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Who Among Us Does Not Love Windsurfing? [Free Republic mentioned]
The New York Times ^ | September 5, 2004 | Kate Zernike

Posted on 09/05/2004 8:46:21 AM PDT by Sarastro

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To: avital2

The difference is Kerry is playacting to try to idenitfy with the common man. Bush was on his ranch and couldn't care less if he fell. He who he is. Did you see Kerry skeet shooting? "See, I'm a gun guy". This fool doesn't see that people see through his tricks. Hes running out of sports, what next?


81 posted on 09/05/2004 9:39:48 AM PDT by Old anti feminist
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To: Servant of the 9

I may be out of touch, but the burden of raising a family doesn't allow windsurfing in our budget. What a jerk.


82 posted on 09/05/2004 9:40:02 AM PDT by Sarah
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To: Tamsey
Talk about NYT journalists spewing Democrat talking points... this line is almost word for word from Kerry

Glad you mentioned this. I noticed it also.

Shouldn't the New York Slimes be registered as a 527?

83 posted on 09/05/2004 9:41:01 AM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Old anti feminist
"See, I'm a gun guy".

LOL

This fool doesn't see that people see through his tricks. Hes running out of sports, what next?

Running with the bulls?

84 posted on 09/05/2004 9:42:46 AM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: RoseofTexas
HEY YOU, NYSLIME lurkers...SHOVE IT!!

LOL

85 posted on 09/05/2004 9:45:50 AM PDT by Drango (Kerry is french toast.)
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To: Sarastro

I don't think people would be as upset if Kerry just naturally acted like the man of privilege he is, instead of looking like a complete fool pretending to be "one of the commoners."


86 posted on 09/05/2004 9:46:20 AM PDT by Loyalist
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To: Sarastro

The SUV thing is to show the hypocrisy of the left. They are the ones who are supposedly saving the environment and the common man should be forced into driving a tin can which gets 50 miles to the gallon while they continue to drive whatever the heck they want.


87 posted on 09/05/2004 9:48:25 AM PDT by tiki
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To: Sarastro

Sour Grapes. NY Slimes can't understand why sKerry can't come across as a regular guy like the Pres. Gee, hard to understand, huh?

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88 posted on 09/05/2004 9:48:46 AM PDT by BurbankErnie
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To: Sarastro

The thing the Times misses is that Kerry has been looking stupid for a long time. It's not that he looked particularly goofy windsurfing this week; he looked just as dopey snowboarding six months ago. But Kerry was ahead in the polls then, and he's behind now, so all of a sudden, the Times realizes that Kerry is capable of looking dopey in these pictures.


89 posted on 09/05/2004 9:49:29 AM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: Sarastro


Kerry: "I said, DON'T touch the hair ... don't EVER touch the hair!"
Aide: "Ok, ok, I'm backing off ... no need for a hissy fit."

90 posted on 09/05/2004 9:52:03 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: John Jorsett
Personally, I don't have a problem with Kerry windsurfing, snowboarding, or any of that

I don't either. It's what he SAYS when doing these activities, i.e., when he fell while snowboarding, which MOST people will do, he blamed it on his SecServ agent, saying, "The son of a bitch knocked me down." A man who would give his life to protect this schmuck, is called a son of a bitch!! Kerry is not fit to wipe the SecServ guys boots. Despicable.
91 posted on 09/05/2004 9:53:13 AM PDT by baseballmom (You Know Where I Stand - GW Bush - 9/2/04 We're standing with you, Mr. President)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

From reading or hearing all the comments women were making about him, President Bush clearly didn't look like a dork in any of those pictures.


92 posted on 09/05/2004 9:53:27 AM PDT by GBA
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To: Sarastro
Here's the full quote about what Zell Miller said:

Georgia Senator Zell Miller: "I noticed that John Kerry was out windsurfing the other day. I still don't understand why this man still goes around in those skin tight spandex things. How many people in the United States windsurf or wear those silly little bicycle shorts?"

Here's another quote from Zell on Kerry -- this was from January, mind you:

(2) Now to "Cussing Kerry." Like Alice, this campaign gets "curiouser and curiouser." What will those former Gore consultants try next? The electric blue spandex surfing bodysuit didn't work. The jeans and Harley Davidson didn't work. Chet Atkins turned in his grave at the senator's guitar picking. And now comes the F-word in Rolling Stone. My mouth ain't no prayer book, but John Kerry could have asked his pal Tom Harkin of Iowa how cussing went over with voters in 1992. Like a lead balloon. It's as if Mr. Kerry will do anything to appear the "coolest" in the Our Gang crowd. What's next? John Kerry wearing a baseball cap sideways?

93 posted on 09/05/2004 9:53:59 AM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: Samwise


Lucianne had this pic up, titled Thurston and Lovey. LOL
94 posted on 09/05/2004 9:55:20 AM PDT by baseballmom (You Know Where I Stand - GW Bush - 9/2/04 We're standing with you, Mr. President)
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To: BenLurkin
Allow me to don my tinfoil hat for a moment. The photos of him in spandex are hard to find on the net anymore. Almost as if someone went aroudn systematically removing them.

You know, I thought you were wearing a tinfoil hat, but then I noticed in the freeper thread about him windsurfing that the Yahoo photo link doesn't work anymore. I don't think that's an accident.

95 posted on 09/05/2004 9:59:02 AM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: Unam Sanctam
It just makes me laugh when I think what a rich elitist snob this Kerry is, how many mansions he has, etc., etc

Those are NOT his mansions. They belonged to John Heinz. Kerry has the use of them as long as he is married to Senator Heinz' widow.
96 posted on 09/05/2004 10:01:57 AM PDT by baseballmom (You Know Where I Stand - GW Bush - 9/2/04 We're standing with you, Mr. President)
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To: Chi-townChief

ROFLMAO !!!


97 posted on 09/05/2004 10:06:14 AM PDT by baseballmom (You Know Where I Stand - GW Bush - 9/2/04 We're standing with you, Mr. President)
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To: Sarastro
But somehow the image of the yacht really clings to Kerry," he said. "Largely because Republicans have made the stereotype so natural. If a liberal drives an S.U.V., it's the car of the elite, if a Republican drives one it's instantly the car of the common man. They have a whole stereotype that they've spent years building."

I think it's more that because the Democrats have spent years trying to portray themselves as the party of the common man (calling themselves "The People's Party"), and the Greenies (who hate the SUVs,) - that make the yachts, the mansions, the SUVs noticable because of their hypocracy. The rich Republican stereotype is something the Democrats have perpetuated, so according to them, it would not be unusual for a Republican to be at a Yacht Club.

The Democrats have painted themselves into a corner with this image. Bush can clear brush on his ranch and WOW, he's more like us than we thought. Kerry goes windsurfing at one of his many vacation homes, with his family's yacht, jet, SUVs at his disposal - hmmm, not so much like me.

98 posted on 09/05/2004 10:08:04 AM PDT by TX Bluebonnet
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To: Sarastro

I note that they're still pushing the "first George Bush bewildered at the grocery scanner" lie. It was totally false, made up by a reporter who wasn't even at the event.


99 posted on 09/05/2004 10:09:07 AM PDT by Harpo Speaks
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To: Sarastro
How stupid are Kerry defenders? Imbeciles!

Kate starts off lamenting the mocking of Kerry for wanting to spend "a summer afternoon windsurfing" as if he's toiling endlessly and was only seeking a few brief moments' respite from the perpetual grind. The fact is he's constantly goofing off.

From there her analysis and comparisons get just plain idiotic.

100 posted on 09/05/2004 10:10:35 AM PDT by cyncooper (We're mad as Zell and we're not going to take it anymore!)
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