Kerry is not as smart as he thinks

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 11/02/06 | Toby Harnden

[gotribe]

With liberals, it's always just right there under the surface. So glad this guy lost.

[redhead]

"Me also, in fact I was at the same base as George was, but I left a couple of years before he got there. Ellington AFB Houston."

Thank you so much for your service. May God bless you richly.

[frankenMonkey]

I'm third generation Army, and the fourth generation is at Benning right now.

[redhead]

"I got medic training at Ft. Sam Houston."

Bless you! Thank you for serving!

[OESY]

Imus asked Kerry if he was sorry for the remark. "Of course, I'm sorry about a botched
joke. You think I love botched jokes? I mean, it's pretty stupid," Kerry responded.





The real botched joke.

[sam_paine]

That still makes no sense.

Put your moon-bat decoder wings on. Then it makes sense.

[redhead]

"I was drafted July '69. While in basic training the lottery started. I had a high number, but alas, I was already E-1."

Thanks for serving! May God bless you.

[CrazyIvan]

"Carthart?"

I think so. I've seen them this color at the farm store when they're new. He needs to drag them behind the limo for a couple of months so they'll look like the ones we peasants wear.

[sam_paine]

Lieberman has to be chuckling tonight.

Has lieberman promised to caucus with the party that threw him under the bus?

Wouldn't it be a hoot if it comes down to a Jeffords situation again and the Jumpin Joe is on OUR side this time?

[School of Rational Thought]

If there was an intended joke it made no sense.

Leftist criticism of Bush: he is stupid and avoided Vietnam.

Supposed joke: you are smart and avoid Iraq.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Neat article!

[Current Occupant]

Wow, I thank you very kindly and back atchya.

[sam_paine]

GWB flew the F-102 [in the 70s]

He also flew an S-3 to a carrier [during his presidency.]

Kerry drove a boat. Hell. I can drive a boat. I can drive a boat full throttle away from a fire-fight any day of the week. I can do it drunk, too!

I don't think I could fly anything, sober or drunk, (for too many seconds, anyhow.)

[WVNan]

How ironic that he first gained prominence by bashing the soldiers, and that's just how he's going down.

"Whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap." Karma. What goes around, comes around. And other cliques. Ain't it sweet?

[NonValueAdded]

Especially at first. The 102's overall accident rate is better than 3 times the rate for modern fighters, per the article at the earlier link. Further, I quote: "The F-102 claimed the lives of many pilots, including a number stationed at Ellington during Bush's tenure." Think about that. The plane you are about to fly killed a fellow pilot the day or the week before. But Kerry dares to imply that GWB was a coward? Hah! GWB's base probably lost more men than Kerry's over the period of their service. Sure, the risks were different, but dead is dead. That Kerry diminishes GWB's service is EXACTLY why he claims being "a combat veteran" whenever he can. It is a nuance he holds out, trying desperately to gain gravitas for his own sorry arse.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Kerry drove a boat. Hell. I can drive a boat. I can drive a boat full throttle away from a fire-fight any day of the week. I can do it drunk, too!

F-102

Swiftboat (this is NOT PT-109)

[TET1968]

What a bogus piece of crap....could have been scripted by Kerry himself but I'll give this Brit credit, he sure manages to get the sound bites in.

1.The writer equates attacking the troops and their families to a "kerfuffle" which is defined as a disturbance, disruption, commotion, stir, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah.

2."I have no doubt that he didn't mean to say that US soldiers in Iraq are dumb cannon fodder"

3. "He was trying to say that Bush was stupid"
No he wasn't , Kerry implied that our troops in Iraq were stupid..

4."It would have been a minor blip in the final week of the campaign if he had apologized immediately and unequivocally"

It would have been a blip if you work for the New York Times or CNN.

5." I have sat in Humvees and Bradley fighting vehicles with black sergeants from Alabama, marines from Mexico and good ol' boy snipers from Kentucky in places like Fallujah and Ramadi as they described their hopes with an affecting optimism that belied the mortal danger they were in. In many ways, they embody what is great about America."

Sounds a tad left wing condescending to me.

[sam_paine]

I don't see any joke here.....I see an him playing a self appointed, self wise pedagogue plying students with an object lesson, not making a joke.

I don't know what a clockwise pedal goggle is, but I agree he didn't have anything funny to say!

He wraps his admonition in the slur like a it was a hot dog in a bun.

Wrapped up Dr. Seuss like a wonder hematite.

Seriously, it is fascinating how many screwups he rolled into this one. If you take it on face value, then he alienates a huge swath of the military and their families....even democrats in the military....what are they to think!

If you take his explanation that he's making light of GWB's education, then you alienate all the people that don't have college degrees, and you of course trivialize yourself as a non-serious senator who's letting someone uneducated run a war while he's giving a speech to some kids.

[littlehouse36]

Botoxched Joke.

[Nuc1]

I DID! Oops caps lock accident.