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John Kerry Responds to Republican Distortions, Pathetic Tony Snow Diversions and Distractions from W

Cross posted from The Democratic Daily:

The right wing nut-jobs are full of Hot Air today as they attempt their latest attack on John Kerry.

My DD

We are supposed to be upset about this why, exactly? Kerry gets by far the better line in both versions. As I discussed in the “turnout myths” post back on Monday, Kerry’s vicious counter-assault will only help us with our base. That really seems to be what is happening here since, as Steve Gillard notes, Kerry’s fantastic, vicious response is getting as much play as any accusations against him. This is not even to mention that Kerry’s strange line about kids struggling in the educational system “get stuck in Iraq” might as well be left-wing code every bit as much as Dred Scott is for theocons, since it brings up clear echoes of Vietnam and a looming draft. That’s how people ended up in Vietnam, and a lot of people are noticing the similarities between Iraq and Vietnam these days anyway.

Fire Dog Lake

Oh, the horror. Except for one thing — the truth of the matter is that we are not winning in Iraq, and that the President knows it when he lies to the faces of his hand-picked, fervent crowds.  President Bush — still lying to himself, still lying to the public about Iraq.  Isn’t it high time we held him accountable for it?

Bring it On

Kerry, in a stunning display of what made him a crappy Presidential candidate, answered not only “no,” but “hell no” to an apology. He said his statement was the product of a bad joke and he railed, quite rightfully, about how the calls for an apology were nothing more than a diversionary tactic to change the subject away from Team Ineptitude’s record and toward his misstatement. Clearly, much of his ire, deservedly so, bubbled from the heinous treatment he got from the Swiftboaters during his time on the electoral hot seat. But as far as it went, it was a good speech that showed some of the fire Democrats must display in order to shed their well-deserved title as the wimps of the political world.

Oliver Willis

This is what the media and the right don’t seem to get. Whenever Bush attacks Democrats in order to shore up his base, it energizes Democrats as well. These things don’t happen in a vacuum. In the past, Bush could go on Limbaugh and it wouldn’t come up on the radar, but now there are people actually monitoring this media and the president doesn’t get to send out a dog-whistle to the rubes.

JABBS

Kerry Was Wrong, But Response From Bush, Radio Ranters Was Plenty Wrong, Too

John Kerry was wrong.

His series of jokes at the president’s expense, including one that suggested those unable to navigate the country’s education system “get stuck in Iraq,” were ill-timed and unnecessary.

On the eve of an election — in which Kerry’s seat is not in play — the junior Senator from Massachusetts gave the media, the conservative media and the White House a day to talk about nothing but his stupid comments. He gave the Republicans a chance for one day, and probably more, to talk about something other than the Iraq War, that Osama Bin Laden is still at large, the Mark Foley scandal, or any number of other more pressing issues.

KOS Diary entry

OLBERMANN - BUSH IS TOO STUPID TO KNOW WHEN SOMEONE CALLS HIM STUPID - UPDATED!!!
by jaybeck - kos Diary
BUSH IS TOO STUPID TO KNOW WHEN SOMEONE CALLS HIM STUPID!!!!Let’s all remember this simple meme. I know that everyone is sick to death of hearing about the Kerry brush-up today and the idiot in chief’s response, but it is important that we all are ready for the next news cycle if this unfortunate non-story lasts

The fact that dude wants to quote Keith Olberfart tells me everything I need to know.

The Democratic Daily 

General Claudia Kennedy Defends Veteran John Kerry Against GOP Attacks
Posted by Pamela Leavey

The firestorm over John Kerry’s comment yesterday that was BLOWN way out of proportion and distorted into an slight against the troops, who were by the way NEVER mentioned, continues.

Kerry opened his speech at Pasadena City College with several one-liners, saying at one point that Bush had lived in Texas but now “lives in a state of denial.”

He then said: “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.”

Excuse me, but let’s get something straight — this major distortion, this major distraction is pure and simple the work of the Republican Noise Machine.

Ryan’s Take

Right-shmight, who cares about what’s right and wrong, so long as it’s truthy and the Herald is a tabloid. Hack pieces are par for the course in the pages of the Boston Herald. The truth is anathema to the Herald’s agenda (profits and shilling). Why report the news when you can piss lots of black ink on political careers, valid critiques or not?

Still, I try to hold out some hope that a “newspaper” will try to have a little bit more credibility than Rush Limbaugh talking about stem cell research. Alas, I repeatedly set myself up for disappointment. People have often asked why I bother reading the Boston Herald. I usually tell them “to know what my enemies are thinking,” but sometimes I think I must be a masochist.

I just love liberals…

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 at 11:30 am and is filed under Blog Watch, Liberal Education, Angry Liberals.
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