Looking ahead, Kerry to use carrier as campaign launch

Boston Globe ^ | 8/22/03 | Glen Johnson

[kattracks]

Senator John F. Kerry has decided to trade "Old Ironsides" for the USS Yorktown, planning to stand before the aircraft carrier on Sept. 2 to publicly declare his candidacy for president.

The Massachusetts Democrat had considered using the USS Constitution in Charlestown, the Navy's oldest commissioned warship, as a backdrop for the announcement. But campaign aides said Kerry decided to change the location to the Yorktown, which is docked off Charleston, S.C., both to gain publicity in the politically important state as well as to counter the trip President Bush took to an aircraft carrier May 1 to declare an end to major combat operations in Iraq.

[goldstategop]

Jean F. Cheri trying to show how much he stands behind the U.S military? Yeah right.

[Moose4]

Oh puke. Hey, Ketchup Boy, stay the hell up in Massachusetts and don't pollute the Palmetto State with your fine French demeanor and your French body odor, 'k? You insult the memory of the men who served on the Yorktown by your mere presence, Lurch.

BTW, did you know he served in Vietnam?

}:-)4

[Moose4]

Oh, here's a big difference between W and Ketchup Boy:

Our President flew in an active military aircraft onto a carrier in service, doing a trap on the carrier and then addressing our troops.

Ketchup Boy will fly into the Charleston airport, take a limo out to Patriot's Point, and board a floating museum, surrounded by 30- to 60-year-old static unflyable airplanes, to address political hacks.

Discuss.

}:-)4

[netmilsmom]

He was in Vietnam, you know!

[Momaw Nadon]

[Arkie2]

He's going to look like Bush lite. Comparisons will, no doubt, be less than flattering. That's a good thing.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A presidential hopeful from, of all things, Massachusetts! It's laughable.

Former Massachusetts state Senate president William Bulger, foreground, is seen in this March 1995 file photo reacting while talking on the phone to former President Clinton, during the annual St. Patrick's Day breakfast in south Boston. Bulger, who recently had been serving as president of the University of Massachusetts, announced his resignation Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2003. U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is seen in the background. (AP Photo/Julia Malakie)

U.S. Senators from Massachusetts Edward Kennedy (C) (D-MA) and John Kerry (R), (D-MA) and Senator Kennedy's wife Victoria (L), listen as Archbishop Sean O'Mally is installed as the new Archbishop of Boston July 30, 2003. O'Malley replaces Cardinal Bernard Law who resigned in December 2002 amid the clergy sexual abuse scandal in the Boston Archdiocese. REUTERS/POOL/Peter Smith

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"I have worked with aircraft carriers for real," Kerry has said

Yeah, Frenchy--and I said "The Russians should get rid of the Berlin Wall" at the water fountain before Reagan made his speech.

How many naval aviators have actually landed a Navy plane on a carrier--never mind been a passenger on one? What mattered was that the commander-in-chief was the passenger.

Better put some ice on that . . .

[areafiftyone]

BWAAA AAHAAAAAAA! Now Kerry is morphing into Bush!!! First Kennedy, then Clinton, Now Bush!!! What an Idiot!!! BWAAAA HAAAAA That man has no personality - he has to borrow everyone elses!

[Peach]

I thought this was a joke when I first saw the headline. After reading the article, I've decided it's Kerry who is the joke.

[bert]

Kerry on the Yorktown.........?

Dukakis in a tank?

                    A fatigue be-medalled Beatle begging a murderer  .........

                   or perhaps discussing how to send Catholic charity money to the IRA

                   or "Why  did you leave Mary Jo in the Car?"

[Tarheel]

"I have worked with aircraft carriers for real," Kerry has said, mocking the widely photographed landing Bush made on the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Will we see the pictures of Kerry denouncing the VietNam War during this announcement? I don't think so. This man does not have an original thought in his head--he has been calling himself John F. Kerry since he started running for president and now this annoncement with the boat crews he commanded present! Kerry is no Jack Kennedy and we all know he could never be a George W.

Kerry needs new political image advisors.

The Tarheel

[Aeronaut]

Is Kari going to wear a flight suit?

[SandRat]

How much better can it get?

A DemoRAT talking tired old, better long ago retired ideas on a tired old retired Lady of the Navy. I do feel sorry for the Lady though;

having to suffer though an infestation of RATS!

[WestPacSailor]

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[WestPacSailor]

"I have worked with aircraft carriers for real,"

SO WHAT?!?! This is supposed to instill respect for his leadership because he was no an aircraft carrier?

Just doesn't pass the SO WHAT test, for me at least.

[Jhensy]

Geez, those playing the "Do a Shot Every Time He Mentions Vietnam" game will be pretty sh*t-faced September 2. Remember friends, designated drivers!

[WestPacSailor]

Remember friends, designated drivers!

Remember friends, do NOT designate Ted Kennedy as your driver!

[toomuchcoffee]

Nahhhh... this was really posted by Scott Ott.