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<p>I don’t think we’ve been relevant for the past 3 pages. Not that I’ve been helping too much, either. :(</p>
<p>Back to Kerry…</p>
<p>I’m actually a bit confused here, at least from an electoral perspective.</p>
<p>Outside of the obvious gaffe and stupid remark, why aren’t more GOPers happy about this? This is the anti-Foley! This could very well help keep more Republicans in power in marginal districts.</p>
<p>I say let the media play it out. It certainly ain’t helpin’ the Dems.</p>
<p>If the Adminstration could maneuver armed services personnel for duty as efficiently as they do for photo-ops, maybe nobody would be stuck in Iraq. :(</p>
<p>one stupid gaffe, and its a big thing</p>
<p>we get told many untruths and we lose habeus corpus and not a word</p>
<p>lovely, freedom dies and we ignore THAT, but someone tells a joke badly and that somehow is the big news</p>
<p>notice how no one here really has been able to show the Bush supports the troops more than just babbling that he does</p>
<p>interesting that, remember the republicans are the same guys and it is guys who went after a vet who had lost his limbs…nice group of chicken hawks</p>
<p>excuse me driver but i insist upon a piece of the action having many months ago restructured the inadvertent bedpoets’s rants into sublimely unconscious verse blocks. don’t make me call my lawyer. but preferring laughter to cash i will accept as partial payment your co-mocker’s winning phrase “like crap-cakes in a monkey cage”.</p>
<p>one stupid gaffe
and its a big thing
we get told many untruths
and we ignore THAT
but someone tells a joke badly
and that, somehow, is the big news.</p>
<p>Notice
how no one here
really has been able to show the Bush
supports the troops more than just
babbling that he does.</p>
<p>Interesting that, remember
the republicans are the same guys
and it is guys
who went after a vet
who had lost his limbs…
…nice group of chicken hawks.</p>
<p>
Because what Sen. Kerry said is truly and genuinely offensive. Most Republicans I know are not complaining about his comment as a form of gamesmanship, they are complaining because Kerry’s comment is outrageouse and worthy of condemnation. </p>
<p>What is also offensive is how Kerry is apologizing. He said, I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, …" No one misinterpreted his words. His disrespectful statment about the US Military was as clear as clear can be.</p>
<p>sublime effort, driver. why does it make me so happy?</p>
<p>to answer my own question, somehow it shows the emptiness of much which has passed as poetry?</p>
<p>still, there’s bit of the alfred doolittle in er, we must admit</p>
<p>razorsharp,</p>
<p>I can think of about 4 million more important issues than a gaffe. I think the GOP, if it’s smart, milks this for everything it’s worth and runs to the polls screaming, “The Dems support Kerry!”</p>
<p>If the Dems are smart, they distance themselves from Kerry post haste. </p>
<p>Either way, why aren’t we worrying more about…say… how much the PRC has in dollar reserves (close to a trillion)? Or maybe how to get Bush fast track authority so he can lower more tariffs? Or a million other things?</p>
<p>I’ve never been able to do poetry before–strictly prose. This is exciting for all of us.</p>
<p>isolating the word ‘notice’ on its own line was inspired.</p>
<p>Fads. Gotta love them.</p>
<p>A pity, said he
They worry about Kerry
While the def’cit grows</p>
<p>I suppose it’s fitting that I’d write a haiku. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Thank you, Ro. Something was bothering me about the metre in the middle stanza, so I changed it further. Seems less clunky now. What do you think?</p>
<p>Not bad Ari…or should I say Ogden Shiki?</p>
<p>i prefer the orginal incarnation. quick, change it back before the clock runs out, for posterity.</p>
<p>Ah, too late. Just put “really” back up on the second line to revert to original perfection.</p>
<p>one stupid gaffe
and its a big thing
we get told many untruths
and we ignore THAT
but someone tells a joke badly
and that, somehow, is the big news.</p>
<p>Notice
how no one here really
has been able to show the Bush
supports the troops more than just
babbling that he does.</p>
<p>Interesting that, remember
the republicans are the same guys
and it is guys
who went after a vet
who had lost his limbs…
…nice group of chicken hawks.</p>
<p>it climbs better that way, methinks.
do you have the address of the New Yorker?</p>
<p>and if you want to discuss campaign material,
the repubs are running some real classy stuff
and we have some cussing and using the n word,
others attacking waitresses, other covering for others, </p>
<p>yes, what a classy group of folks
representing america
makes me proud,
since they claim the moral highroad</p>
<p>tell, me
what morals do these people represent to you?
not any morals I was taught, even in civics class
and sure the dems have a few bad apples,
but no where near the bushels the GOP does</p>
<p>kind of fun to watch…too bad the GOP
doesn’t actually have standards
for morals anymore</p>
<p>I think we need to schedule a reading at Barnes & Nobel for the book tour.</p>
<p>Do you know any Shaman drummers?</p>
<p>
I doubt Kerry’s stupid remarks will sway any Dems or Reps one way or the other. Kerry lost a long time ago and should have gone to his corner and stayed there. Kerry’s always been arrogant and out of touch with Americans and it helped him lose a presidential election. I’m sure most Dems wish he’d just go away and I doubt that very many people take him very seriously although it’s the media who’s loving this more than any other group.</p>
<p>I dont think this has a single impact on the Foley situation - another one that I doubt will have any impact one way or the other on Dems and Reps despite the hooplah. I haven’t heard a lot of Reps defending Foley. </p>
<p>I’d be interested to hear if any CCers or anyone they know would vote any differently due to either this Kerry debacle or the Foley debacle. I haven’t met anyone who was swayed by these situations.</p>
<p>ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad,</p>
<p>I don’t think that many people will be swayed. But in some marginal districts, it doesn’t take that many.</p>
<p>Sadly, we’ll never actually know if this has a negative or positive effect.</p>