Quote of the day
posted at 9:50 pm on September 6, 2007 by Allahpundit
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“It has long been the custom that members of Congress do not go overseas and criticize the president — that partisanship ends at the water’s edge.”
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When one has no moral bearing , the wind will take you where it will.
That is why the left is always moving the goalposts.
bbz123 on September 6, 2007 at 9:55 PM
Can we charge him with treason NOW?
Geebus, if pictures with the Vietcong won’t do it, what will?
And again Kerry wants America to ask the global community for advice while still imploring us to act as the skirt they hide behind when trouble is brewing.
BKennedy on September 6, 2007 at 9:56 PM
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
- Mark Twain
MB4 on September 6, 2007 at 9:59 PM
I wonder if he practices in the mirror?
Being a Jerk.
I shudder to think if he had won. He would had handed us over to our enemies.
Kini on September 6, 2007 at 10:00 PM
Walking away from global warming? Why we’re charging straight for it, my tasty little waffle.
BadgerHawk on September 6, 2007 at 10:00 PM
Should he even be let back into the country?
Kini on September 6, 2007 at 10:01 PM
These are the same people who sent Pelosi to Syria in order to undermine presidential policy.
Bad Candy on September 6, 2007 at 10:03 PM
I think ya’ll are missing the point of the post.
That quote was from a letter by Rahm Emanuel (D) said when Bush criticized congress while in Iraq or something. After Kerry, Kucinich, Pelosi etal have criticized Bush on foreign soil, he’s got the gaul to say “politics stop at the water’s edge”
Hypocrisy at its juiciest. Did he complain about the other comments? Of course not.
lorien1973 on September 6, 2007 at 10:05 PM
Bingo!
Allahpundit on September 6, 2007 at 10:08 PM
Good catch there AP. Emmanuel saying Congress doesn’t criticize the President overseas even as Kerry is overseas ripping the President. And, as Bad Candy says – these are the people who take it upon themselves to conduct foreign policy separate from the President and his cabinet. Pelosi goes overseas and makes a huge bungle of things – who is Emmanuel to be such an arrogant jerk?
nailinmyeye on September 6, 2007 at 10:08 PM
I couldn’t be a Democrat if I wanted to. My own hypocrisy would make me ill.
nailinmyeye on September 6, 2007 at 10:11 PM
Everyone knows the Kerry video is from January, right? That was a fairly famous incident. I’m kind of surprised people think this clip is contemporaneous. Here’s the post.
Allahpundit on September 6, 2007 at 10:11 PM
Do as we say, not as we do
lsutiger on September 6, 2007 at 10:13 PM
Yeah, I remember it, it is funny (the hypocrisy involved is funny) and I wonder what Rahm will do if he geets confronted on it.
Bad Candy on September 6, 2007 at 10:15 PM
I must have missed it back in January. But, I feel the same about it either way. That Kerry’s comments happened in January makes the irony and hypocrisy even greater.
nailinmyeye on September 6, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Bullsh*t. When is the letter of condemnation coming for Kucinich blasting Bush in Syria?
amerpundit on September 6, 2007 at 10:19 PM
“OK for me, but not for thee.” Typical liberal double standard.
IrishEyes on September 6, 2007 at 10:23 PM
Democratic Congress members are indignant that the ‘jumping’ over the “water’s edge” applies to the President too. Their whining and double-standards are shameless!
The President is way too nice and indulgent with them. They need this kind of needling at least weekly.
Entelechy on September 6, 2007 at 10:29 PM
No wonder the left is so pissed. They have been grooming Kerry to win the Whitehouse all his life. His father has questionable international ties like Joe Kennedy Sr. These freaks are the imperialist autocratic scourge the left is so desperatly seeking to destroy.
sonnyspats1 on September 6, 2007 at 10:31 PM
We see people through an American lens because we are AMERICANS! How are we isolated or a pariah? We ARE the worlds economy. Everyone wants to come here to live and work. This is just John F’ing Kerry helping us realize that we made the right choice for POTUS.
woodman on September 6, 2007 at 10:34 PM
Also, haven’t read all the comments, so perhaps someone mentioned this, but I see some aren’t aware (you may need to add a note to the post AP), the Kerry clips is from a while back… seems like 6 months ago at least.
RightWinged on September 6, 2007 at 10:37 PM
Rahm Emanuel on the Iraqi parliment:
He has the balls to say that when they tried to rush through the shamnisty bill so they could go on vacation. What a moron!
Tennessee Dave on September 6, 2007 at 10:44 PM
I can’t believe that letter. Not just hypocrisy, but an outright baldfaced lie.
Out of curiosity I tried to track down the earliest mention of the phrase. It looks like Teddy Roosevelt (Republican!) said it first. I’ve found two different references to him using it, with the first instance being in 1903:
INC on September 6, 2007 at 10:56 PM
I remember this clip from January, but seeing it again helps me understand Kerry even more. This guy talks about Americans as if ‘they’ are a foreign entity to him, as if we are an alien species.
This man is not an American. This man is a traitor. This man hates everything that America stands for. This man is our enemy. This man and his ilk need to be resisted at every turn.
infidel4life on September 6, 2007 at 10:58 PM
Pariahs of the world Huh?
Who was it that said “immigration is the highest form of flattery”?
Guardian on September 6, 2007 at 10:58 PM
AP,
See if you can find the clip of Al Gore in Saudi Arabia about 4 or 5 years ago talking about how bad the US is. That one was much more offensive.
I remember posting a blog on a local fox news website about this John Kerry incident earlier this year. I basically said the same thing this congressman said. Most of the people on there said, ‘no, that’s not right. today wherever you speak doesn’t matter’.
Of course it is just another brick in the wall of my view of the intelligence of the populace. Sometimes it isn’t worth arguing when you are SO right.
I didn’t look at the president’s statements here as critical of America so much as in support of the Iraqi government. . . where actually I’m in agreement with O’Reilly on this one. I think we should get rid of this current Iraq government and have new elections.
ThackerAgency on September 6, 2007 at 11:07 PM
http://michellemalkin.com/2006/02/13/al-gore-slanders-america/
It was actually Feb 2006. Here’s MM’s take on the ‘proud American Gore in Saudi Arabia. Caution, it is offensive to people who love America.
ThackerAgency on September 6, 2007 at 11:47 PM
I thought of the Gore speech but Emanuel referred specifically to members of Congress, which Gore wasn’t at the time.
Allahpundit on September 6, 2007 at 11:48 PM
touche. . . but Gore was a Senator.
I just thought the Gore speech was over the top appalling. Good get on the Emanuel thing. . . after the Kerry incident earlier, I thought that the Democrats no longer believed that politics ended at the shore. We are all Americans and we should be proud to be Americans and tell everyone everywhere else how great it is to be American.
ThackerAgency on September 6, 2007 at 11:55 PM
Yes, the JK tape is old…but is there anyone fuller of grandiloquence than this guy? If they haven’t placed his picture next to the word in the dictionary they should.
Entelechy on September 6, 2007 at 11:58 PM
Come now, “hypocrisy” is so pre-modern and bogged down in stodgy Western cultural trappings. Progressives merely shrug free the bonds of stifling bivalency to embrace the explansive freedom of doublethink. Old-fashioned consistency is simply ungood.
Blacklake on September 7, 2007 at 12:15 AM
Short term memory, and selective.
Kini on September 7, 2007 at 12:29 AM
My thoughts exactly. Also, I’m very content with that fact.
Unlike John Kerry (who may see the world through a French lens), I’m proud of my country.
Exit question: I missed the Euro country where that conference took place, but could Mr. Kerry please (oh, please!!) remain there?
RedCrow on September 7, 2007 at 1:22 AM
AP,
Instead of “Standards,” shouldn’t that say “Better Than You?”
Miss_Anthrope on September 7, 2007 at 10:43 AM
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