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Politics & John Kerry
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| discojoe |
| im pretty ashamed to admit it but iv been following the american election the last little while. probably more than i ever followed any canadian elections. just watched john kerry's speech tonight and i was pretty impressed. showed a pretty human side to himself hopefully some people learned something about him and it'll help his campaign. anyone else watch it? any thoughts... |
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| tw1tch |
| I'm in the states at the moment, so every channel is all about the DNC. I've been watching some of it. Barack Obama (Illiniois State Senator), what an amazing speaker he is. Kerry's speech this evening I liked as well. I can't wait to see the ass clown George at the Republican Convention. |
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| RobbyG. |
| "...where are the balloons....we need more balloons people...where the are the balloons:eyespop: .." |
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| discojoe |
| haha someone changed my topic name. |
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| DJ_Ampz |
Im putting that sound clip on my news radio show sunday morning at 11am. not joking. www.cfru.ca tune in if you want
Ampz |
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| Yoshiesque |
| what's the context of that soundclip..?? :conf: is that kerry? |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by discojoe
im pretty ashamed to admit it but iv been following the american election the last little while. |
WHY?
Not being ignorant is nothing to be ashamed of. |
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| bucky |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yoshiesque
what's the context of that soundclip..?? :conf: is that kerry? |
After Kerry's speech, THOUSANDS of balloons were supposed to drop from the ceiling. They didn't. CNN had a microphone on the producer of the convention and the guy was getting mad because the balloons just weren't falling. The sound clip is of him being mad. |
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| RobbyG. |
LOL....thanx for the link...I'm keepin THAT quote :tongue2 |
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| Jayx1 |
Where the are the balloons?
Also overheard at various Detroit raves during the 90s
:haha: :haha: :haha:
Remember kids, laughing gas is no laughing matter! |
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| abort416 |
i too started watchin the dnc...i had to turn it off though because any more and i probably would have vomitted from disgust.
i think Dick Morris, political consultant extraordinaire, former Clinton adviser and confidant, who currently runs the website Vote.com said it best so i am just going to plagarize what he said about the speech off of another site (www.rightwingnews.com)
"He opened up his talk with a lengthy and evocative description of his childhood and what it was like growing up in divided Berlin. He told us of the "goose bumps" he remembers getting when the band struck up "Stars and Stripes Forever."
Then, after this long rendition of his childhood, he tells us at length what it was like to serve in Vietnam for the four months that he was there. So far, so good.
But then he spent only about one minute talking about what he has done since.
Beyond a brief allusion to his efforts for crime victims and to prosecute crimes against women as an assistant district attorney, his support for Clinton's plan for extra cops and a balanced budget and a reference to his work with John McCain on the POW and MIA issue in Vietnam, that's it.
What did this man do as an adult? What happened during his service as Michael Dukakis' lieutenant-governor in Massachusetts and in his 20 years in the United States Senate?
What bills did he introduce? What initiatives did he sponsor? Which investigations did he lead? What amendments bear his name? What great debates did he participate in?
What did he do for his constituents in Massachusetts? What businesses did he persuade to come to the Bay State? Which elderly did he help get their Social Security benefits? What injustices did he correct?
Kerry's biography ends at 24.
America does not want to elect a lieutenant to the presidency. The voters want a commander-in-chief, but there is precious little in the autobiography of John Kerry, as we heard it last night, to commend him to us.
...John Kerry? Oh yeah, he's the guy who fought in Vietnam and then he ran for president. That's not enough. Where did his 20 years in the Senate go?
Oddly, his absence of biography confirms the impression I formed of him during my White House years: He's a back-bencher. I never can recall a single time that his name came up in any discussion of White House strategy on anything. He was the man who wasn't there. We were always figuring out how to deal with Ted Kennedy or Pat Moynihan or Tom Daschle or Phil Gramm, or Al D'Amato or Bob Dole or Jesse Helms or Orin Hatch or Joe Biden. But nobody every asked about John Kerry.
He wasn't much there then, and he's not much there now. Only now he wants us to trust him to be president."
the full text of ekerrys speech is available @ http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4902000.html btw if you want to try and find somethin in there to prove Dick Morris wrong
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