cnn.com — Speaking to a group of students at Pasadena City College on Monday, Kerry said: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." Sen. John McCain, another Vietnam vet, immediately demanded Kerry apologize.
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vinnyNov 1, 2006
Did you read the speech? He makes several direct comment about Bush just before the quote we are disussing. Are you denying this? Did you actually read the context of the quote? Do you even care?
raid517Nov 2, 2006
"Considering Kerry is the one that made the comment I would have to say the the Dems are desperate. You know he has a history of bashing US troops, he continuously calls them terrorists (not the policy makers which you may or may not agree with). He took Jane Fondas side in Vietnam. (Who said that the Vietcong were great. The same group that put Pol Pot in power in Cambodia who killed more than 2 million citizens, what a great organization.)"Man you have a f**kin' warped view of reality.
raid517Nov 2, 2006
Because it isn't true. In order for that to be true, he would have to have insulted himself too - since after all he IS ex military. Or do you think he is deliberately calling himself a dumbass too?It is patently obvious that he was talking about Bush's comparatively low educational achievements. He made a joke - but if you remember Kerry from the Presidential campaign, you will recall that he is about as loose and as humorous as Frankenstein's monster with a metal spike up his ass. (And he looks and moves like him too). The possibility of him EVER cracking a joke that would even be remotely funny, are probably slim to non existent.If he had delivered the joke properly as his speech writers and advisor's had envisaged it, maybe a few people in the audience would have nervously giggled. As it is, he totally botched it up - and the conservative media snatched the comment entirely out of context and is desperately trying to make something of it. The problem is that no one with half a brain really cares - and most people have figured out what he really meant a long time ago anyway.PSHaha... Digging people down doesn't work you dweebs... I'll just keep reposting until you finally have no option but to suck it in.
targetdiggNov 2, 2006
Kerry has made this argument before: <a class="user" href="http://www.digg.com/politics/Kerry_s_72_Army_Comments_Mirror_Latest">http://www.digg.com/politics/Kerry_s_72_Army_Comments_Mirror_Latest</a>
mr2001Nov 3, 2006
Kerry isn't a "leader", although Republicans seem to treat him like he is. He's just a guy who won a few primary elections in 2004.
mr2001Nov 3, 2006
They already do. The only people who consider Kerry a leader of the Democratic Party are Republicans eager to make something out of this non-story. To the rest of us, he's just a guy who ran for president two years ago and lost.
mr2001Nov 3, 2006
Wow.. how telling. You get dugg down for posting a comment from a famous right-winger, when she *unambiguously* bashed the troops, and yet everyone bashing Kerry for his statement that's ambiguous at best gets dugg up.