Posted on 11/20/2004 3:38:33 AM PST by M. Espinola
NEW YORK — John Kerry (search) believes he lost to President Bush because of the video from Usama bin Laden (search) that surfaced just days before the Nov. 2 presidential election.
The Massachusetts senator told FOX News' senior correspondent Geraldo Rivera that he believes he lost because the tape may have scared the American electorate.
Rivera spoke to Kerry on Thursday as the senator and a slew of other notable names — including wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, actors Robin Williams and Morgan Freeman and comedian Chris Tucker — were in a holding room prior to the processional leading up to the formal opening of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark.
"Tough luck, senator," Rivera said to Kerry, referring to the Democrat's election loss.
Trying to recount Kerry's words verbatim, Rivera said Kerry responded by saying:
"It was that Usama tape — it scared them [the American people]." Lurch was the one scaring them..
Rivera said Kerry said the tape came out too late for his camp to rebut and the Democratic campaign couldn't counteract it in time for the Tuesday election.
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It wasn't Kerry's fault; it was all Osama. Of course, the Osama tape could help Bush only by reminding people how much safer they would feel with him rather than Kerry.
No, you lost because the American people weren`t foolish enough to vote for an avowed Communist and enemy of our military in time of war.
Yeah... THAT's the ticket.
He is just like Clinton saying that he was persecuted by the EVIL Ken Starr, and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, and the MSM (like THEY didn't kiss his ass the ENTIRE time he was in office, EVEN when he was busy murdering innocent men,women, and CHILDREN at Waco; or sending in Jack-Booted Thugs with HK's to "rescue" little Elian and send him back to a COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP,etc., etc.), and on and on...
Kerry is the same type of arrogant Narcissist who thinks he can do no wrong and/or, who is in a state of constant denial. He blamed the Secret Service agents there to defend his LIFE, if need be, for causing him to fall down on the ski slopes. He even FLIP-FLOPPED recently by one day saying his campaign ground forces didn't get out the vote good enough, and then turned around and posted a video on the internet that praised those people for their efforts.
He will NEVER admit that the reason he LOST is because the American people don't LIKE him, don't TRUST him, and realize that he doesn't stand for anything, and will say or do ANYTHING in an effort to get elected. In short, he lost because he is John F'ing Kerry. He, and ONLY he, SHOULD take the blame for losing. Face it John....
you're a LOSER!
.
Private JOKER (from Full Metal Jacket) had more cajones on a bad day, than John F'in Kerry has accumulated in a lifetime.
Kerry is like any DemocRAT - unable to accept rejection from the American people, he makes excuses. Now Kerry joins that pantheon of other RAT-losers, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, and of course: Al 'I Ate The Internet, "burp"' Gore.
Speaking of Full Metal Jacket, sometime you should all check out the website of R. Lee Ermey (who played the Gunnery Instructor in F.M.J.):
http://www.rleeermey.com/introindex.php
It's a blast! :)
Kerry is trying to pick the fly poop out of the pepper.
If, not for the organized attacks on Pres. Bush by the media, the 527's, etc., Kerry would not have come within 15 points Bush.
I hope his recruiting is going well, he has to replace a couple of thousand terrorists from last week.
It appears now that what used to be "Bush's fault"
now is "Osama's Fault", so:
All bad things that now happen in the universe of democrats = Osama's fault.
In fact the Osama tape, in my opinion, was a fake. when I say a "fake" i mean it was balderdash. I don't believe Bin Laden speaks for Arab world as he once has. Too many terroist cells have surfaced with their own agendas, far from Bin Laden. He's nothing more then voice that is unheard. If he is captured/or is killed another terroist leader gains power as is the case now. (Sorry for my late posting)
This really ought to be backfiring against Kerry and hurting any scrap of dignity he is trying to save by saying this.
After all, it can just as easily be said that the Bin Laden tape gave Kerry a boost to help make it seem a bit closer. Kerry was the one who was pointing out that we hadn't caught Bin Laden yet and that the President didn't really care about Bin Laden. Does he honestly mean to tell us that he didn't try to pounce on that fact? Were he a stong candidate, that tape should have turned the election decisively in his favor!
Kerry barked up the wrong tree throughout the entire election, and he continues to do so even in the post election. He thinks he is salvaging credibility for 2008. Instead, he is destroying it, much as Al Gore destroyed himself after 2000.
Nobody lost anything for Hanoi john, he did it all by himself. He was be led by all those clintonistas and he is dumb enough to listen to them and I'm really GLAD.
Good, let them all keep thinking that. Then they'll never figure out how to solve their real problems, and they'll never win an election again...
What's to rebut?
Is Mr. Kerry admitting that the American people viewed him as weak? His non-existent plans hadn't gotten traction?
How could OBL possibly be someone who needed rebutting by JK?
Take a deep breath John, ...you lost.
Wow! It's the left-wing media's fault that Clinton exposed himself in front of a low-level Arkansas state employee!
It's Usama bin Laden's fault that Kerry screwed up his campaign!
George W. Bush received a greater percentage of the popular vote than the Democrat presidents (except for only two, FDR and LBJ) have since the Republican party became a national party in 1856! Over 148 years! 38 presidential election cycles! With a track record like that the Democrats might want to re-think their core strategy! (Or maybe not. It's best for us if they keep repeating the very same mistakes.)
Very good acronym: D.D.T.D.
I'm sort of partial to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" myself
B.D.S. could be a subset disorder to D.D.T.D.
I love this! Just like Bill Clinton revisionist history wing of Impeachment in his Tailer Liebrary.
John, it wasn't usama, it was YOU that scared the Shinola out of the American people!
UBL?
nooooooo Kerry's betrayal of Viet Nam Veterans cost him the election.
And guess what we ain't done yet!
Before we're through, we're going to run him out of the United States Senate!
And you can take that to the bank!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Kerry can blame who he want too. He lost because of his actions during and after Viet Nam - Plain and simple. The Swift Boat Vets, and Viet Nam POW's did a job on Kerry with the truth about Viet Nam. Pay backs are hell John.
So, if Osama bested Kerry with a video tape, how was Kerry going to defeat him, hunt him down and KILL him?
Integrity, Integrity, Integrity. "I Have A Plan" John. Get some.
To quote General Bethleham at the end of the movie THE POSTMAN, "You don't value anything. You don't BELIEVE in anything! THAT is why you CAN'T win!" It is a fitting way to sum up why Kerry lost.
Only if he was running away so he could shoot him in the back.
I think most Americans agreed with me.
I don't think that's the way Usama intended it.
Excellent!
In the tape, aired by the Arab television network Al-Jazeera, bin Laden spoke directly to the American people.
This is beautiful...a video tape purporting to show Bin Laden gets handed off to Al-Jazeera, and is immediately taken as gospel, so to speak.
No need to fiddle fart around first hand with MSM of the free world...they'll be so green with envy at Al Jazeerah getting a scoop that they'll clone it and spread the contents around faster than a Hong Kong Windows virus.
I'll bet a dollar to a doughnut that the tape was inspired by the movie 'Forrest Gump' , wherein Gump 'rubs elbows with many famous personalities over the last half of the century including Elvis Presley and Nixon, thanks to computer technology '.
Kerry said the tape came out too late for his camp to rebut and the Democratic campaign couldn't counteract it in time for the Tuesday election.
As is said about comedy...' Timing is everything' !
Truer words have never been written. How much did that sucker cost? 15 Billion? And the meter is still running because of "leak" repairs, right? That's about $50 bucks for EVERY American citizen, based on a population of 300 million.
How much was it estimated to cost before it started?
And the MSM is raising all kinds of hell, right? One has to wonder how much hell would be raised if, say, this tunnel had been built in Texas? Or any other Republican-dominated state.
Wasn't Teddy Kennedy a big backer of this project?
ROFL This guy is so delusional.
ROFL This guy is so delusional.
OBL endorsed Kerry. How much more could he ask? The
scaredy cats voted as OBL said, too, so they would be
blue states. Now they seem to be doubting OBL's word.
Vintage democrat hack falsehood. Kerry was using the tape immediately. First he claimed that he supported the WOT and then turned on a dime and announced that the tape was proof that the WOT was a failure.
I'm sure treason, socialism, and the fact that noone knew what they hell you stood for have nothing to do with it. I wonder how many times he's been hunting since the 2nd.
Even with all of a Republican's ketchup money..Kerrry still can't even buy a clue.
So did concerned English pen pals organized by 'The Guardian' !
'Don't Tread On Me' is ingrained into Americans from the get go.
You know, I was all set to vote for John Kerry when the Osama video came out. That's when I pooped my pants, screamed like a little girl with a spider in her hair, and fainted due to a bad case of the vapors. So I had to vote for Bush, see?
If John Kerry really believes this, he's an ignoramous and our country is so much better off without him in the Oval Office.
Damnable nuisance, I say!
LOL, what was unknown before the tape aired that became known? There was nothing new here, folks. OBL has ALWAYS wanted to kill us all. The fact that he restated what every American already knew cost Kerry the election??? Dems never take responsibility for anything.....
i'm studying your paragraph formation. two spaces after each paragraph. that's pretty good.
i hope kerry continues to believe he would've been president if not for that tape. i was under the impression he lost because he was a spineless jellyfish, drifting on isue after issue whichever the wind blew.
Kerry is in keeping with a fine demonrats tradition. Sore Loser. Hope they never learn.
I guess the fact that Kerry is a TRAITOR had nothing to do with his loss. /sarcasm
Senator Kerry, President Bush won the election because he's a great leader, has a strategy to win the War on Terror, represents the American values, and a has positive agenda.
The bin Laden tape simply confirmed what many had suspected all along, that America's enemies prefer a quisling mush-head as president, not a two-fisted "cowboy" who will gun them down where they stand. If we're to believe the "fear factor," then this tape should have worked against Bush, not Kerry. After all, bin Laden basically threatened to focus future attacks on those areas that voted for Bush.
That's right, and I'd bet the Kerry camp was actually encouraged by the emergence of that tape. Now they gasp in utter disbelief that the citizens of the USA are not like the Spaniards.
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