Heard the one about Kerry's sense of humor?

Boston Globe ^ | Sept. 12, 2004 | Jeff Jacoby

[FairOpinion]

JUST FOR laughs, you want to hear a little joke about shooting the president?

ADVERTISEMENT Presidential assassination -- now there's a funny topic. Just ask John Kerry. When the head of the United Mine Workers presented him with a semiautomatic shotgun during a Labor Day campaign stop in West Virginia, Kerry chortled, "I thank you for the gift, but I can't take it to the debate with me." High-larious!

How can you not love a candidate with such a robust sense of humor? The Massachusetts senator brings so much wit to the presidential race.

Anyway, to get back to Kerry's jest about shooting the president: This isn't a new theme for him. Back in 1988, just after the first Bush was elected president, he made headlines with a similar knee-slapper about Vice President-elect Dan Quayle.

"The Secret Service is under orders," Kerry told a business audience in Lynn, "that if Bush is shot, to shoot Quayle."

And to think that some people don't find him funny.

[FairOpinion]

Kerry is sick (in the head).

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

It would have been funnier if he had said "Thanks anyway, but if Teresa dies, I won't inherit one red cent!"

[TEXOKIE]

Hey Rosie!!...didnt know if you needed this one for your files.

[Centurion2000]

Looks like Kerry just let his social mask slip a little to show the rest of the world what he is really about.

[Diogenesis]

The joke suggests that maybe Kerry DID plot to murder Federal officials.
Interesting that, given that he FAILED to stop terrorists at Logan airport
after being informed of their penetration BEFORE 911.

[BykrBayb]

Now those are some real knee-slappers. If clinton could get elected for his expertise on the saxophone, kerry should be a shoe-in with that sophisticated sense of humor.

[SpyGuy]

And then there's Kerry's involvement with the radical organization, Vietnam Veterans Against The War: they actually held discussions--and a vote was taken--whether to assassinate certain US Senators!

Kerry may be "joking" on the outside, but inside, he is dead serious. He definitely has the makings of a tyrant.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Maybe Kerry should get Whoopi Goldberg to write some material for him.

Or maybe he already did.

[FairOpinion]

"Kerry may be "joking" on the outside, but inside, he is dead serious. He definitely has the makings of a tyrant."

I think you are right.

Manchurian candidate?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Take his wife. Please, take his wife.

[counterpunch]

The joke suggests that maybe Kerry DID plot to murder Federal officials. Interesting that, given that he FAILED to stop terrorists at Logan airport after being informed of their penetration BEFORE 911.

Yeah, but he did manage to make the VVAW meeting where they plotted the assasination of Congressmen.

[fish hawk]

I saw a short clip on the news today of Kerry out Pheasant hunting. He was carrying an over-under shotgun. A bird jumped up and he threw up the gun to aim but did not shoot. I started laughing to myself thinking: Kerry= "Shall I use the over barrel...should I use the under barrel... too late the bird is out of range!!"

[SpyGuy]

Manchurian candidate?

No, I'd say he's like most other petty dictators: a spoiled, self-aggrandizing, unprincipled egoist.

[Watery Tart]

A horse walks into a bar....

[maryz]

A year earlier, when Kerry was running for reelection, he uncorked a priceless rib-tickler about his opponent, Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld. "This guy," he said on Don Imus's radio show, "takes more vacations than the people on welfare." Is that a hoot?

From Kerry??? LOL!

[Judith Anne]

He's been on more vacations since the campaign started than he was before!

I guess that's because his polls do better when he isn't in front of the people...

[cyborg]

He has a sense of humor? This is news to me!

[LibertarianInExile]

We're talking about Kerry. Be very careful about your comments. This man could be President someday.

It should be "A horse's ass walks into a bar..."

[Ed_in_NJ]

Kerry will never lose his sense of humor. (You can't lose something that you never had.)

[jwpjr]

His sense of humor and being a common man goes way back. Seems to me his antiwar, anti-troop tour in the early 70's was call "The wind doesn't blow in Vietnam, it sucks".