Comments on: Kerry Says He's Not Out Of The '08 Race

'Botched Joke' Won't Stop Former Democratic Nominee

[frankly6]

peterbaldwin

Well said.

[mjv2944]

Its not the botched joke as much as it is just a plain old joke in as much as he is a part of whats wrong with the House and the Senate. Maybe the house is on the way to recovery, but the Senate has a long ways to go. Kerry, Hillary or Gore are not who the dems need to run. None are electable, all are the same old recycled political hacks. Dems need someone new with some fresh ideas or they will loose. We definitely do not need another neocon in the White House. It will take us years to recover from Dubya and his band of cutthroats.

[peterbaldwin-2009]

The Bush/Chaney swiftboating noise machine is out in force with republican trolls slinking around enraged with purple heart envy, as the Bush/Chaney duo are. Have patience: they will slink back into the fetid sewers after Bush gives the command to retreat.

What they don't understand is that American has had it with the current batch of sissies and will not be fooled anymore.

[bob_burd]

Even Democrats aren't dumb enough to give this gelded eunuch another shot. Maybe they can trot out Teddy Kennedy or the Screamer.

Selah

[peacethinker-2009]

I think the Dems need someone else. Kerry doesn't have the smarts or persona to make a good leader. I hope the Dems can get their sutff together and rally behind someone with "it". Sad thing is I don't see anyone electable on the horizon. I have no problem with a woman or minority president, but the mass of ***** would so it's going to have to be a white man.

[boydgood]

I will vote for anybody in the next presidential election who: 1. is against abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, or danger to mother's health, 2. is 100% behind protection for the environment--clean water, clean air and lots of open space, plus expanded power and budget for the EPA, and for keeping and expanding the endangered species act, 3. is for civil unions, 4. is for better immigration laws which will keep everyone happy (aliens and Americans) and allow the USA to be a nation under the rule of law, and 5. bring peace to the middle east. Of course, it will only be possible to bring peace in the middle east when all interested parties are brought to the negotiation table (clerics, government leaders, militia leaders, etc). Kerry, Gore, Clinton, McCain, etc are all good, except how can we have a woman who believes in killing babies? Marriage is for having babies, that is why gay marriage is useless. European old growth has been gone for centuries, but in North America we still have some left to save, and we should act fast to do so.

[chicatibu]

Kerry%u2019s out of the 2008 presidential race he%u2019s just to arrogant and stupid to realize it.

[stick130]

Knowing what I know now to be fact, Gore would have been the much better President. My reason for believing that is Gore looks to the future when he makes a decision. History is the only judge,you make a thoughtful decicion after you ask,what will these implacations be 20 years from now? That's the best someone can do. When it's broke {like it is now }we need someone that will make a decision that will help everyone down the road.

[themartyred]

well he's a HE LL of a lot more decent man then the cowards *** Cheney whot got FIVE deferments out of Vietnam and George Bush who was so drunk and high on drugs that poppy got him out of, yes, again, Vietnam...

I'm so sick of republicans being such hypocrites, take the GAY issue for example, they RAIL against openly gay people's rights all the while these creeps who scream about *** are the ones who are hiring MALE prostitutes and trying to pick up little boys because they're scared of being found out for being gay. F'n HYPOCRITES of the worst degree...

and don't even get me started on IRAQ! Even right-wingers are saying Iraq was a fraud, mistake, lie. KISSINGER is now saying it, KISSINGER!

[bob_burd]

That idiot Kerry reminds me of Lurch in the Adams Family. Same mentality, but uglier.

This collossal waster of time and money should shut up and stick to falling down on ski hills, if he's graduated from bunny hills by now. Maybe he could give US soldiers in Iraq lessons on how to self-inflict a minor wound so they can leave the war zone the same way he left Viet Nam.

The swift boat guys had him dead to rights.

Remove yourself from the gene pool, creep.

Selah

[bushrocks1]

Would I send my son to this war? You might ask would I send him to WW II? Or Vietnam? Maybe you would distinguish those conflicts and whether you would send your son to fight in them. But that question is misdirected in a very important way: I can't command my son to go to war. He has to make that choice. So the better question would be: would I volunteer to fight in Iraq, WW II, Vietnam? Would I volunteer to fight in any war? Respond if drafted? I don%u2019t know. I'm not equivocating, only addressing that it is a hypothetical. As a hypothetical, I can say, sure I'd fight. But I have nightmares of battle (from my past life as a Jacobite). So how do I feel toward those who do volunteer? Impressed but maturely knowing that many things go into their decision. But I do strongly believe that a country who can't find those men is doomed. The fact that we can find them is one reason why I say there is no failure in Iraq. Objectively, I also believe it for other reasons. An attempt to establish democracy in the Middle East is a bold, brilliant, noble effort, facing a high chance of failure. That's why I greatly respect and admire those who have made the attempt--the Bush administration. They have been resolute, something I have not seen in my lifetime. They may not succeed, for reasons outside their control or fault: traitors on the home front, being a big one. But now those traitors have apparently occupied the high ground. Yet... we're still in Iraq. Why?... I'm waiting.

[jw218389]

Al Gore would be a much better choice. At least he can tell a joke!

I'm a Democrat but I've had enough of John Kerry.

Picture McCain vs Kerry - it would be Reagan vs. Mondale all over again. OUCH!!

A much better choice would be Obama - except I'm not sure the rural (and very xenophobic) Midwest would vote for a black man.

[ourtomorrows]

Kerry is a war hero, it is hard to deny that and one must give him credit, a huge amount of credit and respect for volunteering to serve his country. He is a decorated war hero and should be given the respect that his service deserves.

However, one must separate that from his record as a US Senator. Were one to examine his record as a US Senator, one would see that he has been and is, a complete flop. He has done NOTHING for the state of Massachusetts and, with the notable exception of talking a good deal, nothing for the health of the nation. He is a war hero but he is a pathetic excuse for a US Senator and would make a pathetic excuse for a President. He has no business in the Senate, let alone the White House.

He is an elitist snob whose ability to understand the needs of the average American is somewhat lacking.

Would that he would, for the good of the Democratic party, just go away. A Kerry run in 2008 virtually ensures a Republican victory. The Democratic Party needs to recognize that Kerry and Dean are not the team to retake the White House. Neither for that matter is the bloated former Vice President and now movie guru Gore or the aristocratic Dodd of CT. Enough with the East Coast/West Coast wacko liberals, find someone who can actually reflect the concerns, beliefs and dreams of the American people!

[frankly6]

These kinds of things did happen in Viet Nam and have happened again in Iraq. It does not honor our country or to our military to sweep them under the rug and pretend that Americans are simply incapable of attrocities. Part of what makes us a great country is our willingness to fight against this kind of injustice whether it's commited by other countries or our own.

When Kerry returned from Vietnam and testified before Congress in 1971, he accused the military of engaging in widespread atrocities and war crimes, recounting soldiers' stories that American GIs had "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan. . . . " Many of the stories Kerry recounted then and in a book he wrote turned out to have been fabrications, and you say he is a decent man?

When it comes to demeaning the military, Kerry is a serial offender. Last year, he accused soldiers in Iraq of going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing women and children. In 1972, Kerry opposed switching to an all-volunteer army, arguing that such an army would be "an army of the poor and the black and the brown. 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."

[frankly6]

Kerry is a decent man who had the courage to volunteer to serve his country in a terrible war. When he saw that he and his friends were dying for a pack of lies, he again had the courage to speak out. He has been so viciously attacked for speaking out against a new Viet Nam. I think it shows courage that he is still up for a fight. Having said that, I don't think he's got a chance.

[jsilver2th]

It seems I've heard our own El Presidente botch a few lines in his times-

[JStudebaker]

Give the man a break. Before you join the tired "flip flop" or "swift boat" chorus, ask yourself whether you've ever botched a joke or misspoken in a public forum. If you're grammatically perfect, ask yourself if your current President has ever butchered our national language in a public interview or debate.

It is shameful that a number of our fellow citizens repeatedly fall for lame political tricks such as the atrocious and vicious character assassination of one of our nation's true heroes.

[observantx]

I voted for you during the last election, but please, do not subject us to another failure. If you run, they will swift boat you to death again. You have regrettably displayed a taste for shoe polish too many times. That and the botched joke have killed your chances. Serve your country in your present capacity and let it be.