Posted on 11/19/2004 9:42:39 AM PST by gopwinsin04
Senator John Kerry believes he lost the 2004 presidential election becuase of the video from Usama Bin Laden that surfaced just days before the November 2 election.
He told FOX News senior correspondant Geraldo Rivera that he believes the tape may have scared the American electorate.
Rivera spoke to Kerry in a holding room to the processional leading up to the formal opening of the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.
'Tough luck, Senator,' Rivera said to Kerry, referring to the Democrats election loss.
Rivera said Kerry responded by saying, 'It was that Usama tape-it scared them.' [the American people]
Kerry said that the tape came out too late for his side to rebut and the Democratic campaign could not counteract in time for the Tuesday election.
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Why would sKerry want to rebut his greatest admirer warning the American people? :o)
We have to get this turd out of the senate.
Ha! Even his excuses are flip-flops. Didn't he say in Wisconsin when he was interviewed right after the Osama video that he didn't think the video was going to have any impact on the election? As a matter of fact, the Democrats were thrilled the tape surfaced because it emphasized the “failure”of the Bush administration to catch Osama, which Kerry believed was the case, when he added: "I am prepared to wage a more effective war on terror than George Bush.” So now, it was the damned video which did him. Go figure.
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That's okay, Kerry.
Any country that would be afraid of a bin Laden tape is obviously too stupid to have you lead them anyway. So look at the bright side, John, you're back to representing those nuanced intelligent Massachusettsians who enjoy sticking their penises in other people's anuses. Folks like that aren't intimidated by Osama. Heck, they'd just rape him if they ever met him and then convert him to political correctness and environmental extremism. Then again, the way he was parroting Michael Moore's talking points in the tape, perhaps that's already happened.
Kerry comes across as the same kind of mental patient as Clinton and Gore, doesn't he? LOL.
Oh puleeze! The UBL tape just confirmed what everybody already knew. Kerry sunk himself, Swift Boat Vets exposed his screw-ups, and the rest of us chipped in where we could.
Sheesh .... once again it's not his fault.
Thanks for the ping Tonk.
The Kerry Excuse is pitiful...and yet another reason to be grateful a man who thinks this way is not in the Oval Office.
DE-NILE; a river in Egypt.
With all due respect, I think that was more about Geraldo and less about the wars. In Afghanistan he was accused of manufacturing a "they're shooting at us" story that, as I recall, has never been fully resolved. In Iraq he was booted from the 101st Airborne as an embed for reporting their position on the air.
My memory is long. I remember Rivera running interference for Clinton during not only the impeachment situation but the entire time that administration was in power. While Geraldo may have toned down his liberalism it seems to me that has more to do with working for FOX than anything else. He's now pushed as a news "reporter" whereas when he worked for CNBC he had a talk show and that was it. They never let him get within arm's length of a real news story as an actual news reporter.
Perhaps it's me but ever since "Al Capone's Vault" I've never had much use for Geraldo Rivera. And frankly I don't think I ever will.
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