Kerry "Your educated and smart or your in Iraq"

[Vudak]

Originally posted by john9001
let me rephrase, i thought the point of going to school was to learn a skill so you could earn a good living.

Well, true.  But you learn that by having different people's experiences and ideas rub off on you.  The world's a big place, and it's hard to get all that experience yourself.

Unless of course you're doing something like math, where having someone else's ideas of what 2+2 means might not be so beneficial

[2Slow]

Originally posted by Vudak
Actually I thought the rest of your post was pretty good.  It's just that one little part that irked me.  We are, after all, trying to portray soldiers as educated in this thread, and then you go and show that after 20 years of defending the Constitution, you evidently never bothered to read it.

If I'm a liberal, well, first of all I'd like my contribution to the GOP back, and second of all, the only reason I'd be called one is because my strict interpretation of the Constitution doesn't find a way to finagle Christ into it.

Shrug.

Please read it again.  Seperation of Church and State is never mentioned in it.

1st Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[Vudak]

Originally posted by 2Slow
Please read it again.  Seperation of Church and State is never mentioned in it.

1st Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I did read it again.  I've already confessed  

[lukster]

Originally posted by Vudak
Well, true.  But you learn that by having different people's experiences and ideas rub off on you.  The world's a big place, and it's hard to get all that experience yourself.

Unless of course you're doing something like math, where having someone else's ideas of what 2+2 means might not be so beneficial

I think it safe to say that many, if not most, college instructors have little experience beyond academica. For academics that's fine. Too bad so many of them feel their superior knowlege extends into the real world.

[lasersailor184]

You'd be surprised what people want to do.  I was sailing against an old friend of mine at the naval academy last weekend (not this past weekend of mine).  He was from west point.  Rather funny character, everytime they beat Navy they'd put up the west point flag.

Anyway, we got talking about jobs since he's graduating this upcoming spring.  He told me that he hopes he gets his, because there's high competition in it.

I ask if he's doing helocopters or something.  He tells me infantry.  So I assume that it must be the easiest way to advance.

He then tells me it's the hardest way to advance.



You have a college full of soon to be grads who all want to get into Iraq.  What does that tell you?

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by cav58d
On a serious note, has there been any calls for his resignation?

Not resignation, but even the Dems are pissed about this one, and for good reason.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226584,00.html

[Stang]

Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts


I don't know how long this will stay up.

There's a version of that picture on Drudge's site.  Doesn't look photoshopped at all.

[Debonair]

Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts


I don't know how long this will stay up.

rofl i didn't know JeffK

was over there lmao
but i guess i should have assumed it:O

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Originally posted by Stang
There's a version of that picture on Drudge's site.  Doesn't look photoshopped at all.

That IS the picture from Drudge.

And I did not think that it was.

[Mojava]

All politicians are corrupt , the two party system does'nt work . How about stop arguing and start looking for a solution. Vote for the candidate not for the party. I listened to what Rush said about MJ fox and thought he made a mistake but no big deal. Same with Kerry , he worded his statement wrong , no big deal . Any intelligent person can reason what he ment . You guys need to start thinking for yourselves instead of listening to talk radio.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Mojava
All politicians are corrupt , the two party system does'nt work . How about stop arguing and start looking for a solution. Vote for the candidate not for the party. I listened to what Rush said about MJ fox and thought he made a mistake but no big deal. Same with Kerry , he worded his statement wrong , no big deal . Any intelligent person can reason what he ment . You guys need to start thinking for yourselves instead of listening to talk radio.

The problem is this: We're left voting for the lesser of two evils (in our own political minds) because the candidates offered out there just plan SUCK! I said it in 1992, 1998, 2000 and 2004...I'm getting tired of hold my nose when I go to the voting booth.  Now Bush isn't exactly anyones first choice, but he sure was a better choice than Kerry, and Kerry proves that every day he speaks.

Kerry has now apologized.  If we can walk away with a lessons learned from any of this, we can find that lessons learned from this statement below:

He (John Kerry) is a liberal, a leftist, and this is the typical attitude they have toward our military," House Republican Leader John Boehner said. "It goes to show you what liberal Democrats would do if they were to take control of the House and Senate."

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Originally posted by Mojava
All politicians are corrupt , the two party system does'nt work . How about stop arguing and start looking for a solution. Vote for the candidate not for the party. I listened to what Rush said about MJ fox and thought he made a mistake but no big deal. Same with Kerry , he worded his statement wrong , no big deal . Any intelligent person can reason what he ment . You guys need to start thinking for yourselves instead of listening to talk radio.

I think you need to look into Senator Kerry's background before you assume that you know what he meant. He didn't word it wrong, he assumed he was speaking only to his present audience, and he wasn't. He got called on it. Even the vast majority of HIS OWN PARTY knows he meant what he said. Why do you think they demand that he retract it and apologize? Why do you think they cancelled appearances with him? Because PEOPLE understand he meant what he said. And even his own party, that ran him for President, doesn't want to be associated with him. Even McCain, a well known RINO, demanded he apologize, and McCain was one of those complaining about the Swift Boat veterans. Kerry said what he meant and meant what he said, and now there's a price to be paid for his arrogance.

[Vudak]

Originally posted by lukster
I think it safe to say that many, if not most, college instructors have little experience beyond academica. For academics that's fine. Too bad so many of them feel their superior knowlege extends into the real world.

Well it extends into my real world as my real world is trying to get a job as a teacher one of these days...  But I see what you're saying.

Still, I don't know that that's so safe to say...  The college professors I've had so far usually didn't think they would wind up as college professors...  I'd bet quite a few didn't figure they would either.  Some of them have led pretty interesting lives.

I'm sure it varies from school to school.  Mine's just one of the state ones, so maybe that affects it.

I did read an interesting (2 year old) article about my school though...  Some of the teachers were criticizing that the college is so keen on expanding "diversity" but that they do this in the superficial way of race instead of things like political position.  The article noted conservatives are greatly outnumbered on college campuses.  It had a good point.

[lukster]

Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
Kerry said what he meant and meant what he said, and now there's a price to be paid for his arrogance.

Yeah, but that was before he said and meant something else.  

[rabbidrabbit]