Despite my self-imposed hiatus from political commentary and blogging in general, I simply had to note these jaw-dropping, un-freaking-believable quotes from Democrats in the last few days.
First, Harold Ford Jr., currently running for Senate in Tennessee:
My friend Lincoln Davis who chairs our campaign says there are, there’s one big difference between us and misfortunate Republicans when it comes to our faith: he said that Republicans fear the Lord; he said Democrats fear AND love the Lord.
Yeah ... that one will go over really big with evangelicals.
But only the effete John Forbes Kerry could top Ford's gaffe with this incredible comment:
You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.
Uh-huh, just like all the losers and bozos who got stuck in Vietnam commanding gunboats, right senator? Maybe George W. Bush wasn't so dumb after all.
I don't know whether to chalk these comments up to the aloof and patronizing attitudes that seem to be such a common trait of wealthy liberals, or just plain stupidity. But with only a week to go before the election, I'm guessing it's probably the latter.
Ooops - almost forgot this one:
But wait! There's so much more! Check out Kerry's "defense" and its press coverage in the extended section:
The White House was rightfully quick to criticize Kerry. President Bush jumped onboard as well.
So in response to his insulting verbal gaffe, John Kerry released the following statement. I'm reproducing it in whole because it is so far-out, so reminiscent of some rant you'd read at Democratic Underground, that you simply have to read it to believe it:
Washington – Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerry’s comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record:
“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.
I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.
The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it. These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.
Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they’re afraid to debate real men. And this time it won’t work because we’re going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq.”
Again, un-freaking-believable.
I used to joke that if Bill Clinton suddenly announced after a week-long meeting with space aliens that he had nominated a Martian to fill a position on his cabinet, the New York Times headline would read: "Gingrich Critical of New Clinton Nominee."
Well, the Times does not disappoint.
Not only did they fail to cover the Kerry gaffe in their Tuesday edition, but when they finally covered it today the story originally ran under this headline: Bush Attacks Kerry For Remarks On Iraq Troops. (the headline has since been changed)
Michelle Malkin notes,
You have to read 15 paragraphs down into the story before you learn what Kerry said. Because "the mounting death toll" in Iraq, RINO Lincoln Chafee's disavowal of the war, NJ GOP Senate candidate Tom Kean's and Washington GOP Senate candidate Mike McGavick's thoughts on the war, and the Democrats anti-Iraq war ads are all more important to the Times reporters than Kerry's actual words.
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