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Return of the Kerry Magic!
www.HughHewitt.com ^ | 10/31/2006 | Dean Barnett

Posted on 10/31/2006 12:28:57 PM PST by The Blitherer

Democrats must be cursing that damn Karl Rove. How does he do it? From where in the black depths of his soul did he conjure the idea of putting a microphone in front of John Kerry’s mouth during the last week of a campaign season? We all know the truth now, and it is incontrovertible: Karl Rove is one magnificent bastard!

For those of you late to the party, here’s the source of the controversy:

According to the Pasadena Star-News: "Kerry then told the students that if they were able to navigate the education system, they could get comfortable jobs - "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq," he said to a mixture of laughter and gasps.''

The suggestion that only defective students go to Iraq is manifestly offensive and a needless slur on the troops in Iraq. While Kerry may have been painfully recalling his own experience at Yale where he got 4 D’s during his freshman year and ultimately wound up in Vietnam, there’s nonetheless no excuse for these comments.

I assume if you’re a Democrat, you’d like to see this controversy go away since most people won’t incline to share Kerry’s view that it’s quite cricket to call our soldiers a bunch of dullards. If Kerry were a team player, he would issue a perfunctory apology and let the story die a quick death.

But Kerry is no team player. Never was, never will be. He is once again playing the “Swiftboated” card and his response to the controversy is almost as obnoxious as his original comment. A news release from the Senator’s office reads in part:

Washington – Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerry’s comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record:

“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did…

It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have…

These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.

Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they’re afraid to debate real men.

By all means, read the whole thing. The part about Rush Limbaugh making fun of Michael J. Fox is especially on point.

The paragraph I bolded and italicized is particularly telling. John Kerry thinks his service in Vietnam four decades ago means his every comment and action should be beyond reproach. It doesn’t work like that. Ask Duke Cunningham. It’s rather amazing that a man of Kerry’s age and experience has formulated such a simplistic, juvenile and narcissistic worldview.

At a time like this, I think it only appropriate that we thank the Lord that John Kerry is one of the public faces of the Democratic Party. It will truly be a delight watching Democrats who tapped the Kerry fundraising spigot this cycle rush to distance themselves from the Senator as his mouth has put his career and those around him into full-on Chernobyl mode.

What’s the next trick up Rove’s sleeve? An open-ended interview with Howard Dean?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benedictarnold; democrats; elections; hughhewitt; johnkerry; kerry; kerrydumbiraqgaffe; kerrymagic; magic; stuckiniraq; unfit
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To: cripplecreek

We should bombard his email. Does anyone know what it is?


61 posted on 10/31/2006 1:11:55 PM PST by Our God given right to be free
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To: The Blitherer

Not me, I am a NYer (along the border with PA), and am under the burdensome carpet bag of the beast.


62 posted on 10/31/2006 1:13:06 PM PST by tioga
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To: All
KFI is having fun:

John Kerry Says US Troops Are Dumb/Losers

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Monday, October 30, 2006 

Title  John Kerry Says US Troops Are Dumb/Losers 
Story Today at Pasadena City College at an event on behalf of Phil Angelides former Presidential candidate John Kerry actually told the students there that they better study or they may end up "stuck in Iraq." You can hear the audio at the link below. 

Link to Story

63 posted on 10/31/2006 1:13:50 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: The Blitherer
Just trying to capture all kinds of links...

Los Angeles airways will be smoking with Ken and John surely picking this up also....

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Show Highlights

Zig's unique take on the news of the day. John Kerry on what happens if you don't study hard.

John Kerry on How You End Up In Iraq (10/30/06)
Listen to audio clip here.

How’d he do? (

64 posted on 10/31/2006 1:18:26 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

Thanks. See my #2.


65 posted on 10/31/2006 1:19:21 PM PST by Disambiguator (If the Democrats were a stock, I would short them.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Click just above for the audio of Kerry's comment.....


66 posted on 10/31/2006 1:19:27 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: The Blitherer; Marine_Uncle; NormsRevenge; SierraWasp; blam; SunkenCiv; Dog; Coop; Cap Huff; ...

Kerry nailed...see above for audio of kerry's comments...


67 posted on 10/31/2006 1:21:53 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: The Blitherer
Democrats must be cursing that damn Karl Rove. How does he do it? From where in the black depths of his soul did he conjure the idea of putting a microphone in front of John Kerry’s mouth during the last week of a campaign season? We all know the truth now, and it is incontrovertible: Karl Rove is one magnificent bastard!

......you should have seen his face when I took off my fake wig and mustache and said thanks for the interview...

...that bastard's everywhere...how does he do it

68 posted on 10/31/2006 1:28:58 PM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Fake but Accurate": NY Times)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Isn't this what happened? Kerry was with a group of college students, democrat college students, who he believed like him, thought like him, and did not present an ideologic threat to him. He let his guard down. Then, like the duplicitous prick he is, he lets us peek into his 'real, unguarded belief'....and that is that he believes the military troups, soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen and women, are what is wrong with this country. The leftist, liberal college, Harvard types are his type...his compatriates....not the men and women who provide our freedom with their very lives, honor, and sense of duty. My God, how could he forsake these people? Even in a moment of unguarded reflection, how could he forsake these selfless, heroes? But, we saw exactly what he thinks about the military. He confirmed the Swiftboat allegations, he confirmed the video of what he said 35 years ago before the senate, and he provided a "true view" of what he says in private,...and that is exactly what he believes. Moreover that is what the dems believe. Where are the democrat denunciations? If they come out now, it is only because they have had their fingers in the air or have flash polled his comments. This is what we do not need in leadership.


69 posted on 10/31/2006 1:37:19 PM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: tioga

52/44 and that was before John Kerry's remarks had a chance to be polled.


70 posted on 10/31/2006 1:42:39 PM PST by billhilly
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To: Texas Songwriter

He was campaigning for California Governor Candidate Angelides....against Arnold...the Terminator....he has stepped in it...


71 posted on 10/31/2006 1:46:22 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Texas Songwriter
-watch some of those faces behind him when you see a replay of skerry....despite the dems rhetoric, those young faces did not seem to agree with him. Call me optimistic.
72 posted on 10/31/2006 1:50:36 PM PST by tioga
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thanks for the ping to that!


73 posted on 10/31/2006 2:02:36 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: The Blitherer







74 posted on 10/31/2006 2:02:40 PM PST by OESY
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To: OESY; Peach

ROFLMAO!!!


75 posted on 10/31/2006 2:08:39 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: mnehrling

"Well, to tell you the truth, I kind of lost track . . . are you feeling lucky, John Kerry?"


76 posted on 10/31/2006 2:09:17 PM PST by juliej
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To: Checkers

and Mary Cheney is a lesbian.


77 posted on 10/31/2006 2:11:24 PM PST by juliej
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To: tioga

And let's pray that Jim Talent and George Allen also win. Keep pulling for Rick Santorum to pull it off. And Michael Steele!


78 posted on 10/31/2006 2:13:25 PM PST by juliej
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To: juliej

and Mary Cheney is a lesbian....and Kerry served in Vietnam...dincha know?


79 posted on 10/31/2006 2:56:47 PM PST by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
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To: capt. norm
This guy could screw up a one-car funeral....

I like it!...I LIKE IT!!

Bwahahahaha!!!

FMCDH(BITS)

80 posted on 10/31/2006 3:50:27 PM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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