posted November 02, 2006 01:45 PM            

Still, the traitor Kerry is the face of the modern democrat party and his remarks are right in line with other leading leftist democrat party hacks, including Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, John Murtha et al.

This traitor to the United States showed his utter contempt for the US military in exactly the same way Commander Corruption..a.k.a. Bill Clinton did when he said..and I quote, "so many fine people have come to find themselves still loving their country but loathing the military". Well, it seems all those "fine people who loath the military" are democrats who have worked tirelessly against the interests of both the US military and the United States at every opportunity.

These two dud democrats went on in the 1990's to cut the military 40% from previous levels. They reduced the number of ships, aircraft, weapons systems AND the troops they both loath. All this was going on while the United States was being attacked by terrorists both in the United States and abroad.

Now, these demoScats want to hand another victory to our enemies by cutting and running out of Iraq...just as they cut and ran out of Vietnam and caused the deaths of more than 2 million Vietnamese civilians who didn't want to live as slaves in a communist North Vietnamese gulag.

For some strange reason, these idiot leftists, who are not fit to even sit in the Congress of the United States believe they are well qualified to lead the United States House of Representatives and Senate.

In the case of Traitor Kerry, he's on record as saying he deserves another chance at the Presidency of the United States.

What mental defect, disorder or disease infects the minds of these brain dead moron democrat leftists?

John Kerry: The Kamikaze Kid
Michael Reagan
Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006

If the American people need a single reason why they desperately need to vote to keep the Congress in Republican hands next Tuesday they need only look at Massachusetts Democrat Senator John Kerry and recoil from what they behold, the way a vampire recoils when confronted by a cross.

It's not that the defeated 2004 Democrat candidate for president is by himself a major threat to the safety and welfare of the United States. We narrowly escaped that dreaded fate two years ago, and by now it should be obvious that politically he's going nowhere. That became clear when Sen. Kerry gassed up his plane, took off and crashed Kamikaze-like onto the deck of his party's ship, sinking it just days before it was to come into port and thenceforth rule the electoral waves.

With the crew jumping overboard in a frantic effort to avoid being anywhere near John Kerry, it's obvious his hopes for a future in presidential politics were burned to a crisp in the wake of his suicide mission.

The real reason why L'affaire Kerry matters to the commonweal is the fact that his views and opinions are not his alone: John Kerry is the face and voice of the Democrat party. What he believes, they believe; what he wants (except for another shot at the presidency), they want.

When John Kerry stands up and implies that the members of our armed forces now engaged in a bloody and dangerous war on behalf of the American people are a bunch of poorly educated high school dropouts, he is expressing what his colleagues in the Democrat leadership believe. The only difference between Kerry and the rest of his party's bigwigs is that they aren't stupid enough to say so in public.

Those Democrats who haven't scurried for cover in a frenzied attempt to separate themselves from the outraged reaction of the American people to Kerry's disgusting charges are now attempting to convince us that Kerry didn't really mean what he said when he told a high school audience, "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."

They can't deny he said what he said. So they try and tell us he didn't mean what he said. What they are really saying is "Believe us and not your lying ears. You didn't really hear what you heard."

Attacks on American troops are nothing new for John Kerry. Remember, this is the man who came back from his brief four-month tour of duty in Vietnam to charge his fellow American servicemen with rape and murder.

This is the same John Kerry who just last year told CBS's Bob Schieffer, "And 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 ... the historical customs, religious customs."

These sentiments, however, are not merely his own, they echo those of his fellow Democrats. John Murtha, for example, charged Marines in Haditha with cold-blooded murder. Senator Dick Durbin compared our interrogators at Guantanamo to the monsters who worked for Pol Pot, one of the greatest mass murderers in history, and those who worked in the inhuman Soviet gulags and in the Nazi death camps.

For decades, like John Kerry, Democrats have displayed their utter contempt for the American military. They showed it when they insured America's defeat in Vietnam when they cut off funding for the military and they now say they will do the same in Iraq.

If the voters want their country to follow John Kerry's example, shout "Banzai" and gas up and take off in a Kamikaze mission against their own safety and security, they will vote to put the Kerrycats in control of Capitol Hill.

posted November 02, 2006 02:55 PM              

"As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop. I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted… and I personally apologise to any service member, family member, or American who was offended," he said.

Read the rest of the article here: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15519658/

Pid, and everyone:

While I was watching the news (MSNBC) last night, the broadcaster stated that Kerry formally apologized for a misinterpretation of his "botched joke", and that the comment was addressing President Bush. So perhaps my original statements wwere not at fault, but thanks everyone for the understanding...

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I was actually listening to this one the news and I was appalled that the news media, and republican campaigners would dillute Kerry's words into something he never meant. If you listen to it in context, before he made the statement about "ones who don't do their homework will get stuck in iraq", he was talking about current President Bush living in the State of Denial, so inside the chronological context of his words, i believe he meant that Bush's ethnocintricity and inferior knowledge of the foreign is what got us stuck in Iraq. I believe thats what he meant, does anyone else agree?

I'm not too fond of Kerry either, i just hope he can continously defend himself, because the republicans will keep attacking him with their spite. The fact is, "everyone", the media, the republicans, the citizens of America, knew what he was talking about, knew that he was directing a message about our current president, and this is what is so disgusting about the world, is that they are cowards for not publicly accepting the whole truth, but how can they? lieing has become the norm, especially here in the states. At least the people of Russia acknowledge their enviornment has become dictatorial, ever since the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, but America: oh no, everything is fine here . But it clearly isn't. No wonder America is nicknamed "the superpower" by the international community, they lie compulsivly to boost and satisfy their egotistical habits.

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posted November 02, 2006 02:59 PM              

and oh, pid, logically, not all apologies contain the word "sorry", you only say "sorry" (its one of those english word fillers) when you have nothing else to say. Cheers.

posted November 02, 2006 02:59 PM              

and oh, pid, logically, not all apologies contain the word "sorry", you only say "sorry" (its one of those english word fillers) when you have nothing else to say. Cheers.

posted November 02, 2006 02:59 PM              

and oh, pid, logically, not all apologies contain the word "sorry", you only say "sorry" (its one of those english word fillers) when you have nothing else to say. Cheers.

posted November 02, 2006 03:18 PM            

First, Kerry is a liar. That was not intended as a joke he botched. If it had been a joke, Kerry would have finished the joke with..."like Bush". Further, Kerry had the reaction of his audience to give him the hint something was amiss...if he had intended his remark as a joke. Further, Kerry was talking about education, not Bush and not Iraq when he made that contemptible comment.

Second, Kerry only apologized "to those who were offended". Kerry didn't apologize for his utterly contemptible comment. Kerry's so called apology was a weasel statement.

Third, Kerry has a history of making these same kinds of contemptible comments about US military forces.

Fourth, there is no apology which could possibly void Kerry's contemptible remark.

Fifth, A forced apology is no apology at all and this so called apology was most certainly coerced out of Kerry...after Kerry had insisted he would not apologize.

posted November 02, 2006 03:19 PM            

A bit more history on Mr. Kerry and his feelings towards the Military:

Kerry's '72 Army Comments Mirror Latest
Nov 02 2:03 PM US/Eastern

By JOHN SOLOMON
Associated Press Writer

During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to "the perpetuation of war crimes."
Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran who turned against the war, made the observations in answers to a 1972 candidate questionnaire from a Massachusetts peace group.

After Kerry caused a firestorm this week with what he termed a botched campaign joke that Republicans said insulted current soldiers, The Associated Press was alerted to the historical comments by a former law enforcement official who monitored 1970s anti-war activities

Kerry apologized Wednesday for the 2006 campaign trail gaffe that some took as suggesting U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq were undereducated. He contended the remark was aimed at Bush, not the soldiers.

In 1972, as he ran for the House, he was less apologetic in his comments about the merits of a volunteer army. He declared in the questionnaire that he opposed the draft but considered a volunteer army "a greater anathema."

"I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown," Kerry wrote. "We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job.'

"Equally as important, a volunteer army with our present constitutional crisis takes accountability away from the president and put the people further from control over military activities," he wrote.

Kerry's spokesman, David Wade, said Wednesday the historical document needed to be viewed in the era in which it was written but that it nonetheless raised a "bedrock question in a time of war when sacrifice should be shared by all Americans."

"These are the words 34 years ago of a 28-year-old veteran home from a war gone wrong, wondering who in America will bear the cost of battle and shoulder the responsibility of military service," Wade said.

Kerry filled out the candidate questionnaire at the request of Massachusetts Political Action for Peace, an anti-war group that decades later turned over its historical documents to university researchers.

AP obtained the document from someone who gathered it from archives during Kerry's unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign against President Bush. Republicans in that election relentlessly assailed Kerry's role in the anti-war movement decades earlier.

Kerry and Bush renewed their rivalry again this week, with the president accusing Kerry of offending troops. Kerry said he botched the text of a joke and didn't mean to insult troops.

On Wednesday, Kerry canceled campaign appearance on behalf of Democratic congressional candidates and issued an apology.

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jwhop,

I think we can safely say that Kerry voices the opinion of many mislead Democrats / leftests regarding the Military. It is apparant that they need to perpetuate the myth that our Soldiers are either poor, ignorant minorities or that they could not succeed in school. That allows them to launch into the next myth that our Soldiers are easily led into volunteering for a "pseudo" war, which ultimately leads to their deaths- therefore laying the blame on Bush (aka- baby-killer).

It would be too hard for them to own up to the facts that support our Military and our Soldiers. The facts being 1) they are intelligent men and women that knew what they were getting into when they signed up to be in the Military 2) just because some of the people that make up the Military are from minority or poor backgrounds DOES NOT mean they are stupid, barbaric and prone to raping women and children (as alleged by Kerry in the 70's) 3) The men and women that serve in the Military have a much higher rate of success in the real world than those from the same socioeconomic background. 4) while in the Military a Soldier is expected to keep improving educationally and in behaviour. That means continued courses in their MOS or that support their MOS. In the case of an instructor, one has to have a minimum of an AA to be an Officer, one has to have a Bachelors within 4 years of assuming that position (entering with at least an AA).

It is quite pathetic how some people will continue to rally around Kerry and his words. This man has a track record of demonizing the Military and I don't see it stopping after this last bout of verbal diarrhea.

posted November 02, 2006 05:40 PM            

Leftist democrats are always eager to spread false information which permits them to dump on those who are in fact superior to them in every way it's possible to be.

There is a streak of insecurity and self doubt running through most leftists which is almost paralyzing in it's effect.

By dumping on the US military, they get a 2fer. They get to vent their rage at those who have the right stuff...American stuff; troops who go into danger every day that would leave leftists quaking in their boots. And, they get to dump on Bush for sending them there to do a job which most leftists don't have the courage to undertake.

Their little leftist icon Cindy Sheehan summed up the leftist democrat position perfectly when she said:

"This country is not worth dying for".

Do you recall the dustup when Trent Lott was attempting to apologize over a far less egregious comment, a comment which was in fact not a slur but a compliment for a retiring Senator?

John Kerry was the first Senator to call for Trent Lott to step down from his Majority Leader position in the Senate.

By all rights, Kerry should resign from the Senate for his contemptible remark about US military forces. Not that anyone would expect a radical leftist traitor like Kerry to see the hypocrisy in his continued presence in the US Senate.

Bush calls Lott comments 'offensive'
GOP leader faces pressure for further explanation
Friday, December 13, 2002 Posted: 12:15 AM EST (0515 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Thursday sharply rebuked incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott for comments that some have called racist, saying any suggestion that segregation was acceptable is "offensive and it is wrong."

Bush's comments, delivered to a mixed-race audience in Philadelphia, came one day after Lott, a Mississippi Republican, said he would not give up his leadership post, despite the furor over his remarks.

"Recent comments by Sen. Lott do not reflect the spirit of our country," Bush said to loud applause. "He has apologized and rightly so. Every day that our nation was segregated was a day our nation was unfaithful to our founding ideals."

A spokesman for Lott said the senator agreed with the president that his comments were wrong and reiterated his regret at having said them. Lott later called the president and the two had what aides described as a positive conversation.

The president did not call for Lott to step down, but other conservatives say Lott must offer a fuller explanation of his comments, despite his apology.

"On their face, the recent comments of Sen. Trent Lott are offensive, repugnant and inimical to what the Republican Party stands for," said William Bennett, a noted conservative author and education secretary during the Reagan administration.

Bennett suggested that Lott's explanations about what he meant when he praised segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign have been inadequate.

"If Senator Lott can provide a satisfactory explanation for his statement, this entire episode should be forgotten," Bennett said in a statement released Thursday. "If he cannot, he needs to step down as the Senate majority leader."

The president's strong statement suggests that Lott has failed to quell the controversy over his comments, which some conservatives complain have opened the GOP to charges of racial bigotry. On Thursday, the Congressional Black Caucus -- comprised of black Democratic lawmakers -- released a statement calling for a "formal censure of Sen. Lott's racist remarks."

Two Democratic senators -- John Kerry of Massachusetts and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin -- have called on Lott to resign his leadership post, but there has been no such call from any GOP senator. Several, in fact, have risen to Lott's defense, saying his apology should put the matter to rest.

But Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said Lott should have a "full-blown press conference" to address the controversy.

"I have known Trent Lott for 20 years," McCain told CNN. "I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form."

The comment in question was delivered one week ago during a 100th birthday party for the retiring Thurmond -- a party that often resembled a roast of the South Carolina Republican.

Lott noted that in Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign, whose centerpiece was opposition to integration, Mississippi was one of four Thurmond carried.

"We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either," Lott said.

That line initially drew little fire, but the criticism grew this week and intensified with a report of a similar comment he made at a 1980 campaign rally for Ronald Reagan in Mississippi. His comments followed a speech by Thurmond, who praised the platform that would soon put Reagan in the White House.

"You know, if we had elected this man 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today," Lott was quoted as saying of Thurmond in a November 3, 1980, article in The Clarion-Ledger, a Jackson newspaper.

Another past incident also may come back to haunt Lott. Time magazine has reported that Lott vigorously opposed desegregating his fraternity when he was a student at the University of Mississippi in the 1960s. (Full story)

Lott's comments have led two Democratic senators to call for him to give up his leadership post.

Lott granted two phone interviews Wednesday during which he apologized repeatedly for the more recent comment, calling it "terrible." In neither case, Lott insisted, did he mean to endorse Thurmond's since-discarded segregationist views. Instead, Lott said, he meant to praise Thurmond's stance on defense, law enforcement and economic development.

"This was a mistake of the head or of the mouth, not of the heart," he said in a call to one radio talk show, reprising a line first used in 1984 by civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, who was criticized at the time for describing New York City as "Hymietown," a comment many took as anti-Semitic. Jackson has blasted Lott for his recent comment.

Kerry -- who is exploring a possible 2004 bid for the White House -- became the first senator to call on Lott to resign his leadership post with a statement Wednesday. Feingold did the same Thursday.

The Wall Street Journal and the Family Research Council, a conservative group, have also criticized Lott for his comments, saying he has hurt Republican efforts to reach out to minorities.

Lott said Wednesday night that he hoped he could be judged in the full context of his career, which he said has included support of historically black colleges and universities.

Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, called Lott a "good leader" but suggested that Lott address civil rights groups to "speak out openly about" the controversy.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/12/lott.comment/

posted November 02, 2006 06:51 PM            

Kerry is a shameful example of an American but Kerry has no shame.

posted November 02, 2006 11:27 PM              

I visited the photo site for LL, I saw the pictures of you and your hubby I hope you are having the time of your life Wishing you the best!

Cheers and have an awesome week!
Silverstone

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The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

posted November 03, 2006 02:22 PM            

The Minnesota soldiers in Iraq who issued a hilariously misspelled smackdown to Sen. John Kerry were psyched yesterday as their witty response to his bungled "joke" about their education hit home in the United States.

"They're astounded by the reaction," said David Ward, whose daughter Heather was among the GIs holding the banner. "They were having fun with it."

Their fun - captured on the front page of yesterday's Post - has now become the No. 1 rejoinder from troops to comments by the Massachusetts Democrat, who told a group of California students on Monday that if they didn't study and get an education, they would get "stuck in Iraq."

Word of what the failed presidential candidate said got to Ward and her fellow members of the Minnesota National Guard in Talil, Iraq, south of Baghdad. Quickly, they knew how to respond: with a sarcastic sign reading "Halp us Jon Carry - we r stuck hear n Irak."

The picture spread with lightning speed. About 12 hours after it was taken, a former college roommate of a Minnesota guardsman e-mailed the shot to Milwaukee talk-radio host Charlie Sykes, who put it on his blog Web site.

David Ward said his daughter told him that while the picture was meant to be private, her unit is happy their message is getting across.

"When they saw and heard what Kerry said, they were just furious and they were sitting around and one thing led to another," he said.

Ward said that his daughter was among those who came up with the plan for the sign - and when asked if she actually painted it, he chuckled and said: "Well, she said she had paint under her fingernails."

The elder Ward said he completely approves of his daughter's message.

"Kerry is a preening peacock and the best way to respond to him is with humor," he said.

Ward said his daughter was particularly incensed by Kerry's comments because her résumé is nothing like the "stuck" soldier the senator seemed to describe in his comment.

Heather Ward has 31/2 years of college credits in chemistry and biology and is about to graduate when she gets back. She hopes one day to be a radiologist, he said.

And what's more, she joined the armed forces soon after 9/11 because she wanted to help her country, her dad said.

"These aren't uneducated people with no options in life," he said.

Ward said his daughter read yesterday's Post online, and saw herself on the front page. He said she is the soldier holding up the far right end of the sign.

"She got a kick out of that," he said.

The picture drew heaps of praise, even as the military declared that the soldiers cannot talk to the press about what they did.

It is a violation of military rules for service members to get involved in elections, and it was unclear if the members of the unit - the 1/34 Brigade Troops Battalion - would face any discipline for the stunt.

Ward said that his daughter had not caught any flak since the last time he talked to her early yesterday - but he admitted he is a bit worried.

His worries might be eased by comments from the White House yesterday. Bush press secretary Tony Snow told a Fargo, N.D., radio station that the photo was "wonderful and shows a great sense of humor."

On the Web site of the National Guard unit known as the "Red Bulls," the Kerry crack was hugely popular, as well-wishers flooded the message board with support.

"Thank you so much for responding so eloquently to his uneducated, ill-thought and unwanted gibberish," wrote commentator Margie Lozada, who identified herself as a Navy vet. "I am so proud of you guys."

"Thanks to the troops in 'flyover country' for understanding and defending the rights that we have," said another poster. "I'm sure you know some have hailed this as 'dropping the smart bomb' on John Kerry (D-Stupid). Keep up the good work."

Kerry has been lying low since making the comment, canceling appearances such as one to the home state of the sign-writing soldiers. He apologized Wednesday after being blasted even by members of his own party.

He said his remark was a "botched joke" in which he meant to call Bush - not soldiers - uneducated. But it emerged yesterday that Kerry has made similar comments in the past.

When he ran for Congress in 1972, he said he was against an all-volunteer Army - like the one we have now - because it would be full of lowlife thugs who would be more likely to be involved in "war crimes."

"I am convinced a volunteer Army would be an Army of the poor and the black and the brown," Kerry wrote in a candidate questionnaire to a Massachusetts peace group.

"We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional Army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job.'"

Kerry's spokesman, David Wade, said the statement needed to be viewed as part of the era in which it was written.

"These are the words 34 years ago of a 28-year-old veteran home from a war gone wrong, wondering who in America will bear the cost of battle and shoulder the responsibility of military service," Wade said.

www.nypost.com

posted November 05, 2006 04:57 PM              

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"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"-Khalil Gibran

posted November 05, 2006 06:26 PM              

It is pompous when Kerry refuses to apologize for something he says but it's okay that Bush has never apologized or taken responsibility for anything he has said or done as president. Nor has his whole administration.

You people are a real hoot. And you've certainly made hypocrisy a lifestyle.

It was so funny because it was okay for Pidaua in her mind to post this obvious politically manipulated issue on the eve of the mid-term elections but then comes on my thread about Ann Coulter being indicted for illegally voting in the wrong precinct in Florida and tells me that the Dems and I are just making an issue out that to get votes and that the news article about Ann Coulter was not significant for me to post. hee hee hahahahaha

See what I mean about making hypocrisy a lifestyle? And the real sad thing is that they don't even see it in themselves but instead project it on anyone who disagrees with their politics.

posted November 05, 2006 06:30 PM              

if the shoe fits...