Why don’t thoses outraged by his comments ask Bush why his daughters have not enlisted--does that mean they are unpatriotic?.
All 5 of Winston Churchill’s children served during WWII.

This is such a stupid arguement.....Did LBJ send his daughters?  Did Clinton send his daughter to Somalia.......Volunteer means volunteer.  It doesn’t mean you only volunteer if your a Rep. President who sends the military to war.

This reminds me of Bill Maher’s “New Rules”.
Here is my “New Rule”, don’t call someone who served their country in Vietnam a traitor if you are not will to serve your country or send your own children into the current conflict

Millionaire Bill Maher?  What branch of the military did he serve in?  I am sick of rich guys like him criticizing others for doing the same things he does....live life large and without any risk to himself while criticizing others who have the power and authority he doesn’t.

Kerry is Bush’s cousin they are on the same boat.

Just to add, if I’m allowed, to previous remarks: I hope all heard Olbermann this evening, as he lit into the Bushies as I don’t think he quite has before. Indeed, where IS the apology to troops from this damnable crew, who demonstrate everyday nothing but contempt for all but members of their oil-sodden class! I hope TD will post Olbermann’s scathing demand for an apology from Bush, and that after reading or hearing all will write Olbermann at “countdown@msnbc.com” to send him some love. Olbermann is the ONLY one in mainstream media to be putting morality ahead of his career, in case anyone thinks his job isn’t likely in danger (recalling MSNBC’s unceremonious dismissal of Donohue). Send him your regards, your words of appreciation. Better yet, send remarks to MSNBC management, lest you discover Keith no longer there before much longer.

Note to John Kerry;

Americans DO NOT comprehend “irony.”

Remember this next time, if ever, you’re allowed to speak in public.

Positively Rovean - another straw man, non-issue ratched up by the GOP to rally around. Let’s forget about Iraq, WMD’s, illegal immigration, deficits, health care, job losses and the unquestioned disintegration of the middle class and attack a meaningless remark by someone who isn’t even running for office. Wake up America, its almost too late, hold these fools accountable. Impeach them all. It’s time for a 21st century Nuremburg trial. They should all be serving hard time for treason. We’re way past incompetence. Follow the money and clean out the barn in DC.

Bush is right that Kerry shoud apologize which he has .
However, the one that owes an apology to our service people is the arrogant spoiled brat that sent them into harms way without enough troops or personal armament and no occupation or exit plan who refused to even consider changing tactics as was required until election time, who has refused to fire the incompetent Rumsfeld, has kept soldiers beyond their discharge dates and sends Cheney who refused to serve one moment in the service of his country to speak to soldiers and veteran groups and who is an ass for thing that another dead soldier will honor any of those whose death he caused by playing politics other then causing grief to another family.
That is the one that owes an apology to the soldiers as well as all of humanity

Kerry did it again.  Why doesn’t this site put out his comments?  What a disgrace to our country and to the military personnel.  He isn’t fit to be a dogcatcher, let along a member of such a distinguished body, the senate.
He should just quietly slip into the cesspool, where he already lives.  What do all you Nam guys think about this B/S?

The man has apologized for his “botched” joke and stated so!

Further, by the white house using same in ads, petition and promotion of the election........that is SICK! They really need a therapist.  I think we all have more IMPORTANT issues burning, Iraq!

Most Sincerely
Mother of US Special Forces Soldier
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John Kerry speaks the truth.  It is refreshing to see that (this time) the right-wing attack machine is not only ineffective, it is backfiring.  Most of America has come to realize that the emperor has no clothes, despite the ever louder protests of his subjects.

I feel it was not a good thing for Kerry to say politically but he is closer to the truth than many would like to admit. Why don’t thoses outraged by his comments ask Bush why his daughters have not enlisted--does that mean they are unpatriotic?.
All 5 of Winston Churchill’s children served during WWII.

This reminds me of Bill Maher’s “New Rules”.
Here is my “New Rule”, don’t call someone who served their country in Vietnam a traitor if you are not will to serve your country or send your own children into the current conflict.

Someone made the statement the Dems have no answers either, but since the GOP has no answer to the ending of the war, why not let the Dems in, after all this administration did more than go to war, the surplus is gone, the “Don’t increase taxes is really don’t take away the tax break for the well to do”, to lead this country way to the right about gay marriage and abortion is like putting the head in the sand when there are more important issues facing this country, of course abortion should never have been the hands of government and the issue of gay marriage could be left to the individual states because they are the government that hands out marriage certificates.  To go to the base may be important but also to keep the country is also important, what good is life if we are all led by an idea that most of the poeple do not go by.  After all not everyone is overly religious, and religion is also political.

Marge from Vancouver, Washington

Senator Kerry is an idiot.

He offered just the right phrase, taken out of context as Republicans joyously do, that sounds like he’s dissing the troops.  Rather like his flip-flop phrase going into 2004 election.

The reality is, Iraqi Vets are not Vietnam-era flunkies who couldn’t get education deferments from the Army draft - my neighbor served, he’s 40-something and he has a master’s degree - and EVERY ONE of the Iraqi Vets is a volunteer ... again, completely unlike Vietnam

when you give a public speech with media coverage, you ought consider how your remarks will be twisted by the other side.  if you tend to kill jokes (as Kerry does) you shouldn’t put them in your speech at all.  how flat is his learning curve?

Senator Kerry really is well-meaning, I’m convinced, but he is a true world-class light-weight when it comes to political phrasing, and he’d do democrats and the nation a favor if he’d just go hide on a wind-board until November 8th

now the radio/CNN/Fox spin is all about Kerry instead of the War In Iraq, Budget Disaster in the US, and unconstitutional power-grabbing by the executive branch of Bush/Cheney

hell-ov-a-job, Johnny K!

Trying to turn this on its head is what K. Rove is best at....distract with lies and inuendo. Its worked quite well for them so far. I guess the question is: Will it continue to influence people as they go to the voting booth? Are we still a country atleast half made up of boobs who can’t see this kind of political muck for what it is? Are we going to let bu$h and co. off the hook for having the hubris to even suggest that its Kerry who needs to apologize ? When it was those gaggle of chicken-hawks who lied us into this mess in the first place ? Or are we finally as discusted with it as John Kerry .

This comment is for john (comment 35862)...Why is it when neocons have no way to rebut any statement that is not favorable to their cause they revert to anti-Clintonism...You are right that Bill Clinton was not a national guard pseudo-aviator kept out of the military by his daddy’s money… I am glad Kerry has finally learned to fight back against all the BS being slung by Karl Rove and all his paid pundits.  Unlike our current administration Clinton had no vendetta to settle at the expense of Middle-class Americans or pretending to cut taxes for all when they really benefited his wel-to-do buddies.  Maybe the reason you don’t hear any Democratic ideas is because your eyes and ears are clogged with right-wing crap...Read and listen to something other than Fox news or the Washing Times and get your head out of your apparently limited mentality with regards to what is happening to this country.

Main issue = IRAQ

OBL alive = Afghanistan (remember that war)

Soldiers DEAD = Incompetent War Plan

Soldiers DEAD = Lied to about WMD (info suppressed)

Soldiers DEAD = NIE Report reflects we are spreading the terror. (more info suppressed)

Soldiers DEAD = reasons keep moving around why we are at war from one month to the next.

Soldiers DEAD = repeat same house cleaning of same towns, just a different month, no progress.

Soldiers DEAD = Americans told LIES of New Tactics, none exist.

Soldiers DEAD = Unable to tell WHO is the enemy, as they change by day and night

Soldiers DEAD = Not correct Equipment

Soldiers DEAD = Not enough troops

Soldiers DEAD = given IMPOSSIBLE tasks

Soldiers DEAD = weapons lost

Soldiers DEAD = conditions on the ground are Civil War, WAKE UP America!

Soldiers DEAD = General Westmoreland management style...lie and lie and lie some more.

Soldiers DEAD = Bush in denial.

Soldiers DEAD = generals afraid of lost retirement benefits.

Soldiers DEAD = Are Republican Members in WH and congress making $$$$$$$$ from defense companies and OFF of the WOUNDED and the DEAD!

Soldiers DEAD = Are K Street Lobby Boys Profiting from the wounded and the dead soldiers.

Soldiers DEAD = American Oil Companies report record profits from Iraq.

Soldiers DEAD = War being run by “politics”

Soldiers DEAD = Spreading terrorists around the world by sitting in Iraq through want to bees using same as a training camp.

Soldiers DEAD = Saddam gets back at Bush Family through 11/2000 statement “ no oil sold in US Dollars” when Bush was elected. This is what you get when Bush gets elected!

So bottom line “ soldiers LIVES are expendable to this current POWER CONTROL in the USA, Republicans “!

I have one more thing to say about John Kerry’s statement.  The man can’t tell a joke!  But at least he can acknowledge when he’s made a mistake and his mistake, while it may have hurt the feelings of those who didn’t hear the whole story, or offended those who chose to misunderstand, DID NOT kill anyone.  It was poor judgement in a campaign speech, unlike the ongoing mistakes and poor judgement of G.W. Bush & company, which contributed directly to the deaths of 104 American soldiers in October, and who knows how many innocent women and children in Iraq.  Now,
whom would you rather have running the country?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/world/middleeast/ 01military.html?hp&ex=1162443600&en=ae294d1d13aed18 8&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Clinton, as mentioned below, was a draft-dodger, and a Democrat.  Also of interest, he was against the war in Vietnam. So, like quite a few others, he found a way to stay safe.  I was against the war too.  But like John Kerry, I went anyway; and, like John Kerry, I made sure I was in a combat role (Huey Crew-chief, 1st Cav).  So I understand the ambiguity of his experience.  The bottom line for me is, he was there, whatever the uncertainties of his role as put forward by Republicain-paid ‘informers’.  The Republicains also managed to buy some unflattering testimony as to Senator McCain’s service.  What they cannot buy is their own absence from history.  Bush (the younger) was in favor of the war in Vietnam.  Where was he during those long years?  As far as I know, Colin Powell was the only member of this administration who ever exposed his ass to combat; and Colin Powell was also the only member of the administration to question the program of Rumsfield and the neo-conservative clique.  So, after being roundly humiliated—obliged to defend the entry into war before the UN, armed with the shoddiest of dossiers.

No one who was not there can have anything whatsoever to say about those who were.  We certainly don’t all have the same reading of our experience.  But we were there, whatever our beliefs.  Those who weren’t ... well let me say, those who weren’t do not surprise me by their lack of pudeur.  I wouldn’t expect (or desire) any respect from this sort of individual.

Oh so our beautiful young men and women in our military front lines are Ivy leaguers.  I think not Most right out of high school and cannot fund going on to college usless they become indebted for the next ten years of their working lives.  Try that and a family too.  Think of how many could go to college on the dollars already spent on the dustruction of Iraq.  So was Kerry wrong or just Politically Incorrect in his presentation of the truth.

This is to the “John” that asked if we want John Kerry, Hilary Clinton, Howard Dean, etc running the country.
Yes I do, and any other sane, intelligent, thoughtful human beings that are willing to take the job of fixing everything that the greedy, aging fratboys and their own personal Rasputin have broken in the last six years, or at least put a stop to the violence being done to our constitution and national idenity until 2008 when the real changes can begin.  VOTE, democrats and independants, and disaffected republicans, VOTE.  Help fix our broken government.

I forgot to list racism and bigotry in my previous comment as being among the crises we face at home.  I might add that I’m heartened to see that so many people are revolted.  Where I tend to disagree is that I don’t think our “salvation” lies with most incumbants.  I wonder if it is even remotely possible that any wise, sympathetic person could represent us in government without him/herself soon becoming arrogant and corrupt.  Maybe term limits are the answer.  There has to be a place in a democracy for people of reason and wisdom to legislate and who put the needs of their constituentcy ahead of their own or of the rich.  And I think there is no shortage of smart, principled people in non-rich classes in America who could do the job quite well.  Many of them read Truthdig. R. Roth

We live in a country which is in a state of denial, about a number of issues.  We have a president who lied, and sent our troops off to be killed in Iraq.  But no apology or accountability has been demanded by many Americans, for the actions of Bush.  Then along comes John Kerry and speaks the truth on a subject that most of us say in our minds, but do not speak out loud.  And that is that the military is the only opportunity for educational advancement for thousands and thousands of our kids.  The second truth is that many in power purposefully keep it that way, by not making college affordable, so that thousands and thousands are required to turn to the military for those opportunities.  Why does not someone question this administration as to why they are now trying to out source our killing by giving those from India the fast track to eligibility in America if they will agree to go into the military?  So much to clean up in America. So very, very much!

I also cannot help but notice that Truthdig.com only reported the Kerry response not the Kerry comment and it was reported only on the side of the site NOT as the main article on the front of the site. HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Republic draft dodgers?  What branch of the military did Clinton serve in while he was in England during the Vietnam war.  Kerry is not to be believed because the very men he served with in Nam exposed him for what he is. 
Just a small suggestion to John Kerry.....you lost the election (no it wasn’t stolen from you) so you should except it and move on. (as in moveon.org). 
To be honest I have been thinking about voting for Democracts in the upcoming election but everytime I think I might one of them opens their month and its never to tell me what they would do to change things.  Its to blame Bush for every problem in the history of the world and then again to offer ZILCH for solutions.  H. Clinton, Kennedy, Dean, Kerry.....are these the people we really want to run our county?

.  The only reason it is not a good moment for the democratic party is because they are backing away from him.  The party shouldn’t distant themselves from him.  They should think of it like what they said about Terry Shavio and stop allowing the administration to physic them out.  Don’t let them divide you.  I understand what he said and the Republican party is too stupid or think we are in knowing he was talking about the President.

Rush Limbaugh is an obese impotent junkie on loan from God reporting the news and influencing like minded people.  Tony Snow is Bush’s mouth piece who mimics the President with clever disguised talking points.  John McCain was emasculated by the administration years ago and is too intimidated not agree with them.

HOORAY FOR KERRY.!!!  John Kerry doesn’t need to apologize to anyone.

.  The only reason it is not a good moment for the democratic party is because they are backing away from him.  The party shouldn’t distant themselves from him.  They should think of it like what they said about Terry Shavio and stop allowing the administration to physic them out.  Don’t let them divide you.  I understand what he said and the Republican party is too stupid or think we are in knowing he was talking about the President.

Rush Limbaugh is an obese impotent junkie on loan from God reporting the news and influencing like minded people.  Tony Snow is Bush;s mouth piece who mimics the President with clever disguised talking points.  John McCain was emasculated by the administration years ago and is too intimidated not agree with them.

HOORAY FOR KERRY.!!!  John Kerry doesn’t need to apologize to anyone.

Good for you John.  At least you know something about war.  Hate hearing someone talk about war who was hiding instead of going to do his duty.
My husband, brother, son nephews have all been in the service and yes they were in Vietnam and Iraq.

I applaud you.

WHAT HAPPENED TO LIARS & LIES REGARDING “WMD”?

Our current US administration has us in this disaster & terrible war in Iraq that is draining America dry for “Israel’s Strategic Objectives.”

Yes, its all for Israel!!! This administration’s staff & foreign policy team are a gang of liars.

Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld and the gang of Zionist Jews at the Pentagon (Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Eliot Abrams, William Kristol, David Wurmser, Ari Fleischer, Scooter Libby, Michael Chertoff & more lied about Iraq and its WMD’s.

Look at where we are right now. We are in a disaster, chaos, destruction called the Iraq war. Look at how many innocent civilian lives have been killed in the past 3.5 years. Look at how many US military deaths, almost 3000, and over 20,000 injured.

The Iraq war is costing the US taxpayers about $10 billion dollars a month. So far it has cost us over $350 billion dollars & no close end in site.

All for because of the above mentioned liars & lies. Where are the “WMD’s”? Why are the liars immune from the outrage of the American people.

Where are the liars, Zionist Jews, of the Pentagon working now? They are not in the Pentagon; they have slipped out under the cover of darkness. They have accomplished their objectives. Send Americans to Iraq...for lies about WMD’s. The liars are getting richer & have prestigious jobs & positions. Why are they no accountable for their damn lies?

Most Americans don’t know these facts:

- Which country in the Middle-East has secret undeclared Nuclear Weapons?

- Which country in the Middle-East has undeclared stopiles of Chemical & Biological weapons?

- Which country in the Middle-East has no outside inspections of its nuclear & chemical facilities/factories?

- Which country in the Middle-East has kidnapped & jailed its whistle blower, Mordechai Vanunu?

IT IS NOT IRAQ!!! IT IS NOT IRAN!!!

You might have guessed it...ITS ISRAEL!!!

How come that we never hear about Israel’s “WMD’s” on our zionist controlled mainstream US news media?

Why are the American people letting our damn liars off the hook?

Lets bring our troops home & end this disaster. Lets remind the liars of their evil deeds & intensions.

Lets Vote the liars out of office!!!

I listened to Kerry’s initiating remarks on TV, and had a different take from anything I’ve read about them by everyone — including himself!.  I heard no “botched joke,” let alone what the rabid reactionary right-wing rhetoric claims.  He didn’t say that the U.S. military consists of educational failures.  What I heard (even after several hearings) was that educational failures (for lack of decent employment prospects on the home front) would likely end up in the military along with all the others who may very well be educationally and otherwise successful, and are serving out of free, positive, and patriotic choice.  I heard from Kerry an admonition to his listeners to “stay the course” in school, lest they end up, willy-nilly, as canon fodder in our little hand-picked War of the Worlds. 

What a strange double-exposure and deja vu that once again, on some flimsy, high-sounding pretext from those in power, Daddy Warbucks (the Shadow of Uncle Sam) rakes in millions while brave and idealistic youth, the best of our nation, “die like dogs” on foreign shores.  As we really know, peace begins within — where truth may be heard.

The fact of the matter is that what Kerry said is true.  Many kids who don’t have the opportunity, the grades, or the money to attend college are wooed into the military as an alternative career path, so they do, in fact, wind up in Iraq...doing the bidding of an administration, an administration which doesn’t send it’s own children to fight.  If this was such a righteous war, such as World War 2, they would send their own, but not to Iraq.  I am only wondering when the Republicans will finally figure out that there is nothing more for our soldier to do there.  As it now stands, they are simply targets in a foreign land with no defined objectives.

Well, I guess that in order to grow a spine he had to borrow a significant amount of grey matter from his puny brain.  His “joke” about Bush was as impolitic, ill-timed, and moronic as any gaffe Dean committed while campaigning.  Here the Republicans are flailing about in the ocean, looking for the most slender of straws, and along comes this idiot with his “joke” about getting stuck in Iraq if you don’t get a decent education. 

Yeah, yeah, yeah...I know and you know what he really meant. 

The problem is that the Republicans don’t care what he REALLY meant, and you know and I know exactly how they will use this opportunity. 

Well, if you know and I know that...how come Kerry doesn’t know? 

Because he’s a stupid jerk, that’s why.

Who’d have thought that the October surprise” would end up being the mouth of a past Democratic presidential candidate?

Spine?  Go lower to find out what Kerry is growing.

Under Kerry’s present circumstances (e.g. nothing really to gain or lose), growing a spine when it no longer matters is a pretty spineless thing to do.

Pointless subterfuge and bully pulpit pap… We need more democrats to grow a spine.

I have noticed that time and time again when Bush’s policies are attacked that he hides behind the troops and insinuates that the critic is attacking the troops (rather than his policies). He is too cowardly to stand up for his policies on his own. Finally Kerry has called him on it ... yet the press did not report it specifically.

Of course Bush knew the true intent of Kerry’s words ... anyone would who listened to the content; not just the soundbite of the TV news. By purposefully mis-interpreting them, Bush himself (and others who repeated the manipulated story) insulted the troops, not Kerry. Bush thinks that this is a game .. he does not care if the troops are harmed by this political ploy. Bush is the one who should apologize. We should demand it. Call him on it ...make him accountable for once!

Saw Kerry on Bill Maher a few weeks ago looking tan, fit and well rested. He was articulate and I commented to a friend that it was too bad that John Kerry had not been around in 2004.  All day today I saw the old John Kerry at a stump speech looking tired and fumbleing for words, trying to be funny and hip before a crowd but his last zinger was so convoluted that when he finally got to the end and no one laughed, he didn’t have a clue. Of course he was not referring to the troops, anyone with a brain would know that. The R crowd of haflwits who are in control choose to make this their October Surprise by portraying the outraged righteous. Divide and conquer! The talking heads I’ve seen and heard today make me puke! 
Kerry responded appropriatlely.  McCain’s joining the group of jackels is one more example of his betrayal of some sane voice in this rabid mob. This man, among all the rest, knows that John Kerry was referring to the President but his backbone lusts after being King in 2008. He gets smaller with time.

Was in the mood for a good laugh and tuned into Hannity & Colmes this evening.  These republicans won’t even come close to acknowledging that Kerry was referring to Bush as the one who didn’t take his education seriously.  They’re parsing his language.

HOLY MOLY!  DESPERATION IS FUN TO WATCH!

I was so pleased to see Mr. Kerry get angry (and show it)!  Keep that up and we’ll all vote you in 08.  I am so burdened by the lies being told and the corruption in Washington!  Have all of us been sleeping at the switch?  Come on, America, let’s get better informed and leave the propaganda to the Repubs....they are so good at it!  They turn everything around and lie through their dentures!  Go, Kerry, go!

I am a US Soldier serving in Korea. I just wanted to comment on Senator Kerry’s thoughts about education. The comments that he made in regards to my brothers and sisters in arms- is insensitive and un-American. I have lost alot of friends and family to the wars our nations have fought. Telling kids to take education seriously or they will end up in Iraq is a direct slap in the face of all of those who have died in the name of freedom. There is no greater disrespect that could have been brought upon the US Soldier. Only because of the US Soldier a Senator has the freedom to go and say something so dumb. American people please understand what it is like to serve as a Soldier defending our great nation, always in harms way while you sleep comfortably in your beds. If you have never spent time in some third world country, defending people who could careless about you or what you stand for- then you don’t have the right too make idiotic comments, but until then remember that I’m an American Soldier, I’m a warrior and a member of a team. I SERVE THE PEOPLE OF UNITED STATES and I live the Army values!!! Mr. Kerry to put this in terms even the dumbest Soldier can understand- We defend a democracy that we are not a part of!!! P.S. Mr Kerry please never refer to yourself as a Veteran or a Soldier.

<yawn>…

Did the junior Senator from my state make a strong statement on something or other?  What was the count of qualifying adjectives, and did he furrow his brow just ever so sternly?

You know the old saw about putting a frog in cold water and bringing it to a boil?  Put Kerry in with the frog and the frog would survive.  He’d jump out before he got bored to death.  And ten minutes Later Kerry would be saying “Huh?  Where’d that frog go?”

Kerry tells the truth, what’s wrong with that and why would he apologize for it?

Bush and company didn’t tell the truth and launched war on false pretense. It’s bush and company that needs to apologize to the world.

Could the greatest fiction writer in the world create from imagination a more bizzare party than todays democrats? What could you possibly add to make these people come off as more anti American? Comments like Kerrys at somebody’s funeral or something?

Oh wait....

If the Dems let the Republican draft dodgers swift boat Kerry again they need to get beat.

I have a child in the military and I was not a Kerry fan, only voted for him because WTH was the alternative but...I’m a fan now or at least starting to be.

He did not insult service people.  He told a group of young people the %%&%# truth, this administration would love to use you as cannon fodder so be careful what you do.

As for his remarks re: Limpdork, you go John.  Tell that useless pile of pig feces to step off.

It’s true, is it not, that a large number of Americans fighting in Iraq to protect the interests of America’s rich come from families that live at or below poverty level or who otherwise have relatively few career options?  Remember the ad where the young Afro-American tells his Mom he’s found someone to pay for his college education? The U.S. Army. I have a dream:  People who really care about our democracy and the non-rich 95% of us finally realize that we have the power to make America our own and we don’t need self-serving, ignorant, arrogant, pilfering, professional Republican or Democrat attorneys determining our future.  People have to learn to listen, think for themselves, filter out bullshit, and, above, remember the past.  America has got to stop making war and start addressing the growing crises at home: poverty, health, education and an energy policy that eliminates dependence on foreign sources.  What of those have our elected officials addressed?  But $400 or $500 billion to protect the interests of America’s wealthy? No problem.  They vote Yea with the right hand while the left is accepting a favor from a lobbyist.

Keep it up Democrats—outraged truth telling is what people are hungry for. Let’s go, now’s the time. Keep filling the vacuum of empty attacks and misleading statements with righeous anger! Lead us, war heroes. Lead us, hereoes of the common man. Kerry, Edwards, Obama, whomever, grab the mantle—It’s lying at yor feet. Raise it high. Do not compromise. Get to work, GODDAMNIT!

Frankly I’m tired of these self-righteous, self-indulgent, and most likely made for the media Punch & Judy side shows.  Nearly 3000 US service personnel have lost their lives, and thousands more have had their lives irrevocably diminished with permanent injuries and disabilities, all due to the lies concocted by the Bush administration, and by the utter lack of courage and conviction, not to mention the stupidity and complicity, of anyone in Congress who voted in support of the Iraq invasion and who didn’t challenge the Bush administration on each and every one of its patently bogus assertions.  Kerry, and others who side with him in this latest example of pointless theater, is more than three years late in what he had to say, so the much ado about nothing rhetoric goes on as one of the worst months for casualties since the invasion comes to an end.

If - as seems likely - Kerry’s comment has to be responded to, let the local candidates do it. Kerry can’t. Better someone else defend him than he does it himself - he is constitutionally incapable of conveying enough sincerity to make an apology or a counterattack believable.

The only way the democrats win and stay in power is to call the Bush adminstration on the lies and deception that led us into this war in the first place. Bill Clinton fought back on fox news. And John Kerry finally found his balls two years later. The only apology that is needed is one from Bush Cheney and the rest of his cronies who led us in to this fiasco.

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I think its good that he’s standing up for himself, democrats don’t do nearly enough of that even in the face of ludicrous and false Republican claims.  But I think it would be even better for the democrats if he just talked less, I mean the timing of this is crazy, he must have known that kind of comment would raise a stink, why not wait until next week?

And I don’t think he should avoid apologizing because the republicans are purposely misinterpretting his statement. I think he meant what he said.  Because its true.  The american military is made up overwhelming of the poor often from minority groups.  Why is that?  Why are the powers that be, including the entire middle class, so willing to go to war and yet so unwilling to send their own children?  If none of your reprsentatives in congress have children in the military and very few have ever served, what right do they have to send others to die?  Even if the war is justified. 

I think america very much needs the debate Kerry was alluding to, but it can’t, because no one even wants to acknowledge the problem since its seen as an insult to the troops.

After seeing this I am reminded he had one of the most dangerous jobs in the Viet Nam war and showed a lot of courage doing it. Too bad he didn’t show the same fortitude in the failed election 2004. Maybe now his words will encourage other demopublicans to stand up to this bunch of jackal fascists.

Well done, Skipper!

Sen. Kerry was talking about the GOP not our soldiers. All it was, was a joke gone wrong. Well, not entirely wrong… I got the joke! ha!

Great to hear Kerry standing up to these AWOL GOP pigs.
The most blatant disrespect shown US troops was done by GW Bush when he laughingly looked for WMD inside the White House. He took a big crap on every life that was lost.
Kick AWOL Bush and his deferment buddies asses all over the floor.

Good for John Kerry, who’s finally said in plain terms what Democratic Party leaders (Hillary?) and so-called strategists are still too frightened to say. Speaking of perons STILL in need of spine implants! Instead of following Kerry’s lead, they’re doing that back-pedaling thing they do so well. That thing that allows the terror-mongering Republican attack machine to go on doing what it does so well, and which costs the Dems election after election. First Gore, now Kerry, both speaking up too late, thanks to Democratic Party strategists who think the road to victory is paved with never taking a discernable stand on any issue whatsoever. Hell, even Republicans know THAT doesn’t work, which is one reason they’re in control--knowing as they know that it matters not if they lie through their teeth, but exactly that they can get away with doing so because the opposition has no teeth at all.

Good for you Senator Kerry--you stood up to all those lying republicans!!Keep up the good work!!
If they are caught in their own lies all they do is cover it up with another batch of lies!! God bless you and God bless our troops and BRING THEM HOME NOW--why should another die for a lie!!

GREAT JOB, JOHN KERRY!!!

Do NOT apologize for this!!!

The greatest insult is of Bush and Company to our laws, to the lives of our kids over there, to the lies they have fed us over the years.

DO NOT BACK DOWN!!!!

Yours,

Akamai

Truly amazing to see a democrat responding to a GOP attack with any kind of muscle. Methinks the donkeys are not going to be told what to do any more. About time someone called Bush a liar.
Still, it’s the sort of massive howler that the GOP has been praying for for weeks now, especially after Mr Fox gave that perfect interview. They will run this one into the ground until Kerry mucks up the next one. What a loose cannon.

Who would have known?  Kerry does have cajones!

Way to call out the hypocritical Limbslob and the puppet Snow, Mr. Kerry. Maybe you shouldn’t have laid down so easily in ‘04. Rigged elections, media blackouts, Skull and Bones 322… It really is too bad you let your cousin steal the election.