Senator John Kerry (D – MA) was on Meet the Press this morning to talk about a wide variety of topics that included the War in Iraq, Immigration, and the never-ending CIA “leak” case.
Moderator Tim Russert played a clip of Kerry in early 2004 saying that we will not cut and run from Iraq, then he played a clip of Kerry on Meet the Press in January of 2005 saying that there should be no time table in Iraq. This morning, Kerry flip-flopped on both issues.
Later on the show, Kerry implied that the current President Bush is a traitor when he read quote by his father, former President George H. W. Bush:
SEN. KERRY: Well, the president has the right, obviously, to declassify. Whether he has the right to declassify for these kinds of political purposes, I don’t know. Let me read you what his father said. Do you know what his father said? George Herbert Walker Bush said in 1991 at the dedication of the George Bush CIA headquarters, he said, “Even though I’m a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.”MR. RUSSERT: But there’s no one suggesting…
SEN. KERRY: George Herbert Walker—no.
MR. RUSSERT: ...there’s no one suggesting that President Bush revealed the name…
SEN. KERRY: No, absolutely nothing.
Oh, yeah, there’s no one suggesting that President Bush was involved. No one other than John F. Kerry. But lets not omit the fact that Plame wasn’t an active agent in the last five years, therefore nothing wrong was done.
Here’s a doozie; Kerry on Iraq:
SEN. KERRY: Well, as I said in the debate with the president, I made a mistake in the way that I talked about the war, but the president made a mistake in going to war. Now, which is worse? I could have done a better job in the campaign explaining what I meant. I voted against it because I believed we should pay for it, and because they didn’t have a plan. And our mistake was one of a campaign strategy of not going out and explaining that. I voted out of principle, and I will continue to vote out of principle.
Could someone please explain what the bolded part means? I think Kerry is talking about the money President Bush asked for to rebuild Iraq.
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6:10 pm [ Quote ]
the more this wimp talks, the more pathetic it becomes…
ironically, this is the same problem for many of the Democrats these days…
open mouth, insert unethical manipulation, lie, contradiction, insanity, or vivid incompetence…
6:18 pm [ Quote ]
Specter: Bush, Cheney Should Speak About CIA Leak Case…
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should speak publicly about their involvement in the C…
6:20 pm [ Quote ]
What a Snore you are Mr. Insignificant, And to think could have been Flip Flopper in Chief.
“I could have done a better job in the campaign explaining what I meant” If I only we could figure out what it is you stand for.
6:49 pm [ Quote ]
Is this guy Kerry ever going to get lost and stay lost??....Can’t he get the message…
“ ...Close your dreary act and get the hell outta town
“Kerry you’re NOT WANTED
6:50 pm [ Quote ]
Please. Stop. Talking. Senator. Kerry. You. Are. Embarrassing. Massachusetts. More. Than. It. Already. Is.
7:14 pm [ Quote ]
I love listening to the Democrats talk as if they had a candidate to write home about. Wasn’t Kerry the second choice, after the Mad Scientist Imploded?
7:19 pm [ Quote ]
John Kerry making sense again: “I voted against the spending bill because I believed we should pay for it.”
Yup, just like when I go to the store, I refuse to pay for my Snickers bar because I believe I should pay for it.
Gotcha.
7:21 pm [ Quote ]
Could someone please explain what the bolded part means? I think Kerry is talking about the money President Bush asked for to rebuild Iraq.
He’s talking about the infamous $87 billion. Kerry voted for a version of the bill that required the money to be raised by a roll-back of the tax cuts, but voted against a version of the bill in which the money came from nowhere (i.e. deficit spending). The latter version is the one that passed.
This is what “I voted for it before I voted against it” was supposed to mean.
7:34 pm [ Quote ]
Well, John Kerry would certainly know more than most people what it takes to be a traitor.
It wasn’t Bush who slandered American soldiers in Vietnam and it also wasn’t Bush who complained that our troops were “terrorizing” Iraqis in the middle of the night.
And Democrats wonder why Bush was re-elected and why the Republicans control all levels of the US government these days.
8:06 pm [ Quote ]
Brian, I know that, but look at the bolded part—it doesn’t make sense.
8:14 pm [ Quote ]
Thanks Kerry, anoather gift that keep son giving. Could you please show up on the Sunday morning news broadcasts every week to demonstrate the short-circuit between your mouth and your brain? Removing your head from your ass might help.
Did this guy ever serve in Vietnam?
8:46 pm [ Quote ]
Kerry is such a douche bag.
9:22 pm [ Quote ]
And kerry was almost our President. That was a close one.yes Bush has made mistakes but Kerry would have ruined America.
9:24 pm [ Quote ]
Kerry, I’m not calling for us to pull out.. no.. I’m calling for an “over the horizon” capability.
L O f’n L!
9:45 pm [ Quote ]
“I think the United States should have offered the opportunity to provide the nuclear fuel (to Iran). Test them. See whether or not they were actually looking for it for peaceful purposes. If they weren’t willing to work a deal, then we could have put sanctions together.”
Thank you America for not voting this FOOL into office.
We now have the self-proclaimed Mahdi in power and Kerry would have given, GIVEN, the psycho nuclear material.
Hoooooooooooo, dodged a bullet there. No keffiyas for America yet, at least not until another liberal gets back into the White House.
This isnt your fathers democratic party anymore. JFK, where for art thou? The appeasing, far-left wierdos have taken over, return and put your party back on course.
10:24 pm [ Quote ]
This guy demonstrates how really GOOFY he is – everytime he opens his mouth!
What an embarrassment to this country.
10:27 pm [ Quote ]
Psst—Verve, it’s “wherefore”, not “where for”, and it means “why”, not “where”.
Other than that, though, your argument is…
...complete nonsense!
Nuclear material for energy production is of a different grade than that used for weaponry. They aren’t interchangeable. So providing nuclear fuel would not have helped them along the path of developing nuclear weapons. If you had been following the news on this subject, you probably would have known that.
Believe it or not, facts are often useful when making points…although around here they’re not as important as emotional reaction.
By the way, JFK was pretty darned liberal. I’m kinda surprised to see you elevating him like this.
10:31 pm [ Quote ]
Actually Plame had undercover status when she was outted.
And you have to remember that outting Plame also outted all the agents working for Brewster Jennings, the CIA front company investigating WMD in Iran.
And their contacts.
And their families.
And their families contacts.
I suppose those around the world who may be considering helping America will think twice before doing so. When they know that they may be exposed as an informant due to Bush’s moods and whims.
10:33 pm [ Quote ]
I know Kerry seems strange to many of you. But that’s how war heros sound. As opposed to the chickenhawks you’re used to hearing.
11:48 pm [ Quote ]
I love John Kerry and he kicked ASS on MTP. He’s right and you can go ahead and attack him all you want because you are doing EXACTLY what he wants. You fools took the bait! LOL!
Your attacks on Senator Kerry on a subject that the MAJORITY of America agrees with him on is bound to hurt Republicans in the November elections. So keep it up and show America what wingnut, big spending war-mongers you really are.
Most people want OUT of Iraq. It is costing us lives and money and it has gone on too DAMN long! I’m sorry, but I don’t want to pay to build schools in Iraq when we have American kids right in our own country who need better schools. Time to stop the insanity.
John Kerry is a PATRIOT and the Presnit is well, a NIT.
12:00 am [ Quote ]
Iilana—what are you talking about? Are you believing those fake approval numbers? I don’t care how low they get, if the election was held today, no one would elect that moron, John Kerry. HE doesn’t even know how to make a decision.
Sometimes I am angry with GWB, but I don’t think Kerry would ever be elected.
12:04 am [ Quote ]
Hey, thanks for posting the video. This guy makes sense when he talks. I’m going to tell everyone I know to come over and see how a real president ought to sound.
12:06 am [ Quote ]
LOL
Ian is angry with GWB because he doesn’t send all of the brown people to Mexico and because the gays aren’t hung in the town square.
You don’t know how to criticize the fuhrer. I would like to see one critical thing you’ve said about Lord GWB on here. Please, do it. Prove me wrong. Oh, you can’t.
12:08 am [ Quote ]
Pat Said:
10:31 pm
Actually Plame had undercover status when she was outted.
And you have to remember that outting Plame also outted all the agents working for Brewster Jennings, the CIA front company investigating WMD in Iran.
And their contacts.
And their families.
And their families contacts.
I suppose those around the world who may be considering helping America will think twice before doing so. When they know that they may be exposed as an informant due to Bush’s moods and whims.
I suppose those around the Arab world will also think twice about helping us because of what the Democrats did reguarding the port deal.
12:44 am [ Quote ]
Iilana/Pat. We not only drink the cool aid, we transport the buckets full of it.
Are you delusional, John Kerry a Patriotic War Hero, read Winter Soldier, real Patriotic? I guess the majority of the Military who voted for Bush didn’t know what a real hero Kerry was.
What do I do now that I have fallen into Kerry’s Macavellian flytrap. All you had to do was run a moderate “D” for President, and Bush was done. Now you want me to believe that the guy who couldn’t seal the deal, even after Clinton put the ball on the tee at the DNC convention, has us in the palm of his hand. Please…...
1:05 am [ Quote ]
It’s a messed up country we live in, folks. The Dems ran Kerry in ‘04, a man who clearly could not galvanize the masses (but nevertheless a much more intelligent and sophisticated man than GWB), but they probably still would have taken the victory if there wasn’t so much election malfeasance in Ohio & Florida.
Seriously, the electronic voting is outrageous. My ATM has a paper trail and has never made a mistake. Las Vegas slot machines are legally subject to incredibly high standards of oversight, but the machines that supposedly safeguard our form of government have none whatsoever? EVERY American citizen should care about that.
Meanwhile, the corporations that pay for politicians on the right do the same on the left. And they do the research and provide both sides with talking points about political issues along the way, artifically narrowing the debate—playing both ends against the middle.
That’s the nation we live in today: A nation that doesn’t want to admit to its own cancer, much less do the hard work required to expose it, root it out, and enact measures to prevent it from gaining such power again.
This country is swirling around the bowl…and we’ve got a empowered right-wing government and its base perched gleefully on a turd of its own design, rejoicing in the wild ride.
2:26 am [ Quote ]
What did Bush mean when he said this:
Sept 19, 2002
“I’ve asked for Congress’ support to enable the administration to keep the peace…If you want to keep the peace, you’ve got to have the authorization to use force. It’s a chance for Congress to say, we support the administration’s ability to keep the peace.”
Or this, in regards the Plame leak:
“if anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration.”
It really is true. George Bush could crap on your kitchen floor and you’d scoop it up and call it pudding. Not only that, you’d praise his bringing pudding to the masses as he ran naked from house to house, crapping on kitchen floors.
Everybody in the world knows this guy is a raving loon, except the 1% of the world who refuse to face reality. Sadly that 1% of the world has the capability of destroying it because they’re the 30% of Americans who continue to support this madman.
4:35 am [ Quote ]
Sandy,
Between you and me, I love it when you talk dirty!!
6:36 am [ Quote ]
Kerry is a goof. Every word out of his mouth is calculated, every response is an attempted soundbite.
Watching him Sunday was a disturbing reminder of what a squishy, spineless individual he is and how close he came to being our president.
I still hope the Dems can come up with a serious candidate for 2008 so there can be a real campaign and our system can function properly with some real competition between the parties, but I have no clue who they could nominate that would meet that qualification. I’m not even sure they have serious folks in the Dem party anymore.
Instead that party has filled its ranks with people like Iilana above, who thinks the majority of people in the country agree with Kerry even though he just lost the only real test for that, and Sandy, who doesn’t understand a simple statement on deterence, a fundamental national defense strategy utilized and broadly understood and supported in this country for over 60 years.
6:59 am [ Quote ]
VIDEO: Kerry’s Latest Flip-Flop – “Pull Out”. Bowing To Protestors?...
It would seem that the less than warm welcome John Kerry recently received from anti-war protestors at Harvard has pushed him over the edge, and he’s now flip-flopped…. AGAIN… and is pushing for a cut and run strategy. A sampling…...
7:18 am [ Quote ]
Heh.
On the subject of Kerry, this from the NYTimes is even better.
Here’s part of it:
“I will tell you, nowhere in there, nowhere, not in one page, not in one phrase uttered and reported by the Lord Jesus Christ, can you find anything that suggests that there is a virtue in cutting children from Medicaid and taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich,” Mr. Kerry said.
I’ll tell you what Dems, people that are telling you that Kerry is a blowhard, pathetic panderer and a loser are doing you a favor. You should listen.
7:57 am [ Quote ]
Kerry Blasts Bush’s “Cowboy Diplomacy” Urges “Brokeback Option” With Iran…
While making an appearance on Meet The Press this past weekend, Senator John Kerry took the opportunity to blast President Bush for his refusal to take the nuclear option off of the table with regards to dealing with Iran’s increasingly…
9:01 am [ Quote ]
kerry has always been a discrace to the military and to Mass and to think that some people actually voted for him
9:54 am [ Quote ]
http://www.swiftvets.com/swiftvetsandpows/
Go to this link. View the five (5) vids. Then, If Kerry is still your guy YOU are a pathetic leftwing LIB that swallows anything and everything Kerry sends your way. No matter the truth…By the way, did you know Kerry served in Viet Nam??
10:16 am [ Quote ]
Look, man…..since there seems to be a lot of Hollywoodies, and I do mean blockheads, coming out to speak their mind, I thought I might as well drop my 2 cents in.
These hot-shot Dems who shoot their mouths off are just a bunch of pantie-waist, nimrod, milk-toast, can’t-find-a-common-thread weasels. And may I also add that intelligent and sophisticated may not be the right combo to run this country…..after all, we gave the ball to a Rhodes scholar and that turned into a walking cluster f#@k, if you catch my drift.
Bush got the big date to the dance and he knows how to treat a lady and protect and defend her. These libs don’t know how to treat a woman and protect her. This Kerry dude is married to the big bucks but deap down, his brain needs some augmentation to get with the program. They’re so discombobulated and so self-absorbed they lost site of the real issue; the lady needs to be protected, Jake!
And about this Plame issue….it’s a set-up…..when you play the game of protect my kingdom, once in a while you have to find out, or try to find out, who or where the leaks are coming from….c’mon, man….most of you are pissing into the wind and focused on the wrong issues.
11:10 am [ Quote ]
I will portray Kerry for a moment.
“There must be accountibilty in this Congress. There is no one taking responsibility for all the mistakes and incompetence. So, effective tomorrow morning, I will resign my Senate seat.”
11:35 am [ Quote ]
I have listened to Kerry twice now and I still don’t know what he said; and I went to the same University he did!
12:20 pm [ Quote ]
HAHAHA, it’s hilarious to listen to you people…nobody here has managed to state one single positive thing Bush has done for America, yet you all proclaim that kerry would have “ruined” the country. Meanwhile your corrupt Neo-con buds have increased the size of government 25 percent in the past 5 years, and blown through trillions of dollars unecessarily. In November, you all are going DOWN!!
12:31 pm [ Quote ]
Bush is a liar, a hypocrite, a coward, a racist, a mumbler, a fumbler, a flip-flopper, a tax-and-spender, a stutterer, a crybaby, an arrogant simpleton, an illiterate, a deserter, an abuser of power, a no-ideas man, a….aah this is so easy I could go on for pages.
12:41 pm [ Quote ]
Independent, what on earth does “the same university” have to do with anything? I’m sure plenty of people have flunked out, but they can still say they went.
12:42 pm [ Quote ]
For the millionth time, here’s the explanation:—————————————I voted against it (it=the plan to get the money by making the deficit even larger) because I believed we (we=Americans, either by rolling back tax cuts that should have never happened, new taxes, reduced government spending, etc.) should pay for it, and because they didn’t have a plan (there was no plan for the war and no exit strategy, which is painfully obvious now).—————————————
Now please stop with all your ridiculous claims that Kerry flip flops on Iraq. He voted FOR the use of force and AGAINST the source of funding that was proposed because it was irresponsible. 2 entirely different things, but Republicans are too stupid to wrap their heads around that so they just started spreading lies instead. As a result we got another 4 years of that moron.
1:07 pm [ Quote ]
But lets not omit the fact that Plame wasn’t an active agent in the last five years, therefore nothing wrong was done.
Weak, Ian. Very weak. There’s a world of difference between “not wrong” and “not illegal under one particular act” and you damn well know it. Morality does not have a 5-year statute of limitations. (So much for that moral clarity you guys love to preach about, eh?)
We may never know exactly how many agents were compromised by the Bush administration, but I’ve yet to hear a motive for Plamegate other than malice. I’d love for you to explain for someone who had their cover blown because they had contact with Plame over 5 years ago (whoops, I guess I just snipped your moral loophole) that Karl Rove’s vindictiveness is more important than national security.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Benedict…
1:08 pm [ Quote ]
Nothing important happened in 2001, after all, so I’m sure none of our intelligence services were engaged in anything at the time…
2:48 pm [ Quote ]
It’s quite hilarious to witness all of you pathetic righties trying desperately to hold onto a sliver of credibility in the face of insermountable proof of your administrations’ lies and deception. It’s good to see that in some ways…the law is still working for the people. Even though you righties would only like the law to work for corporations, and polluters, and narrow-minded “christians”.
8:37 pm [ Quote ]
sorry johno caught some gramatical errors there but i fixed them
It’s quite hilarious to witness all of you pathetic lefties trying desperately to hold onto a sliver of credibility in the face of insermountable proof of your partys lies and deception. It’s good to see that in some ways…the law is still working for the people. Even though you leftys would only like the law to work for Terrorists, and Illegal immagrents, and narrow-minded “Activists”.
12:20 am [ Quote ]
While the thug in the White House has been standing in the spotlight, John Kerry has been opposing him steadily from the shadows of media obscurity. He’s been fighting for us with a fierceness that has the Republicans worried. They don’t like the fact that he didn’t lie down. They don’t like the fact that he’s still fighting for real American values. And the sure as Hell don’t like the fact that he’s been proven right again and again and again since 2004. They try to silence him with their paid media and when that doesn’t work, they try to ridicule and marginalize him. But he just does not go away. He never will. He’s our True President, our President in Exile. And Bush knows that. He is made aware of it on a daily basis. Bush won the election, but in defeat, John Kerry is winning our hearts.
2:03 am [ Quote ]
Yeah Realist, you is da REALIST!
6:24 am [ Quote ]
Thanks for the screen shots. John with his eyes closed gives me happy thoughts. Hey I can dream!
Is it hot in here or is it him?
8:49 am [ Quote ]
It’s him.
BIG John. Oh, baby!
8:52 am [ Quote ]
And I agree with you Kerry Fan. Eyes shut mmmmmm. Makes me want to plant a big, wet one on those lips. God he’s hot!
5:24 pm [ Quote ]
unfortunately…Kerry can’t be bought or sold. GW will let you kiss him anywhere you want for 5 dollas.
11:55 am [ Quote ]
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