<p>I guess this will have to do since there were no apparent October surprises forthcoming.</p>
<p>Republicans may give good lip service to supporting our troops, but how do they vote on legislation of interest to military families and veterans?</p>
<p>The record is dismal. </p>
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<p>“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 dont, you get us stuck in Iraq.”</p>
<p>I would not be at all shocked if that were the actual quote.</p>
<p>I would be shocked, Kerry has insulted American soldiers many times before like when he said that in iraq they terrorize women and children during the night</p>
<p>“They are dying at a rate of 50 to 100 a month” no they are not, but I guess by your logic FDR didnt honor the army either because 600 000 people died in WWII. Unfortunately, in wars people will die. There is no way to really change that sad fact, but at least I know that those soldiers in Iraq, who Kerry essentally called stupid, are fighting for me, and for you, and for all of America’s safety. For some reason you do not like to admit that.</p>
<p>This is the actual quote according to every news source I’ve come across:</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>There is no “us”. And it doesn’t even make sense to try to read this statement as in anyway directed toward George Bush. Kerry, the big elite doofus that he is, just stuck his foot in his mouth and confirmed that he is just as disconnected from the average American as any rich Republican. Nice to know that ‘mouth-brain interruptus’ isn’t a condition that just plagues the conservative side of the aisle.</p>
<p>(I’m still not over an incident at the National History Day competition at U of MD at CP where my daughter competed. During the ‘parade’ of all the finalists from all 50 states, many of the Massachusetts kids were carrying giant inflatable Heinz ketchup bottles and went out of their way to follow the Texas kids screaming Kerry-Edwards slogans in their ears trying to provoke a fight. Our kids conducted themselves well, but it was shameful behavior which was filmed by The History Channel. The camera men were literally running trying to get these Heinz ketchup bottles out of from in front of their cameras. Of course…this is neither here nor there…lol!)</p>
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So true. Some of our fellow posters here take a very “dim” view of “lumpy,” average Americans.</p>
<p>well, john kerry said a stupid thing , it didn’t come out right, yes he did</p>
<p>but Bush says stupid stuff all the time and is forgiven, so is cheney, so is rumsfield and they are in charge and have everyones lives in their hands</p>
<p>just look at the denial of saying “cut and run” big fat liars</p>
<p>It was more than stupid, it was incredibly disrespectful. Even Democrats agree. </p>
<p>According to ABC News…"A Democratic congressman told ABC News Tuesday, “I guess Kerry wasn’t content blowing 2004, now he wants to blow 2006, too.”</p>
<p><a href=“Did Kerry Hand Republicans a November Gift? - ABC News”>http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2619383&page=2</a></p>
<p>but at least people haven’t DIED on his watch have they, I would prefer a stupid comment then WE ARE WINNING THE WAR, gee that is a lie and stupid to boot</p>
<p>I seriously doubt Kerry’s intention was to insult the troops in Iraq. Do you really think he thought “Boy, this speech could really use a swipe at our armed services”?</p>
<p>But it can out sounding real bad and if you give the opposition an inch, they’ll take a mile. In the next week, this thing’s going to be bled drier than my bank account at tuition time.</p>
<p>and cutting funding to vets is more disgraceful than any words spoken, but guess that is okay with you</p>
<p>if you want to talk about suporting the troops, then just look at how little W has done for them, that is truely disgusting and shameful and the most disrespectful thing</p>
<p>it is AMAZING to me that when it comes to supporting the troops, bet lots of you have those little magnet things on your cars and fly flags, but do nothing to get your administratio to provide what the vets need</p>
<p>that is real support</p>
<p>and yes I do more than just talk, we go to our local veterans home and visit the vets, so I can talk just a tad</p>
<p>We are talking about John Kerry’s comment. Even if what you say is true…‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’ ya know…nor do they get John Kerry off the hook. Would that it be so easy for Mr. Kerry. ;)</p>
<p>btw cgm - My father-in-law is a retired career Army man. He was his high school valedictorian and he joined the Army after graduation. He served in Korea and in Viet Nam. He became the highest ranking enlisted man in the US Army…THE (Command)Sergeant Major of the Fifth Army… and he ultimately rec’d a college degree. When he retired with great ceremony, generals from all over the country flew in to pay homage. He didn’t choose the Army because he wasn’t bright or intelligent. He joined because he wanted to be an Army man and he knew he would be good at doing the job. </p>
<p>He’s not complaining about Army benefits, nor would he appreciate Mr. Kerry’s comments.</p>
<p>off the hook for making a comment, yet you let Bush off the hook for disrespecting the service men and women all the time</p>
<p>your priorities are skewed, you go after a war veteran and defend a guy who cut and ran,</p>
<p>if you really cared about the people in battle right now, you would want the best for them and they aren’t getting it from this administration</p>
<p>what people DO is more inportant that what they say, and bush talks alot but does little for our proud soilders</p>
<p>you have so little to defend Bush about, you attack the words of someone else</p>
<p>if you could defend this stupid war and how its going, I think you would be</p>
<p>wait <why are we still even talking about this war when it was supposed to be over in 6 months? talk about disrespecful, these men sent sons and daughters in to die with no plan to leave</p>
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Kluge, who reported this? What left wing nutjobs are filling your mind with lies? There was no “us” between “get” and “stuck” and Kerry was not referring to President Bush. There is no right wing propaganda machine behind Kerry’s stupid statement. He made the statement and every decent American whether liberal, conservative, or somewhere in between ought to condemn it.
Our good friends at Google video have the video, in case you don’t belive me.
<a href=“http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8019038242375419738&q=Kerry+get+stuck+in+iraq&hl=en[/url]”>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8019038242375419738&q=Kerry+get+stuck+in+iraq&hl=en</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the link razor.</p>
<h2>not the first stupid comment from John Kerry either. (And some of you criticize George Bush’s lack of finesse?)</h2>
<p>From CBS Face the Nation (2005): “There is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the – of – of – of – historical customs, religious customs, whether you like it or not. Iraqis should be doing that.” John Kerry</p>
<p>Every time Kerry speaks he fires another shot into his foot. Now - if only he could turn all those self-inflicted shots into more purple hearts…</p>
<p>what does it mean when you say cutting funding to vets. What if each vet was getting a billion or a trillion or a porche, I am not saying they dont deserve it, but the gvoernment has limits, when you say cutting funding for vets ur being really ambigious, are you cutting pensions or are you cutting some kind of VFW thing. What funds?</p>
<p>Razorsharp, the “left wing nutjob” was CNN:
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<p>I find it interesting that every video clip of this available on the web is 14 seconds long, taking the sentence completely out of context. How do you suppose that happened? Unsoccer-mom on another thread reports that Pat Buchanan says he was outraged at first, but after he saw the entire video it was clear that Kerry was talking about Bush. I’m not surprised at the knee-jerk outrage over this non-event, though. Hasn’t it been the Republican policy to manufacture outrage over nothing to divert attention from the abject failure of all of their policies? This is just one of the more overt and pathetic examples.</p>