You aren't calling him unpatriotic are you ?

I guess that depends on your definition of patriotism.

Isn't that 6 words?

He's into the whole xenophobic "don't send our jobs overseas" crap now. Which is only slightly more appalling than his reference earlier to the Boston Red Sox.

Well, this is typical John Kerry. Scared and a real coward. He knows his candidacy is unraveling very quickly. Can you say George McGovern??? Thank you Howard Dean for giving us John Kerry. You kept the media from focusing on the looser John Kerry really is. Thanks again. Howard.

seems as though the campaign advisors have changed their recommendations...

Sounds to me like he's regurgitating Bush's speech... only saying that HE could do it better... whithout telling us how, exactly... as usual.

"And when John Edwards and I are there, we'll make it a right, by God." (Apply to whatever issue under discussion)

OMG now he's praising his actions during the train-roll-thru incident. Saying he's "never stopped a trai that fast..."

pathetic...

haha i said the exact same thing on my blog. What the hell is that? This is your wakeup call? whose? America's? Bush's? it was not well delivered.

Oh my God he is on drugs. I heard more coherent thoughts at closing time in a bar.

I had to stop watching. It was too darn painful. Very disorganized, very incoherent, not presidential at all. If that's that best he can do off the cuff I'd rather not see him have to react quickly in a national emergency.

I've read on other live-blogs that he sounds drunk. You could hardly blame him at this point. Falling off - hell, diving into - the deep (left) end sure isn't going to help him.

Kerry is looking more and more like Dukakis -- only taller. Very sad.

Not to give him any of my support, but Kerry did do two tours. The first was on a ship off the coast of Vietnam, the second was the infamous 4 month stint.

Must say, not impressed at all with their rebuttal. Really didn't say anything we haven't heard, and he's still banging on about that service. Apparently he hasn't figured out that its not going to clinch much for him.

Yikes. Watching part of this rally made me want to hold up a great silver cross and run for the hills.

Slings and Arrows is blogging on it, too.

Nat- I know that, but he is REAAAALY stretching the point. It is bogus.

Yes, it is six words! Isn't this the kind of lame shit they love to ridicule Bush about? What a weak campaign, he just looks like a tacky dick, much like he did so many years ago testifing to congress. Deperate, but not serious.

In case nobody noticed, Kerry has lost the election. Too bad he has to spend the next two months pretending. That's gotta rankle.

The New York Times has it.

Oh, also forgot about the disingenuous bit about the Saudis. EVERY president has allowed the Saudi royal family to set oil prices because.... THEY SIT ON THE OIL SWING. When you sit on a huge percentage of a commodity you have undue influence on supply since its supply and demand that set prices.

The ironic thing is the only way he would be able to remove the Saudi royal family's influence on oil prices would be to [dum dum DUM....] remove the Saudi royal family. I'd love for someone to press him about just how he would achieve this goal.

First time to post on here ... Tonight's craven attempt to focus attention on Sen. Horse Face shows how desperate they are. When you couple that with the fact that their Presidential nominee has lowered himself to going after the opponent's Vice Presidential nominee, it makes it even more clear how wonderful he is as a nominee. Am I the only one that thinks that there were at least 7-10 Republicans giving speeches this week that could step into the election tomorrow and still beat those jokers. I would like to go on record to thank Gov. Yeah for allowing our wonderful President Bush to run against such a putz.

Jeebus...the Times is a disgrace. Roaring back?

Well, folks there you have the old media morning spin, Bush faltered and Kerry struggled bravely.

what a great Blog. After MSNBC, I turned to
CSPAN who kept broadcasting it. This guy is getting desperate. What a fraud, I watch out of the sheer enjoyment of watching him fall. I can't wait for the debates

Am I the only one that thinks that there were at least 7-10 Republicans giving speeches this week that could step into the election tomorrow and still beat those jokers.

10 is a stretch, but I think I can name 6. So no, you're not the only one. I really don't think Kerry wants to make Vietnam more of an issue, nor does he want to do that "misled into Iraq" thing when he voted for it.

Hey- Thanks Mark! We work out asses off. (not that others don't) So it is nice to see it gets noticed once in a while.

thanks Jack appreciate the links

Could be a Howard Dean moment.

Despite the obvious lies in Kerry's speech (Bush lied, Cheney still on the payroll, etc.), I just learned Kerry lied about the Red Sox moving to 2 -1/2 games behind the Yankees. Um John, you see if both teams win, there's no change in the standings...

Drunk? No. On some sort of sleeping medicine? Probably. He reminded me of my father at 9:30 p.m. after he awoke to my phone call and his speech reflected that.

No one has yet pointed out that this is another flip flop. It was just last week he was cornered into saying that even with what we know now, he would have gone to war. So, is he saying he too would have misled the nation? Or, flipping his Iraq position - yet, again?

Fox had about a minute of the speech in a split screen while Greta was on and LMAO she was looking at her monitor and you could tell she was thinking - What is this guy NUTZ?? Fox killed the feed and I scanned the tube to see if any network was so low as to carry it - I mean, come on - the last night of the opposition convention? What a lack of class. Sure enough, leave it to MSLSD to not be able to restrain their patisanship. My bet is they pulled it because the guy was clearly in meltdown ... it was embarassing. I'm thinking Chris Mouthews went to the john to puke ... or he thought he saw Zell coming from around the corner with a couple of flintlock pistols. But, that's just me.

By the way, I solved the Cambodia puzzle. My apologies if it wasn't mentioned by someone. I've been doing a lot of reading tonight and thought it was here. Answer below.

http://itsjustdan.blogspot.com/2004/08/radio-kerry.html

Dan: That was f'ing hilarious! I noticed the flip on the Iraq thing too. This guy is out of his mind, but I have been saying since the primaries...John Kerry Is Unelectable.

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I thought it would be of interest. I am a reporter for a newspaper in West Virginia and Jim Rassman was here Thursday. It was the typical rah-rah "Kerry's the man, Bush is a liar, Kove is the Anti-Christ" stuff, but he said something that sparked my interest. He was talking about his dealings with Kerry in Vietnam and told a story about finding a stash of rice and munitions. After talking about coming under fire, and his Chinese guy getting blown to bits, he said the group was going to destroy the rice. But, after tossing his grenade, Kerry didn't duck fast enough and caught a full load of rice in the ass. "It was the funniest thing I've ever seen and I'll never forget it," Rassman said. "And I'll never let him forget it." To me, this sounds suspiciously like the incident that some Swift Boat folks have been using to demonstrate that Kerry's second Purple Heart was not the result of enemy action (i.e. enemy fire) but "self-inflicted," even if it wasn't intentional. I found it very interesting that one of Kerry's staunchest supporters (registered GOP and according to him "the first time I've ever been involved in politics and the first time I've ever donated to a candidate") may have inadvertantly admitted that the other SWB vets might just know what they're talking about.

Y'all get the funniest lunatics here. :D

*waits for Kerry to spontaneously combust*

Spaceghost,

He's been telling the story for months and I've blogged it here once in full and mentioned it once in passing.

If you are new to the blogosphere, news gets old real fast. You will often read things in the blogosphere 2-3 days before they are widely passed thru the big media.

In fact, a quick search shows I blogged this on 8/21/04

even jeff greenfield was smirking at karen hughes tonite

HA! Jeff Greenfiled did not like a Republican speech. Now there is clinching proof it was a bad speech!

(rolls eyes)

syntallic you crack me up

syntallic,

I'd love to stay and fence but my swift boat's leaving for Cambodia. My editor's sending me to cover a breaking story - some guy named Kerry is running for dog catcher. Ciao!

I'm sorry, syntallic, did you have anything to say that has a passing relationship with facts or truth, or did you just drop by to sling a bit of untruthful mud and ad hominem?

Go easy on syntallic... he's doing the work of three men: Curly, Larry and Moe!

And there Kerry was... reigning supreme at number two.

"American, this is your wake-up call?"

Jesus H. Christ..silly me, I thought the wake-up call was given on 9-11-01.

Kerry, what a douchebag.

FUCK Kerry. That pussy volunteered for Vietnam. Flying jets is much cooler! You think flying jets is easy? Hell, Bush was last in his class and had to get help to even get into TANG. That's committment!

I have a new motto for the New York Times:

All the News That's Left to Print.

Hey 'Tom'- We have a rule here. (at least on my posts) If you make an allegation, you have to back it up.

Give me a link that says Bush's tax cut only goes to the top 1% of the wage earners and your post can stay.

"He needs handlers! Soon."

November 3, at the latest.

I watched Bush's acceptance speech and the beginning of Kerry's rebuttal.

What struck me even more than the negative tone of both Kerry and Edwards was the visual contrast. Bush at the RNC looked presidential. Kerry looked like he was staying at a KOA campground.

Let me get this right.

Kerry says he has doubts about the Vietnam war but volunteers to go. He shoots "gooks" and "slopes", destroys villages, and gets medals, while possibly exaggerating. He comes home to the US and says, in front of a Senate committee, he and others participated in an immoral war and committed war crimes. Now, Kerry is running around touting his medals he got for his self admitted war crimes, saying that this qualifies him to be President of the United States.

To make matters worse, Kerry has the balls to say that Bush who served in TANG and Cheney who had 5 deferments are the bad guys. Not that may years ago anti-war, loving folks would have said that Bush and Cheney were the good guys because they didn't go to this immoral war, by all means necessary.

Just exactly who is the "babykiller" here ?

The Kedwards slapped together speech was a disgrace. While Edwards was speaking, Kerry was standing behind him swaying a bit and occasionally digging his finger in his ear, touching his face, etc.

Then the garbage, some of it somewhat slurred, that emanated from Kerry's mouth was pathetic. Someone on another blog commented that Kerry looks like a dead tree. I'll add to that and say he sounds like one too.

I am also sick of Edwards' insta-grin fake smile. Watch him: as soon as he realizes the camera is on him, instant forced and phony cover-girl smile.

The ever liberal New York Times had a glowing review of the speech. I have to wonder if they heard it! Of course they didn't. They probably Laphamized it.

KJC,

On a similar note, have you ever seen the pictures of Bill Clinton at, I believe, Ron Brown's funeral? There is a series of pictures of him laughing and having a great time until he notices a camera pointed at him and immediately puts on the solemn face.

[The former President is now receiving treatment for heart complications right now in New York.]

Functional Ambivalent(http://functionalambivalent.typepad.com/blog/) analyzes the five highest-profile speakers at the Republican convention -- President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Senator Zell Miller, Governor Schwarzenegger, and former Mayor Giuliani -- and arrives at this breakdown:

* Mentions of Osama bin Laden: 0
* Mentions of John Kerry: 42
* Mentions of Saddam Hussein: 21

Who are we fighting in the "War on Terror"?

(I don't feel any terror right now, could we start a war on "slight anxiety"?

At the risk of being as pedantic as our host, Merriam-Webster has wake-up as a hyphenated word:

Main Entry: wake-up
Pronunciation: 'wAk-"&p
Function: adjective
: serving to wake up

If we're going to ridicule, we should have our info right.

kim -
:-)

All that's Left is News. We Print.

"WOW: He just promised to make "make the workplace fair again" What does that mean?"

It means he'll lead us into a bright new future where the state controls the means of production and distribution. He can't just come right out an put it that way, though, because Americans are still too ignorant to appreciate the benefits of enslavement.

As regards Bush's tax cuts and the wealthy, blah blah blah. What they don't tell you is that the cuts ELIMINATED the tax burden for almost 8 million low income families. The left takes advantage of that population being removed from the sample (because they now pay 0 tax, they no longer "count" feh!) to present a skewed number. The link below details the real and VERY EQUITABLE impact of the cuts, as regards lower income households.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/ff/7million.html

Speaking of conspiracy theories; Do you think that maybe he was picked to lose? The current party leadership are all Clinton holdovers and Hillarious is still out there (in more than one way) ready for '08. Hey, just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean that they ain't plotting stuff.

Well, technically "wake-up call" is two words, not three. (Compound verb+prepositions, when used as an adjective preceding the noun it modifies, are hyphenated and made into one word.)

But the speech was still not really worth my listening time.

* Mentions of Osama bin Laden: 0
* Mentions of John Kerry: 42
* Mentions of Saddam Hussein: 21

Who are we fighting in the "War on Terror"?

Beancounter, Kerry is going to get more of us killed.
Example, at the Dems convention, Kerry told us that he learned on the swift boat to turn into the attact. Yet when the swift boat boys go after him, what does he do? He threatens to sue the TV stations that were running the ads. He tries to get the publisher to stop publishing the book. And amusingly, he asked Geo. W Bush to "tell them to stop". To this day has he not even addressed anything that SBVT has charged. In short he's done everything but take it to the SBVT.
Forget what he said at the Dems covention. Is this how he's going to take it to the terrorist?
Kerry needs to be crushed. To tell the world and the Islamist, that if they bring to the US, what happened in Russia this week, we will hunt them down and treat them like the rabid dogs they are.

Besides, Bush isn't running against Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein

* Mentions of Osama bin Laden: 0
* Mentions of John Kerry: 42
* Mentions of Saddam Hussein: 21

Who are we fighting in the "War on Terror"?

Beancounter, Kerry is going to get more of us killed.
Example, at the Dems convention, Kerry told us that he learned on the swift boat to turn into the attact. Yet when the swift boat boys go after him, what does he do? He threatens to sue the TV stations that were running the ads. He tries to get the publisher to stop publishing the book. And amusingly, he asked Geo. W Bush to "tell them to stop". To this day has he not even addressed anything that SBVT has charged. In short he's done everything but take it to the SBVT.
Forget what he said at the Dems covention. Is this how he's going to take it to the terrorist?
Kerry needs to be crushed. To tell the world and the Islamist, that if they bring to the US, what happened in Russia this week, we will hunt them down and treat them like the rabid dogs they are.

Besides, Bush isn't running against Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=wake-up

No entry found for wake-up.

Did you mean wake up?

WOW, some of you guys are really good writers, I laugh so much I cry. I agree with almost all except the few Donks who still stand by the Flipper. But I really like the post by ThirdFinger. I have thought the same thing for a while. Billary is cut from the same cloth as Kerry--power is thy name. She will be a worthy adversary but so will Rudy, John, Chris Cox maybe, Michael Steele???, and some others. Too bad Arnold can't run, he would make them all "girlie men". Love your Blog!!!!!!

To be fair to Kerry, it's "wake-up call."

That may be the one thing he got right on the evening.

I've heard Kerry say at least once 2 tours in the military. Really? A Naval Reserve tour is 2 years active. Where did he serve the second one, in Paris negotiating with the VC?

This is really all to funny if you look at Goggle News from thursday night till even today you keep seeing the theme Kerry says Bush.... followed within 20 minutes by Bush says Kerry... it is all to funny. I hope Kerry loses in November and that somebody or other in Massachusetts get rid of him in his next Senatorial bid and with any luck Kennedy goes too.

Only Kerry could could take such aa often used phrase like "I've got ???? words for you" so we can debate how many words are in it. He covered the fives and sixes and as Kerry would say "it's complicated"

what an intelligent bunch of people. you're supposed to get facts by reading what people are not writing here. of course this probably will not be posted, i didn't show my republican voters backstage pass card.
how many people writing here have seen combat? not political election combat... but people killing people combat. bush wins and we will prove that we support a president that cares about one country on a big planet. a human being has a larger focus. but none of you would understand, your just too darn smart. "darn smart" to bush is whittle down future forming decisions down to a yes or no answer. "Flipper?"... thank God. When you get new information and facts, an intelligent person re-evaluates the situation using the higher functions of thought and logic to come to the most logical conclusion incorperating the new info. Pavlov's dog couldn't do that though... hear a bell, it's time to go to war. am i on candid camera?

What... Bush should care more about the interests of France? Or should we all just hold hands and be citizens of the world? And I'm sure you wont be picky when choosing a hand to hold. Syrian or North Korean? You may prefer to pledge your allegiance to the United Nations, you may even jump with glee when Libya adjudicates what human rights you deserve. Dumb old me will continue to thank God that I am an American and will continue to care more about the interests of that one little country on this big planet.

bush wins and we will prove that we support a president that cares about one country on a big planet. a human being has a larger focus.

joey, look beyond your nose, two nations and 50 million people have an opportunity to live their lives as they wish. I suppose your right we only care about one country on a big planet(sarcasm). Yes joey lets leave Saddam in power for what, another 20 years? Will the Iraqis stop suffering then? NO, not with his 'just and compassionate' sons ready to take over. How many will die because we prefer to look the other way. Its already near 1 million, give a take a couple of 100,000. Like you give a damn about anybody but yourself. Keep your fear to yourself, an wallow in it. It's what your type does best. And you better bone up on the koran, because if more of us took your attitude, we will all end up dead or practicing Islam.
Personally , I believe that every time the terrorist attacks this country, we should remove 2 dictatorships. If they are willing to sacrifice our civilians, lets do something worth while in their honor.

you missed the hyphenated nuance: "wake-up" is one word