Posted on 08/03/2008 4:23:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's a slow news day, so why not throw a little humor out there? Here's Kerry on today's Meet The Press, interviewed by Tom Brokaw:
MR. BROKAW: We're going to get to all those issues, but I also want to raise what a surrogate for Senator Obama had to say to my friend Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation." This is former General Wesley Clark talking about John McCain. He said, "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president." He described him as untested and untried. With all due respect, Senator Kerry, he could have been talking about your qualifications. You're a Vietnam veteran... SEN. KERRY: Yeah, I, I don't agree. I don't agree with Wes Clark's comment. I think it was entirely inappropriate. I have nothing but enormous respect for John McCain's service. I had the privilege of standing with John McCain in the, in the cell in Hanoi when we visited there together, when we worked on the issue of Vietnam together. It was an emotional moment. I, I have awe for John McCain's experience as a prisoner of war, and he, and he does understand duty and service. But...
Now, if Clark would go Meet The Press and rebuke Kerry for his age attacks on McCain (calling him "confused" on certain issues - a pattern with Obama and some of his surrogates), things would get really interesting. ;)
In response to Kerry's denouncing of Clarks' attack, some popular liberal bloggers are throwing Kerry under the bus - this in spite of the chunk of time Kerry spent criticizing McCain's "Celeb" ad and defending Obama against the charge that he used the race card, something the junior Senator from Illinois himself conceded on Saturday, a day after his chief strategist David Axelrod made a similar admission.
Related: Tom Maguire has a chuckle-worthy piece taking the NYT reporter Rachel Swarns to task for her - shall we say "inadequate"? - reporting on Obama's views on affirmative action.
Lovely when they eat their own....
Which officer was relieved of command? Wesley Clark!!
“...Kerry spent criticizing McCain’s “Celeb” ad and defending Obama against the charge that he used the race card, something the junior Senator from Illinois himself conceded on Saturday, a day after his chief strategist David Axelrod made a similar admission...”
Poor JK is always a day late and dollar short. Didn’t get the memo!
Jean Francois Kerry expert on Vietnam because he spent 30 minutes there. Every time I think of this punk swiftboating across Boston harbor on his way to the Rat convention I have to laugh-funny picture.
Bus fatalities are up about 5000% since Obama has began his run as President.
Photo: (August 27, 1994) Lt. General Wesley Clark meets and exchanges hats with Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic. Clark accepted as gifts from Mladic a hat, bottle of brandy and a pistol inscribed in Cyrrilic. A US official complained of Clark’s unauthorized visit: “It's like cavorting with Hermann Goering.”
“I had the privilege of standing with John McCain in the, in the cell in Hanoi when we visited there together, when we worked on the issue of Vietnam together”
Never heard of THIS before............
“Sister Toljah”?
I love it.
That was sooooo over the top!
Reporting for doody!
MATTHEWS: Did Bill Clinton agree in your policy?
CLARK: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: Why did he relieve you?
CLARK: First of all, I wasn't relieved.
MATTHEWS: You weren't?
CLARK: No. Uh-uh.
MATTHEWS: You weren't relieved as supreme commander as NATO.
CLARK: No, I wasn't. No. I was asked to retire three months early.
MATTHEWS: How is that different?. . . .
CLARK: If you relieve someone, you take them out of command. What happened here was, I was asked to retire early and then it was then leaked to The Washington Post in an effort to keep me from talking to Bill Clinton about it. So this was a behind the back power play. Bill Clinton told me himself he had nothing to do with it, And I believe him.
Wow...Clark and Matthews...imagine the mental might flexing between those two...
-PJ
Rachel L. Swarns
New York Times
Mr. Obama, a Democrat, has continued to support race-based affirmative action, calling it “absolutely necessary” when he was a state senator in Illinois and criticizing the Supreme Court for curtailing it in his time in the United States Senate. But in his presidential campaign, he has unsettled some black supporters by focusing increasingly on class and suggesting that poor whites should at times be given preference over more privileged blacks.
His ruminations about shifting the balance between race and class in some affirmative action programs raise the possibility that, if elected in November, he might foster a deeper national conversation about an issue that has been fiercely debated for decades.
-PJ
Jeeebus whats wrong with those babes?
Strike two!
Awesome! Headline of the week!
A gay lt general who was stripped of his command, of course.
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