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Kristofer
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all seriousness now. i was playing devils advocate before. What he said was wrong and inappropriate. If he hadnt said worse before I'd be more offended. I know it is inevitable for me to go to Iraq. So to me. Its him calling me dumb. As a Senator who represents my state. It makes us look even worse. Especially when the President said "That senator from Massachusetts".
Then you need to think. Who said the comment. Senator John Kerry. Couldnt expect anything else from him. no sense in being offended. So I've decided. No reason to take offense when he says it. He is a fool to begin with. But he should apologize and say whatever he had ment to say if he had ment to say something else. |
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Badsmitty
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Wow, smell the testosterone. All of this patriotchismo just makes me want to re-enlist so I can wear crappy armor, drive a humvee into places where M1 Abrams are getting blown onto their tops and know while I'm caught in a civil war between about a hundred different tribal factions, some lunkhead at home is mad at the Dixie Chicks while sporting a yellow magnet ribbon on his car and getting all bent out of shape over something like this. And as for those of you vets who want to hate on TKD for his opinion and want to get all morally superior about how you with your military service cloaked in its heavenly backlighting somehow gives him the right to speak crack me up. |
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Clark Kent
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Agreed - not particularly funny either way. But this is John Kerry we are talking about, after all. |
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RicWhic414
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I don't see how either of them are funny, I guess Im not educated
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Clark Kent
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That's what Kerry said on Imus too - he forgot to say "us". Not sure I buy it. But I still don't see how any version of this statement can be twisted into an attack on the military. That just makes no sense. |
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RicWhic414
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/kerry.remarks/index.h tml
He said: "You know, education -- if you make the most of it, you study hard and 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."A Kerry aide said the senator was supposed to say, "I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq." Edited by RicWhic414 - 01 November 2006 at 3:41pm |
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FlimFlam
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Not "others", YOU. Just playing by the rules you play by. And no, I DON'T know what he intended. I think he said what he intended. I think if we were not in an election cycle, no apology would have been issued. Kerry just screwed up by opening his mouth during the biggest Democratic quiet periord so far this year. I GUARANTEE the apology was not his idea... |
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RicWhic414
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he said he wasn't going to apologies, because it was a "joke" at the pres
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Clark Kent
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Kerry is a tool and is now trying to cover himself any way he can. I don't believe any of his "apologies" or explanations any more than I believe the GOP spin on the issue. Edited by Clark Kent - 01 November 2006 at 3:26pm |
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RicWhic414
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he said he was making a joke at the pres. i dont know if any of you have heard what he said but it doesnt really sound like a joke at the pres. to me... I think he should re-run for pres.
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Clark Kent
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I just had a conversation with a friend of mine where this came up. His theory - there are some things that you are just not allowed to be critical about, not even a little bit. These include, but are not limited to: - 9/11 Firefighters - Rosa Parks - The US military His reason for why this is? He theorizes that there is just enough truth in those criticisms to make us cringe. Society doesn't like to think that it is disproportionately sending its poor and uneducated off to die, so instead we make unassailable heroes out of them. Kind of a defense mechanism. Interesting theory, I think. |
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Tae Kwon Do
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I will let you show me where the words 'either' and 'or' were used in the quote first.
Right. The other debate using misrepresented and misinterpreted statements suck as well. "But others do it" = Not a good excuse. You know good and well what he intended, but would rather not admidt to it. |
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RicWhic414
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good god your so smart
Anyways john kerry completely screwed the democratic party. I can see the momentum changing hands, all he had to do was shut his mouth |
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Gatyr
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I'll coattail, because everything that has needed to have been said has been said. I was expressing my feelings on how people like the person I quoted can feel the way they do after explanation after explanation has been given to them. |
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FlimFlam
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I'm sorry, I don't follow. Let me quote it again, in case you missed it the first time:
That's an either or quote there. Please show me where the third option is in there... And don't play me this crap about what he meant, or intended. There's plenty of debate on this forum about other misrepresented, misinterpreted, taken out of context and outright false quotes of political leaders on both sides. His quote was elitist, condescending, and just plain ugly. It's what I expect from most politicians, right or left. |
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Predatorr
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Tae Kwon Do
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RicWhic414
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sorry TKD i was just typing fast but good job looking passed what I said and just going to the grammar because I forgot this is a English class
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Predatorr
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Example- my journalism teacher talked about how the journalists in iraq were having just as much to worry about and were feeling the same things as solderis. I flipped out, there's no way you can compare a journalist to a soldier, there just isn't. Prime example being that the enemy isn't specifically targeting journalists embedded in a unit. If you'd like to argue that they're just as big a target, then give them the same gear as our soldiers. |
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Tae Kwon Do
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What grade do you learn about double negatives? I think it was somewhere around 4th-5th. |
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