Kerry--Just like plumbers & const wkrs
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| Mon, 08-16-2004 - 1:30am |
Sen. John Kerry, resting for three days in Ketchum, Idaho, is coming off of a warmly received 15-day post-convention tour that brought him into contact with 300,000 people in 17 states.
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But comments Kerry made to reporters on the back of his campaign plane on Saturday suggest that elitism, uncontrollable events, and the power of incumbency remain risks.
Undeterred by the lack of wind that thwarted his plans to windsurf in Oregon on Saturday, Kerry said on his plane that he would return to Oregon from Idaho on Monday or Tuesday to windsurf on the Columbia River Gorge.
"Once a year I like to do something fun," he said.Throughout his campaign, Kerry has made it clear that he is not ready to cede to President Bush what Steve Rosenthal, the former political director of the AFL-CIO, once called "the hang test."
So whether it's been shooting pheasant, playing hockey, tossing a football, or riding a Harley, Kerry has been presented to the public as fun-loving, athletic, outdoorsy, and, most importantly, the kind of Democrat who crosses the "testosterone threshold" needed to be commander-in-chief.
But the exotic nature of some of the sports he plays (say, kite-surfing in Nantucket) and the great lengths he goes in order to play them (say, flying from Idaho to Oregon to windsurf), can have the unintended effect of making him seem out of touch with the hard-pressed middle class whose cares he says have been his concern.
As his plane was flying from Oregon to Idaho on Saturday, Kerry defended his taste in sports, saying, "The guys who do it are all local guys -- plumbers, construction workers."
Asked if these regular folks fly from one state to another, the husband of the condiment heiress downplayed the cost, saying, "What? 250 bucks for a ticket?"Luckily for Kerry, the moment was not on camera. But it was the kind of moment -- if captured on camera -- that could undo months of work. (Think of George H.W. Bush looking perplexed at a super-market scanner in 1992).
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/NotedNow/Kerry_Davis.html
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Idaho and Oregon are neighboring states (check the map - it's not like flying from say Texas to Kennebunkport, Maine) and windsurfing is not an "exotic" spot lol! It's something the "common" people do here - maybe you're the one that's out of touch.
When someone can be so "out of touch" that they would support a president who has wrongly started a war, a war that has taken nearly 1,000 American lives, caused several thousand American casualties and cost well over $100 billion, you dig for any ridiculous and erroneous "facts" about your opponent that you can.
God forbid a Bush supporter step back and take a look at the disaster they are supporting. History will prove Bush to be the most inept leader The United States of America ever had the misfortune of electing.
How can supporting President Bush be "out of touch". The Democrats, some of who also supported this war based on the evidence that was presented at the time, are now trying to make President Bush into some kind of demon. The President didn't just rush into war either. Various Democrats supported the war, Kerry included. Do you support Kerry?
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Very dramatic.
The president did rush into war. The democrats voted to give him the authorization to go to war, they assumed he would make a wise and well-researched choice. They were wrong.
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Dramatic, yet true.
Wow, it's ok for the Democrats though:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/16/clinton.iraq.speech/
Here's a quote from Clinton and btw this is a CNN website not FOX:
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I have lots of friends that ask "why don't we attack North Korea or other countries that have a history of weapons of mass destruction and are much more dangerous". Here's Clinton's answer in 1998:
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Wow and in the following just like Bush said and nobody believed. Why is it more credible coming from Clinton's mouth:
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"Instead of inspectors disarming Saddam, Saddam has disarmed the inspectors," Clinton said.>>
And the only option Bush could see (and wanted to see) was to begin bombing the country - to kill a thousand of our people, and injure many others, to kill and maim civilians and to wrack up damage of $100 Billion dollars. Not a single other choice. Maybe we need someone with a little broader range of ideas.....
Don't you mean the misfortune of being appointed to us as our president? He is sure as heck not my president.
Lurker jumping in here.
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They had all the information Bush did and reached the same conclusions. Duh.
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Duh? Nice talk from a moderator.
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Thanks. I'm glad you appreciate it.
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