Kerry Ignites the GOP Base!
No GOP activist, and even the President has been able to stir up the passion of the GOP Base. Kerry does it for them with one line in a speech to a High School. Remember his "I voted for the war in Iraq, then voted against the War in Iraq" This could the the October surprise for the GOP, and it was served up by Democrat Kerry
With a botched punch line, Sen. Kerry has again given the men and women serving in the armed forces a GUT SHOT, and a black eye.
He should resign and bottle ketchup for remainder of his non productive life.
With a botched punch line, Sen. Kerry has again given the men and women serving in the armed forces a GUT SHOT, and a black eye.
He should resign and bottle ketchup for remainder of his non productive life.
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Kerry says he is sorry for "botched" Iraq joke
27 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Sen.
John Kerry' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> John Kerry said on Wednesday he was sorry about a "botched joke" that drew election-year fire from
President George W. Bush' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> President George W. Bush and other Republicans who accused him of insulting U.S. troops in
Iraq' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Iraq.
Kerry reiterated the target of his joke was Bush, who immediately seized on the senator's remarks to rally Republican supporters ahead of Tuesday's elections, in which the party's control of Congress is at risk.
Kerry said he was returning to Washington from a trip campaigning on behalf of Democratic congressional candidates because he did not want to be "a distraction."
A day after rejecting calls to apologize for his remarks, Kerry, appearing on the "Imus in the Morning" radio show on MSNBC, declared: "I said it was a botched joke. Of course, I'm sorry about a botched joke."
While campaigning in California on Monday, Kerry told a college crowd: "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. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Kerry's office said the senator had misread his prepared remarks. They said he had intended to say, "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask
President Bush' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> President Bush."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Sen.
John Kerry' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> John Kerry said on Wednesday he was sorry about a "botched joke" that drew election-year fire from
President George W. Bush' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> President George W. Bush and other Republicans who accused him of insulting U.S. troops in
Iraq' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Iraq.
Kerry reiterated the target of his joke was Bush, who immediately seized on the senator's remarks to rally Republican supporters ahead of Tuesday's elections, in which the party's control of Congress is at risk.
Kerry said he was returning to Washington from a trip campaigning on behalf of Democratic congressional candidates because he did not want to be "a distraction."
A day after rejecting calls to apologize for his remarks, Kerry, appearing on the "Imus in the Morning" radio show on MSNBC, declared: "I said it was a botched joke. Of course, I'm sorry about a botched joke."
While campaigning in California on Monday, Kerry told a college crowd: "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. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Kerry's office said the senator had misread his prepared remarks. They said he had intended to say, "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask
President Bush' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> President Bush."
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The Republican attacks are desperate tactics from a desperate party in the final week before an election. In the waning days before the election in which Republicans may lose both houses of Congress and the majority of the states' gubernatorial contests, this is their Hail Mary pass. It is also the reason they accused another Democrat of having a NAMBLA affiliation and Michael J. Fox of faking symptoms of his Parkinson's disease for sympathy.
They are trying to smear John Kerry so they don't have to talk about the president's record in Iraq. Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they're afraid to debate real men. And this time it won't work because we're going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq.
John Kerry botched a joke; George Bush botched a war.
John Kerry is a war hero who's watched men die in battle- it's ludicrous to think he would criticize the brave men and women who serve. Amazingly, these attacks always seem to come from people like George Bush and Dick Cheney who never put on a uniform except when playing dress-up for the troops.
Republicans are terrified of talking about Iraq, or debating veterans who live and breathe the concerns of the troops. They deserve better than the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.
John Kerry does not owe this president an apology for criticizing his failed policies in Iraq- nor does any Democrat have to apologize or fear being called unpatriotic if they disagree with this George Bush.
George Bush is the one who owes our troops an apology- for sending them to misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it.
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