Posted on 09/28/2004 12:20:08 AM PDT by kattracks
SPRING GREEN, Wis. (AP) — "Heavens to Betsy," it's hard to believe that the John Kerry of U.S. Senate stiff-speak is out there on the campaign trail tossing off homespun phrases, and even a joke or two. Not only is the sometimes aloof senator from Massachusetts dropping an occasional laugh-line into his stump speech, his audiences are chuckling. This heartens campaign aides who think his message is extraordinary but worry that the delivery is often ordinary.
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Kerry said the occupation of Iraq is riddled with problems, "yet today, President Bush tells us that he would do everything all over again, the same way." Kerry paused for affect before asking sarcastically, "How can he possibly be serious?"
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But there are signs that Kerry is improving in the crucial closing weeks of the campaign. Like on Monday, when he predicted the president would continue to paint a rosy picture of the ailing economy, Kerry used an idiom likely to be heard among teenagers in a shopping mall, but not on the Senate floor.
"You're going to hear all this talk, `Oh, we've turned the corner, we're doing better, blah, blah,'" he said, running on the phrase as his Wisconsin audience erupted in laughter. "You know, blah and blah and blah."
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Kerry isn't just using the lingo of the younger generation. He's thrown in a couple of old-fashioned folksy phrases, too. "Heavens to Betsy," he said earlier this month when remarking on Republicans' failure to reinstate the assault weapons ban. "You bet your boots I know what I'm talking about," Kerry said Monday when promising to be more fiscally responsible than Bush.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Yeah, if you get straight F's in a course all semester and get an A in the final, you still get an F in the course. Kerry doesn't need improvement, he needs for Bush to drop trou and take a dump on the stage while singing "Deutschland, Deutschland, ubber allis."
Prediction:
Bush will make Kerry look like a fool even more than Kerry already looks. Itwill be something like Algore walking up to Bush in the debate and Bush looking at him like Algore was a moron.
Bush will crush Skerry.
I've always thought that Kerry's biggest problem is his complete lack of a sense of humor. The examples sighted here don't suggest that he's improving. He's as whimsical as Mike Dukakis.
"Bush will make Kerry look like a fool even more than Kerry already looks. Itwill be something like Algore walking up to Bush in the debate and Bush looking at him like Algore was a moron."
This is Kerry's earth toned clothing.
this is pretty humorous , from the interview in Outdoor Life
magazine:
OL: Are you a gun owner? If so, what is your favorite gun?
Bush: Yes. My favorite gun is a Weatherby, Athena 20-gauge (over/under).
Kerry: My favorite gun is the M-16 that saved my life and that of my crew in Vietnam. I don’t own one of those now, but one of my reminders of my service is a Communist Chinese assault rifle.
Like a typical elite, Kerry knows how to mock, that isn't the same thing as having a sense of humor.
...yeah, or his earth-toned brain.
These lines are supposed to be funny?
The American people want to hear his ideas on serious topics, not some tripe that Kerry's handlers designate as humor. Doesn't matter though - Kerry is so thin-skinned, that the first tough question will snap him back to his arrogant, elitist self.
You do NOT learn humor.
I agree, furthermore, Kerry has to try something dramatic similar to Gore's walking up to Bush. Bush is nobody's fool and will make him look like the idiot he is.
Ah, no.
Those are against the law, per Brit Hume.
And he now claims his STAFF answered these questions.
If Kerry really wants to seal the deal with the under 30 crowd, he should perform Jackass-Style stunts at each event. "Vote for me and I'll eat this dog turd!"
OMG! You have me laughing so loud I almost fell out of my chair! You have nailed it!
Keep up that humor Johnny .. you're killing the crowd
Yeah, Kerry's trying too hard and the desperation is showing. Kerry will have a meltdown on thursday.
If so, it's the only weapon he's learned to use properly.
Instead of his arm, perhaps he'll shoot himself in the foot this time.
Glad I could help.
If that's the best he can do, he should be imprisoned for assault with a dead weapon.
yes, I think this is really big.
As an NRA member I have kept track of his positions
and voting records and on camera comments for some time now.
This is 100% contrary to all of that.
I hope it gets brought up in the debates ,
at the very least.
What? You didn't break up laughing over those knee-slappers!!???
Well, me neither.
A sense of humor depends on a sense of proportion, which involves not taking yourself too seriously.
"You're going to hear all this talk, `Oh, we've turned the corner, we're doing better, blah, blah,'" he said, running on the phrase as his Wisconsin audience erupted in laughter. "You know, blah and blah and blah." What a frickin' moron. Blah and blah and blah? Everyone knows it's "yada yada yada".
He could get some votes by smashing open watermelons with a sledgehammer at campaign appearances.
"Why do they call it Oval Office, Mr. President?? Everyone knows it's round."
Wow, he must be taking lessons from Al Franken.
"Humor! Ark, ark, ark, ark!"-Robin Williams as Mork
Lurch's jokes are more strained than the one-liners in a Rod Serling script. He's about as funny as bubonic plague.
Kerry is as funny as an anal cyst and about as attractive.
I'm stunned that there are such people.
Me, too. I thought that was the funniest part of the whole article.
John F*ckin' has all the humor of a dead horse.
That's gold, Jerry, GOLD!
Ha, ha. More proof that liberals have no sense of humor. How else to explain the careers of "comedians" Bill Maher and Al Franken?
"I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our anniversary?" She said, "Somewhere I have never been!" I told her, "How about the kitchen?"
"What do call someone who sees the glass in front of him half full? An optimist... Well, then what do you call someone who sees the glass in front of him as half empty? Teddy Kennedy"
(tapping microphone) "Is this thing on?".... "Goodnight, everyone".
John Kerry is as funny as cancer of the testicles.
Kerry is as funny as an impacted molar, aching like h*ll around 10:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
Kerry is as funny as Eleanor Clift.
A commedian is one who says funny things, a comic is one who says things funny. Kerry is a clown.
These are signs of "humor"? "Blah blah blah" and "Heavens to Betsy"?? Oh, yeah, those phrases just double me up with laughter...<\sarcasm>
thanks everyone for the humor warning.. I just got a cup of coffee and Im sure I would have spit it out, fainting with laughter over his comments HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
what a goofball!!
Running this phrase through Babelfish with the MSM/English translator selected, you get "Kerry increasingly shrill and vicious as Election Day approaches..."
"I'm John Kerry, and I'm a real funny guy. How dare you question my sense of humor?"
Well, as I've always said, and I haven't changed my position one bit, unlike my opponant ... the war ....
SNIP
... hasn't led us to a more sensative environment in the Middle East but has
SNIP
... that I have always, and never changed to mean that we can ...
SNIP
... by the time we are in ..
SNIP
Time's up, Mr Kerry
... for the betterment of th ...
Mr Kerry?
..in my opinion, whch has never changed one bit ... unlike my ..
MR KERRY !!!
and that's how I feel.
President Bush?
Yup!
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Kerry said the occupation of Iraq is riddled with problems, "yet today, President Bush tells us that he would do everything all over again, the same way." Kerry paused for affect before asking sarcastically, "How can he possibly be serious?"
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UHhhh.....
Didn't Kerry admit that HE would do the same as Bush has done???!
What a doofus!
"Blah blah blah" and "Heavens to Betsy"?? Oh, yeah, those phrases just double me up with laughter"
LOL! Yeah, and what about that folksy term he used last week--"skedaddle?" Now that's a knee-slapper. ;)
Keep 'em coming, John!
Right. I read the interview, he is not funny. He is snide and comes off as silly. Reminds me of Bliffle character in Tom Jones. And his use of "heavens to Betsy" is phony and calculated. Whoever is advising John and writing his speeches is not his friend.
Humor cannot be learned. It can be refined and rehearsed, but if you're lacking a sense of humor, especially about yourself, it comes off very badly. Here's hoping Kerry tries it!
This is a "news" article. Wow.
Chalk up another one for the AP.
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