John Kerry (and Edwards) decided to make a completely classless move and start a speech just minutes after Bush was finished speaking. He is cratering.
“And now that the President is Finally finished his speech, I have 5 words for America, ‘This is your wake up call.'”
Ain’t that six words?
oooooh I might vote for him now.
I’m not sure what is more pathetic… That line or that the crowd cheered it.
Update I’m going to live blog it.
4 words on Bush speech: “All Hat No Cattle.” Rebut: All Hat No Cambodia
They are blowing it. Both Senators are viscerally angry. That might fire the base but it looks anything but Presidential.
Now Kerry is taking off after Bush and Cheney BIG TIME. “5 deferments vs 2 tours of Duty” (4 months is 2 tours of duty? -ed)
Now he’s reciting the “Bush Lied, People Died” mantra.
HOLY CRAP: He just went Michael Moore.. Accusing Bush (or I guess Cheney) of being on the Haliburton payroll!
Just accused Bush of letting Saudi Royal family controlling oil prices.
Now he says ‘vote for me because Obama gave a good speech.’
He’s just one aaaaarghhh away from being Howard Dean. (ok maybe that was overstated but not by much)
WOW: He just promised to make “make the workplace fair again” What does that mean?
Talk about peddling fear! If you don’t vote for me, your kids will get sick and die! (paraphrased of course)
DAMN MSNBC pulled it! I so wish that had been in prime time. It was horrible.
No prepared remarks, kept repeating himself, angry, frothing at the mouth.
I’ve knocked this man as being an undisciplined campaigner. What an understatement. He came out shrill and whiney. Speaking off the cuff and making a jackass out of himself. He needs handlers! Soon.
Anyone wanting to fisk it could have a field day. He lied dozens of times.
heh- MSNBC left Chris Matthew’s mic open after he walked off the set and we got to hear him tell the producers he was headed for the bathroom. Opps
Another update: Many people have said he sounded drunk… I don’t completely disagree that he sounded drunk. I seriously doubt he was obviously… Which might make it worse. At least drunk he would have had an excuse.
Another: The ever liberal New York Times had a glowing review of the speech. I have to wonder if they heard it!
Functional Ambivalent(http://functionalambivalent.typepad.com/blog/) analyzes the five highest-profile speakers at the Republican convention — President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Senator Zell Miller, Governor Schwarzenegger, and former Mayor Giuliani — and arrives at this breakdown:
* Mentions of Osama bin Laden: 0
* Mentions of John Kerry: 42
* Mentions of Saddam Hussein: 21
Who are we fighting in the “War on Terror”?
(I don’t feel any terror right now, could we start a war on “slight anxiety”?
At the risk of being as pedantic as our host, Merriam-Webster has wake-up as a hyphenated word:
Main Entry: wake-up
Pronunciation: ‘wAk-“&p
Function: adjective
: serving to wake up
If we’re going to ridicule, we should have our info right.
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All that’s Left is News. We Print.
“WOW: He just promised to make “make the workplace fair again” What does that mean?”
It means he’ll lead us into a bright new future where the state controls the means of production and distribution. He can’t just come right out an put it that way, though, because Americans are still too ignorant to appreciate the benefits of enslavement.
As regards Bush’s tax cuts and the wealthy, blah blah blah. What they don’t tell you is that the cuts ELIMINATED the tax burden for almost 8 million low income families. The left takes advantage of that population being removed from the sample (because they now pay 0 tax, they no longer “count” feh!) to present a skewed number. The link below details the real and VERY EQUITABLE impact of the cuts, as regards lower income households.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/ff/7million.html
Speaking of conspiracy theories; Do you think that maybe he was picked to lose? The current party leadership are all Clinton holdovers and Hillarious is still out there (in more than one way) ready for ’08. Hey, just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean that they ain’t plotting stuff.
Well, technically “wake-up call” is two words, not three. (Compound verb+prepositions, when used as an adjective preceding the noun it modifies, are hyphenated and made into one word.)
But the speech was still not really worth my listening time.
* Mentions of Osama bin Laden: 0
* Mentions of John Kerry: 42
* Mentions of Saddam Hussein: 21
Who are we fighting in the “War on Terror”?
Beancounter, Kerry is going to get more of us killed.
Example, at the Dems convention, Kerry told us that he learned on the swift boat to turn into the attact. Yet when the swift boat boys go after him, what does he do? He threatens to sue the TV stations that were running the ads. He tries to get the publisher to stop publishing the book. And amusingly, he asked Geo. W Bush to “tell them to stop”. To this day has he not even addressed anything that SBVT has charged. In short he’s done everything but take it to the SBVT.
Forget what he said at the Dems covention. Is this how he’s going to take it to the terrorist?
Kerry needs to be crushed. To tell the world and the Islamist, that if they bring to the US, what happened in Russia this week, we will hunt them down and treat them like the rabid dogs they are.
Besides, Bush isn’t running against Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein
* Mentions of Osama bin Laden: 0
* Mentions of John Kerry: 42
* Mentions of Saddam Hussein: 21
Who are we fighting in the “War on Terror”?
Beancounter, Kerry is going to get more of us killed.
Example, at the Dems convention, Kerry told us that he learned on the swift boat to turn into the attact. Yet when the swift boat boys go after him, what does he do? He threatens to sue the TV stations that were running the ads. He tries to get the publisher to stop publishing the book. And amusingly, he asked Geo. W Bush to “tell them to stop”. To this day has he not even addressed anything that SBVT has charged. In short he’s done everything but take it to the SBVT.
Forget what he said at the Dems covention. Is this how he’s going to take it to the terrorist?
Kerry needs to be crushed. To tell the world and the Islamist, that if they bring to the US, what happened in Russia this week, we will hunt them down and treat them like the rabid dogs they are.
Besides, Bush isn’t running against Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=wake-up
No entry found for wake-up.
Did you mean wake up?
WOW, some of you guys are really good writers, I laugh so much I cry. I agree with almost all except the few Donks who still stand by the Flipper. But I really like the post by ThirdFinger. I have thought the same thing for a while. Billary is cut from the same cloth as Kerry–power is thy name. She will be a worthy adversary but so will Rudy, John, Chris Cox maybe, Michael Steele???, and some others. Too bad Arnold can’t run, he would make them all “girlie men”. Love your Blog!!!!!!
To be fair to Kerry, it’s “wake-up call.”
That may be the one thing he got right on the evening.
I’ve heard Kerry say at least once 2 tours in the military. Really? A Naval Reserve tour is 2 years active. Where did he serve the second one, in Paris negotiating with the VC?
This is really all to funny if you look at Goggle News from thursday night till even today you keep seeing the theme Kerry says Bush…. followed within 20 minutes by Bush says Kerry… it is all to funny. I hope Kerry loses in November and that somebody or other in Massachusetts get rid of him in his next Senatorial bid and with any luck Kennedy goes too.
Only Kerry could could take such aa often used phrase like “I’ve got ???? words for you” so we can debate how many words are in it. He covered the fives and sixes and as Kerry would say “it’s complicated”
what an intelligent bunch of people. you’re supposed to get facts by reading what people are not writing here. of course this probably will not be posted, i didn’t show my republican voters backstage pass card.
how many people writing here have seen combat? not political election combat… but people killing people combat. bush wins and we will prove that we support a president that cares about one country on a big planet. a human being has a larger focus. but none of you would understand, your just too darn smart. “darn smart” to bush is whittle down future forming decisions down to a yes or no answer. “Flipper?”… thank God. When you get new information and facts, an intelligent person re-evaluates the situation using the higher functions of thought and logic to come to the most logical conclusion incorperating the new info. Pavlov’s dog couldn’t do that though… hear a bell, it’s time to go to war. am i on candid camera?
What… Bush should care more about the interests of France? Or should we all just hold hands and be citizens of the world? And I’m sure you wont be picky when choosing a hand to hold. Syrian or North Korean? You may prefer to pledge your allegiance to the United Nations, you may even jump with glee when Libya adjudicates what human rights you deserve. Dumb old me will continue to thank God that I am an American and will continue to care more about the interests of that one little country on this big planet.
bush wins and we will prove that we support a president that cares about one country on a big planet. a human being has a larger focus.
joey, look beyond your nose, two nations and 50 million people have an opportunity to live their lives as they wish. I suppose your right we only care about one country on a big planet(sarcasm). Yes joey lets leave Saddam in power for what, another 20 years? Will the Iraqis stop suffering then? NO, not with his ‘just and compassionate’ sons ready to take over. How many will die because we prefer to look the other way. Its already near 1 million, give a take a couple of 100,000. Like you give a damn about anybody but yourself. Keep your fear to yourself, an wallow in it. It’s what your type does best. And you better bone up on the koran, because if more of us took your attitude, we will all end up dead or practicing Islam.
Personally , I believe that every time the terrorist attacks this country, we should remove 2 dictatorships. If they are willing to sacrifice our civilians, lets do something worth while in their honor.
you missed the hyphenated nuance: “wake-up” is one word