Posted on 11/01/2006 3:39:26 PM PST by MadIvan
Democrats stampeded over each other yesterday to disassociate themselves from John Kerry, their presidential candidate two years ago, who has handed Republicans an election lifeline with remarks implying US troops in Iraq are there because they are stupid.
Senator Kerry, speaking to a group of students in California on Monday, said: You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you dont, you get stuck in Iraq. A video of his speech was placed swiftly on the internet and then seized upon by the White House, which has been desperate to switch the focus of voters away from the mounting toll of death and destruction in Iraq before Tuesdays crucial elections for control of Congress.
On Tuesday night, in scenes reminiscent of the 2004 presidential contest, George Bush demanded that Mr Kerry apologise for his insulting and shameful remarks. Yesterday a number of top Democrat candidates joined him in calling on Mr Kerry to say sorry.
Harold Ford Jnr, who is running for the Senate in Tennessee, said: Whatever the intent, [he] was wrong to say what he said. Jon Tester, the partys senatorial candidate in Montana, said: He owes our troops and their families an apology. Senator Hillary Clinton called the remarks inappropriate.
At the same time Democrat candidates across the US cancelled scheduled campaign appearances with Mr Kerry, whose distant hopes of another presidential candidacy in 2008 have now all but evaporated.
Mr Kerry on Tuesday had insisted that it was Mr Bush who should apologise. But yesterday he said: Of course Im sorry about a botched joke. I mean, you know, its pretty stupid.
He claimed that his remarks had been aimed at Mr Bush for being intellectually lazy in getting us stuck in a war in Iraq but he had fluffed his lines.
Instead, he said the mock-outrage of the White House was the latest example of the Republican campaign of smear and fear that had characterised attacks on his military record in Vietnam during the 2004 presidential contest, as well as his gaffe that he had voted for Iraq war funding before voting against it.
Yesterday Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, twisted the knife with a direct reference to this when he told a campaign rally: Of course, now Senator Kerry says he was just making a joke. I guess we didnt get the nuance. He was for the joke before he was against it.
Mr Kerry has previously attacked the so-called chicken-hawks who have cast aspersions on his military record, while never seeing combat themselves. Yesterday he made no reference to how Mr Bush had avoided service in Vietnam, perhaps because it would have meant conceding that the President had got better grades than him at Yale.
# President Bush said last night that he wanted Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, and Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, to remain in his Administration until the end of his term.
From Carry, I'd guess #6.
Smart:
1. clever: showing intelligence and mental alertness smart students
2. keen: shrewd and calculating in business and other dealings
3. witty and amusing: amusingly clever and possessing a quick wit
4. insolent: disrespectful or impertinent
5. tidy: with a neat and well-cared-for appearance
6. fashionable: fashionable and stylish
7. lively: vigorous and brisk
8. stinging: causing a sharp stinging sensation
9. military laser- or radio-guided: used to describe a missile or weapon that is guided to its target by laser or radio beams
10. electronic engineering electronic: with a built-in microprocessor
The voting public has been given one last piece of information to differentiate the two parties. The Republicans have not been perfect. The democrats hate our country and our military. All I ask is that freedom loving Americans take a real look at the difference.
It was nothing but a "Joke Malfunction".
You are a joy to behold.
Damn, they dumped Jimmy Carter too, but somehow he crawled out of the dumpster.
Yes. "How To Navigate Academia"...
"Profiles In Ketchup"...
"Stuck In The Senate"...
"How To Get Purple Hearts, Without Really Trying"...
[drum-de-dum]
We don't need no thought control...
[drum-de-dum]
HEY! KERRY! Leave them kids alone!!!!
He is the Mass equivalent of a double wide with an ascot. A double wide Ahole.
You know, when I think about it, the Dems have really dissed both Kerry and Lieberman. I guess those who don't produce for the masters must pay.
What an awful party.
Gigolo? An arrogant sleazeball liar who chases rich old women for money? He should resign and start work on his film "Honey I Stalked a Billionaire."
Correction: #47 should be #46.
"The guy has the sense of humor of a mortician."
I knew a mortician that had a very dry sense of humor. If you asked him, he'd tell you folks were dying to hear it...
LOL...anomalous humor...
Tony Snow on BOR thinks Kerry's apology today was acceptable and doesn't think Kerry consciously meant to diss the common soldier.
My sincere apology to Morticians everywhere!
Pray for W and Our Troops
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
Man...I had to go to the dictionary this morning for PARVENU and now for yours!!
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