Posted on 06/08/2004 3:34:12 PM PDT by paul in cape
Sorry, I didn't mean to dodge the question, I forgot to answer it when I got rolling. Once he's in the SUV he's welcome to do whatever. And for a candidate of any stripe to give a thumbs up when he sees a reporter outside the window of his limo/suv/beemer is no big surprise. He's a walking ego, he's Lurch, but he's not that ghoulish.
And yes, I think he probably does get a chuckle out of not having to wait 6 to 8 hours with the common folks.
And yet you dodged it, again. I didn't ask you what he did. I asked you what you would do. So you would go and pay your respects to a person and a family and jump in a limo, (WHY DO YOU INSIST ON CALLING IT AN SUV?) and give a thumbs-ups? YOU would do that?
"give a thumbs up at a funeral -- even if he was in his own limo."
Reminds of the Ron Brown funeral when Clinton was caught on video yucking it up until he spotted the cameras.
I would, but I'd take a small mirror and stick it under his nose as I walked by the casket (just to make sure he was dead) as in the movie Charade.
It was probably for his media friends.
And I heard he arrived and left in an SUV. If it was a limo, fine. It's hard to tell from the photo.
There is respect that needs to be paid, and it has nothing to do with whether you are running for President or if there is a "gaggle" around your SUV.
I'd bet my life that Ronald Reagan would NEVER have done that, but J. F. Kerry is NO Ronald Reagan.
it looked like a "small airport limo". we saw it on the 23 freeway; between moorpark and thousand oaks.
we commented that he "must not be very important"...
he was escorted by 4 motorcycles; n they didn't even block the freeway...
That's not a thumbs up but rather an attempt to show off his three-button French cuffs to the working folks outside his private limosine.
Also, the thumbs up gesture, as anyone who has ever studied French knows, means "Let them eat cake!"
Usually Kerry giving onlookers the middle finger ... thumbs up is a slight improvemant ... however, not at a funeral.
ping.
Yes, the royal wave would have been appropriate from one born to the purple.
Fixed your typo:
He should have kept a low profile. It's not dignified to give a thumbs up at a funeral -- even if he was his own funeral...
Since Bill and George W are about the same age (in fact George is a bit older), George W may have to get a leave of absence from the home to attend Bill's services.
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Yeah... that would be too much like showing respect. Besides, sKerry thinks that any salute he would give would be one rendered in return.
sKerry is a piece of sh*t. He wouldn't make a pimple on Reagan's a$$!
Shouldn't that say "for the first time in two years?"
Were you born with a stick up your a##? Yes I've attended funerals before. I buried my fiancee 6 days after we got engaged. 2 Months later I buried 1 of my 2 best friends. 6 months after that I helped bury the other one. And no, no 'thumbs up' because I was crushed, and because the life was taken out of me. And I've buried aunts, uncles, school friends, and in a month or 2 I'll bury a lifelong friend whos got brain tumors.
There's a difference between attending services of someone you know and even loved, and someone you met a few times 20 years ago and may not have even liked.
Tell me. When is he allowed to show a thumbs up to the press. When he is in the service? In the car? Once the car is moving is it ok after it's rolled 10 yards? 50 yards? 100 yards? a quarter mile? 1/2 mile? 1 mile? 1.5 miles? 2 miles? 3? 5? 20?
You're really all missing the big picture here; John Kerry had NO business being there today at all; his invitation is for tomorrow night and for Friday morning, as is every other senator.
The only reason he went today is so he can be SEEN because he's been ignored by the press this entire week.
He went to get his picture taken with that casket, period.
And when he left, he gave that disgusting thumbs up to the press more than likely to let them know he "got the job done."
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