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Posted on 07/30/2004 6:20:25 AM PDT by crushkerry
After 4 days of John Kerry's coronation and a rambling, incoherent, utterly "theme-less" speech - complete with flop-sweat - we still don't know anything about him that took place between the years of 1969 and 2004. Nor has he ever said exactly HOW he's going to accomplish all these general goals he sets forth.
There are reasons for this. He doesn't want you to know what he's been up to since he's back from Vietnam (he served in Nam, did you know that?) And we, and most importantly, he, has no specific plan for what he will do.
When it came time to stand and deliver, he failed. . And is it just me or did it seem like the speech was on 78RPM's and he thought his mike wasn't working? This was a stylistic performance of a 9th grader running for Student Council, not the most powerful position in the world. What the Dems were hoping for was Bill Clinton or Barack Obama (or even Rev. Al), not Annie Wexler. It's pretty sad when the best part of the speech was the choice of Van Halen's "Dreams" as a finishing song.
And for a guy who said "Judge Me On My Record", he said virtually nothing about it.
The big question everyone had is "Would Kerry Be Able to Make Americans Think He Will Keep Them Safe?". He failed. All you have to do is look at how he glossed over the most important issues of the day - Iraq and the War on Terror (which we think are one in the same).
When it comes to Iraq, I feel my intelligence is being insulted. At least Howard Dean was honest about the war, wrong, but honest. John Kerry acts as if it was his evil twin who was in the Senate when the vote on the war was cast.
To say that he will "restore and credibility to the White House" and making the accusation that "saying there are WMD's doesn't make it so" borders on the pathological. I'm guessing those words were actually notes to himself not to meant to be heard by the general public given that in December, 2003 he discussed the need to disarm Saddam Hussein's WMD programs. And how is he going to ask "hard questions and demand hard evidence" and "reform the intelligence system" when he didn't even read the Intelligence report he so criticizes before voting to send young men into battle?
Thus, he fails the own leadership test of being able to "look a parent in the eye and tell them I had no choice but to send them into battle." He's not only a flip flopper, he's lazy. And the complaint about families spending money on body armor is particularly galling when he voted against the $87 billion to fund it. And please Senator, please explain if you think the troops in Iraq are, as you say, "being held hostage to Mideast oil".
He says that "he knows what to do in Iraq" but doesn't tell us what it is other than making friends. How, pray-tell Senator, are you going to get France and the rest of the Oil for Food cronies to come to your side? And you said that building alliances will allow us to "get them before they get us". Have you noticed nothing has happened here since 9/11 while our alliances were supposedly so bad? And why isn't he specific as to which allies he's talking about? Because that require him to say "France", not exactly a popular word.
His "solutions" on how to fight the larger terror war are no better. Most striking is that his only reference to 9/11 is not the anger and sense of resolve we all felt, but rather how the world was on our side. In fact, to him the whole horrid day of 9/11 seems merely an afterthought compared to affordable health care, the environment, the homeless in Lafayette Square and outsourcing. Perhaps someone should tell him unless you make safety the primary goal, all the other stuff will go to hell and a handbasket. His plan? Again, we don't know other than "being respected in the world".
Look Senator, we honor and respect your service in Vietnam. But being the Commander in Chief is not the same as being a Swiftboat captain. You don't fight the wars personally, but have to look at the macro picture. And on that he has failed. That's the reason you've heard nothing in these 4 days about anything after 1969, or as we call them, "The Lost Years". In the speech you heard nothing about supporting a nuclear freeze, cutting defense and intelligence spending, opposing Gulf War I, and in a year's time, supporting, opposing, and then not funding, Gulf War II.
We're not going to spend much time analyzing his domestic priorities, as every Democratic candidate since FDR (save perhaps JFK) - warmed-over Robin Hood Socialism. Yet, again, he doesn't tell us how he's going to ensure every kid gets to college and how every person will have health care. Sounds good. But so does Santa Claus. Only problem is he's a myth, just like John Kerry's domestic visions. And call us crazy, but where in the Constitution is health care a "right"? Must have slipped in an Amendment while I was on vacation.
One more thing, it's very hard to take seriously any Kerry talk on "values" when he supports partial birth abortion, opposes the Conner Peterson law, and opposes denying welfare to drug addicts. What was that? You say you never heard that in the speech. Big shock there huh? And to reference that little scumbag Ron Reagan's funeral swipe at President Bush is classless.
We'll wrap up where we started. Did John Kerry make anyone feel as if he could make them as safe or safer than George Bush? Given the fact that only about 20% of the speech touched on the #1 job of a President, we humbly (OK, not so humbly) that he failed. George Bush and Karl Rove are licking their chops.
Grade for helping Kerry: D - A horrid performance. And yes, we're biased. Still, this was one of the worst speeches in recent memory. Even Al Gore's "People Against The Powerful" 2000 speech sounds like the Gettysburg Address compared to this abortion (yet another topic not mentioned in the speech)
Grade for helping Bush B+ He's set the bar so low it will be hard not to jump over it. Even though he's not the best speaker, Bush comes off a steady and resolute leader, not a kid in need of Ritalin. And Bush's message is simple - "I Will Keep You Safer Than Kerry". And in the end that' the only question that matters.
Ping.
When someone who is making a speech precedes each sentence with I, it should give one cause to pause and think what kind of person he is.
Explain that?
"savingprivatehamster"
LOL
OK, Kerry threw away his "medals." That much the liberal Senator will admit.
If, at any time, he has petitioned for replacement of medals or ribbons from the Department of the Navy then he
must give them up. After all, they are the property of the people to whom he "returned" them.
Ribbons, medals even atrocities, I don't care. The World Court in The Hague should petition the candidate to
testify, concerning what he knew and when he knew it about any of the villages, people or even water buffaloes he destroyed
during his 4 months in country.
This coward is wrapping the very flag true heroes fought for and he turned his back on around his very rounded
shoulders.
He really does emulate the French doesn't he.
He should now resign the Senate and make his run for the White House. But he is to much of a coward to do that.
Bob Dole did because Bob knows heroes and Kerry is definitely no hero.
"I" "I" "I"
"me" "me" "me"
Let's gag in unison!
When did Kerry become a conservative Republican?? Sheesh, his walk is the most liberal senator and his talk is God, family values, tough on defense and tax cuts. Where's the guy's integrity. He's no more than a trickster.
LOL!
It's from the live thread last night, Dan. First Kerry's daughter claimed he performed CPR on a hamster, and we were laughing quite hard at that mental image....when the Spielberg biopic started. Someone dubbed it "Saving Private Hamster," and I worked up that html to help immortalize the joke.
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The only thing I could think about as I watched Kerry speak was about how much his face was sweating. It looked like his face was about to melt off, Raiders of the Lost Ark style.
My sister, who is a journalism student at Michigan State and by no means a conservative, replied "I know what you mean" when I brought that up.
Whoever was in charge of lighting is going to pay big time. I wonder if any of the pundits (or Rush tomorrow) will pick up on it.
Appeasement.
The same policy which caused a rag-tag gang of thugs to arrive at the profound lack of respect which caused 9-11.
The same faith in "good intentions" which caused Nick Berg to end up with his head chopped off.
Did you leave out a verb, like *suggest* that he failed? Otherwise, HELL of a good review!!
I asked him if Britain were holding an election today and the choice was between a reincarnation of Neville Chamberlain and Maggie Thatcher, for whom would he vote?
I left him mumbling. But as a parting shot to him I asked just when "his" England had become a suburb of Paris?
Thanks. I saw a lot of merriment over that last night in the thread, but not the genesis.
I pity his daughters. But oh well.
(Are they bastards? Aren't they from a marriage he had annulled, or some little sophistry?)
Dan
Did he know which END to blow in??
is there a similarity here?
I didn't listen, but I tuned in to see what the FOX crew had to say, and they were pretty positive. Most gave him a "B" and said that he clearly is trying to position himself as a more effective leader than Bush on the WOT. Don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger.
Actually, the finishing song was "Beautiful Day" by U2. I found this to be a decidedly unfortunate selection for a challenger, as the refrain goes:
What you don't have, you don't need it now
What you don't have, you don't need it now
Being a member in the Senate he knows full well that President Bush did not lie to the American people about the Weapons of Mass Destruction before the war. He knows the classified and unclassified details of both the Senate Intelligence Report and the 9/11 Commission. Both of these Commissions were very heavily staffed by partisan Democrats who had an agenda to damage the President. People like Ben Venista, Gorelick and Bob Kerry who were definitely looking to make the President and his administration into liars. Both Commissions not only did not find any lying by the President or his administration, but could not find any pressure put on the CIA or the FBI by any Administration member. They found the Bush Administration made sure that the CIA worked in complete objectivity to the facts as they were known. The Commissions both found that the President was completely innocent of misconduct in this very serious matter. There was no lying from the President George W Bush’ Administration.
What this means is either the two Senate Commissions are lying or John Kerry is lying. Since John Kerry knows everything the Commission knows and his staff has briefed him before putting in his acceptance speech that the President misled the Country, then the Commissions must be lying in their reports. For John Kerry to be telling the truth when he calls the President a liar is that he knows something that substantiates that statement. Perhaps he can give proof that the President of the United States lied to the American People. Absence that, John Kerry can give proof that the two Senate Commissions wrote false reports to the American People. If not then John Kerry is lying to the American people. According to the facts that have been found on a bi-partisan basis the Truth is, John Kerry is the liar.
Do we need another President that is willing to lie to get elected? If he can lie about a President of The United States telling a monstrous lie, then he can easily lie about cutting your taxes or staying the course in the War on Terror. In a World were the enemy is doing every thing it can to kill a million Americans, we cannot afford to play dangerous games with our country’s security. We cannot afford politicians who will say or do anything to get elected only to find out they were not telling the Truth. This is a time when words mean something and the Truth is all that matters. This is a dangerous World right now and we need a President of principle and integrity and that is what we have in the White House right now. Vote Bush!
Pray for W and Our Troops
Reporting for duty?? The only duty we have for you his peeling potatoes and cleaning the heads. The real men will fight the war.
I also heard a rumor that after saving Licorice the Hamster, he came back the next day and recreated the heroics with his trusty PX bought 8mm camera. It will be inserted in a campaign aid to air at a later date.
More like pumps the poodle than jumps the shark...or SHACK as they say 'Down Unduh'
"It's pretty sad when the best part of the speech was the choice of Van Halen's "Dreams" as a finishing song."
Actually, the first song played at the end of the speech was by U2 and Bono, Van Halen was then played.
I found it "curious" a European Rock Band was choosen to be played first. And I'm surprised many missed this small, but oh so typical "choice" by the European Candidate for President.
If you are involved in the campaign, you might point this out.
Changed. Thanks.
Yes. It was especially telling that Kerry declared, pompously, "I'm not the sort of person who wears my religion on my sleeve."
In that assertion, Kerry not only tried to link himself, perposterously, to the late great Ronald Reagan (via Reagan's weaselly son).
He was also patting himself on the back. For the nth time.
That the Kerrys --both Mr. and Mrs.-- feel the need to instruct us on ther personal virtues (honest, smart, saucy, sexy, etc.), demonstrates a lack of class. It also says something about the absence of those very virtues.
FUNNY: In order to gain support and to be taken seriously (well, not really), these guys have to pretend to be more like Bush.
They have to disguise themselves to get into the henhouse so that they can eat the hens.
FnKerry is like "death warmed over."
The Good News: He'll quit and go home after four months.
Awesome post bray. This is the same tactic that Clinton used in 1992, and he unfortunately rode it to the White House. We need to make sure this commie in moderate clothing doesn't do the same.
Did anyone love the part where he said (in so many words), "Bush is a liar and mislead America, Cheney has underground deals with Big Energy, Rummy doesn't listen to Generals, and Ashcroft has never read the Bill of Rights..... But I call to George W. Bush to lighten the tone of the campaign and that we play nice..."? That was classic, it was sad that only a couple of news outlets thought that was a major news story.
Either way, the whole donkey convention was transparent to anyone who pays attention to politics... but it is up to us to make sure that Joe America understands that. The attempt at being Hawkish on Foreign Policy by Edwards, and a promise by Kerry to cut taxes are both ludicrous. Kerry jumped the Shark in the terms of Political rhetoric... but no matter how hard he tries, we haven't forgotten that he was a U.S. Senator for 20 years, and the record he has amassed proves his true liberal ways.
Pray for W and Our Troops
The NASA pics were the jumping of the shark...
The Democrats, as Debra Saunders said in a column today, should have nominated Howard Dean. Dean was a flaming Lefty but he would have passed my comfort zone precisely because you knew where he stood. He was too honest a liberal and that's exactly why the Democrats rejected him. They ended up nominating someone with no core convictions who isn't comfortable in his own skin and could never quite tell you where he stood. John F*ckin's lack of decisiveness offends my comfort zone. I can't picture following someone who I can't count on to be candid with me. When all is said and done, its amazing the Democrats sold their cherished principles just to win. They picked a guy who embodies virtually the opposite of everything they believe in and the candidate and the message are hopelessly out of sync. That's not the foundation a confident and winning campaign rests on.
He's running as a pretend Republican. But as President Bush noted forcefully today what matters is not the good intentions of (liberals ALWAYS have good intentions) liberals but results. Results matter because in the real world they mean the difference between life and death. The #1 job of a President is to make our country safe from harm, period. In looking at John F*ckin's speech, he thinks Ronald Reagan ran for Student Council President. He's hopelessly out of his depth and overqualified for the job he is seeking. America cannot afford someone who needs to get up to speed as President.
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