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Kerry drops the "F-bomb"
2003-12-07
CURSING KERRY UNLEASHES FOULMOUTHED ATTACK ON BUSH
By DEBORAH ORIN
Struggling 2004 Democratic wannabe John Kerry the haughty, French-looking Massachusetts senator who once served in Vietnam fires an X-rated attack at President Bush over Iraq and uses the f-word - highly unusual language for a presidential contender - in a stunning new interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Sen. Kerry (Mass.) used the undeleted expletive to express his frustration and anger over how the Iraq issue has hurt him because he voted for the war resolution while Democratic front-runner Howard Dean has soared by opposing it.
"I thought the Angry Left(tm) would cut me some slack on it. $%#@&* them!"
"I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, 'I'm against everything?' Sure. Did I expect George Bush to f*** it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did," Kerry told the youth-oriented magazine.
Rolling Stone is youth-oriented? I thought its readership consisted of old hippies. Or maybe that was Mother Jones...
Brookings Institution presidential scholar Stephen Hess said he can't recall another candidate attacking a president with X-rated language in a public interview. "It's so unnecessary," Hess said. "In a way it's a kind of pandering [by Kerry] to a group he sees as hip . . . I think John Kerry is going to regret saying this."
"Just wait till his wife, outspoken ketchup heiress Theresa Heinz, washes his mouth out with soap!"
... or pickle relish.
Kerry was accurately quoted in Rolling Stone, said spokesman David Wade, adding the X-rated language reflects the fact that Bush's Iraq policy "makes John Kerry's blood boil."
Actually, I expect to see a rhetorical arms race among the Democrats. If Kerry has the F-bomb, Dean will have to have one too . . . and Gephardt, and Edwards, and so on. Will the '04 convention mark the first use of an F-bomb in a primetime keynote speech?

These guys want to sit in the same chair Jefferson and Lincoln sat in...
Posted by:Mike

#10  Vibrations among air molecules and contrasting levels of reflected light. Yawn.

As Bobby Dylan said, "Obscenity? Who really cares?"

As for Kerry, I believe he's a fucktard Donk Dick who served in the fucking 'Nam.
Posted by: .com   2003-12-7 10:08:12 PM  

#9  My junior senator is so deep in the crapola right now what difference does this make? Stomped by the Dean "juggernaut". How pathetic is that?
Posted by: tu3031   2003-12-7 9:57:25 PM  

#8  You have a fine sense of justice snellenr.
Posted by: Shipman   2003-12-7 5:17:47 PM  

#7  Rhetorical arms race... I like it.

"Tonight's coverage of the Democratic Convention is rated TV-MA" and all of those V-chips suddenly kick in as Tipper Gore steps up to open the convention.

Zappa would be laughing his a** off...
Posted by: snellenr   2003-12-7 4:45:37 PM  

#6  Badanov,
Don't get over confident. Remember that the current top news story is Jacko.
I talked to several people at work the other day who's only input for news was ABC. They had only seen the chopped up version of the "police brutality" incident in Cincinatti. Many would elect Clinton again given the chance.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-12-7 12:55:57 PM  

#5  All Bush has to do is to juxtapose their defeatist military/foreign policy views with Bush's drive for a military victory, and in my opinion, it is game over. Then the Demos may as well play out the rest of the election season by email for all the good it will do them. They will have been shown to be the sniveling losers they always have been.

2004 is gonna be such a cool election year. Bush is gonna make the 1984 Reagan landslide look like an devastating republican defeat by comparison.
Posted by: badanov   2003-12-7 12:41:11 PM  

#4  After reading the Atlantic Monthly excerpt from his book I was convinced that he would make a bad Commander in Chief. My impression of his letters home from Vietnam was that they were written by a elitist punk from Prep School with a negative view of tha Americna miltary.
When I look at presidential candiates, I look at how I feel they would perform as Commander in Chief, condicting foriegn policy and in enforcing legislation enacted by Congress - kind of traditional I know.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-12-7 12:32:35 PM  

#3  Does anyone else get the feeling that some of these "patriots" think Bush "f***ed it up" because we didn't have shiploads of body bags coming back? I mean, it's REALLY not going too badly, if you look at the situation realistically, so what other possibility is there?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2003-12-7 12:19:26 PM  

#2  Or perhaps the State of the F****ng Union Address.

Watch Dean fire up a fatty in a strategic response.
Posted by: Shipman   2003-12-7 11:55:26 AM  

#1  Kerry's in full meltdown mode - bet Theresa goes to sleep each night thanking God for the pre-nup agreement. The only question is how humiliating his bitch-slap by the voters will be, and whether he starts to have shaky support in the people's republic of Masshole
Posted by: Frank G   2003-12-7 11:25:35 AM  

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