My Plea To John Kerry: Please, Please Run (In 2008, 2012, 2016)…
…because a campaign without John Kerry means a campaign where we don’t get wonderfully revealing quotes that show what a pompous, arrogant, class-conscious jackass he is:
Mr. Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate who is believed to be considering another run for the White House in 2008, set the stage for bitter back-and-forth as he addressed a gathering at Pasadena City College in California. The senator 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, Mr. 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.”
Those remarks were denounced first by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona and, like Mr. Kerry, a veteran of the Vietnam conflict. “Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country’s call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education,” Mr. McCain said today.
Mr. McCain said any suggestion that only the poorly educated would agree to serve in Iraq is “an insult to every soldier serving in combat.”
The White house spokesman, Tony Snow, went further, asserting that Mr. Kerry’s speech “sort of fits a pattern” of criticizing American troops in Iraq. “This is an absolute insult, and I’m a little astonished that he didn’t figure it out already,” Mr. Snow said. “If I say something stupid, I apologize as quickly as possible.”
But if anyone should apologize, Mr. Kerry said, it is President Bush and his administration officials who started the ill-conceived war, Mr. Kerry said. He called the criticism directed at him the work of “assorted right-wing nut jobs and right-wing talk show hosts.”
“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy,” Mr. Kerry said in a statement. “I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.”
“I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed-suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq,” Mr. Kerry went on. “It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.”
Mr. Kerry did not mention Mr. McCain. Those two senators, separated by party and political philosophy but united by their experiences in Vietnam combat, have been described before as having a friendly relationship.
No sugar-coating that one, is there? Study, do well, succeed; don’t study, get thrown in the military with all the other uneducated morons…
Well done, Senator! Thank you for your support of the troops!…
The forum he was granted BY THE MEDIA was specifically for him to apologize…he said something stupid, mccain called him on it, and he had his chance to stop the bleeding. That was why this was an event. If the media knew they weren’t going to get an apology, they don’t cover it.
and he never apologized. I have never seen such an egotistical jerk in my life.
Rove is cackling…he beat kerry in 04, and now has a chance to run against him again.
He truly is the politician I love to hate…I can’t think of a single Democrat – Pelosi, Reid, even Ted Kennedy (oh, that last one hurts) that I wouldn’t rather see in the White House than Kerry…
He is saying Bush didn’t study, not the soldiers. Not that I like Kerry, but geez. Perhaps to be more clear he could have said “If you (the president/administration) don’t, you get US (the country) stuck in Iraq”. That’s what he seems to be saying to me anyway.
And since Bush’s grades in college were marginally better than Kerry’s, I guess that means that if you’re a really bad student you have to marry money and have your wife buy you a Senate seat.
Mike, please…obviously, he was talking about the soldiers…that is lame, lame, lame…and as fatman says, we know Bush’s grades at Yale were superior to Kerry’s, anyway…
This absurdist Democrat diversion… Oh, he was talking about Bush, is crap. Kerry is a liar, a fraud and a traitor who should have been tried for treason when his Congressional testimony was exposed as a pack of lies from front to back. This is a man (using the term loosely) who saw far more to recommend the Stalinist thugs who oppressed (and still do) North Viet Nam than this nation of freedom and promise even AFTER the disaster of the Commie victory. When he speaks frankly (which is rare indeed), he speaks well for the Democrats at large. If they were capable of shame they would feel this idiot’s weight mightily and finally STOP with these insipid defenses of this malign, stupid and utterly venal creature. This moronic phony vet needs an ass kicking and pronto.
But megapotamus, how do you REALLY feel?
Look, as to whether Kerry was talking about the students or Bush, here’s a reader from NRO with a basic grammar lesson:
Why would such a well-educated man as the sophisticated French-like Kerry change the antecedent of the pronoun in midstream?
You know, I think Kerry’s pretty much the Senate Mannequin when it comes to brains . . . but that tends to lend more credibility to his claim that he was insulting Bush.
A lot of people failed to notice this at the time (2004), but Kerry can be counted on just as much as Bush to make ridiculous verbal gaffes. I mean, the man really is a complete idiot. I find it believable, even likely, that he was honestly trying to make a joke at Bush’s expense (the fact that he fits the joke even better than its target is just a bonus), and it just came out completely mangled.
I’m saying this as a man who can’t stand Kerry . . . I think you guys are blowing it on this one.
Kerry is a complete empty suit. He won’t generate more than a footnote in the annals of history. I like this though:
“Mr. Kerry did not mention Mr. McCain. Those two senators, separated by party and political philosophy but united by their experiences in Vietnam combat, have been described before as having a friendly relationship.”
The reaction in the McCain camp? “Oh, for the love of God.”
I looooove idgits like that. Yes, pleeeeeze run again and again at least until even Madame Moneybags blows him off.
I imagine Duncan Hunter will weigh in soon
I believe he meant that Bush got us stuck in Iraq.
I do wish he was a more charismatic speaker but I don’t think he is stupid.
In fact he may have helped to keep Iraq on voters minds, which helps Dems.
He was a Senator before he married his wife. She didn’t buy it for him. But her money sure helped for the presidental run.
I believe he meant that Bush got us stuck in Iraq.
Sorry, Im new to forums and as you can see I haven’t quite mastered the quoting system
“Bush’s grades at Yale were superior to Kerry’s”
They were both in the 70′s. It shows that there was grade inflation at Yale even back then.
Comrades,
Perhaps the good Mrs Heinz-Kerry could set up the good Senator with an appointment at his Proctologists. With luck, they’ll be able to locate his head.
Extracting it may be more difficult, but probably not as painful as his stepping on his own crank today was.
Respects,
Gwedd
Paul said:
He was a Senator before he married his wife. She didn’t buy it for him. But her money sure helped for the presidental run.
Actually, I was referring to Kerry’s first wife, Julia Thorne, whom I believe had a net worth of roughly $100 million dollars. Not Ter-ray-za, who inherited five times that from her first husband.
all kerry has to do is say:
if there are some who are were offended, it was not my intent, and I deeply regret this. I BELIEVE our men in the field are some of the brightest, who come from all walks of life to serve their country.
He didn’t even come close, as what was what to be his mea culpa speech, turned into a bush harangue.
Running aginst pelosi-who is recognizable to 20% of the population, the ones who already know who they are voting for, is a far weeker postion to be running against kerry.
His failure to fix a stupid mistake will cost the dems dearly. And we are supposed to trust him to fix bush’s mistakes?
Yeah, but Josh, I see you’ve mastered the smilies…
The funny thing about the media controlling things…
they all go to Drudge. and Drudge is going to run with this until Kerry apologizes. Which is never. He’d have to admit a mistake.
Worse than foley, the week of the election.
complete suicide.
Had he been referring to Bush, wouldn’t it have made more sense to say, “you’ll end up making mistakes, like sending our troops into Iraq.” or something more along those lines? But doesn’t the “you can do well” preclude W? Even if you don’t think he’s done a good job for the country, he’s done well for himself.
I heard about this first yesterday morning and thought “what an idiot”. I heard about his “press conference” yesterday and thought “what a jerk”. Now I’m seeing the outrage everywhere, and I can only think “what a Godsend” for the Republicans. He may have singlehandedly just saved the Senate.
I do think he may have been trying to stick it to Bush, but he should be smart enough to realize that it’s not just “right-wing nutjobs” that would interpret things in a manner disparaging to the troops, and he really should a) apologize, and b) clarify. He’s just a) clarified and b) been indignant. If a little pride is a dangerous thing, then Kerry is more dangerous to the Democrats than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
This is “typical GOP” he says. Well, the GOP may be helping him chew, but he put his foot in his mouth all by himself, and he’s the only one who can take it out.
Another way he may have saved the Senate is when the Republicans gain another seat when Romney appoints Kerry’s successor. Ok, that’s tongue-in-cheek. I don’t really think that Kerry’s going to resign over this, but it’s certainly true that Republican politicians have been forced out over statements much less offensive. Trent Lott, anyone?
Just another example of Kerry’s fine leadership skills in action. I still can’t believe that 56 million people actually thought this guy would make a good commander-in-chief. I’m reminded of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. “You’re a jerk, Kerry. A complete kneebiter.”
I’d say its time to add at least one zero to Kerry’s chances to winning the Democratic nomination in 2008.
He’s actually managed to make himself less electable than Russel Feingold.
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