Let's not forget that he was the liberals choice two years ago...the apparent best that the Democrats could offer America. Thanks Kerry, you're the gift that keeps on giving.

You know, I'm almost ashamed of how much I'm enjoying the Kerry implosion.

Almost.

Oh yeah, you got him now. Stop the bullshit; you know what he's saying. Like this line from Bob Dylan:

Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail...

I was told in high school by one of my teachers that if I didn't do better I'd wind up in the navy.

I wound up in the navy.

You?

One quibble: Why are his remarks so unbelievable? This is, after all, John Kerry we're talking about.

Final snark:

Democratic 2006 Platform (revised): Tough on Taxpayers, Hard on Our Troops, Soft on Terrroism.

HOW did he EVER win the senate seat????????????

What pleases me are times like this when the heat of a hotly contested campaign is over and the candidate can let his hair down a little and speak from the heart and not be preoccupied about the kind of image he has to project to get every last vote he can. It is incredible that M-ass-achusetts can keep electing the pair of clods it does for the US Senate.

It may be a common enough attitude, but it's not true, and it's comming from someone who tried to get to be CIC on the basis of his military background... not Bob Dylan.

Someone aspiring to command the whole military has a higher standard than your teacher in high school.

Kerry says he meant that the Bush administration were the ones that were uneducated and he wasn't refering to the troops, and I strongly favor that explanation.

Perhaps if the GOP wants to win they could exert an equal amount of energy to something that isn't quite possibly misleading and to something that actually matters. For instance, trying to call Democratic candidates on their immigration stances or explaining to voters why those stances are wrong.

Coming from a first class chicken hawk who used papa's influence to avoid the war and still was AWOL from the gaurd...IT MEANS NOTHING!!! Now this same chickenhawk thinks he can use the active duty soldiers to his political advantage???

The guy knows he's fighting for his life to avoid impeachment, imprisonment and war crimes.

The guy knows he's fighting for his life to avoid impeachment, imprisonment and war crimes.

Posted by: muirgeo at October 31, 2006 06:32 PM

Ahh, the democratic party platform...

Even if Kerry meant the remarks towards President Bush, they're still grossly insulting, and he did insult the troops by association.

Loser.

It may be a common enough attitude, but it's not true, and it's comming from someone who tried to get to be CIC on the basis of his military background... not Bob Dylan.

But it's an attitude that's a holdover from our g-g-g-generation. All it proves is that Kerry is kind of old, and that he's drinking more Courvoisier than he ought. Or Laphroaig. Or both.

As for the people betting that this will reverse the Republicans' fortunes, you are some funny little people.

muirgeo just so everyone will know who I am talking about,I will use your handle as you write it--You are one dumb SOB.

"Kerry says he meant that the Bush administration were the ones that were uneducated and he wasn't refering to the troops, and I strongly favor that explanation."

I don't buy that - he stuck his foot in his mouth with some ill-prepared remarks - let him chew.

This issue is however, way overblown (not surprising for this close to the election - but way overblown). What Kerry was trying to say was that if you don't do well in school your options are limited - the armed services being one - a well-known option for those who don't choose to pursue college or a career directly out of high school.

My opinion is that Kerry is an idiot, and should be sent packing from the Democratic Party. I can't believe some of the stupid things that guys says, and he has a great deal of difficulty getting his point across. In this 10 second sound bite world - he'll never survive another campaign.

Conservative hosts are always talking about having twords being taken out of context (maybe with good reason I see now). Everyone would be helped by knowing the full context especially the preface to Kerry's controversial remarks and best I can figure out Kerry's subject was Bush and not the individual troops. From The New York Times. "Kerry opened with several one-liners, joking at one point that President Bush had lived in Texas but now "lives in a state of denial." Then, Kerry said (to his college audience)
"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't - you get stuck in Iraq." Kerry, a Yale graduate voluntereed to serve in Vietnam, (unlike everyone else in the Administration) so if anything the joke would be him, which seem pretty unlikely. He might joke about Bush, but one thing Kerry never jokes about is his war experience.

Rhetorical question for morally superior libs who accused Republicans of allegedly defending the indefensible in the Foley Scandal (though no GOPer actually approve of Foley's behavior): Now who's doing it.

Even dumber then old shitface "astigafa".

"pucker puss" (lee lee) trying to do damage control. LMAO

John Kerry is a US Senator. The man speaks for a living. He should be able to do better. If the tables were turned.... Well, you know the rest. You folks who dislike Bush can complain all you want about him. But Kerry is nothing but a clown and provides absolutely no shining contrast to Bush. You people need to get real serious when it comes to nominating opposing presidential candidates. You would rather take an elitist, sanctimonious stance and blame an 'ignorant' public on your past losses. You could not accept that people were just not turned on by the two starch-shirted rubes you nominated in the past. Bush may be a daddy's boy but father's help their sons all the time. At least Bush doesn't have to go sniffing for trust fund support outside his family. Kerry is an idiot, you guys should lose him and move on. As a conservative I know you guys can do better. I am not sure you guys know that.

I think the long knives are getting ready to come out.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2619383&page=1

" A Democratic congressman told ABC News, Tuesday, "I guess Kerry wasn't content blowing 2004, now he wants to blow 2006, too.""

Notice that no name is mentioned but since ABCNEWS printed this I consider that a very bad sign for Mr Personality.

Lee,

Stop it. That's twice in less than 7 days that we agree on something.

(vurp)

Oy, I'm nauseous again...

"As for the people betting that this will reverse the Republicans' fortunes, you are some funny little people."

I disagree, these are some very strange MoFos direct from planet Hypocrisy - but let them have their 14:59 of joy. They need something to celebrate - let them think this will make a difference.

Geeze, Lee the Troll posted something above that I kinda agree with. Now excuse me while I go soak my brain in bleach.

Don't sweat the load astigafa, it's only going to mobilize the Republican base that was sitting on its hands to go vote now.

You can bet the farm that there's some serious phone time burning right now by Democratic operatives scrambling around trying to figure out a better excuse than the one that crass fucktard spit out this morning.

His statement yesterday simply proves a point, he never has valued the American military nor understood it. It was merely a vehicle he was supposed to use to become president.

Now it's all blowing up in his face and he deserves ever bit of the shitstorm he created.

This is some serious shadenfreud I'm enjoying, and it's only going to get better because he's digging in.

Yup, sure was a dumb thing to say. Way to go. No wonder he almost tied Bush in the elections.

The guy knows he's fighting for his life to avoid impeachment, imprisonment and war crimes.

So when Pelosi recently said that impeachment wasn't part of the Dem platform, she was lying??????

"My opinion is that Kerry is an idiot, and should be sent packing from the Democratic Party." -Lee

So Lee, Kerry was the Demon-ratic BEST in '04. So tell me, WHY DOES IT THAK THE Demon-rats like you SO F**KING LONG TO FIGURE THINGS LIKE THIS OUT??? I KNEW IT YEARS AGO!!!

Apologist Steve Crickmore claims that Kerry was quoted out of context and was anot insulting the military. Then he gives the whole quote in context. Steve, you better pack your bags, because if dumb gets you sent to Iraq, as Kerry said, your dumb ass is booked in the seat next to his dumb ass and they're boarding now.

The extended quote didn't make me feel any less insulted.

Lee, murigeo, and astigafa,

Enough with the "chickenhawk" perjorative already.

If you guys are so determined that the USA is wrong in fighting terrorists - er, "freedom fighters", "insurgents", "militants", etc., etc. - then why aren't you all in Iraq or Afghanistan, protecting them?

Did either of you stand to protect the ones you believe in?

Human shields, anyone? anyone? Buehler? anyone?

Chickendoves, all three of you, too afraid to act on your beliefs.

Hypocrites.

/spit

Kerry's explanation that he was trying to make a joke about Bush is certainly believeable. Either way I am glad to see him take himself out of the running for 2008. As for the 2006 elections, Kerry's not on the ballot, but Bush is. This election is a referendum on Bush.

Unfortunately, there is not even a whimper on the right-wing blogs today about how Iraqi PM Maliki has ordered our troops to take down the checkpoints they had setup around Sadr City to search for our MIA soldier over there. Where's the outrage over that? All of you in here like to talk about "supporting the troops". How about a posting that condemns Maliki's actions today?

WOW!! So the context comes out. Kerry WAS NOT even talking about the troops he was talking about the administration, its failure to study the pre-war situation and the resultant quagmire that is Iraq. he was spot on and the right wing nutjobs have been caught in a feeding frenzy that is nothing but a lie and a straw man argument on a quote took OUT OF CONTEXT.

Who's the lying shameless asses NOW????

On October 31, several Fox News anchors and on-screen text during Fox News programming misrepresented what Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) said during an October 30 speech at a campaign rally in Pasadena, California, by simply adopting the White House's characterization of Kerry's remarks -- that Americans who don't "study hard" and "make an effort and be smart" get "stuck in Iraq." In fact, Kerry said, "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

Stop the frothing and spare us from the mock outrage. So the guy can't deliver a punch line without screwing it up. Big deal.

W. needs the gaff to distract people from the fact that the U.S. troops got booted out of Sadr City by his friend, the Iraqi PM.

So when Pelosi recently said that impeachment wasn't part of the Dem platform, she was lying??????

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Not really lying...maybe a white lie. She realizes the impeachment will begin in a committee, I believe the House Ethics committee, which she will not preside over or even be on.

So yeah you're boy will be impeached if he doesn't commit suicide first. That's my prediction....first president to commit suicide while in office. This guys a dam waiting to burst. He will reap what he has sown.

muirgeo, you and lee are morons.

Kerry is by no means the first politician to have made a verbal misstep...The most famous offender that comes to mind is our sitting president..There is such an embarrassment of riches of verbal gaffes, many about the serious business of war that I don't know where to begin?..How about his the 25 worst Bushisms including number 6, about the futile searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction, that Kerry took great exception to, and rightfully so.

I didn't really mean that in the post above.

Like Kerry, what I REALLY meant was that George Bush is one of the greatest Presidents ever - behind Reagan.

Muirgeo:

The House Judiciary Committee would handle impeachments. I don't have any problems with the Dems pursuing impeachment but they should make it part of their campaign. Truth in advertisement. Just like they should say they will cut funding for the ignorant and uneducated losers who are fighting the wars in Iraq and Afganistan, and they will raise taxes. Just say the truth and let the people decide. We don't need any "white lies".