Author Topic: Not as smart as he thinks he is (Read 1307 times)

VOR · « **on:** November 02, 2006, 05:48:59 PM »

One point of view from across the pond and a good article overall:

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It would have been a minor blip in the final week of the campaign if he had apologised immediately and unequivocally and got the hell off the airwaves. Instead, he wriggled and huffed and hit back and compounded his mistake with intemperate bad-mouthings of Republicans as "assorted Right-wing nut jobs" and "hacks who've never worn the uniform of our country are willing to lie about those who did".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/11/02/do0202.xml

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #1 on:** November 02, 2006, 06:05:57 PM »

I suppose someone thinks if it is said often enough, everyone will believe he was talking about Bush. I won't. I don't buy it. Kerry evidently thinks he's smarter than everyone else, but I don't buy that either. He makes way too many stupid mistakes, and he cannot keep his foot out of his mouth. If he was that smart, he'd figure out how to keep his mouth shut, and keep what he does say a lot more orchestrated.

dhaus · « **Reply #2 on:** November 02, 2006, 06:36:21 PM »

Yes, Kerry is an idiot, see 2004. When you look at what he was saying at the time, it was a general riff on Bush. I do believe he was talking about Bush. I also believe he didn't understand why he should apologize for the GOP hack job done by distorting his remarks. That doesn't change the fact that he is an idiot and should have been kept in a dark cave for the last few weeks.

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #3 on:** November 02, 2006, 06:51:55 PM »

his statement stood for itself. It's similar toother things he said. There is a cloud of smug following him around on a regular basis.

dhaus · « **Reply #4 on:** November 02, 2006, 07:03:08 PM »

Rofl, if one sentence out of a speech stands for itself, then Bush should have never been let out of 6th grade. Kudos to the GOP for the distortion and distraction this caused. It kept the fact that the Iraqi prime minister ordered our troops off the baracades from the front pages which seems to have accomodated a demand from the militias. Our troops under foreign command anyone? Better we argue about whether or not Kerry insulted our troops.

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #5 on:** November 02, 2006, 07:06:01 PM »

considering the number of versions of the correct speach and the straightforward delivery of the original and the past habits the spin sure looks like it belongs to Kerry. He was just too arrogant to realize what a bellybutton he was.

dhaus · « **Reply #6 on:** November 02, 2006, 07:08:30 PM »

I'll agree with the last sentence.

dmf · « **Reply #7 on:** November 02, 2006, 07:09:47 PM »

Face it John Kerry is an idiot. Nothing special about him, just a common everyday idiot.

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #8 on:** November 03, 2006, 12:07:10 AM »

well hes stinking rich, in the running for being the leader of the most powerfull nation on earth, and probably lives life 50 times easier than 90% of us.

not that dumb, even for a total jackoff.

bj229r · « **Reply #9 on:** November 03, 2006, 06:22:16 AM »

Media take on this...well, isn't surprising:

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Hume led the "Grapevine" segment on the November 1 Special Report with Brit Hume:
"The John Kerry flap may have been the major political story yesterday, and even today, but you might not have known that from the newspaper coverage. Not a single front-page headline in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or USA Today. The Times cast it as a chance for the President to attack Kerry. Not until the 15th paragraph, on page 18, does a reader learn what Kerry actually said. The Washington Post put the whole story on page 8. Both the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal put the Kerry flap on a par with the incident in which some of Virginia GOP Senator George Allen's supporters roughed up a heckler after an Allen event.

Update: Thursday's Washington Post put Kerry's apology on the front page and USA Today gave it a front page tease, but the New York Times again kept the topic off its front page.

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Clip of Katie Couric from October 31 CBS Evening News: "Do you think Republican operatives are putting these, this comment into political campaigns all over the country. [mimicking a deep-voiced announcer] 'John Kerry insults the troops. Do we really want the Dems to take over?'"
Clip of Charles Gibson from October 31 World News on ABC: "How in this day and age an idle political remarks gets seized upon, becomes fodder for the talk shows, the blogs, and the politicians."
Clip from October 31 The Situation Room on CNN:
Paula Zahn: "Will it be dismembered by election night is the question Jack Cafferty."
Jack Cafferty: "If we have our way with it, it will be."
Wolf Blitzer: "I'm sure there will be something else that will pop up between now and probably an hour from now."
Cafferty: "One can only hope

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20061102.asp#3

Practically every news anchor was helpfully trying to explain what Kerry MEANT (though, it isn't at ALL obvious). Now, remember back to Trent Lott and his inocous comments at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party. EVERY paper and news broadcast led with it for 2 weeks, and he was hounded out of the Senate leadership

Yeager · « **Reply #10 on:** November 03, 2006, 08:21:02 AM »

why he should apologize for the GOP hack job done by distorting his remarks.
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why do people keep saying his remarks were distorted? the transcript is available for all to read. If what he said was not what he meant then why the hell didnt he just come out and say that? I make that mistake often and I am quick to come back and say oops, I meant to say that differently....

Nope, Kerry is an bellybutton pure and simple and 1/2 of the reason Bush has been elected twice.

Hornet33 · « **Reply #11 on:** November 03, 2006, 08:27:42 AM »

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Originally posted by B@tfinkV
well hes stinking rich, in the running for being the leader of the most powerfull nation on earth, and probably lives life 50 times easier than 90% of us.

not that dumb, even for a total jackoff.

He's not stinking rich....his wife is.

I don't believe it's possible for him to win a presidential election.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #12 on:** November 03, 2006, 08:28:38 AM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
why he should apologize for the GOP hack job done by distorting his remarks.
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why do people keep saying his remarks were distorted? the transcript is available for all to read. If what he said was not what he meant then why the hell didnt he just come out and say that? I make that mistake often and I am quick to come back and say oops, I meant to say that differently....

Nope, Kerry is an bellybutton pure and simple and 1/2 of the reason Bush has been elected twice.

That's what I say. Every time a republican says somthing stupid like this there's 50 calls for his resignation. This remind you of Trent Lott's flap anyone?

Yea, paybacks a beiach

lazs2 · « **Reply #13 on:** November 03, 2006, 08:33:00 AM »

If your party is based on socialism... that a portion of the people are too stupid and useless to make it on their own...

that has to leak out once in a while... mostly democrats only do it when they feel safe but... they get/got arrogant... they own the schools and the media and... they thought they had a lock on the election.

they are their own worst enemy and never let us forget (for long) how arrogant and eliteist they are.

pretending that they think all men are created equal is an enormous strain on the socialists. Kerrie cracked because he is stupid and arrogant and was caught up with the adoring crowd of mush brained public school products.

lazs

JB88 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 03, 2006, 09:30:45 AM »

kerry isn't running. that was last election.

wasnt sure if you...hilllary. oops.