The Trouble Is, So Far Kerry Stinks On TV

THE NEW YORK OBSERVER ^ | 5/3/2004 edition | by Joe Hagan

[alnick]

"I think he’s got to go back to remember what it felt like and help people understand what it was like in 1971," said Mr. Kerrey.

I wonder how helpful this defense of Kerry's traitorous words are coming from a man who has admited to exactly the kind of atrocities that JF'nK accused all American soldiers in Vietnam of.

[Liz]

Hey, nice find.

I fear all this media opprobium will force Kerry and the Dims to drag out the ol' reliable "victimization" routine.

Kerry'll be moaning and groaning about the VRWC any minute now.

[goldstategop]

Now we know why Rush's ridiculed it as That 70s Campaign. After the hit FOX show.

[Liz]

ROTFLMBO. Nice take.

[kcvl]

Lawrence O’Donnell has about the same personality as John F'n Kerry. He's a jerk.

[SkyPilot]

I'll bet you a Diet Coke that GW Bush can get Kerry so flustered during a televised debate that:

- Kerry swears and/or takes the name of God in vain

- Kerry loses his temper so badly that even journalists will watch with their mouths agape

[mtbopfuyn]

He, at 25, was just a kid??? What, just like Johnny Taliban shouldn't be held accountable for his actions against America because he was just a kid, never mind patriotic and upstanding young men and women are in Iraq today and in Vietnam at the ripe old age of 18? Excuse me, but that "kid" was given command of others' lives. That "kid" was in Paris. That "kid" was and is accountable for his actions today and his actions today are most questionable.

[demkicker]

Loud, stinky, and even worse, Kerry is also extremely unpleasant to look at.

Yep, I say flush him!

[Miss Marple]

Like James Lileks, I absolutely detest the memory of the 70's. If Kerry thinks he could make me feel nostalgia for those low-class, poor-taste, depressing times, he has another thing coming.

[sauropod]

"And I find afterward, we’ll be having conversations afterward, and it’s hard to get to him even then."

Not even when I light his cigarette for him...

[Stentor]

"I think he’s got to go back to remember what it felt like and help people understand what it was like in 1971,"

If that is what his campaign is about, he may as well mail it in from Paris. He is not helped by the fact that when he speaks he sounds like he is dubbing in the English soundtrack for an Ingmar Bergman film. Maybe he ought to mail the election in from Uppsala.

[guitfiddlist]

As usual, the Democrats don't get it.

Exactly. The Democrats need to remember a paraphrased admonition: "To thine own 'Ratself - remember you're a lying extremist in moderate's clothing."

Kerry CAN'T speak from the heart, else he'd be talking about astronomical taxes, abdicating sovereignty to the UN - and re-education camps for those lacking in Correct-Think.

Also, the bozo is a Senator - a position which never has to actually control and manage anything other than the paid-for sycophants and yes-persons they surround themselves with. And 'Rat Senators can wax forever with absolute lies and BS, without it ever being criticized, taken seriously - or actually having to be implemented.

This is why Senators rarely have the seriousness of thinking necessary to be a CEO of anything. And why 'Rat Senators need not ever get the chance.

[OESY]

John F. Kerry = A Unique Blend of Monotony and Mendacity!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Let's call him swirly.

[JesseHousman]

Is Kerry Blowing It?

It all depends on what your definition of "it" is.

[new cruelty]

Thank you for posting this. This article reads like a workshop or guide for revamping kerry's campaign. I think it is great that the article quotes matthews and hewitt. They both sound desperate. Joe McGinniss stated that kerry is not Jack Kennedy, although he wishes he were. It sounds more like matthews, hewitt and company wish he were too.

[Larry Lucido]

failed to communicate the most humanizing part of his biography: his war record as a decorated Vietnam veteran

Yes, I never knew he was in Vietnam.

[OKSooner]

I wanna see him pound the podium with his shoe.

[goldstategop]

Until he started marveling about the bayjou in Louisiana reminding him of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.

[goldstategop]

He's too colorless and boring to be a Nikita Dean.