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CandiM
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| The Cyber Menace wrote: |
Who in the world picked this guy to run for the Oval Office?  |
The Democrats who voted in the various primaries did--But look at the field they had to choose from--
Howard Dean, who proved what a loose cannon he is beyond all doubt and everyone knew could never be elected even before he self-destructed--(The debates would have been a hoot, though)--
Joe Lieberman, who was the best of the bunch, but way too nice and not nearly far enough to the Left to suit the vast majority of Democrats--
Carol Mosely Braun, who's completely inconsequential and has more skeletons in her closet than even Kerry--
Wesley Clark, who is entirely devoid of political savvy--
John Edwards, who has good hair, but too little experience to be taken seriously and wouldn't have even been able to carry his own State--
Al Sharpton, who's.......well.......Al Sharpton--
Dennis Kucinich, who re-defines the word "bonkers"--
Dick Gephart, who's about as dynamic as Dukakis--
And Kerry--Who was the closest to being electable of any of them and who most of those who voted in the primaries didn't know enough about to know better--
Looking at that list gives me one more reason to be glad I'm a Republican--C
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arymann
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This guy has JFK's number!
The Kerry Crackup
From the September 13, 2004 issue: The Democratic candidate does a good Al Gore impression.
09/13/2004, Volume 010, Issue 01
by Stephen F. Hayes in the Weekly Standard.com
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/578cnoja.asp
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IN A WEEK dedicated to Republican speechifying about why John Kerry should not be the next president of the United States, the most persuasive words came from a Democrat. And I don't mean Zell Miller's invigorating speech on Wednesday.
I mean John Kerry's rant in Ohio, less than an hour after George W. Bush finished his acceptance speech in New York. It's a shame the networks didn't include Kerry's remarks in their GOP convention coverage. In just 30 minutes, Kerry provided a revealing look at himself, a reminder of his meandering views, several clues about the state of his campaign, and a hint of what the next two months will look like.
Kerry sought to portray himself as an aggrieved but righteous politician, the innocent target of vicious Republican attacks. This is a substantial rewriting of history. Kerry and his campaign staff have been every bit as biting in their criticism--having, prior to this, called Vice President Cheney unfit for office and accused President Bush of using family connections to avoid serving in Vietnam. But the gamble for Kerry is not that reporters will point out the many harsh attacks his campaign has leveled at the Bush administration. The media wouldn't be so inconsiderate. The risk for Kerry is that in a campaign devoted largely to convincing voters of his strength, assuming the mantle of victim does little to inspire confidence.
"For the past week, they attacked my patriotism and my fitness to serve as commander in chief," Kerry complained.
He later added:
"Worst of all, George Bush misled America when he took us to war in Iraq."
That last line may have been the most significant one in the speech because it indicates that Kerry has veered sharply back to the Howard Dean/Al Gore/Michael Moore wing of the Democratic party. Kerry had largely abandoned the "Bush-lied" line of attack since admitting on August 9 that, in retrospect, he still would have voted to authorize the war in Iraq. That change of strategy prompted a pitched intra-party debate. Many congressional Democrats and party strategists pushed the Kerry campaign to trash Bush as dishonest. (It's worth remembering that 95 percent of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention opposed the war.) The Kerry campaign resisted. Their reluctance may have been born of Kerry's renewed endorsement of the war, his own history of supporting regime change, or perhaps even John Edwards's explicit rejection, last year, of the notion that Bush lied to get us into war.
"So did I get misled? No. I didn't get misled," Edwards said on Hardball with Chris Matthews on October 13, 2003. When Matthews asked Edwards directly if he got an "honest reading on the intelligence," the junior senator from North Carolina seemed to place much of the blame on the intelligence community. "I serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee," he said. "So it wasn't just the Bush administration. I sat in meeting after meeting after meeting where we were told about the presence of weapons of mass destruction. There is clearly a disconnect between what we were told and what, in fact, we found there." Edwards's rhetoric was in some respects more alarmist than that of the Bush administration, describing the threat from Iraq as "imminent" and calling for the overthrow of Saddam long before Congress voted to authorize war.
The report from the Senate Intelligence Committee didn't help Kerry either. Whatever one thinks of the report in its entirety, its specific findings helped Bush politically by pouring cold water on the Bush-lied myth. It exposed Joe Wilson as a fraud, found that Iraq had actually increased its anti-U.S. terror planning in 2002, and provided a detailed account of how the intelligence community had reached its consensus that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Kerry's own history on Iraq also complicates his making the case that Bush lied. It's tempting, but we won't return here to the list of hawkish Kerry statements on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. What we can say is this: From 1996 through the Iraq war last year, John Kerry regularly advocated the use of force, unilaterally if necessary, to remove the Iraqi dictator. He did so before the Bush administration even began to make its case for war. He was such a strong advocate of regime change throughout the late 1990s that Paul Wolfowitz once singled Kerry out by name as a Democrat who understood the Iraqi threat. Those days of consistency disappeared, however, with the election of George W. Bush.
And Kerry's speech last Friday was only the latest example. The content of the speech was reminiscent of Al Gore's recent vein-popping rants, although Kerry wasn't as wild-eyed in his delivery. "The truth is, when it comes to Iraq, it's not that I would have done one thing differently," he said. "I would've done almost
everything differently."
Everything, that is, other than change his vote. John Kerry says he was misled into an unnecessary war. He also says he'd vote for it all over again.
Somewhere Karl Rove is smiling.
Stephen F. Hayes is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard. |
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mascari
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| msindependent wrote: | | He looked bombed during his midnight madness speech. He's lost it. |
Yep...I thought he was drunk, too. He was slurring his speech and actually thought "All hat no cattle" was a great line....I'm sure Bush is still smarting from that one. 
I turned it off because it was the same old pointless garbage. This guy might be as much of a meglomaniac as Saddam was. The entire Left is even telling him to shut up about this crap, but he thinks HE knows better, and how DARE anyone criticize him.
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mascari
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[quote="CandiM"] | The Cyber Menace wrote: |
Dennis Kucinich, who re-defines the word "bonkers"--
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Until I moved last year, he was my congressman!!! 
Lets hope he loses this year, theres a great candidate going against him, which has never been the case before. Problem is, its a very blue district, but Dennis really went over the edge. Lets hope Kerry follows him!
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