Kerry's Remarks Ludicrous
Published Tue, Oct 31 2006 2:20 PM
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I listened to John Kerry's response to the reaction to his remarks. It was pathetic. It was also full of misleading statements.
WASHINGTON -- The White House and Sen. John Kerry traded their harshest accusations since the 2004 presidential race on Tuesday, with President Bush accusing the Democrat of troop-bashing and Kerry calling the president's men hacks who are "willing to lie."
Just like John Kerry lied about events in Vietnam when he came back to testify before the senate? When he said he knew people that committed horrible war crimes? When he said he committed horrible war crimes? Or was he lying then?
"Our troops did not enlist because they did not study hard in school or do their homework," Bush said in his prepared remarks for a former GOP congressman, Mac Collins, who is trying to oust Democratic Rep. Jim Marshall. "The men and women who serve in our all-volunteer armed forces are plenty smart and are serving because they are patriots."
Kerry, who is considering another run for the White House in 2008, angrily fired back.
His statement called Republicans "assorted right-wing nut jobs."
And at a hastily arranged news conference in Seattle, Kerry said: "I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and of his broken policy."
Kerry said the comment in question was "a botched joke about the president and the president's people, not about the troops ... and they know that's what I was talking about."
Hmmm... are we sure they know what he was talking about? His two statements, first about Bush living in a state of denial and his comment about ending up in Iraq if you don't make the most of your educational opportunities seem unrelated.
It came during a campaign rally for California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides. Kerry opened his speech at Pasadena City College with several one-liners, saying at one point that Bush had lived in Texas but now "lives in a state of denial."
He then said: "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."
That, Kerry said, was meant as a reference to Bush, not troops. Kerry said it is the president who owes U.S. soldiers an apology - for "a Katrina foreign policy" that misled the country into war in Iraq, failed to adequately study and plan for the aftermath, has not properly equipped troops and has expanded the terrorist threat.
This from the man who voted against the funding to properly equip the troops. Actually, Kerry said a whole lot more than that. He harped on body armor and upgraded Hum-Vees. Some of the very things he voted not to fund.
While we're here, I guess John Kerry is the one living in denial. If he's really talking about making the most of your education and claiming that it's a reference to George Bush, he MUST be in denial, since George Bush got better grades in college than he did.
The Massachusetts Democrat called the White House attack "a classic GOP textbook Republican campaign tactic" that reveals Republicans' "willingness to reduce anything in America to raw politics."
Calling his critics assorted right-wing nut jobs instead of answering seems to me to be trying to reduce the argument to raw politics. In fact the name calling is a classic Democrat tactic.
"I'm sick and tired of a bunch of despicable Republicans who will not debate real policy, who won't take responsibility for their own mistakes, standing up and trying to make other people the butt of those mistakes," he said. "It disgusts me that a bunch of these Republican hacks who've never worn the uniform of our country are willing to lie about those who did."
But wait, one of the leading Republican's asking for an apology did serve his country in uniform, and he didn't come back and malign his companions in arms...
GOP Sen. John McCain, like Kerry a decorated Vietnam veteran and a potential 2008 rival, said while campaigning for Republican candidates in Indiana that "the suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq is an insult to every soldier serving in combat today."
Source: White House, Kerry exchange accusations
John Kerry : left-wing nut-job.
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