This entry was posted on 10/31/2006 8:16 PM and is filed under Election 2006, All Posts.
Thank you, Senator Kerry. You have inspired the Republican base in ways Bush never could have dreamed, and possibly doomed the Democrats' Congressional prospects in ways no one ever could have foreseen. Leave it to the Dems to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
The senator, who was campaigning for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Phil Angelides, 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."
"I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq."
What is that? That is a joke, apparently, according to Kerry. A soon-to-be "botched" joke about the administration. You know, their not "studying" enough before the Iraq war. Wow. Whoever wrote that joke for him—one he apparently has been repeating on the stump throughout the midterms—should be fired. Not because of the latest controversy, so much. No, just for having a fatally convoluted, lame sense of humor. Wait, never mind: it's obvious Kerry wrote it himself.
Never mind, because it's a joke he didn't tell. The "joke" he instead accidentally spoke tells everyone in this country—erroneously—that he, and by extension, the Democratic Party, think all the soldiers in Iraq are stupid—instead of the president he meant to target. And man, was that president right there to nail him on it:
President Bush, campaigning this afternoon in Georgia for a Republican House candidate, condemned Mr. Kerry's remarks as "insulting and shameful."
"The men and women who serve in our all-volunteer armed forces are plenty smart and are serving because they are patriots — and Senator Kerry owes them an apology," Mr. Bush said, according to the White House.
Never mind that this is a "shameful" distortion of Kerry's words: what else is new? Never mind that Bush has been screwing our soldiers since the day the Iraq War was launched.
All that matters is that nothing good comes of this. If Kerry apologizes, he's confirming that he willfully insulted the troops' intelligence, which he did not. If he embarks on a fierce rebuttal of Bush (which he already has done) he guarantees that all the media will discuss over the next week is how stupid the Democrats think our soldiers in Iraq are. That it originated in the mouth of that French-speaking, kite-surfing, intellectual "elitist" just makes it the perfect conservative media storm.
We could lose it all over this. That's how bad this is. There's no other way to spin it. John Kerry fucked everything up.
11/1/2006 12:49 AM
dreux wrote:
Holy crap! What a horrible verbal fuck up! It's so bad, Bush might have uttered it. But, I have to disagree with you on one small point- if Kerry hadn't flubbed his wording and got the joke out right, it would have been a good one. Sure, it could have been worded better, (better than it was written,and obviously better than the total butchery that crossed his lips) but what of John Kerry's other good ideas couldn't have been worded better?
Anyway, it's a moot point since he got it so wrong. Now he just looks bad- terrible, n fact. Thanks, John- thanks for nothing. Reply to this
11/1/2006 12:16 PM
bill wrote:
Kerry ought to shut up. The Dems have a fighting chance to win some power for a change. Kerry is simply out of touch with regular Americans and therefore can't communicate with them. He probably has great progressive ideas, but he can't COMMUNICATE them. What he says has a lot of truth. Many young people go into the military to earn a decent salary because family jobs are disappearing in U.S. The financial incentives and reenlistment bonuses are significant for working class people and increasing yearly. In other words, a bribe to learn to be a killer. AND EVERYONE KNOWS THIS. But Kerry's comments implies it is the individual soldier's fault (a very individualist attitude) for being stuck in Iraq instead of the fault of the neocon Republican elite policies. He let them off the hook and blamed the ordinary soldier. Shut him up until after the election before he does more damage. Reply to this
11/1/2006 2:26 PM
MrEd wrote:
You guys are completely jumping on the White House bandwagon. They were looking for something, anything to jump on, and John Kerry is someone who they figured out a long time ago how to attack. So he said something stupid. Has Bush said sorry for all the men and women who have died in Iraq? Has Hastert said sorry for closing his eyes and ears to Foley chasing young boys? Has the GOP said sorry for refusing to raise the minimum wage, shipping jobs overseas, and producing this crappy Medicare drug plan that just lines the pockets of drug cos? Those are the apologies I'm waiting to hear - not one by someone who isn't evem running for office this year. And the more we talk about Kerry's remark the less people are talking about the disaster in Iraq, our lack of homeland security here, and all the domestic problems we have. Reply to this
11/1/2006 2:56 PM
MrEd wrote:
This is a MUCH more important thing to talk about: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2621650 Reply to this
11/2/2006 12:50 PM
flipthepony wrote:
And I voted for the stupid douchebag. I think it's time to go libertarian. Politicians are fuckholes. Reply to this
11/2/2006 4:08 PM
Rachel wrote:
Yep, he ruined it. He couldn't manage to win the election against the monkey a few years ago & now he's messing it up for the rest of his colleagues.
This is why every politician in this country needs to be fired & replaced avec people who have 1/2 a brain & want to work together, not waste our time & money.
I sometimes wonder if this BS is intentional. Reply to this
11/3/2006 12:57 PM
Aaron wrote:
I say again: Isn't it funny how the "rugged individualist" "pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps" party continually resorts to these babyish "he hurt our feelings" tactics? Jesus, people, get over it. These hucksters are the first to tell women, minorities, and every other group that has faced verbal assaults to develop thicker skin. But we're supposed to believe that our troops, you know, the guys who face the awful realities of war every day, are really delicate flowers who cannot under any circumstances withstand the stunning force of a badly delivered, lame-to-begin-with joke. The saddest implication of all of this is that such a nothing, nothing nonevent should be discussed at all, let alone be looked upon as some sort of rallying cry for a worthless, hopeless, hapless political party incapable of carrying out a single substantive policy initiative. Reply to this
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