<p>Anyone have any opinions on what Kerry said recently</p>
<p>“It disgusts me that a bunch of these Republican hacks who’ve never worn the uniform of our country are willing to lie about those who did.”</p>
<p>Where was he four years ago when it would have made a difference? He got the hacks and liars thing right, but he was a more than a bit slow on the uptake. Maybe perhaps he’s graduating from the camp of gullible fools. (But not likely.)</p>
<p>I am talking about this one “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,” or if you want to discuss some past quotes howabout the one where he said american soldiers terrorize women and children in iraq…</p>
<p>Many republicans have served in the army, as have democrats so i think its kind of useless to accuse either side of not physically serving</p>
<p>Well, even Bush made better grades than Kerry, didn’t he? Cut him some slack. :)</p>
<p>We’re talking about it in this thread</p>
<p>Democrats Will NOT Take Congress!</p>
<p>Mine’s more recent than yours. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Stay the course.</p>
<p>My thread has better quality discussion, though. The original is always better. The sequels seldom last. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, but my quote is the more important one (even if the Hate America crowd would prefer to ignore it. Fluffier, too! ;))</p>
<p>Yes, that was cool. :)</p>
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<p>at least Kerry was served, unlike golanis hero, Bush, who cut and ran, and not very well at that</p>
<p>ps- the remark was aimed at Bush…</p>
<p>Kerry said he won’t apologize over what he said because he was talking about Presdident Bush, the Republicans, and their policies. I don’t think so. From what I read he said what he meant - which was, basically, “if you don’t study hard, you could end up in Iraq.”</p>
<p>Think about it. Doesn’t that insinuate “uneducated people end up in Iraq (because they can’t make it in education)?” Seems like a put-down to the military rather than to Bush. Even if Kerry meant a put-down to Bush, it sure came out wrong.</p>
<p>“Hacks and liars” doesn’t require any linguistic parsings. </p>
<p>Stay the course. (Why does Donald Rumsfeld get to decide whether the sovereign, democratically elected government of Iraq gets to expand its armed forces or not?)</p>
<p>Does it really make sense that Kerry, who graduated from Yale and then served in Vietnam, would make such a statement about the soldiers in Iraq?</p>
<p>Tookie, this is as close as I’ve found to the remarks in context:
Reportedly, the written version had the word “us” between “get” and “stuck”. I attribute the fact that every media outlet in America is touting this as Kerry putting down the military as a tribute to the efficiency of the right wing propaganda machine - and what does that say about the monotonously repeated claim that the media are biased in favor of liberals?</p>
<p>“us” makes a lot more sense. </p>
<p>(Of course, Kerry is not necessarily the most sensible guy out there.)</p>
<p>I’ll stick with the Freudian slip analysis. Kerry just said out loud what he and many other Democrats think.</p>
<p>Bush isnt my hero, I see many flaws in his presidancy, but at least he honors the army</p>
<p>No, he really doesn’t.</p>
<p>If he honored the army, he’d bring our boys home.</p>
<p>They are dying at a rate of 50-100 a month…for what?</p>
<p>The war machine.</p>
<p>I am a military spouse and was highly offended by Kerry’s “slip” as were all my neighbors. This disgusting remark was beyond appalling and yet so typical of certain attitudes.</p>
<p>We have the finest military in the world, and Kerry’s statement is beyond idiotic</p>