Kerry's at it again slamming those who serve

Kerry quote:
"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."

Another stupid comment from a stupid man. A typical guy with more ego than brains.

Iowa candidate asks Kerry to cancel campaign visit

DES MOINES, Iowa A Democratic Congressional candidate from Iowa is canceling a campaign event later this week with Senator John Kerry.

Brucy Braley says Kerry's recent comments about the Iraq war were inappropriate.

Braley is running against Republican Mike Whalen in Iowa's First District congressional race. It's a contest considered to be one of the most competitive House races in the country.

Braley's decision to distance himself from Kerry came as a furor grew from comments Kerry made about the Iraq War during a campaign stop in California on Monday.

Kerry said if you make the most of your education, you "can do well." The Democrat went on to say that is you don't, (quote) "you get stuck in Iraq."

The remarks prompted sharp criticism from some Republicans, including President Bush and Arizona Senator John McCain.

Kerry refused to apologize.




HarryP did you expect anyless from this jerk?

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Here is another scary asshole.

It must be really bad when your own party members jump on Lurch


Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006 11:21 a.m. EST
Ford, Tester, Cardin Want Kerry Apology

A few Democratic candidates joined Republicans Wednesday in pressing John Kerry to apologize for a comment critics said appeared disrespectful of U.S. troops as several Kerry campaign appearances were canceled.


"Whatever the intent, Senator Kerry was wrong to say what he said," said Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr., running for Senate in Tennessee.


"Sen. Kerry's remarks were poorly worded and just plain stupid," said Montana Senate President Jon Tester, a Democrat trying to unseat GOP Sen. Conrad Burns. "He owes our troops and their families an apology."


"I'm sorry he did what he did. But I think the issue . . . we want to make sure it doesn't confuse the subject of the war in Iraq," Democratic Rep. Ben Cardin, running for Senate in Maryland, said on CNN.

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/11/1/112342.shtml?s=ic

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The 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division (1/34th BCT) is an Army National Guard Brigade Headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota.

i no waat thay meen

So if you (Flipper Kerry) are criticizing the other guy (Dubya) for being dumb, why can't you (Kerry) even read the script/joke they put in front of your face right?

We know what he meant to say but we also know what Flip really thinks of the armed forces and how he despised and smacked his fellow vets in 1971 for his personal political conscienceless gain; how he did the same to currently serving troops in 2005.

Methinks his Freudian slip is showing.
Why can't y'all all be "smart" troops and marry wealthy ketchup heiresses?

And the Left here in Seattle loved his statement as it actually came out of his flipflopping mouth--of course, they're dumb, look how they get flimflamed by lying recruiters, poor babies. They embraced his statement.

The real truth:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda06-09.cfm

And natch, any employer will tell you their hardest working, most diligent, and fastest off the mark employees are likely to be the ones with military backgrounds. Except of course when their NG obligations make them go and do a dumb thing like being sent to Irak.

Kerry Retreats From Campaign Duty


Thrust into the midst of the midterm election campaign, Sen. John Kerry retreated under fire on Wednesday, canceling public appearances as Democrats and Republicans alike demanded an apology for remarks deemed insulting to U.S. forces in Iraq.


Six days before the election, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee said he was "sorry about a botched joke" about President Bush. He heaped praise on the troops, adamantly accused Republicans of twisting his words and said it was the commander in chief and his aides who "owe America an apology for this disaster in Iraq."


Democrats cringed, though, at the prospect of the Massachusetts senator becoming the face of the party for the second consecutive national campaign. "No one wants to have the 2004 election replayed," said Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.


Party leaders privately urged Kerry to lower his public profile, according to several officials. Congressional candidates in Iowa and Minnesota said they no longer wanted him to appear at their scheduled rallies. "Whatever the intent, Senator Kerry was wrong to say what he said. He needs to apologize to our troops," said Rep. Harold Ford Jr., locked in a close Senate race in Tennessee.

With Bush showing the way, Republicans worked energetically to turn Kerry into an all-purpose target in a campaign that has long loomed as a loser for the GOP - much as they ridiculed him two years ago on their way to electoral gains.


"Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words. ... We've got incredible people in our military, and they deserve full praise and full support of this government," Bush said in an interview with conservative talk-radio personality Rush Limbaugh.

"Of course, now Senator Kerry says he was just making a joke, and he botched it up," Vice President Dick Cheney said in remarks prepared for a campaign appearance in Montana. "I guess we didn't get the nuance. He was for the joke before he was against it."

The jab was designed to recall Kerry's inartful comment from the last election that he had voted for $87 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan before he voted against it.

Kerry stirred controversy when he told a group of California students two days ago that individuals who don't study hard and do their homework would likely "get stuck in Iraq." Aides said the senator had mistakenly dropped one word from his prepared remarks, which was originally written to say "you end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq." In that context, they said, it was clear Kerry was referring to Bush, not to the troops.


The controversy erupted at a time Democrats were growing increasingly confident of winning a majority of the House in next week's elections, and achieving significant gains in the Senate, if not outright control.
Democrats need to gain 15 House seats and six Senate seats to prevail, and victory in either house would allow them to serve as a check on Bush's conservative agenda for the final two years of his administration.

Democrats have privately told outsiders they have locked up 10 of the 15 GOP-held seats they need. Polls indicate several dozen additional races are competitive, far more than appeared possible at the outset of the campaign, and too many for Republican comfort at a time of opposition to the war and low presidential approval ratings at home. By contrast, only two or three Democratic-held seats remained competitive, according to strategists in both parties, meaning Republicans have little ability to offset gains they suffer on their own turf.

In the Senate, Democrats claim they are on track to defeat four Republican incumbents, including Sens. Mike DeWine in Ohio, Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island and Conrad Burns in Montana. Republicans tacitly concede DeWine and Santorum appear headed for defeat, but the party's senatorial committee has launched television commercials in the campaign's final week in an attempt to save Chafee and Burns.

Barring a dramatic shift in opinion in the campaign's final days, that leaves only a handful of races in significant doubt, principally three Republican-held seats in Tennessee, Missouri and Virginia.

Unlike 2004, when Bush rallied the country to his side by asking "who do you trust" in wartime, public opinion polls now show the conflict in Iraq is unpopular. Increasingly, Republican candidates have found it politically necessary to emphasize their differences with Bush on a struggle that has dragged on for nearly four years and cost more than 2,800 American lives.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee unveiled a web video during the day, hoping to turn discontent with the war into opposition to Republican lawmakers who have backed the president. Bill Burton, a spokesman, said it would air on cable television nationally, although he provided no details.

The ad features scenes of carnage and an ominous soundtrack, while the announcer says, "With the White House in denial, while top generals warning that Iraq might be sliding into a full scale civil war, tell Congress it's long past time to put down their rubber stamp and ask the hard questions about Iraq."

Democratic officials said the leaders of the party's campaign committees had relayed word to Kerry for him to avoid becoming a distraction. Aides to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., chairmen of the Senate and House campaign committees, said they would not comment on any possible telephone conversations that had occurred.

In an appearance on the radio program "Imus in the Morning," Kerry said he had decided to scrap several public appearances "because I don't want to be a distraction to these campaigns." He canceled a planned appearance in Philadelphia, as well as Iowa and Minnesota, and backed out of at least two network television interviews.

Lurch

I heard this live on the news here in San Diego. I have never seen the city, as liberal as it tries to be, turn so nasty towards John Kerry. It was a sight. To watch the large SoCal military presence turn outright enraged over this clown.

A simple miscommunication has ended civilizations. Nothing like letting a smart guy let his mouth overload his ass.

Scout- it does not surprise me San Diego is a Navy town Cornado is also the training grounds for the Brown Water Navy plus Camp Pendleton is not very far away.I would say about 75% of the population are Retired USN.

I think it was a total insult to the troops and their families when Obama said the 3,000 troops that have been killed in Iraq lives were wasted.

Well His middle name is 'Hussein'...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

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