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The medical description of Kerryâs first wound.

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Posted by JerseyMike 2004-05-05 7:50:02 AM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 1) December 1968 - Kerry had fired a mortar round at close range to some rocks on shore. The crewman thought that the injury was caused by a fragment ricocheting from that mortar round when it struck the rocks.

2) February 2004 - Kerry calls Secret Service agent and "SOB" after falling off of a snowboard.

3) May 2004 - Kerry falls off bicycle.

Lemee see - Hit by schrapnel from riccochet of gun he fired, falls of snowboard, and falls off bike.

A bigger klutz then Gerald Ford!

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-05 10:44:21 AM|| 2004-05-05 10:44:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 On one hand,Kerry wouldn't be the first newcomer to combat to fire at something during the night that wasn't there.And filled w/tales of all the weird diseases in the river to want medical attention for a minor injury to make sure it didn't get infected.And if Kerry received Purple Heart for an insignificant injury,well Kerry didn't invent the system,he simply used it.
OTOH,to say I got a splinter that was pulled out by tweezers is why I would make a better President,c'mon.

Posted by Stephen 2004-05-05 12:50:26 PM|| 2004-05-05 12:50:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 February 2004 - Kerry falls off snowboard.

May 2004 - Kerry falls off bicycle.

If he falls a third time, can he opt out of the campaign?

Posted by Steve White 2004-05-05 1:24:18 PM|| 2004-05-05 1:24:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Gerald Ford wasn't a klutz--in fact, he was a star football player in college.
Portraying him as a bumbling fool (which made SNL the show it is today and began their career of sucking the gravitas out of the office of the Presidency) was the way the Left got Americans to dismiss Ford as a capable chief executive.
The Left used the same trick with Dan Quayle--Is he smart guy, with lots of experience and know-how such that he would've been a good VP?
Sadly, we'll never know.
But we do know he can't spell "tomato," ergo he's an "idiot."
In Kerry's case, his klutziness is a "bonus."
There's plenty about him to make him unfit to be President.

Posted by Jen 2004-05-05 1:31:21 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-05-05 1:31:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The NY Times, of course, doesn't include the band-aid part in its "coverage" of the story.

Posted by growler 2004-05-05 3:26:24 PM|| 2004-05-05 3:26:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Jen - I voted for Ford in 1976 over Jimmy Crackpeanuts. But, He did have some unfortunate pratfalls. His helicopter had a notch put in the top of a doorway because he didn't duck enough and bumped his head a couple of times.

And yes, Quayle unfairly got the bad end of jokes for mispelling potato. Oddly enough, potatoe is the alternate spelling. At the time I thought it was odd there was so much of a fuss.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-05 3:47:24 PM|| 2004-05-05 3:47:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 You say potato...

Posted by Howard UK 2004-05-05 4:07:45 PM|| 2004-05-05 4:07:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Howard - You lucky rascal. If we were like you in Britain, we wouldn't worry about much of the campaign nonsense for several months. One could watch the Iraq situation, give moral support to the troops defending us there, but we could spend more time doing something less stressful; following Major League Baseball. This campaign is too damn long.

PS I think Rasmussen must be playing with his daily tracking poll to keep people interested.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-05 4:48:16 PM|| 2004-05-05 4:48:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The sad part of the Quayle story is he had the answer in his hand, an answer prepared by someone else, and the answer was wrong. Even if I thought the answer was wrong, in front of cameras, etc, I think I would trust whomever prepared the answers.

If the person who created the wrong-answer was on his staff they probably haven't worked in politics since. If not they're probably a big-wig on the left by now.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-05-05 5:20:53 PM|| 2004-05-05 5:20:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 In the town of Huntington next to Fort Wayne is located teh Dan Quayle Museum of Vice Presidents. I'll have to check sometime and see whether Mr Potato-head or Murphy Brown are exhibitted.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-05 11:04:11 PM|| 2004-05-05 11:04:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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