<p>Kerry isn’t even an issue anymore. No matter how rabid (and irrational) one’s hatred of him is, it doesn’t make a shred of sense to keep bashing him or making snide remarks about him. It’s just plain mean-spirited and vile.</p>
<p>It makes perfect sense, Hindoo. If you haven’t got a single positive thing to say about your champions or your “cause”, what do you do? You spread malicious gossip and make snarky comments about the “other guys.” Has the right been doing anything else for the past 10 years or so?</p>
<p>…and certainly, lacking a sense of humor does nothing to dibilitate those swift to offense: as with Kerry, amongst others. </p>
<p>yikes…</p>
<p>It was InterestedDad who re-introduced Kerry to this thread via his mean-spirited, vile, and snide “swift boat” comment. At least learn to direct your outrage appropriately, Hindoo.</p>
<p>I was impressed with McConnell’s maneuvering yesterday.</p>
<p>You’ve got to be kidding, Snake. Apparently you were unable to comprehend the context in which Interesteddad brought up the “swift boat” attack. I directed my outrage more than appropriately. … As for McConnell … I have to live daily with the shame that he’s one of my senators.</p>
<p>Yes, Dorothy. Whenever a right-winger makes some nasty, uncalled for comment and gets an angry response, they ALWAYS come back with the “lack of a sense of humor” argument. Problem is, this toxic garbage they spew isn’t the least bit funny. Yikes!</p>
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Hindoo, it seems you have quite a handle on both the poison and the cure that troubles you. Well done. Keep fighting the good fight…within.</p>
<p>Dorothy’s got a point about the lack of humor among the oh-so-self-important lefties here. They must spend a lot of time wiping the spittle from their screens. </p>
<p>Happy Ronald Reagan birthday, everybody!</p>
<p>Dorothy–I think you need to take a long, close look at why you STILL see fit to make unseemly remarks about John Kerry. When you do that, I’ll fight the good fight with my own inner poisons.</p>
<p>Taking a moment to reflect on your point, as I have, I have come to the conclusion that I am inclined to laugh at Sen Kerry because he is incessantly, if unintentionally, funny–to me, of course–others may growl about their “war-heroes” being so seriously inclined with doom: we are, after all, all special in our own cute, if pouty, way, etc.</p>
<p>Too often these insufferable, if political, combatants suffer from the societal affliction embodied in the dictum of Bertolt Brecht: “He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.” Ah, the pessimistic left.</p>
<p>For me, such quibbling is but a bump in a long and languid road to unrequited happiness.</p>
<p>I never found Kerry particularly funny (intentionally or not). Nor do I find Bush funny. Kerry disturbed me with his stiff pomposity (not funny) on the campaign trail. Bush simply scared/scares me. Maybe you’re right–my sense of humor probably does need a boost. If I can’t laugh, I’ll cry. Or rage.</p>
<p>Hindoo,</p>
<p>fwiw, I agree with a recent column by Peggy Noonan wherein she says that Kerry has become less of a caricature since renouncing his ambition to the presidency:</p>
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<a href=“http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110009577[/url]”>http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110009577</a></p>
<p>Dot, why concentrate on Kerry’s foibles or whatnot? Why deflect from the true mess that Bush has made? We have plenty of fodder in our current administration; we don’t need to speculate one whit about Kerry. I know this is an intentional right wing ploy, to draw attention away, but really dear, it isn’t working.</p>
<p>DorothyP–Ironically, candidates from both parties often seem to look better (and more presidential) once their presidential dreams have been dashed. Al Gore and Bob Dole come to mind. The horrific grinder they’re put through on the campaign trail brings out the worst in most, if not all of them. I’m hoping that Barak Obama will prove the exception to this.</p>
<p>Al Gore??? Have you seen him give his red meat Bush-bashing speeches? The guy has become thoroughly unhinged and makes the Howard Dean Iowa Caucus melt-down seem quite rational by comparison.</p>
<p>I disagree with you, fundingfather. I’ve been very impressed with the post-campaign Al Gore. As for his red meat Bush speeches–they couldn’t possibly be bashing enough to suit me.</p>
<p>I am not at all certain as to whether I would prefer the prophet-Gore or triple-chin/sales-guy Gore.</p>
<p>If forced to choose, I would lean toward, as we say, the academic Ayatollah Gore of the unkempt beard; it lends him an aire of sincerity he otherwise lacks.</p>
<p>Apparently once, along these very lines, President Lincoln had just such an issue resolved by a young girl who was much taken by the thought of the bearded Abraham and wrote to tell him so:
-Prophet Abraham Lincoln.
-Prophet Albert Gore?</p>
<p>Perhaps I, a young lady, should send off a sweet missive to the sen/celeb: ‘alas, go with the beard and you will no longer be mistaken for a snake-oil (used-car?) salesman.’</p>
<p>…I’m writing it now.</p>
<p>Oh, I much prefer the triple-chin Gore. Being a not so young lady, who has dealt with wild weight fluctuations in recent years, I feel somehow akin to fat politicians. Thankfully, fat doesn’t seem to impair intelligence. … As for the “snake-oil salesman” Gore. Sorry, just don’t see it. But even if I did, “snake-oil” Gore would be far preferable to “Howdy Doody” Bush. Or Alfred E. Neumann Bush. Or missing link “monkey-man” Bush.</p>
<p>Just switching rails a bit–here’s a great Teddy Roosevelt quote. I realize we can dig up quotes by great people to suit whatever we want, but this one is just too good not to post.</p>
<p>“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” (1918) –Theodore Roosevelt</p>
<p>Edwards/Obama ticket for '08</p>
<p>Hillary for Attny general. She would win every Kerry state and not one more. Edwards is competitive nationally</p>