read it, well......read it again.

[Pure Country]

KERRYTHINK: To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again; and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become conscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word "Kerrythink" involved the use of Kerrythink.

Hear the hammer hitting the nail on the head? Eric the Oz

[Darkwolf377]

Oh yeah, I was over at DU briefly last night, and I LOVE how they're saying "You stupid Republicans don't get it!" without understanding that if people "got it" Kerry would be the favorite politician in America today, instead of an ebola-spreading leper with bad breath.

[Creightongrad]

VDH is the man! Ping.

[Lady Jag]

He's always thought soldiers were dolts, he believes his servants are dolts. As a matter of fact, he thinks everyone is, and he believes that he is God's gift to the world.

He tried to use his family's influence to keep him out of the service. They had his number back then, too, and not only drafted him, but put him in harms way.

He is scum on an allowance from the wife.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Thannn Cuuuu.

[Ramius]

we're all stupid for not getting the joke.

There's another angle on this being a "botched joke" at Bush that is, even if true, just not working.

Think about it: He was talking to students at Pasadena City College, and he thought it would be funny to be joking about how somebody that has a Bachelors from Yale and a Masters from Harvard is insufficiently educated?

Why does he think a bunch of city college students will think that's funny? Couldn't they too find that a bit insulting?

[dancusa]

Supporting the troops without supportign their mission is like supporting songwriters while hating music.

Or loving Derek Jeter, but hating the the New York Yankees.

[Tolik]

I always thought that "we support the troops but not the war" is a "smart wordplay" invented by liberals to confuse the issue. Because if the sentiment is truly sincere, there is a good analogy to that: "tough love".

Its not uncommon to want a short-term loss for your loved one with a hope for a long-term gain. If mom calls police on her son trying to straighten him up; or you cheer against your home team with the hope that they will finally fire that bustard and the days of old glory will return with a new guy. You see what I mean? So, yes, I can imagine how a leftists can be confused (oxymoron, isn't it?) into thinking that they do support our troops but are against the war. It is entirely different thing to actually believe them ...

[beaversmom]

Kerry looks like an idiot on a snowboard. A tall, lanky 60's something man that looks like he is on a skateboard. Not a manly image IMO. Don't be so sensitive, it's just my opinion. I think he looks like an idiot riding a bike, windsurfing, and catching a football too.

[Valin]

and he believes that he is God's gift to the world.

You mean he's not?