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Kerry voices frustration with US political scene ("It's absurd. We've lost our minds")
AP ^ | October 28, 2010 | Glen Johnson

Posted on 10/28/2010 9:45:54 AM PDT by maggief

BOSTON—Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry unleashed a broadside Thursday against Republican "obstructionism," saying the GOP and its talk-show allies have created a "period of know-nothingism" in the country.

With his party braced for defeats in the midterm elections, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee told the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce that a Republican machine -- fueled by talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck -- has undermined progress and misled the public into believing Democrats created the country's current economic problems.

Kerry singled out attacks on an energy deal he was negotiating with Republicans, which fell apart amid criticism of an emissions-trading program. Some 20 Senate candidates are now opposing the proposed deal in their campaigns.

"It's absurd. We've lost our minds," said a clearly exasperated Kerry. "We're in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in. It's all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics."

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


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To: maggief
Sarah Palin on John F'n Kerry: "what a loon, what an elitist loon."
41 posted on 10/28/2010 10:04:59 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("It's amazing, A man who has such large ears could be so tone deaf" Rush Limbaugh 9/8/10)
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To: maggief

He is off his orange head.


42 posted on 10/28/2010 10:07:00 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: maggief

Ironically, Joe Biden’s replacement in the Senate puts ‘obstructionism’ in the proper Constitutional context.
Perhaps he and Kerry should have a talk.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-26-2010/ted-kaufman


43 posted on 10/28/2010 10:08:15 AM PDT by Lorianne (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ___ George Orwell)
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To: maggief

News flash to Kerry: your party is in the majority in both houses, and has only managed to inflame the American people to the point of overhauling the government. It’s called ‘freedom’.


44 posted on 10/28/2010 10:09:07 AM PDT by Spok (If you've got clowns, you're gonna have a circus.)
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To: maggief

The only person more stupid than Kerry is his wife.


45 posted on 10/28/2010 10:11:52 AM PDT by dforest
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To: SMARTY

Someone punch him. I like this better LOL.


46 posted on 10/28/2010 10:14:01 AM PDT by JimC214
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To: Nervous Tick

If anyone can relate to “know-nothingism”, it’s John F’ing Kerry.


47 posted on 10/28/2010 10:15:04 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: maggief

Keep attacking flyover country John boy.

Maybe some day you libs will finally break down and decide that it is time for the east and west coasts to seceede into your own little Socialist utopias. We will “act strained” about accepting the idea when the day comes, but when it is time for the citizens to vote on it they will be astounded that the flyover country votes 99% to kick their whiny butts out of the union and they have to carry their own weight around.


48 posted on 10/28/2010 10:15:48 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: maggief

There’s going to be a whole lot of this kind of bitterness after the election. I’m going to savor it.


49 posted on 10/28/2010 10:20:33 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: maggief
"We've lost our minds?".... Speak for yourself, Numbnuts!!...
50 posted on 10/28/2010 10:21:18 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Movemout

“THE STRAIN IS SHOWING”

BINGO! The ‘Rats are losing it.


51 posted on 10/28/2010 10:23:23 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

A glimmer of hope for Johnboy. Unfortunately, like a good politico he attempts to speak for others.


52 posted on 10/28/2010 10:24:28 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
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To: maggief

Oh good. Political advise from one of only a handful of politicos I dislike even more than Maoist Obama.


53 posted on 10/28/2010 10:28:12 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: maggief

Speaking of lost (Enquiring) minds ...

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards_sex_tape_hearings_federal_grand_jury_hunter_young/celebrity/69539

EDWARDS SEX TAPE WAR

After a brief interlude, legal war has resumed over the JOHN EDWARDS and his mistress RIELLE HUNTER’s sex tape.

The third participant in this horizontal war of legal possession is former loyalist ANDREW YOUNG who says he recovered and restored the VHS tape to view-ability.

According to multiple sources, the salacious encounter has “Johnny Reid “servicing the visibly pregnant Rielle orally and the former disgraced Senator is clearly visible in the XXX rated footage.

(snip)


54 posted on 10/28/2010 10:31:08 AM PDT by maggief
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To: JimC214

Ha!! Mo betta!


55 posted on 10/28/2010 10:33:01 AM PDT by SMARTY ("..discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you")
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To: maggief
"We're in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in."

Pardon me for having the temerity to disagree with your infallible opinion. Just for the record, I'll put my scientific knowledge and cognitive skills (and SAT scores) up against yours any day, asshole.

56 posted on 10/28/2010 10:33:05 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If not Boston, then Texas. Go Rangers!)
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To: maggief

OK John boy, whatever floats your boat.


57 posted on 10/28/2010 10:34:05 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: maggief

Kerry articulates the doctrine of Democratic Infallibility.

Once the Democratic Party has taken a stand on an issue, any disagreement with them is heresy. That’s how science works, we all fall in line behind the pronouncement of the annointed, right?


58 posted on 10/28/2010 10:35:25 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If not Boston, then Texas. Go Rangers!)
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To: maggief
Awesome.

I love watching communist traitors implode as they suddenly notice the multitude of torches approaching the Bastille...


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

59 posted on 10/28/2010 10:36:18 AM PDT by The Comedian (Don't run. You'll just die tired.)
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To: maggief

“3 Band Aid Kerry” Speaks ...


60 posted on 10/28/2010 10:38:23 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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