Kerry Being Sent To Time Out For Duration Of Campaign Season

Too funny…

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Senator John Kerry said he is pulling back from campaigning ahead of next week’s midterm elections to avoid the continued distraction created by his remarks that Americans who neglect their education would “get stuck in Iraq.”
“I’m coming back to Washington today so that I’m not a distraction, because I don’t want to be a distraction to these campaigns,” the 2004 presidential candidate told US television.
Kerry held to his position, however, that he would not apologize for the remark made to students in California on Monday.
“I said it was a botched joke. Of course, I’m sorry about a botched joke. You think I love botched jokes? I mean, it’s pretty stupid,” he told MSNBC television.

Yes, it is pretty stupid Senator.
Unbelievable that Kerry will apologize for a “botched joke” but refuses to apologize for the way that “botched joke” insulted our troops. If Kerry misspoke (and I’m still not convinced that he did) then whatever. I still don’t understand why he can’t apologize.
And neither can the Republicans, apparently, given this new ad they’re running:


By the way, this is pretty much the last nail in the coffin for any hopes at a Kerry run for the Presidency in 2008. If the Democrats can’t trust this guy to be out on the campaign trail when he’s not even running for office, why on earth would they trust him to campaign for the Presidency? Again?
Update: Democrat Senate incumbent candidate Harold Ford Junior feels Kerry must apologize to our troops:

“Whatever the intent, Senator Kerry was wrong to say what he said,” Ford said in a statement issued Wednesday morning. “He needs to apologize to our troops. However, Senator Kerry’s words don’t alter the fact that the stay-the-course strategy pursued by President Bush and supported by Bob Corker isn’t working. We need a new direction in Iraq. I know how hard our troops work, and the sacrifices they make, for our freedoms.”

Meanwhile, the nutroots are in full spin mode trying to pass this lame “I aplogize for botching a joke” nonsense from Kerry off as a real apology.
It isn’t.

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  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    More rightie spin from 108 and he even (as always) throws in a CLLLLIIIINNNTOOON. I do believe that you are in love with Bill and are having a hard time dealing with it.

    Yellow cake
    Aluminum tubes
    Smoking gun
    WMD
    Mobile labs
    Al Qeada connections
    Welcomed as liberators
    War will pay for itself
    Slam dunk

    Where are those WMD anyway? We know they are not north south east or west of Tikrit somewhat.

    Where is Osama?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Given that he never said anything at all about the troops…

    Chad: In the context of political discourse,

    “you get stuck in Iraq.”

    refers to our current conflict in Iraq. Our troops are in Iraq. The students he was addressing were American students. What is the most likely venue for them going to Iraq? The military. Or did you think he was referring to Iraqi travel agents?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    I was joking about how the GOP is changing the subject with all this Kerry crap

    Which is SO unlike how the libs were changing the subject with all the Foley crap!

    The difference is, that the views of John Kerry, the former Democratic Presidential nominee are far more indicative of the beliefs of the Michael Moore/MoveON.Org Democartic party than Mark Foley’s are of the Republicans.

    And John Kerry’s little snapshot into the soul of the Democratic party (or lack thereof), may have bearing on which party controls the levers of power after next Tuesday’s election.

  • Man

    You cannot be pro-american and support this president, HG.

    If you love your country you will protest this administration with all your might.

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    Heh,

    Now this is how such a “joke” is done:

    “He was for the joke before he was against it.”

    Way to go, Mr. Vice President!

    Out Here
    Rodney Graves
    rodney.g.graves@gmail.com

  • robert108

    Bush started the war in Iraq…

    Wrong again, rbb. We went in(America) to depose a murdering, torturing and raping dictator, and to free tens of millions of people to enjoy self-determination. The terrorists, some foreign and some domestic, decided to make it a war, instead of having the vast majority of the Iraqi people enjoy their freedom.
    BTW, the reason for deposing Saddam was far greater than any justification for Clinton’s invasion of Kosovo. Milosevic was never a threat to the region, but Saddam was.

  • http://angrychad.blogspot.com/ Chad

    Not that he needs to, but he has apologized.

    http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/01/kerry-msnbc-apologize/

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    botched joke

    Is he referring to his campaign for President?, his Senate career? Or just his effectiveness on the campaign trail?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Bush started the war in Iraq -rbb

    Sorry, Bob! Wrong Bush! When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, Bush 41 responded with Desert Storm. That conflict ended with a ceasefire, the terms of which, Saddam Hussein failed to comply.

    When Saddam defied the UN and its resolutions, the US, as the world’s only remaining superpower, stepped in to finish what Bush Sr. and the US had started. Finishing the war that Saddam started was key to denying safe haven to terrorists.

    You’d think someone who called himself “reality based” might occasionally get his facts straight!

  • http://angrychad.blogspot.com/ Chad

    If republicans really wanted to stop terrorist they’d go after Osama, and stop wasting time and money in Iraq, which has never posed a threat to us.

  • http://angrychad.blogspot.com/ Chad

    Ah yes, the great progressive state of Tennessee. He’s merely catering to the base there, just like when he said he favors having the 10 commandments in public buildings.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    If republicans really wanted to stop terrorist (sic) they’d go after Osama

    …who is apparently easier to find today than John Kerry on the campaign trail!

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

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  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    Rob,

    Have you noticed how the smart democrats (not quite an oxymoron yet, but rapidly headed in that direction) are already running away from this tar baby?

    The reaction of our own leftards is revealing in that light, is it not?

    They can’t even blame Rove for this one without crossing from barking moonbattery into frank insanity.

    Out Here
    Rodney Graves
    rodney.g.graves@gmail.com

  • http://angrychad.blogspot.com/ Chad

    Given that he never said anything at all about the troops, much less insult them, he shouldn’t have to apologize for it.

  • HG

    Wrong Chad. America is stuck in Iraq. Only American lefties aren’t at war in Iraq because they’re at war with America’s President and therefore America.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:
    • FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;
    • SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
    • THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
    • FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;
    • FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
    • SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;
    • SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
    • EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.

    How’s this coming along, gopers?

    Any news about the other 10 points?

  • robert108

    ^You are way off robert108. Way off.

    I got it exactly right, Sparkie, and you know it. You just have this massive leftie denial problem.

  • HG

    You cannot be pro-american and support this president, HG.

    This President is AMERICA’s PRESIDENT, tard. America is at war, and not with our President, unlike you leftist nuts.

  • http://angrychad.blogspot.com/ Chad

    Bush is stuck in Iraq, he’s just dragging the troops down into the quagmire with him.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    If you think there is

    safe haven for terrorists

    in Iraq now, wait until the “cut and run” Democrats have their way!

  • http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

    I still don’t understand why he can’t apologize.

    Because he’s an insipid, haughty, pretentious jerk who looks down his nose at those of us who reside in “flyover country!”

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Even ‘National Guard’ who are supposed to be here ‘Guarding the Nation’ and not off in the Garden of Eden shooting the locals.

    A lie of course. Did you make that up or does Kos do all your thinking for you.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    poofreader spins make me laugh

  • robert108

    rbb:

    On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:

    Of course, you left out winning the war on terrorism, but since you are a leftie, you just don’t “get” that one. In fact, you seem to know, somewhere in the dark recesses of your “mind”, what would be good for this country. Why then do you continue to support the Marxists(Dems), who simply want to destroy this country? Intellectual dishonesty?

  • Wither

    All he has to do is say “If I offended anyone I am sorry. That was not my intent. I meant to challenge the President on being in Iraq. I never intended to imply anything negative about our troops.” Say that and make some donation to a pro troop charity. BUT HE WONT. He refuses to apologize and lefties are backing him on this. That is the problem with the Democratic Party. They don’t give a damn about anything outside of themselves and now they are proving it. And of course the President is going to demand an apology. Even a Demcratic President would tell Kerry to apologize.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Not that he needs to, but he has apologized.

    Kerry appologized after he got defensive and made said he did nothing wrong.

    Bush is stuck in Iraq, he’s just dragging the troops down into the quagmire with him.

    IF I am not mistake Kerry Voted for the war, before he was against it.

    It really confuses me how Dems can really like Kerry? Kerry is the eltiest leftist jerk that we all read about. His comments about the soldiers should confuse no one, Kerry is a person that doesn’t support the troops. While he can poo-poo this and say that he is attacking Bush for being stupid Bush went to Yale and did get his business degree. I have been told got better grades than Kerry.

    It turns out George W. Bush and John Kerry were mediocre students at Yale. Bush, in fact, had a slightly better average than his 2004 foe. I wonder if the “Bush is dumb” crowd, who incessantly invoke such trivia as Bush’s college transcripts, will now do the same for Kerry. I’ll settle for them ceasing to mistake modest academic achievements as an Oval Office disqualifier.

    College is overrated. The almae matres of Harry Truman (never graduated from college), Lyndon Johnson (Southwest Texas Teachers College), and Richard Nixon (Whittier College) prove this. Stellar grades and a high IQ doesn’t translate into a great president. When we elect a president, we don’t necessarily look for the most intelligent or studious man. Intelligent people can be arrogant, fanatical, cowardly, and lacking in good judgment. In other words, many factors go into making a good president, intelligence being but one. Liberals forget this, insulting half of the men on national Republican tickets as stupid (Ronald Reagan, Dan Quayle, George W. Bush) and the other half–that can’t be so dismissed–as evil (Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Dick Cheney). Liberals want an intellectual in chief. Americans want a commander in chief. If you don’t get this, look up President Adlai Stevenson or President Eugene McCarthy in the history books.

  • HG

    Bush and Kerry received about the same grades at Yale (Bush slightly better). Clearly Kerry wasn’t talking about himself and he wasn’t talking about Bush since both Bush and Kerry apparently “made the most of it (education), studied hard, did their homework, and made an effort to be smart.”

  • robert108

    108 seems like y’all are doing a better job defeating us! jackass.

    I guess that’s an illustration of your twisted leftie “thinking”. What part of “defeating the terrorists” don’t you understand?

  • robert108

    Sparkie: To quote the Chinese Sage Lao Tzu:

    When the Superior Man hears of the Tao(the Truth), he immediately puts it into practice;

    When the Middling Man hears of the Tao, he wants to find out more about it;

    When the Fool hears about the Tao, he laughs; if he did not laugh, it wouldn’t be the Tao.

    Keep laughing!

  • robert108

    FDR caused the Great Depression, dude, not Hoover. FDR’s socialist policies turned a market downturn into a depression.
    The Dems want us to lose the war by cutting and running, which will embolden the terrorists to come here to kill us; the Dems want the economy to fail, and have been relentlessly downtalking it for six years, and all for partisan political gain. They want power, and don’t care if they have to destroy the country in the process. In fact, that would make it easier to turn us into a Soviet-style dictatorship, with the Dems at the top, mandating our activities.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    more rightie lies from 108

  • robert108

    The stupid policies you and 108 are busy boosting for.

    The only policy I’m “boosting for” is the defeat of the terrorists. How about you?

  • http://angrychad.blogspot.com/ Chad

    Oops, I forgot soldiers. Republicans need to stop wasting time, money and the lives of American soldiers. Why do Republicans want to keep killing American soldiers?

  • robert108

    The “botched joke” defense.

    Anything but the Iraq war eh?

    The same old leftie talking points; when you get nailed, change the subject. Brilliant!

  • robert108

    Not sarcastic at all; I simply called you out on your own racism. You won’t find any racist statements by me. You lefties make them all the time, though.

  • robert108

    Ahh! The “botched joke” defense. Very clever. The fact is, you are the only one who brought up skin color on this thread, which makes you a racist.

  • robert108

    Never mind the other racist threads that litter this blog…

    Ahh! The “everybody does it” defense. Very good. How does that excuse Sparkie’s racism?

  • http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Robert Perry

    It’s worth noting that Wonkette understands exactly what Kerry said, and she noted that the proper thing to do in any crucial situation is to lock him in an (expletive deleted) closet and throw away the (expletive deleted) key. Even some left-liberals understand the ordinary implications of statements from time to time.

    And for what it’s worth, Hoover also did some intervention that helped to deepen the 1929 recession into the Great Depression. He’s still a minor leaguer compared to FDR, but I’m loath to ignore his contribution here. :^)

    Either way, the problem is still government action where free markets ought to be given a bit of free rein.

  • robert108

    rbb has gone completely off the deep end, and is spewing leftie talking points from DK and DU like a parrot on speed. Very funny!

  • http://angrychad.blogspot.com/ Chad

    Yes Democrats hate America and want to see it burn! It couldn’t possibly be that they’re simply students of history. The last time in American History that conservatives held power for this long, in both the Presidential and Legislative branches of government, the U.S. suffered WW1 and mass poverty. Republicans won control of the government in 1900 when William McKinley was re-elected, continued with it after his assassination, under Teddy Roosevelt, and running into the early administration of William Taft. The party’s power took up again in 1921 under Warren G. Harding — running through the administrations of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover ended with the Great Depression- with massive corruption and multiple scandals interspersed between. You would think we would have learned by now. History and hunger both being great teachers.

  • Mickey

    John Kerry couldn’t be President so he decided to elevate himself to “The Most Hated Man in America”.

    What a dope.

  • http://angrychad.blogspot.com/ Chad

    Never mind the other racist threads that litter this blog…

  • Pilgrim

    Note that Kerry’s apology was for his worrds being misinterpreted, not for the actual statement. He’s still sticking to the old “out of context” crap.

    Lying, arrogant, elitist prick. Gee, I hope nobody takes me out of context.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Why do Republicans want to keep killing American soldiers? Yeah, if they were really smart they would go after the real

    That is shameful. This is the kind of crap that makes me vote GOP. I wonder if they will be able to find him if they actually are able to steal the house and senate..

  • anonomisly

    ..that our troops are in Iraq and Afghanistan goes without saying.

  • http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

    No one cares anyway, he’s a dumbass.

    He was the candidate for President that the free lunch bunch nominated, so you may be right. Congratulations!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Bush started the war in Iraq (We’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th. Bush…September 17, 2003) and never finished what was the correct war to fight in Afghanistan.

    And what’s all this gop nanny state crap…

    Who the hell are these new gopers anyway and what did they with real conservatives and why do nutters love these new guys so much?

  • Sluggo

    I’d rather see 3000 soldiers die in three years fighting, based on a hunch, than to lose 3000 civilians in 2 hours because we did nothing. They don’t get it guys, and they will not get it. They think war can be sanitized like the movies.

    They also believe that if we had put all our military into Afghanistan, that bin Laden and co. would stick around and get slaughtered. They seem to believe Abrams tanks and mechanized infantry will function in the mountains of Afghanistan…yeah, and the moon is made of green cheese too. The Democrats have spent so long disengaged from the military, that they don’t even understand its capabilities and limitations. From the way they talk, they don’t even understand that soldiers die in war.

    They don’t understand that a fundamental change, in the status quo, needs to take place in the ME, and that the change will be bloody and take a long time. “If only we changed the way we act, they might like us better”, is a recipe for suicide and surrender.

    You need to show strength in the face of the enemy, not cowardice. Sadly, those on the Left will never get it, because it conflicts with too many of their long held beliefs. Convincing someone on the Left, that war is bloody and hard and necessary, is like trying to convince a Christian that Jesus is not the son of God.

    I’m done with my rant, time to get some sleep.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    At the risk of taking this thread back where it started, and putting a stop to revisionist history and alternate realities…

    If John Kerry has “nothing to apologize for” and he is a man of character and principle…why has he retreated from the field? Why cancel public appearances with less nuanced Democrats? Do his actions speak louder than his words???

    BTW This is known as a logical argument. It is self-contained and addresses indisputable facts. Please feel free to rant, call it “spin” or otherwise gnash your teeth!

  • robert108

    All that black gold, going unplundered by fair skinned, preferred, people? That is goddamn threatening.

    Ever the racist, eh Sparkie?

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    This ad auto-running each time I visit SA is highly annoying.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Well, Democrat candidate Harold Ford Junior seems to think that Kerry needs to apologize to our troops.

    I guess only sycophantic partisans like you think Kerry a) didn’t insult the troops and b) shouldn’t need to apologize for it.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    I love the graffiti at the end of that ad.
    “Ok, get one of our boys to go out and do some pro American graffiti in Baghdad and we’ll film it… fuck that. Let’s just set up a studio shot to look like Bagdad…”

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    John! You go stand with your nose in the corner for some quiet time.
    I love it when people, “don’t say what they mean to.”
    Heeheehee.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    If you think there is

    safe haven for terrorists

    in Iraq now, wait until the “cut and run” Democrats have their way!

    I am horrified. No matter who gains control and what they do at this point its pretty much gonna suck. Stupid policies have fucked us Proof. The stupid policies you and 108 are busy boosting for.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    to free tens of millions of people to enjoy self-determination

    Milosevic was never a threat to the region

    ^You are way off robert108. Way off.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    You cannot be pro-american and support this president, HG.

    Sheesh…and the leftards go nuts when we question their patriotism.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    Finishing the war that Saddam started was key to denying safe haven to terrorists.

    Try: Finishing the war that Saddam started was key to safe haven for terrorists (because we didn’t send enough troops) and increasing terrorist recruitment.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    ^
    All that black gold, going unplundered by fair skinned, preferred, people? That is goddamn threatening.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    Ever sarcastic

    ^this was in reference to
    this:

    All that black gold, going unplundered by fair skinned, preferred, people? That is goddamn threatening.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    and if the GOP wins we’ll all get to see what ‘cut and run’ republicans look like. either that or they will keep feeding our youth into the giant hole of death in the ME. and then they wont win another election for like 30 more years.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    The “botched joke” defense.

    Anything but the Iraq war eh?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    Ever sarcastic, racist!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    108
    seems like y’all are doing a better job defeating us! jackass.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Chad, he apologized for a “botched joke,” not for insulting our troops.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    Thanks Kevin.

    And thanks realitybasedbob for the big list.

    And thanks robert108 for all the humor in general.
    You give Monty Python a run for their money!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81
    The “botched joke” defense.

    Anything but the Iraq war eh?

    The same old leftie talking points; when you get nailed, change the subject. Brilliant!

    Dude!
    I was joking about how the GOP is changing the subject with all this Kerry crap. No one cares anyway, he’s a dumbass. ‘The Iraq War’ is not a leftie talking point, its a fucking joke that your homeboys got us into.
    Furthermore – getting stuck in Iraq does suck. Any number of people can tell you that. Even ‘National Guard’ who are supposed to be here ‘Guarding the Nation’ and not off in the Garden of Eden shooting the locals.

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