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Heard the one about Kerry's sense of humor?
Boston Globe ^
| Sept. 12, 2004
| Jeff Jacoby
Posted on 09/12/2004 12:27:13 AM PDT by 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.
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Kerry is sick (in the head).
To: FairOpinion
It would have been funnier if he had said "Thanks anyway, but if Teresa dies, I won't inherit one red cent!"
To: FairOpinion; Yellow Rose of Texas
Hey Rosie!!...didnt know if you needed this one for your files.
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:32:32 AM PDT
by
TEXOKIE
(Father in Heaven, take command of America and her Mission, her leaders, her people, and her troops!)
To: FairOpinion
Looks like Kerry just let his social mask slip a little to show the rest of the world what he is really about.
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:33:46 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Truth, Justice and the Texan Way)
To: FairOpinion
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.
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:33:56 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.)
To: FairOpinion
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.
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:36:35 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
To: FairOpinion
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.
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:37:54 AM PDT
by
SpyGuy
To: BykrBayb
Maybe Kerry should get Whoopi Goldberg to write some material for him.
Or maybe he already did.
To: SpyGuy
"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?
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:39:37 AM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
To: FairOpinion
Take his wife. Please, take his wife.
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:45:00 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("This house is sho' gone crazy!")
To: 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.
Yeah, but he did manage to make the VVAW meeting where they plotted the assasination of Congressmen.
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posted on
09/12/2004 12:48:25 AM PDT
by
counterpunch
(The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
To: FairOpinion
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!!"
To: FairOpinion
Manchurian candidate?No, I'd say he's like most other petty dictators: a spoiled, self-aggrandizing, unprincipled egoist.
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posted on
09/12/2004 1:03:52 AM PDT
by
SpyGuy
To: FairOpinion
A horse walks into a bar....
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posted on
09/12/2004 2:42:22 AM PDT
by
Watery Tart
("...I can't imagine that al-Qaida is going to be impressed by sensitivity." ~~LYNNE Cheney)
To: FairOpinion
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!
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posted on
09/12/2004 3:27:05 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: maryz
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...
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posted on
09/12/2004 3:30:36 AM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Grandma is beating off the Indians, and they keep on coming.)
To: FairOpinion
He has a sense of humor? This is news to me!
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posted on
09/12/2004 3:30:59 AM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: Watery Tart
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..."
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posted on
09/12/2004 3:40:23 AM PDT
by
LibertarianInExile
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: FairOpinion
Kerry will never lose his sense of humor. (You can't lose something that you never had.)
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posted on
09/12/2004 4:03:21 AM PDT
by
Ed_in_NJ
To: FairOpinion
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".
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posted on
09/12/2004 4:08:16 AM PDT
by
jwpjr
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