John Kerry was for the botched joke
before he was against it
www.californiaconservative.org [1]
Democratic Senator John Kerry had the courage on Monday to say what he really believes about the U.S. soldier: They are stupid for serving in Iraq. …
Kerry is now insisting that this is the White House’s fault for taking the “botched joke” out of context. The real joke read, “If you get an education, you won’t wind up in Iraq. Just ask George Bush.” How exactly is that different? Beside the fact that George W. Bush’s GPA (grade point average) at Yale was higher than Kerry’s, he still states that if a student gets an education he can avoid going to Iraq. He can spin this any way he wishes, but apparently everyone but Kerry knows what he really meant. He really dislikes the military. Period. …
There’s one Vietnam vet who deserved being spat upon. His name is John Kerry.
‘I apologize to no one’
www.sacramentorepublicrat.com [2]
Kerry told reporters in Seattle, Washington, that the remark was a “botched joke” meant to target the president, not U.S. troops. … This, folks, is what’s known as “Damage Control.” Kerry slipped up and he should apologize.
Kerry stated, “The White House’s attempt to distort my true statement is a remarkable testament to their abject failure in making America safe … It’s a stunning statement about their willingness to reduce anything in America to raw politics.”
Uh, I saw the video and that looked a lot (like) you making the insensitive remarks, Senator. …
Kerry and the blame game
www.theleftcoaster.com [3]
Kerry snuffs out the story by apologizing, after Hillary (Clinton) took a shot at him in a bit of 2008 positioning:
Moments after Kerry issued his statement, House Majority Leader John Boehner said, “I think he has apologized. It sounds good enough.” He spoke on CNN.
Thanks for that blessing, Boehner. By the way, what war did you fight in? Oh, that’s right. You were 18 in 1967 and managed to stay away from Vietnam, but today you know enough about war and the military to exonerate Rummy and blame the generals for Iraq.
And if anyone should apologize, it is Bush, who picked the same day that Cheney tweaked Kerry again to tell voters less than a week before the election that Cheney and Rummy are doing fine. These are the two architects of the disaster that has plagued our troops. Bush’s timing seems to be heading downhill as well. He must actually think that making this statement of support today will help him with the cultists. …
Chewing on his foot
buckhornroad.blogspot.com [4]
When I heard those comments for the first time, any reference to our president did not even cross my mind. What I heard was an arrogant elitist comment, stated in a Freudian moment of candor, which was directed at our troops. Kerry, like many typical leftists, looks at the members of our military as a bunch of uneducated cornpone rubes who had no other choice in life than to join the military. Never mind that the United States military is the most educated in world history. Never mind that, overall, our military is far better educated than our general society.
John Kerry can attempt to spin his comments however he likes. The bottom line is that his comments were directed at our military as a whole, not toward our president. John Kerry had no problem slandering our nation’s military 35 years ago, and I see yet another example of someone who can grow older, yet never grow up.
Kerry and Dewey
drtaxsacto.blogspot.com [5]
For the past six months or more the Mainstream Media has been touting the tidal wave that would come home on Nov. 7 and swamp any GOP candidate around – or at least enough to take care of those evil GOP Bush supporters. But John Kerry never could keep his mouth shut.
Kerry was speaking at Pasadena City College and 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.” It is hard in one sentence to impugn the motives of volunteers and the military but Kerry did it. The White House attack dogs moved into place and Kerry took the bait and only dug himself in deeper.There is a lot of chatter about whether the Dems have blown their chances in the Senate. In some key races this kind of comment could move the election from D [to] R. In 1948 the papers all told the story of President Dewey, who was named president by the papers, not the voters. So one wonders whether the certainty of a Democrat victory in retaking Congress. Dewey was not a very good candidate - some compared him to a wedding cake figure. But he was caught up in the inside nature of politics - the real lesson from 1948 was not the bad media but the fact that Dewey acted in a way that was not appropriate for a serious political figure. President Truman made the race a real one by taking the process seriously. Kerry seems not to have learned that lesson.… In 1948 such a remark could have been lost in confusion. But in 2006, no way.
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