Reply #51: Interesting choice of words.

[Octafish]

While out of context, the statement you selected does show how far — and how carefully — John Kerry has come. And he’s had to do so almost alone.

The quote you used is from Kerry’s Meet the Press appearance. Turd Russert was trying to get Kerry to admit to saying something true about Bushler from a recently published magazine interview. Here’s the context of the quote:

MR. RUSSERT: Let me turn to the man you’d like to unseat if you become the Democratic nominee, and that’s George Bush. You’d spoke to Vogue magazine in March, and said this. “Kerry is unguarded in his comments about the man whose job he is currently after. He says his colleagues are appalled at the president’s ‘lack of knowledge’... And...he says, ‘They have managed him the same way they managed Ronald Reagan. They send him out to the press for one event a day, they put him in a brown jacket and jeans and get him to move some hay or drive a truck, and all of a sudden he’s the Marlboro Man. I know this guy. He was two years behind me at Yale, and I knew him, and he’s still the same guy.’”

What does that mean?

SEN. KERRY: I believe that President Bush is a very likable fellow, and I respect—I think he’s a good man who wants to do good things.

MR. RUSSERT: Does he lack knowledge, as you say?

SEN. KERRY: I disagree with the president’s approach to almost everything he’s doing—almost everything. And you look at America and the choices we face today, Tim. On the budget, he’s favoring the wealthy in America at the expense of the middle class. He has ignored the plight of job loss in America. He has gone backwards on the environment, backwards on cities and urban—look, we’ve given a tax cut to people while states are being forced to raise taxes and cut services. He’s gone backwards in the international community. He is not making us safer in the world. He has ignored the problems of North Korea to the point that they’re a crisis. We should be freezing right where we are with North Korea today. We should be dealing with Russia and the problem of loose nuclear materials more effectively. We should be leading the world on global warming.

CONTINUED…

http://www.msnbc.com/news/960385.asp

Eloriel, I agree with everything Kerry said in the magazine. Bush is a stooge who can barely put two words together without repeating "hisself."

So, while context is everything in discourse, Kerry can’t come out and say that Bush is a crook. That could start a real civil war.

Similarly to Russert, eloriel, you want to create a false impression using Kerry’s own words. That’s said. For surely you, of all people, know just how dangerous it is to fly solo in a BFEE world. And yet you continue to make out that JK is BFEE?

Only as President, can a person wield sufficient power to oust the bastards of the BFEE. That’s what Robert Kennedy said when he told confidants only as president could he find who killed his brother. BTW: RFK is the political idol of John Kerry.

BTW: Kerry uncovered the BCCI scandal and how it tied to CIA and Iran-Contra drug running. The corruption went from the White House to the Congress to the State Department and to every industrialized and oil-rich nation in the world.

Sounds pretty familiar to me. It should (still) sound that way to you.

Need background? Want links?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=273176

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