Pottery Barn Rule? ---- Vanity

[Honcho]

I thought the whole Pottery Barn reference was a very clunky and goofy argument for Kerry. I'm very suprised that no one pick up on it afterward and I was very disappointed that Bush didn't make a joke of it. Something along the lines of "I think Senator Kerry needs to come clean to the American people and admit that he's never been to the Pottery Barn." I really think it could have gone a long way toward softening the President's image last night. Any other thoughts on this?

[tiamat]

Best left alone.

Pottery Barn is too expensive.

[OpusatFR]

He can make some silly, little jibes, but right now, I'm watching the market and the market is way up.

Bush won.

[avg_freeper]

Kerry not going to a Pottery Barn? Pottery Barn is the Walmart of the elite liberal world. His wife is probably on a first name basis with the staff.

[fishtank]

That's VERY good news.

Hear that Rush? Get it ready for an hour and a half from now.

[Cathy]

Bush could have made a couple silly remarks to "soften" up his image, but the reaction I am getting from people in my office is that he came across as "real." We like REAL MEN.

[eno_]

Bush2004 bids are up on Tradesports, too.

[television is just wrong]

Isn't pottery barn an over priced home store???

[Kirkwood]

Never been in a pottery barn so I wouldn't know anything about it. I assume they sell dishes and pots.

[John Jorsett]

Kerry fluffed the Pottery Barn analogy anyway. The rule isn't "you break it, you fix it," it's "you break it, you own it." He corrected himself later, but blew it on the first pass.

[moehoward]

My 9yr old corrected Kerry. "I thought is was you broke it you bought it, not you broke it, you fix it."

[didi]

Yes, but the outlet store/clearance is pretty good. I get the catalogue and then take it to Target or Wal-mart.

I think that it's "you break it, you buy it". I have not seen a repair station in any Pottery Barn I have visited.

I doubt Kerry has a clue about Pottery Barn.

[conservative in nyc]

The Pottery Barn rule is something that Woodward attributed to Colin Powell and/or Richard Armitage in his book "Plan of Attack" on the Bush administration. Kerry was trying to say Powell warned the President that when "you break it, you own it" (Iraq is like Pottery Barn), but he mangled the line into "you break it, you fix it". The statements are not equivalent. Even if you own it, you can fix it yourself, pay to have it fixed or teach someone else to fix it.

In April, UPI reported that Pottery Barn said there is no Pottery Barn Rule. You'd think a metrosexual like John Kerry would know that. I guess he sends his manservant out to actually buy their overpriced furnishings.

[Kokojmudd]

What the heck is a pottery barn? I thought barns had animals and hay and pitchforks and tractors and ...well you get the picture.

[Kokojmudd]

I had a hippie teaher in high school that had a pottery wheel maybe in a barn....he got fired for smoking pot with the students.

[television is just wrong]

Kerry's hired help does the shopping, so he can continue being a pompous a$$

[ssaftler]

Best Bush stayed away from this one. It was reminiscent of Daddy Bush's gaffe on the grocery store scanners a few years ago.

Then again, we ALSO had the Edwards anniversary luncheon at Wendy's. Yup, Horse-face and Mother F'er Thereza are just reg'lar folks!

[Esther Ruth]

America didn't break anything. OBL, Saddam and the terrorist broke everything. America is however helping these countries fix everything under the leadership of GWB.

If JFK was leader (God forbid) would this be his battle cry to the oppressed people in the world. "We didn't break it and we ain't gonna fix it, figure it out yourself."

JK has got it turned around 180. Things have never been closer to being FIXED than they are now because of W. Everything is being fixed because this administration has the courage to see what is actually broke and knows exactly how to really fix it. We got proof that it HAS been fixed and IS being fixed.

[grellis]

I've heard of them but I've never been in one (I don't even know if there is one in these parts) so I just gotta ask...what the hell is a Pottery Barn? Is it a barn made out of some form of ceramics? That can't be safe!