Kerry Issues Press Release To “Right Wing Nutjobs” Who Quoted Him Accurately

• November 1, 2006

Washington – Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerry’s comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record:
“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.
I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.
The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it. These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.
Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they’re afraid to debate real men. And this time it won’t work because we’re going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq.”

I suppose I’m in the “right wing nutjob” department.
Anyway, here’s Kerry’s comments about our troops being stupid again:

I think Kerry has been quoted accurately. He pretty clearly feels if you’re lazy and uneducated you end up in Iraq.
I guess to Kerry an “attack” means “quoted me accurately.”

Tags: Asshats, Military, Politics, The Loony Left, War On Terror

http://Array Bat One

Carrick,

Your example of self-serving behavior is more than adequate.

Actually, in a convoluted way, John Kerry did exhibit heroic behavior of a sort, although I doubt seriously that his focus on himself allowed him to recognize it as such. For in managing to excuse himself from further combat duty on so patently flimsy a trio of excuses, Kerry undoubtedly saved a number of American lives.

Like most other Vietnam vets, I have known a number of others whose self-serving behavior was similar to John Kerry’s, and almost invariably the result of their focus on themselves was to get others killed. By leaving Vietnam having completed less than a third of a full tour of duty, there’s no telling how many American servicemen’s lives John Kerry saved.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Poor Lurch always misunderstood.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Here’s the quote: “You know, education, if you make the most of it,
if you study hard and you do your homework, and
you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can
do well. If you dont, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Was he telling students that only the lazy and uneducated end up as soldiers in Iraq? Depends on what the meaning of “you” is…
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

bak72,

Was he mis-speaking when he accused the armed forces of massive and deliberate attrocities in his “Winter Soldier” testimony? Did he mis-speak when he claimed that his Christmas in Cambodia was “seared” in his memory?

Ipse dixit.

Out Here
Rodney Graves
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robert108

flip…flop, flip…flop, flip…flop, ad nauseum. It’s the Kerry disease. Every time they remove his foot from his mouth, he puts it right back in.
carrick

Bat1, that depends on what you mean by “self-serving”.

Do you really consider taking your own video camera to record the action “self-serving”? Especially, when you had your boat reenact the scene of action the next day in an active war zone so you could get good footage?

Thought so.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Jim Geraghty on NRO, noted, buried inside the frothing at the mouth rhetoric:

And what the hell is “a Katrina foreign policy”?

What indeed???
Bat One

If Senator Kerry was half as smart as he thinks he is, never mind what he would desperately like others to believe, it would occur to him that with his record of embellishment, deception, waffling, and outright fraud, it’s no wonder reasonable people take what he says in the worst possible light. They understand what it is he’s saying even if Kerry himself does not.

John Kerry is the very personification of why Democrats are simply not to be trusted, especially where matter of national security are concerned. One minute he is desperately trying to pass himself off as some sort of military hero, and in the very next breath he is publicly burnishing his anti-war credentials for the benefit of the Dems’ far left Progressive wing, a constituency and special interest group without which Kerry simply cannot re-gain the 2008 Democrat presidential nomination. Expediency is the order of the day, and the end justifies the means. Principles such as integrity, honesty, and honor are anachronisms insufficiently nuanced for contemporary world affairs.

Back and forth, back and forth, frantically trying to appease first this group, then another, then back again in an effort to “explain” that he was misled, misquoted or misunderstood. Kerry’s public pronouncements are the intellectual equivalent of a gawky, near-sighted teenager thrust into a boxing ring with shorts and gloves both three sizes too big, valiantly, desperately trying not to get hit, not to stumble into a punch.

Kerry has soiled this country’s uniform and betrayed the US and the others who served nobly in Vietnam, and he is worthy of little else but contempt. Contempt for his behavior and contempt for his unwillingness to acknowledge his lies. He is the consummate Democrat fraud.
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Sgt,

You don’t find the junior gigolo’s previous defamatory comments insiteful? Particularly his “Winter Soldier” claumnies? Nor his seared memory of “Christmas in Cambodia” enlightening as to his veracity?

Based on that demonstrated track record, and the era of his service, it would not surprise me in the least if he considers the current Armed Forces to be the ill educated dregs of fly over country. Morover, that is a very fail reading indeed of what he actually said.

What leads you to beleive otherwise?

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Rodney Graves
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Sgt Rock

for the drooling knuckle draggers that need Kerrys statement translated

he was telling the students if they don’t get a life, society has room for cannon fodder.

Republican Talking points claim he said the service is full of losers

to which He also replied – cannon fodder is the creation of inept leadership.

I know its a waste of time, but who you gonna believe, Me or your own lying eyes
Matthew 6:23
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Wow Sgt, way to ignore what Kerry actually said. Nice we have you around to tell us what he was thinking.
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

I wish I had the time to document the junior gigolo from mASSachussetts various whoppers concerning the military in general, and his service in particular. Even better would be video clips (including his Winter Soldier calumnies) of Kerry vs Kerry.

What a sack of exrement.

Pefect standard bearer for the party of jackasses.

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Rodney Graves
rodney.g.graves@gmail.com
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Question: What’s more radioactive than Iran’s nuclear program?
Answer: John Kerry! Who apparently is being dis-invited from campaign appearances with Democrats like Bruce Braley from Iowa.
Perhaps the Senator from Taxachusetts is a little too nuanced for the rest of the country!
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Bat One,

I must quibble in one respect:

He is the consummate Democrat fraud.

He is a comsumate modern Democrat and a fraud of an American.

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Rodney Graves
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2Hotel9

Dear Sgt Shlock, I have listened to Sen Kerry’s speech in its entirety, I have read the transcript released by his staff, I listened to his press conference today(Live), and all I heard was JFKerry’s usual contempt and derision for the All Volunteer Military of the United States. And lets us get right down to cases. Who voted against individual body armor for US troops? Who voted against armored personnel carriers and armored fighting vehicles and armored cargo carriers for the US military? Who voted repeatedly through out the ’80s and ’90s to reduce the size of the US military?

Go to a little thing called the Congressional Record and see what a big supporter of the US military JFKerry was and is.

Oh, and I am one of those dummies too. 6 years US Army, Field Artillery and Ranger, High School dropout who got GED and extensive career development and higher eduction through the good services of the United States Army. You are what you make yourself, you leftarded moron.
http://anangrydakotademocrat.blogspot.com/ bak72

Rodney,

All I was saying is that his staff said that he omitted words that were written out for that quote. Hell, I voted for George W. Bush in 2004 because John Kerry is John Kerry.

Was he mis-speaking when he accused the armed forces of massive and deliberate attrocities in his “Winter Soldier” testimony? Did he mis-speak when he claimed that his Christmas in Cambodia was “seared” in his memory?

Not in my mind. He said those things and truly believes them. Why would I defend the moron about these statements? He’s just another nut job from the left side of the political spectrum.
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

Bat One,

No apology is neccessary, Sir. I have erred oft and greatly, and can thus find no fault with one who errs and corrects.

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Rodney Graves
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http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Actually Lurch was lashing out at Tony Snow today and called him a stuff suit. Kerry is supposed to appologize today or clarrify his remarks.

Ah, this should be a perfect example of what we are going to get if they dems actally are successfull stealing the house and possibly the senate.
Sgt Rock

argh, forgot the picture word an it ate my post

saying you’ll end up stuck in iraq if you don’t take advantage of your educational opportunities
isn’t saying the miliatary is made up of school dropouts, it is saying you may have no better opportunities .

I’ve argued winter solder too many times , believe what you will, as will I.

“If Senator Kerry was half as smart as he thinks he is”, yes , those are his self inflicted wounds ,
wether politics corrupts or hes just trying to set backfires against his detractors, gotta run with what you brung… an God Bless Adm. Boorda

Soiling a uniform isn’t a disgrace , shame the man who thinks it so , an praise the hero who continues to fight.

I’m not saying kerrys shit don’t stink, just that I find it more palatable than that of most of those complaining

peace
Mickey

Give Kerry a Purple Heart for another self inflicted wound.
Steve L.

Actually, when I first read his comments this morning and before the statements started flying around, I commented at Hot Air that I thought he was talking about the President and his alleged lack of intelligence. I really do believe Kerry when he says that what he was doing.

We need to be careful that we don’t become the party of the Perpetually IndignantÂ® like the Democrats are. We need to be better than that. Everything that someone says is not meant to be a slight.

We can be upset about someone insulting the President or the troops, but we better be absolutely, 100% sure that there is no other possible explanation before we go off half-cocked.
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

2H9,

You were being so restrained… Until tht last phrase of that last sentence.

You might want to ease up on that a bit. There was a remote chance that “Sgt Rock” was educable, unlike our own leftard trolls.

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Rodney Graves
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http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.

Two can play at that game. Try this one on for size:

I’m sick and tired of these dispicable Democrat attacks that always seem to come from those who never were President, but love to attack those who are.

Using Kerry’s own logic, he should shut the fuck up.
Sgt Rock

He didn’t say ‘the rest of the dummies’ , thats the Smear the Leadership is trying to sell to the knuckledraggers.

I know because I’m exactly the guy he was talking to, an by saying he was talking to the dummie, YOUR saying that about me.

the SGT is past tense
Sgt Shlock

fragged by 2Hotel9 , lol

won’t be heaven if there are any republicans in it , but I’d still stroll thru purgatory for a few of you
Bat One

… I have erred oft and greatly, and can thus find no fault with one who errs and corrects.

A point which, sadly and predictably, is utterly lost on those of the Left. Witness John Kerry.

Personally, I believe it to be largely a question of respect and self-respect. Those who have self-respect, enjoy the respect of others. John Kerry enjoys neither.
Bat One

Rodney,

My apologies, Sir. I stand corrected.
robert108

Be compassionate now! Kerry is obviously suffering from a disease: political Tourette’s syndrome.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Kerry has soiled this country’s uniform

Bat One: Probably not the first time he soiled his uniform…
http://anangrydakotademocrat.blogspot.com/ bak72

Are you sure that John Kerry isn’t a Republican Operative? He did misspeak according to people that saw the speech that he was supposed to give. That is no excuse. Just apologize and shut up.
2Hotel9

And the last line of Sgt Shlocks last post betrays his true colors and agenda.

‘Nuff said.
robert108

Steve L: This just in: Kerry now claims he was joking. He flip flops too quickly for you.
Margie

Maybe he was remembering when you had to go to Vietnam unless you had a college deferment? If you could not afford college. you went to get shot at.

Don’t stone me yet! I can’t stand Kerry. (hanging head) voted for Bush because he seemed lesser of two evils. I do believe he is capable of sticking foot in mouth with all sincerity, tho. Just to dumb to think out what he is saying
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Hell just read the book swift boat veterans for truth.
Kerry should have never been voted into office. Kerry is actually a traitor and could have been court martialed for his traitorous behavior during the 1970′s when he spoke in congress.

The man is a serious liar and an empty suit. I actually did vote for the 87 billion before I voted against it. Yikes.
robert108

The Dems believe their own election propaganda, and are spiking the ball on the 20 yard line. Expect them to reveal more truth about what they really believe.
http://bezufache.wordpress.com/ Bezu Fache

Resident, here’s an example of a legitimate joke:

A Marine was coming home from the Pentagon one day.
He noticed that there was a lot more traffic than normal.
As he got further up the road all of the traffic had come to a halt.
He saw a policeman coming towards his car, so he asked the cop what was wrong.
The cop said, “Man we are in a crisis situation.
Mr. Clinton is in the road very upset.
He does not have the $33.5 million that he owes his lawyers, and his family hates him.
He is threatening to douse himself in gasoline and start a fire.”
The marine asked the cop exactly what he was doing there.”
The cop said, ” I feel sorry for the president so I am going car to car asking for donations.”
The marine asked, “How much do you have so far?”
The cop replied, “Well as of right now only 33 gallons, but many people are still siphoning as we speak!”
Bat One

Margie,

Kerry’s “tour of duty” in Vietnam, brief as it was, (less than 4 months) was nearly 40 years ago.

Even if the man is not a serial liar (and he is!), and is merely very easily confused, the Swift Boat Vets were still right in judging him to be totally unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.

In all my years, I have never known a real hero who made a point of his heroism, never mind behaving in so self-serving a manner has does John Kerry.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Here is some of Kerry’s stuff lets not forget the man is my opinion a traitor, and he keeps re-affirming that point of veiw everytime he talks. Read the Book Swift Boat Veterans for Truth its a good read and doesn’t paint a very good picture of the Junior Senator from Mass. : from http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/index.php?topic=Timeline

Late May, 1970 — John and Julia Kerry travel to Paris on a private trip. Kerry meets with Madam Nguyen Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG) — the political wing of the Vietcong — and with representatives of Hanoi who were in Paris for the peace talks.

More Kerry:

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Lurch just was on TV lashing out at the GOP.
http://bezufache.wordpress.com/ Bezu Fache

rock’n'roll
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Margie,
Kerry’s “tour of duty” in Vietnam, brief as it was, (less than 4 months) was nearly 40 years ago.
Even if the man is not a serial liar (and he is!), and is merely very easily confused, the Swift Boat Vets were still right in judging him to be totally unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.

Read the Book Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, you will find out that barely anyone in his unit liked John Kerry and that he was really a pompus Jerk. Kerry was in Vietnam about grand total of three months. A couple his wounds were scratches. I don’t have any respect for him.

Kerry is the one that made an issue out of his service in Vietnam. The GOP is just calling him. Kerry was in a hurry to get some noterighty and then get home.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

Sgt Rock said, for the drooling knuckle draggers that need Kerrys statement translated

It looks like the “drooling knuckle dragger” here is you since you have so thoroughly fucked up what Kerry said.

Do you get dizzy from all of the spinning? Just curious…
Resident

Hello!
I am shocked that nobody in the USA can take a joke anymore?? Are we all so stupid and we all like to be manipulated, by republicans? I’m not a republican, democrat ,independent or anything else…Because somebody tells a joke and somebody else interpret that joke the way he wants it (or being so stupid this is the way he understood the joke) do that first person have to apologize? Let’s not pretend for a while that we are all ignorant, please. Everybody outside USA sees us in this way!!!
The joke was about our smart President!
Bat One

Goon,

Thanks for the support, Sir! And I’m sure the Swifties thank you as well.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

I am shocked that nobody in the USA can take a joke anymore??

We can both take and recognize jokes. Apparently that is a skill that you lack.

Are we all so stupid and we all like to be manipulated, by republicans?

Who is manipulating who again?

Because somebody tells a joke and somebody else interpret that joke the way he wants it (or being so stupid this is the way he understood the joke) do that first person have to apologize?

You’re stupid. (Relax! It’s just a joke.)

Let’s not pretend for a while that we are all ignorant, please. Everybody outside USA sees us in this way!!!

Who cares? Have you checked out the rest of the world lately? Good grief.

The joke was about our smart President!

Is that so! Why do you talk like a fool!? You’re stupid! That was a just a joke!!
Bat One

Meanwhile, FNC’s Brett Baier reports that the White House is again taking the unusual step of releasing the full text of a speech to be delivered this evening, this time by VP Dick Cheney, in which Cheney says that Senator Kerry was for the joke about education and Iraq before he was against it.

Kerry’s mot has become the sole public focus going into next week’s mid-term elections. Not in Karl Rove’s wildest dreams…
2Hotel9

Bezu, hope you don’t mind, I am firing that joke off to a whole bunch of people.
2Hotel9

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Now that is funny on so many levels.
Resident

You’ve just demonstrat me what I said …you are stupid and ignorant ) .Thank you!!!
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You know, education, if you make the most of it,
if you study hard and you do your homework, and
you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can
do well. If you dont, you get stuck in Iraq.

Sgt…read that again and tell me how Kerry isn’t talking about the military being made up of school droup-outs.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

for the drooling knuckle draggers that need Kerrys statement translated

he was telling the students if they don’t get a life, society has room for cannon fodder.

LEt’s go back to the quote:

You know, education, if you make the most of it,
if you study hard and you do your homework, and
you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can
do well. If you dont, you get stuck in Iraq.

I think he’s being pretty clear. If you don’t do your homework you end up in the military with the rest of the dummies.

By the way, Sgt…are you a real Sgt. or just pretend?

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