Tuesday, October 31, 2006
What to make of today's Kerry flap?
Kerry, while campaigning in California for Phil Angelides: “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.”
Inevitable Bush response: “The men and women who serve in our all-volunteer armed forces are plenty smart and are serving because they are patriots — and Senator Kerry owes them an apology.”
John McCain, Tony Snow pile on…
And Kerry comes back, saying his original remarks were part of a “botched joke” that had been distorted by “assorted right-wing nut jobs and right-wing talk show hosts," and adding: "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.”
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posted by Dawkins : 10/31/2006 10:55:00 PM
Inevitable Bush response: “The men and women who serve in our all-volunteer armed forces are plenty smart and are serving because they are patriots — and Senator Kerry owes them an apology.”
John McCain, Tony Snow pile on…
And Kerry comes back, saying his original remarks were part of a “botched joke” that had been distorted by “assorted right-wing nut jobs and right-wing talk show hosts," and adding: "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.”
More.
posted by Dawkins : 10/31/2006 10:55:00 PM
