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A man who remembers everything and learns nothing (VDH with more on Kerry)
NRO Corner ^ | 11/01/2006 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/01/2006 4:13:43 PM PST by Uncledave

A man who remembers everything and learns nothing. [Victor Davis Hanson] One of the things I love about America is the spontaneous brilliance and humor that undermine all pretension. No better example was that wonderful banner from our brave and ingenious soldiers in Iraq, blaring:

"HALP US JON CARRY-WE R STUCK [backwards k] HEAR N IRAK."

20 million Americans must have seen it all over the Internet, and nothing sums up the nothingness of Kerryism better than those smiling soldiers. After seeing that, no wonder he's offering deer-in-the headlights apologies. This is a man who remembers everything and learns nothing.

Then there was the finger-in-the wind initial Democratic response: their supposedly slight ill breeze suddenly became a Katrina hurricane, and, Presto!, they were all over the airwaves demanding from poor Kerry the apologies that just a few hours ago they thought were not necessary.

As for Kerry — how quick the 24-hour metamorphosis from smugness to defiance to purported contriteness! At his earlier blame-the-wing-nuts-and-Rush-Limbaugh press conference, he thought he was a strutting, strong-jawed Napoleonic general leading his troops to rout the evil Bush-Cheney Prussians, and then, alone, suddenly turned around — and Mein Gott in Himmel!! — his Old Guard was heading for the hills.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hanoikerry; kerry; kerrydumbiraqgaffe; stuckiniraq; unfit; vdh; victordavishanson
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To: Suzy Quzy

Oh, good one!


41 posted on 11/02/2006 6:11:32 AM PST by Excellence (Vote Dhimmocrat; Submit for Peace! (Bacon bits make great confetti.))
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To: onyx

"Sickening Snooty Boob"

42 posted on 11/02/2006 6:12:56 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES.)
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To: P-Marlowe; Uncledave; xzins
Anybody know what "and Mein Gott in Himmel!!" means? Is that like "holy sh-t"? It sounds great for those special occasions when no one else is around to see the colossal mess you have just made.
43 posted on 11/02/2006 6:14:52 AM PST by blue-duncan
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To: Dog Gone; All

And it was on the front page of the New York Post.


44 posted on 11/02/2006 6:16:04 AM PST by proud American in Canada (Thy Will Be Done.)
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To: Miss Marple
Yes, the Kerry/Dems/MSM party have been trash-talking the mission, the military, and the CIC for 4 years, and prolonging enemy hopes.

The troops are finally getting a measure of revenge.
45 posted on 11/02/2006 6:24:27 AM PST by roses of sharon
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To: MEG33
I have been thinking that the appropriate reference for John Kerry is Marie Antionette, and her famous line;

Let them Eat Cake

Can someone photoshop Kerry as Marie Antionette?

46 posted on 11/02/2006 6:31:07 AM PST by sleepwalker
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To: Uncledave; johnny7; TomGuy; maryz; Lonesome in Massachussets; JLO; gidget7; nopardons; ...

Lying Traitor Ping


47 posted on 11/02/2006 6:35:38 AM PST by bitt ("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.")
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To: Uncledave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeYRWk-RMwk


48 posted on 11/02/2006 6:50:49 AM PST by doug from upland
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To: Txsleuth

His apology was a non-apology.."it is YOUR fault if you are upset" type of apology.


Well it is you know. If only I would've studied harder in school, then I would get the joke.


49 posted on 11/02/2006 6:51:07 AM PST by Valin (http://www.irey.com/)
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To: doug from upland; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Boazo; Alamo-Girl; PhilDragoo; ...

I am proud of you.

see Doug's latest - the best ever!


50 posted on 11/02/2006 7:21:46 AM PST by bitt ("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.")
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To: Dilbert56
We have got to learn how to play this game better.

Amen! And I think we are learning.

51 posted on 11/02/2006 7:28:57 AM PST by AxelPaulsenJr (Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.)
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To: blue-duncan
"Anybody know what "and Mein Gott in Himmel!!" means?"

"My God in heaven."

52 posted on 11/02/2006 7:32:27 AM PST by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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To: Dog Gone

Funny, I'd feel better if every leftist, liberal, socialist, communist and terrorist were dead!


53 posted on 11/02/2006 7:32:50 AM PST by Doc Savage ("You couldn't tame me, but you taught me.................")
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To: OldFriend
Don't forget that the gigolo also went after Tony Snow.

Someone tell me please, did any major Republican Senator, heck, ANY Republican Congressman, ever go after any of Clinton's Press Secretaries?

54 posted on 11/02/2006 7:35:30 AM PST by Paradox (American Conservatives: Keeping the world safe for Liberalism.)
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To: doug from upland; bitt
Oh wow doug.. I was smilin' thru the tears... that is special and so are you. Thanks for sharing your creative & clever talent with us..

appreciate the ping bitt

will be sending this out to my email buddies..

/d
55 posted on 11/02/2006 7:35:40 AM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: Enterprise

Thanks. It must be the same invocation in any language.


56 posted on 11/02/2006 7:42:40 AM PST by blue-duncan
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To: Mo1
It wasn't till that picture was posted all over the Internet that Kerry decided to make that apology

Like they say, "Laughter is the best medicine!" ;-)

57 posted on 11/02/2006 8:09:53 AM PST by maryz
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To: OldFriend
Calling him a stuffed shirt standing behind a podium

No, no -- your grasp of colloquial English is getting in the way. Kerry called him a "stuffed suit"!

58 posted on 11/02/2006 8:11:52 AM PST by maryz
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To: blue-duncan
Anybody know what "and Mein Gott in Himmel!!" means?

"My God in Heaven." Similar to our "Dear God!!" exclamation. Or "good grief!"

59 posted on 11/02/2006 8:46:30 AM PST by hsalaw
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To: Dog Gone; oldglory; MinuteGal; JulieRNR21; mcmuffin; gonzo
More that the 150 million ought to see:


60 posted on 11/02/2006 8:48:41 AM PST by Matchett-PI (To have no voice in the Party that always sides with America's enemies is a badge of honor.)
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