(Original pic photoshopped by FReeper fintan.)
Don "Kerry" Quioxte and Sancho "Eddie" Panza.
Posted on 11/14/2004 1:08:09 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
On the afternoon of Aug. 9, John F. Kerry stood on the lip of the Grand Canyon, about to make one of the biggest mistakes of his three-year quest for the presidency. A stiff wind was blowing across the canyon, and Kerry, whose hearing was damaged by gun blasts in Vietnam, had trouble understanding some of the questions being thrown his way. But he pressed on, coughing from the pollen blowing on the breeze.
Would Kerry have voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq, one reporter asked, even if he knew then that Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction? "Yes, I would have voted for the authority; I believe it's the right authority for a president to have," Kerry replied, as aides stood by, dumbfounded.
Kerry's answer ricocheted around the political world. Faced with the revelation that almost all the prewar arguments for invading Iraq were wrong -- the existence of weapons of mass destruction, close links to Al Qaeda -- President Bush had nonetheless insisted that he would do nothing differently. And he had been challenging Kerry to do the same, hoping to catch the Democrat changing his position on the unpopular war.
The senator explained to aides that part of the question had been lost in the wind; he thought he was answering a variation on the same basic query he'd been asked countless times: Was it right to give Bush the authority to go to war against Iraq? Kerry had simply given his standard "yes," with the proviso that he would have "done this very differently from the way President Bush has" -- yet the misunderstanding now muddied Kerry's message.
Worried advisers briefly considered issuing a clarification, but feared it might further feed Republican efforts to portray Kerry as a "flip-flopper."
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That's O.K. Teresa will give him nine grapes and a new windsurfing board.
White grapes? And with Gin ??? :^D
According to Drudge, he had Walking Pneumonia during the campaign. Not a good thing for an aspiring president.
That's a neat little clip there. What program did you use?
I shouldn't be at all surprised, were I you, if you were to be sued in court for libel (or slander, or malpractice, or something) by John Edwards, as well.
Don "Kerry" Quioxte and Sancho "Eddie" Panza.
That's funny!! Well done!!
Lando 
Lando
IMHO, this is the main thing journalists do wrong on a consistent basis, and no one calls them on it. You can find it in almost every article in the paper and news magazines. Very few journalists have any credibility anymore. It sure doesn't look like they teach it in journalism school to me.
"I shall be spending Christmas with John and Teresa, boating on the river in Cambodia."
LOL, do tell Ter-ray-zaa I intend to try her arthritis cure!
"Reid is expected to succeed Sen. Tom Daschle, who lost his South Dakota seat"
Doesn't it say volumes that they didn't pick Kerry?
After all, he's a Senator.
Calvin Locke wrote: "Mosh pit journalism. It is the Boston Globe after all."
The Globe is a liberal rag. I was surprised to read: "Now, as Kerry campaign strategists try to fathom his Nov. 2 loss, one word emerges out of the rubble: war."
How perceptive. Other left wing post mortems attribute Kerry's loss to red state homophobia.
Oh shi'-ite, I see another Purple Heart request coming.
Seriously, if this is even true, that would mean he's receiving some sort of gubmint Disability Payment each month. After all, a guy who groveled after PH's for scratches is NOT going to let a military related injury go without getting his 'just' compensation.
So my questions are ....
So c'mon John you have nothing to loose now, RELEASE your records and sign that SF180. Oh and pleeeeeeease, tell 'us' MORE about all your "war injuries".
[An aside; two days ago I received very bad news about one of my best friends who was 'In Country' and came close to 'buying it' in '67 and I'm kind of 'bummed out' at the present. So this scum bag phony war hero Kerry is really, REALLY, pi$$ing me off now]
Haaa, the famous question, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
"Kerry, whose hearing was damaged by gun blasts in Vietnam, had trouble understanding some of the questions being thrown his way."
Please. He was in-country for what, 120 days, during which he may - or may not - have fired his weapon or had weapons fired in close proximity to him. There is real question as to whether or not he was actually in combat. Enough is enough - the Vietnam "hero" myth has been completely debunked and yet rags like the Boston Globe continue to perpetuate it. Give it up.
Myself, I am troubled by the continuing assertion that Max Cleland is a "War Hero". His story is even more pathetic than Kerry's. The reason you never hear of his medals is that in his case, the Army issued no medals because his injuries were the result of his utter stupidity and drunkedness when he picked up a live grenade while on his way to party.
There was NO combat involved in Clelands accident, as the Globe innaccurately asserts. The lies and omissions in his record are even more disturbing than Kerry's.
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