Posted on 10/09/2004 6:57:32 AM PDT by JohnRand
Kerry: "...And looking around here, at this group here, I suspect there are only three people here who are going to be affected: the president, me, and, Charlie, I'm sorry, you too."
Kerry speaking in last evening's debate about his plan to raise taxes on people making 200k+ annually. So now John Kerry is prejudging people by just looking at them to determine their income?!? He decided that the only people in the room that qualified as his new tax-hike victims were himself, Bush and Charlie Gibson! Wow, a big criticism many liberals have of Bush is his supposed "arrogance", there was simply nothing more arrogant and ignorant than that statement that Kerry made and it will probably haunt his campaign...
Since Kerry's wife has all the money, I doubt he understands the difference between individual and household income.
Has ANYONE in the media reported on this gaff?
Kerry must have learned to recognize the "common riff-raff" in "Elitism 101" at the Swiss finishing school.....
more people need to know about Kerry's schooling in private schools in Europe where he spent his formative years with daddy, a communist leaning diplomat.
He leaves it out of both he web site AND his Senate site.
He knows it would spill the beans about where he's coming from.
As he himself said, "I'm an Internationlist" translate: socialist. (see:http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=357339
This remark will haunt him.
Probably insulted Theresa with that comment too. Since he didn't name her in the group affected by the tax cut, he obviously didn't think SHE looked like she fit the image of wealth.
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good one! LOL
Yes, it was clear that people surged toward GW immediately. At first Kerry chatted with the moderator, then his family came up and provided company, then he had the sense to greet people, himself. His daughter, who hugged him on camera afterwards, looked very upset. She knew he'd lost big time. I felt sorry for her and him, for about two seconds. Another thing pundits are saying, well, RAT spinners like CeCe Connolly of Fox and the WashPost, is that GW was 'angry'. Nonsense. He couldn't have been more personable and full of life, energetic. That man who was interviewed on NPR this afternoon...who asked the Iraq/WMD question during the debate...said GW was very personable and had connected really well with the audience. He said you probably didn't get to see that on tv, but it was obvious. And that Kerry seemed...stiff. He had to search for a neutral word.
Too bad debate footage can't be used in ads.
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nope. pre-debates agreement
Yes, I was annoyed at his name dropping. The I was in Kyoto nonsense, too. Stupid mistakes he should have known better than to say. His staff has to be going crazy. How do they criticize the candidate (arrogance personified), when he doesn't even dare criticize his wife?
Shows he thinks so little of non-Eastern liberal-elites that he believes everyone in the Midwest must be poor.
Atlas will shrug.
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too bad Ayn Rand woudln't allow "Atlas Shrugged" to be made into a movie. It would be perfect right now!
The cream (GW),always rises to the top, even if he's pretty square. He seems like a million other normal American dads, and thank God for that. His emphasis on the importance of families in this country is no small thing.
Very arrogant! He probably does not even recognize his statements were offensive. What a boob!
ergo: Kerry was right
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unless the reports that the audience was inflitrated by libs who fibbed (would they do that?) when being questiond pre-debate
These debates are costing him votes,his boorish behavior is an amazing thing to behold.
I go to school in Seattle. Sometimes I eat at this little hole-in-the-wall teriyaki place near campus, similar to teriyaki places all over town. On the wall over a table, the proud owners have a picture of Gates with the notation that he ate there a few years ago.
Obviously, Gates has no problem eating in the type of joint that Kerry would avoid like the plague. You can always tell the kind of people who have money as opposed to those who are owned by their money. Kerry is the latter.
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