Kerry has apologized at last. Finally. That man is a total idiot. He's the reason the other idiot is president. Of all the horrors that this country has been through - why did we have to have these idiot men run to represent our country?
Are you suggesting that he is talking about Bush's grades at Yale? If so, couldn't he have made the same remark about you end up a senator or something?Boston Globe: Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student
opps, that link didn't work. Boston Globe: Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student What grades someone made years and years ago aren't really that important to me. I just got annoyed that everyone talked about Bush's grades.... then this article came out last year. If you are going to talk about the grades at Yale of one person, you should talk about them for both. Or not talk about them for either one.
I'm conservative and I'll say that what John Kerry says I don't think should play a role in most elections. He isn't running for election. I didn't think you should punish all republicans for Foley and I wouldn't punish all democrats for a remark by Kerry. I don't care about grades made years and years ago, but just thought it was an interesting article since is compares the grades of the two.
Whoever wrote that joke needs to be flogged. I believe that Kerry was making a joke however the easiest interpretation of his remarks is that he was denigrating the troops. The Bush-as-butt of joke follows but no more readily. Remember, Kerry is speaking to a college crowd who are education-bound and his comment describes someone who does not value education or is not partaking of it. The more readily identified analogue would be college-age kids who are not getting education but who rather are "stuck in Iraq." And, of course, there is the issue of the pot calling the kettle black... Then he made it worse by refusing to apologize rather than just explain the mix-up. It makes him look haughty, arrogant and elitist-- all of which he is! There's part of his problem right there. I do find it very sad that such a casual malaprop could cost a man his ambition-- even if I wouldn't vote for him.
Well, Kerry was able to get his JD from Boston U, whereas Bush didn't apply to HBS until he got rejected by UT Law. Also, I'm assuming Bush was a somewhat deeper Yale legacy, with lifelong political connections, so I'm inclined to think his C-pluses have lots of extra-credit and exam re-takes to go with them. Of course, the electorate is not an admissions board or scholarship committee, so yeah, it probably doesn't matter if John Kerry D'Amato is smarter than Bush, if he can't keep his foot out of his mouth. Could this end up hurting Kerry's Senate career? I imagine Masachueussetttsss has enough veterans, in Boston, at least, to make a difference if they vote in a block.
Thank you for finding that. I've heard the Kerry's grades were similar to those of Bush's, but could never find a link. Maybe this will shut some people up when comparing the two and their grades.
this is a bad comparison. the difference would be that with foley, republican leadership covered up what he was doing. there was no coverup with kerry's remarks and infact, most of his party called for him to apologize, which he did. republicans should be punished for their facilitation of foley's behavior. democrats should not be punished for kerry's lame "joke".
here is a clip about george bush making a joke out of the fact that he lied us into a war. does he owe 3,000 dead troops, their families and tens of thousands of innocent iraqis an apology? <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dc40lUpql10"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Dc40lUpql10" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
does henry kissinger owe an apology for these comments? "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy."
Luckily Kerry didn't single out "the poor, the black and the brown" in Iraq this time. Heaven forbid we let "the poor, the black and the brown" enlist in our volunteer army. Typical elitist Kerry. I guess only Yale, Harvard and Princeton grads should be allowed to fight. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061102/D8L4QH580.html Kerry's '72 Army Comments Mirror Latest By JOHN SOLOMON WASHINGTON (AP) - During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to "the perpetuation of war crimes." Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran who turned against the war, made the observations in answers to a 1972 candidate questionnaire from a Massachusetts peace group. After Kerry caused a firestorm this week with what he termed a botched campaign joke that Republicans said insulted current soldiers, The Associated Press was alerted to the historical comments by a former law enforcement official who monitored 1970s anti-war activities Kerry apologized Wednesday for the 2006 campaign trail gaffe that some took as suggesting U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq were undereducated. He contended the remark was aimed at Bush, not the soldiers. In 1972, as he ran for the House, he was less apologetic in his comments about the merits of a volunteer army. He declared in the questionnaire that he opposed the draft but considered a volunteer army "a greater anathema." "I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown," Kerry wrote. "We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job.' "Equally as important, a volunteer army with our present constitutional crisis takes accountability away from the president and put the people further from control over military activities," he wrote. Kerry's spokesman, David Wade, said Wednesday the historical document needed to be viewed in the era in which it was written but that it nonetheless raised a "bedrock question in a time of war when sacrifice should be shared by all Americans." "These are the words 34 years ago of a 28-year-old veteran home from a war gone wrong, wondering who in America will bear the cost of battle and shoulder the responsibility of military service," Wade said. Kerry filled out the candidate questionnaire at the request of Massachusetts Political Action for Peace, an anti-war group that decades later turned over its historical documents to university researchers. AP obtained the document from someone who gathered it from archives during Kerry's unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign against President Bush. Republicans in that election relentlessly assailed Kerry's role in the anti-war movement decades earlier. Kerry and Bush renewed their rivalry again this week, with the president accusing Kerry of offending troops. Kerry said he botched the text of a joke and didn't mean to insult troops. On Wednesday, Kerry canceled campaign appearance on behalf of Democratic congressional candidates and issued an apology.
Wait, now you're saying that Kerry is such an elitist that he tries to keep minorities out of the army? LOL, I'm sure this will really help sway the minority vote in upcoming elections. Keep up the good work Foas.
Do you have any idea what he is saying? Can you not understand? He was saying that those that would join would be people without other options, and that because of societies bias's and prejudices they would end up being the poor brown and black. Of course this was back in '72. For the most part Kerry was correct.
kerry is a douche (or is it turd sandwich?), but he was right. you cannot deny that there is a higher proportion of minorities and poor in the military than in the general population.
If "the poor and black and brown" want to volunteer, I don't see a problem with that. Apparently Kerry did (and still does).
You don't think it is illogical if the army is heavily minority based, when the general populace obviously isn't (hence the term minority)? And why the quotation marks around "the poor and black and brown", as if it's a bad thing to use a statement like that??
