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    John Kerry Press Conference

    Way to go John Kerry, you may have not meant it, but, you insulted the Military:

    "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. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq," he said
    And then tried to say that it was a joke, & rather than apoligize, he came out swinging.... By the way, if it was a joke, it was not very funny
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    Kerry's Reloads in Dogfight Over Snipe at Troops in Iraq

    Tuesday , October 31, 2006

    WASHINGTON — An attack on President Bush's Iraq policy by Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry erupted into a verbal dogfight Tuesday between the failed 2004 Democratic presidential candidate and administration spokesman Tony Snow, who Kerry called a "stuffed suit White House mouthpiece."

    "I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and his broken policy," Kerry told reporters in a press conference in Seattle. "My statement yesterday, and the White House knows this full-well, was a botched joke about the president and the president's people and not about the troops."

    "Shame on them, shame on them," Kerry said of the Bush administration, which he charged is afraid to debate "real men."

    "I am sick and tired of a bunch of despicable Republicans who will not take responsibility for their own mistakes. Enough is enough. We are not going to stand for this," he said. "The American people are going to take this to the polls next Tuesday."

    The bitter words for the administration were sparked as a result of Kerry's own comments a day earlier to a group of students at Pasadena City College.

    "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. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq," he said.

    That remark spread like wildfire across the World Wide Web.

    A half-mocking Snow told reporters at the daily White House briefing Tuesday that Kerry's comments are emblematic of his disdain for the military.

    "What Sen. Kerry ought to do first is apologize to the troops," Snow told reporters Tuesday, referring to a comment Kerry made a day earlier while campaigning in California for gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides.

    "The clear implication here is, if you flunk out, if you don't study hard, if you don't do your homework, if you don't make an effort to be smart, and you don't do well you, quote, 'Get stuck in Iraq,'" Snow said.

    "An extraordinary thing has happened since Sept. 11, which is a lot of people, America's finest, have willingly agreed to volunteer their services in a mission that they know is dangerous but is also important," he added.

    Kerry said in making his "botched joke," he was referring to the administration's failure to study Iraq and its decision to go to war. He said he learned the Republican campaign strategy playbook "deep and hard" and won't let Republicans get away with distorting his record, the way he claims was done to him in the 2004 presidential race.

    "If anyone thinks that a veteran, someone like me, who's been fighting my entire career to provide for veterans, to fight for their benefits, to help honor what their service is, if anybody thinks that a veteran would somehow criticize more than 140,000 troops serving in Iraq and not the president and his people who put them there, they're crazy," he said.

    The latest round is just the latest of several nasty proxy battles between Democratic and Republican leaders in the run-up to next Tuesday's election.

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    Earlier in the day, a defiant Kerry fired back at criticism, declaring in a statement that he wasn't about to be cowed by Snow's response.

    In "response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts," Kerry accused his opponents of distorting his comments to divert attention from what he called a dismal record on Iraq.

    "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," Kerry said. "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."

    Snow countered, asking reporters whether Democratic veterans who are running for office, like Jim Webb in Virginia and Tammy Duckworth in Illinois, really want to stand up next to Kerry.

    Republican Sen. John McCain, who, like Kerry, is a decorated Vietnam veteran and potential rival to Kerry should both decide to run in 2008, said in a statement that Kerry "owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country's call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education."

    House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, also called on Kerry to apologize, labeling his comments "disrespectful and insulting to the men and women serving in our military."

    But Kerry said McCain "ought to ask for an apology from (Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld for the mistakes he's made. John McCain should ask for an apology for not sending enough troops" to Iraq.

    Angelides is far behind in his bid to unseat Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and retired Gen. Wesley Clark suggested Kerry's remarks are not helpful to Democrats in general.

    "I can not explain anything John Kerry said," said Clark, who also ran for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. Clark added that he's spoken to military leaders about the next troop rotation coming. "They tell me the troops are ready. The families are ready back here. They know what they're facing. It's the best army we've ever had."

    As the march to Election Day draws to an end, the close nature of the race for the congressional majority has led to an increasingly nasty tit-for-tat among candidates and their proxies.

    In a separate match-up, Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, who would be on tap to take the top post in the House tax-writing panel should Democrats win the House majority next Tuesday, called Vice President Dick Cheney a "son of a bitch" after the vice president said Rangel would raise taxes as head of the Ways and Means Committee.

    "Charlie has said there's not a single one of the Bush tax cuts he thinks should be extended. And he could achieve that objective simply by not acting. Unless there's an affirmative action by Congress, legislation passed to keep those rates low, those rates are going back up, and he'd have a massive tax increase," Cheney told FOX News' Neil Cavuto on Monday.
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    Now that's what I'm talking about! a 'man' who says something wrong and won't own up to it! now THATS who we need running our country!!

    " "I am sick and tired of a bunch of despicable Republicans who will not take responsibility for their own mistakes. Enough is enough. We are not going to stand for this," he said. "The American people are going to take this to the polls next Tuesday." "

    Despicable?? i think it is despicable that he is degrading the men and women who are in Iraq fighting for his freedom, and name-calling? sounds like a child to me. and who gives a .... if he is a veteran? he was probably drafted...and just because you served in the military, doesn't mean you're automatically a good person.

    " But Kerry said McCain "ought to ask for an apology from (Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld for the mistakes he's made. John McCain should ask for an apology for not sending enough troops" to Iraq. "

    So in other words...Boo!! Bad War!!! Send more troops?? what a schmuk.
    Someone is in the D-O-G H-O-U-S-E!! and they're right....people WILL take this to the polls ;)
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    Here's a video clip of the statement. Didn't look like he was trying to be funny.

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    No not at all, he is a flip flopper and an eliteist. Which is why he said what he did. Just like Bubba when he got caught with Monica it is Deny Deny Deny. No worries, this country will not elect a Democrat to run this country. Kerry should be ashamed of himself.
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    The man is an ass.... I bet he couldn't do half the stuff the military has to do. There are many complex tasks the military has to undertake. Many of them I'm sure even with a college degree some people still couldn't do what they do. Face it to be elected to office you need to score real low on an IQ test.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JennyPie
    Despicable?? i think it is despicable that he is degrading the men and women who are in Iraq fighting for his freedom, and name-calling? sounds like a child to me. and who gives a .... if he is a veteran? he was probably drafted...and just because you served in the military, doesn't mean you're automatically a good person.
    He wasn't drafted, btw.
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    Kerry is just a jerk just like all the other left wing Democrap politicians out there. They need to grow up and face the real world!
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    Quote Originally Posted by nwafan20
    Kerry is just a jerk just like all the other left wing Democrap politicians out there. They need to grow up and face the real world!
    You can't just include Democratic politicians; Republican politicians are doing the same thing. People like to believe they're different, when, in reality, they're just the same thing under different brands. Making a rash generalization like that really shows some things about yourself as well. Also, calling them Democrat politicians and not using the actual word: "democratic", pretty much gives away your bias as well.

    Also, ABC is reporting that Kerry was apparently talking about Bush and not the military. I'm not sure who I believe, but it actually does make a little more sense.
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    I hate to take back an opportunity to attack Kerry, but after listening to his defense and then listening to what he said again, I think it actually was a poorly phrased reference to Bush as the dumb guy stuck in Iraq, not a diss on our troops. I know Kerry loves to attack our armed forces, accusing them of such things as widespread torture of Iraqi women and children, I also know he's a poor speaker, especially when he's trying to be funny, and this statement is an example of that.
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    Message from the Troops for John Kerry

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    hahahaha that's funny Mike!! where did you get it?

    btw....it's about time he finaly apologized!!
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    i dont think he was a reference to the troops, more to the president. Im glad someone is putting the useless republicans in their place.

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    Now, i don't think you have to call Repulican's useless.....do you really truely mean that? everyone is entitled to how they feel....well, at least that's how ADULTS look at it :lol:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hyder
    i dont think he was a reference to the troops, more to the president. Im glad someone is putting the useless republicans in their place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hyder
    i dont think he was a reference to the troops, more to the president. Im glad someone is putting the useless republicans in their place.
    Well he apologized if he offended the troops so at the least it certainly came out the wrong way.

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