Posted on 11/19/2006 8:48:05 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Kerry says gaffe will not stop him from running in 2008
9 minutes ago
Senator John Kerry has said a gaffe last month widely seen as a slight against US troops in Iraq would not deter him from considering the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
Grilled on US television Sunday about his political worth as a presidential hopeful after his verbal blunder, and asked if he had given up hope of a future White House run after losing to President George W. Bush in 2004, Kerry, 62, was adamant.
"Not in the least. I'm looking at it in the same way," he said in an interview with Fox News Sunday television program.
"My team is confident and strong," Kerry said.
However, the Massachusetts Senator said he had not made up his mind about running again.
"My decision would be somewhere around the turn of the year, beginning of the year," he said.
Kerry, a former Vietnam War veteran, caused an outcry when he said at an October 30 political rally that Americans who neglect their education would "get stuck in Iraq."
He apologized for his remark, saying it was never intended to insult US troops, but blamed the "Republican attack machine" for the controversy surrounding what he had said had been a "botched joke."
He withdrew from campaigning for the November 7 legislative elections to avoid becoming a distraction.
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I think that's he's so marginalized and irrelevant that I can't even greet this news with any enthusiasm regarding potential entertainment value. He's just done, and his campaign won't come close to getting off the ground. I don't think he'll make a splash at all. If anything, he might give the beast from the east an opportunity to score some cheap political points by taking shots at his famous anti-military comments, as if her own worldview is any different...
That's what I'm praying for. Though have you seen him lately? He's on the Michale Moore diet.
We will all get to see his FBI file if he runs against her!She will see that some of his past comes back to haunt him.We may finally get to see his discharge form unedited!
There's no need. He's already politically dead.
LOL. That picture says it all.
"I am Hillary Clinton. I did NOT serve in Vietnam".
Interesting contrast, eh?
His chance didn't change. It went from 0 to 0.
Then hopefully they'll argue over who did more to protest the war.
Good we need as many ill-spoken idiots getting air-time for their side as possible.
Kerry needs to come clean on whether or not Carter gave him a pardon or somesuch.
HALP ME JON CARRY I NEAD A EGO TRANSPLANT. CAN YU GIVE ME SUM OF YOR XTRA? CAN YU SPARE SUM ARROGANCE TO?
Kerry was in Vietnam?
Where does LaRouche get his money? Is he French?
Lol...that was a funny post!
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