Why do ppl(nutrootys) make him out to be Darth Vader?

Because he rarely gives a rat’s ass about their opinion. And when he deigns to address those puling minions, his deadpan delivery and ironfisted grip on cold hard facts are a verbal lightsaber, taking them out at the knees.

Luca Brazzi without the splatter.

Kerry is like an IED for the Democrats. The Dems are all trying to avoid him, defuse, or detonate him from afar.

Tantor on November 5, 2006 at 12:27 PM

Yes, but if you think about it – Kerry could be the RNC’s secret weapon to ensure victory.

If you can see the humor in that – the really funny thing is that it may work!

And in that respect, Kerry may be more like a nuke for the Demmies – you know the threat’s there, but once it’s used there’s nowhere to run – or hide that’s safe!

Which is done by a facial exprssion that shows “Oops!”, then a raised palm for silence (there was some laughter in the room after the “you get stuck in Iraq” words), and an instant re-phrasing of the gaffe.

There was no such thing. Zip, zero, nada, zilch.

Hitchens -and all who are carrying Kerry’s spilled water for him- are being tediously silly. Kerry could have ended the issue in 5 seconds if her had said, right then and there, what his johnny-come-later apologistas are trying to insert inside his flapping lips and his simple show of contempt for either: a) Bush, B) the lazy students in the sudience, C) the looked-down-upon troops in the field, or: D) all three.

He doesn’t deserve any benefits of any doubts after his laughable mis-pronouncing of “Jenghis Khan” ever again.

If you talk to Democrats of the middle-class and upper-middle-class and (in John Heinz Kerry’s case) the neo-Gulf-emir-class, you’ll have heard the same thing a thousand times: these poor fellows in Iraq, they’re only there because they’re too poverty-stricken and ill-educated so they couldn’t become Senators and New York Times reporters and tenured Queer Studies professors like normal Americans do. That is, in fact, what they mean by the claim that they “support our troops”: they want to bring them home and retrain them so they’re not forced into taking jobs as Bush’s torturers and thugs.

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I just watched a video on YouTube of Second Lady Dr. Cheney when she went on CNN, meeting with Wolf Blitzer, ostensibly to talk about her book (which I assume is Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America). She did an excellent job. I found out a…

1) That the veterans and active military of this country were prepared to believe the worst about Mr. Kerry because that’s what his actions thus far have demonstrated to them that he deserves.

I myself, as a veteran, believe that he may have intended to tell a joke, but if that is so slipped and gave us a good glimpse of what he *really* thinks of the military he had intended to command as President. So, whatever the truth the matter — and I won’t dispute eitehr Mr. Hitchens or AP, both of whom have earned my respect, but am believe that he insulted my brothers and sisters whatever his intention.

2) Nobody who takes himself as seriously as Mr. Kerry does should never attempt a joke in public. It’s bound to get him into trouble. It goes against his nature.

Mr. Kerry is just another of the “ruling class” who, like his comrade Hillary, believe that governing is their birthright. They have a contempt of the electoral process because they have a contempt — not very well concealed — for the electorate.

The Republicans have the same sort of creatures in their ranks, but their track record is marginally better.

We don’t need another Ronald Reagan. We don’t need another FDR. We need another Andrew Jackson. Oh, how the Democratic Party has fallen.

Where is this place America of which this man writes?

washington dc.

nothing.

none of the revisionists have addressed any part of my analasys of the kerry remark, though one may have appropriated an unrelated joke i made here.

I mean really, it’s just like DU around here lately.

/sarcasm

One could have assumed that Sen. John Kerry, who has reason enough to wake up whimpering and biting his knuckles when he reflects on past embarrassments, had learned this lesson. He’s almost spoiled for choice in the matter–from the cringe-making “reporting for duty” to the sickly discovery that he had been part of a “band of brothers” rather than a bunch of killers, to the phantom “Christmas in Cambodia.”

Yet of all the days that he might want to have back and do over again, last week’s clumsy appearance in Pasadena must be the most whimper-inducing of all.

The senator’s labored defense of himself is so lame that it has to be true. He had intended (pause for thigh-slapping and guffawing) to make a truly original joke about the IQ and educational level of the chief executive. His crack team of gag-writers had toiled on the joke and combed all the bugs out of it. It was there, poised on the pad and ready for launch. And it fizzled. (Funny–that punchline usually activates the easy-laugh track, as Messrs. Leno, Stewart, Maher and Colbert demonstrate with airy ease practically every night of the week.) And out of the syntactic chaos came the impression that Mr. Kerry thought only a dumb jerk could end up in uniform in Iraq.

Pens cut deeper than the best of knifes. And Mr. Hitchens is indeed a fantastic ‘cutter’. Beware being on the chopping block. One of my favorites.

Sincerely, I wished to shorten the quote, in the middle, but couldn’t.

In Pasadena, for Phil Angelides – oh, the irony. To think that we almost didn’t know… And, even the service members consider it a “klutzy Freudian slip”. Sweet!

The senator’s labored defense of himself is so lame that it has to be true

Not much need to read beyond the first very bad assumption pulled out of thin air, but I’ll play.

One thing I already knew is confirmed–there is a very great deal of class resentment in these United States.

Huh? Did he mean to say England?

James Webb in Virginia is right to stress the huge rage felt by those of Scots-Irish provenance who feel that they have born the heat and burden of the day in America’s wars, and been rewarded with disdain.

Boy, another new on for me, and having grown up on the Irish Riviera (South Boston) too. I guess I missed the “poor us” bitch sessions at the corner taverns…

Where is this place America of which this man writes?

As Sen. Kerry began his soon-to-be-reversed “I apologize to no one” rebuttal to a call for an apology, I was driving by the memorial built in honor of Kyle, my son, and the other fallen heroes from my town. As I listened, I tried unsuccessfully to make sense of the meteor shower of thoughts that were streaking through my mind. Then came one remembrance that brought all those other thoughts to an instantaneous halt. Last year I had written an editorial and I received a number of written replies. Among those was one postmarked from San Diego addressed simply to “the father of a hero” and my town of Emerson, N.J.

It started off friendly enough then quickly became argumentative and before the first paragraph was completed this individual had written, “I am glad that your son got killed for he probably was an idiot just like you”. My first reaction, and really the only reaction I have ever had, was sadness for an individual who is so consumed with anger that he felt it necessary to lash out at me for my beliefs.

That is exactly how I feel about John Kerry. His anger was in full bloom as he tried desperately to control the damage that his words had caused. He knew full well that he could not defend his remarks, so he attacked President Bush. In doing so he reinforced his now fully revealed condescending attitude towards our troops. He talked over them, as he always does, never even beginning to understand that there might be individuals who were truly and deeply offended by his remarks. The explanation for that is quite simple: He firmly and deeply believes that anyone who would be so stupid as to join the military is beneath the high moral perch on which he thinks he sits.

Even in his so-called apology the next day, Mr. Kerry could not bring himself to admit that he had made a mistake. It was not his fault that I might be offended; it is my fault because I “misinterpreted” what he said.

Over these past 3 1/2 years, whenever I have been asked to be interviewed or speak at a function, I purposely do not write anything down. I do not want my emotions to be confined by the words that I have practiced; rather, I want to share with the people I am speaking with the full range of emotions that I live with each day in order that they might understand me in human terms. On the day that he aggrieved so many individuals by his words, that is what Sen. Kerry was doing. He dropped the pretense and revealed to the world what was in is heart, to his never-ending detriment.

I vote they should be the target of the next @l-queda attack. Might learn then.

Then there’s this…thing.