John Kerry Supports The Troops As Special-Education Cases

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John Kerry Supports The Troops As Special-Education Cases

John Kerry has never hidden his contempt for the armed forces very well, not even when he served as an officer in the Navy. Yesterday the mask slipped a little bit, as John Ziegler at KFI notes on his website, and Allahpundit mirrors at Hot Air. At a political rally for California's Democratic challenger to Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor, Phil Angelides, Kerry told the Pasadena City College crowd to study hard and get an education -- or wind up like the losers in the military:
“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Wow. Just wow. It's worth recalling that Kerry at one time aspired to command these same men and women from the White House, and claims to still want to lead them. How would these people react to taking orders from a Commander-in-Chief who believes them to be uneducated, lazy losers?

We'll see if Kerry's peers in the Democratic Party support Kerry's description of our fighting men and women. If Democrats that have had John Kerry campaign on their behalf refuse to address Kerry's remarks or openly supports their characterization, it will expose the hypocrisy and the contempt that the Left has for the military. All of the talk of "supporting the troops" will be revealed as lip service.

Will Ned Lamont repudiate Kerry's words? Will Bob Casey, Jr dispute his mentor's characterization of our military as a junkyard for goldbricking idiots? Will Benjamin Cardin affirm that soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines don't have what it takes to succeed in life? Here in Minnesota, does Amy Klobuchar agree with Kerry's analysis? (h/t: Michelle Malkin)

Ellie

Kerry makes me sick

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JOHN KERRY'S OPINION ON MILITARY SERVICE
Neal Boortz


The Poodle recently told a group of college students the following: "You know, education...if you make the most of it...you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well...if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

Well isn't that just so very special! Now we know what The Poodle things about all of your sons, daughters, fathers, brothers and sisters who are "stuck in Iraq."! They just couldn't cut it in school. They weren't smart enough. Now they have found themselves stuck in the military and in Iraq.

If this is the way John Kerry feels about the military, why doesn't he just throw away all those medals he has? Oh, wait. I forgot. Been there, done that.

The Poodle has about summed up his opinion on military service in that statement. In the coming days, he will do everything he can to backpedal. He'll tell us that's not what he meant...that he was really saying this or that. But the fact is, he said it. What about those who join the military so they can get money for college? It is an insult for somebody like John Kerry to sit in his cushy office and talk down to those who are risking their lives in Iraq.

The truth here is that this isn't just John Kerry speaking. This is pretty much the way many Democrats ...especially Hillary Clinton ... feel. Disdain for the military and for those who serve runs deep in the Democrat mind.

Oh, and John Kerry voted for the war that sent those troops to Iraq. But he's had amnesia about that for several years now. And I'm sure the 150,000 troops we have in Iraq are pleased to know that John Kerry thinks they are stuck there because they couldn't cut it in college.

[OLE SARG]

I have never hidden my disgust and contempt for ms john ****head kerry. He is disgrace to our Country and a TRAITOR AND A LIAR!!!!!!!!! He wants to be in the public eye but yet will not disclose his military record (which is probably a disgrace also).
I have never hated ANYONE as I hate this lurch looking MF!!!!!
MAY HE DIE IN HIS OWN FECES!!!!!!

SEMPER FI,

[outlaw3179]

What a f****ing piece of s*it! Unbelieavable! I hope that sonofa***** gets whats coming to him.

[Kegler300]

Maybe, just maybe, most of our military men and women have studied hard and made the effort, but were unable financially to pursue college. Maybe one of the reasons they joined the military is the education benefits. I know many, many servicemembers that have obtained college educations using their GI Bill benefits and tuition assistance. Maybe, they are just brave enough to risk their lives in the military so they can pursue that education. Not everyone is a blueblood or has the benefit of a rich wife.

[outlaw3179]

Ok if you didnt mean to say it then your just a f*cking retard anyway.


GOP, Kerry launch war of words over Iraq comment

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republicans unleashed a firestorm of criticism Tuesday against Sen. John Kerry after the Vietnam veteran told college students they'd "get stuck in Iraq" if they didn't work hard in school.

Kerry later said the remark was a "botched joke" meant to target the president, not U.S. troops.

Before the clarification, White House press secretary Tony Snow, House Majority Leader John Boehner and Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, lambasted the four-term senator and demanded he apologize. (Watch Kerry's 'botched joke' that launched the political stink -- 1:50 )

A CNN poll suggests that Iraq is the second-most important issue behind the economy as voters ponder for whom to cast their ballots in next week's midterms.

"This is an absolute insult," Snow said at a daily press briefing. "Senator Kerry not only owes an apology to those who are serving, but also to the families of those who've given their lives in this."

Boehner said the remark was "insulting" and called on "Democrat candidates across the country" to publicly denounce the comment.

"These Americans who are risking their lives in the fight against terrorism in Iraq deserve better than to have their service demeaned by a United States senator," Boehner said in a statement. "Our soldiers need John Kerry's support, yet John Kerry offers nothing more than disparaging commentary."

Kerry, who is not up for re-election this year, fired back at the White House and GOP, saying he was not disparaging U.S. soldiers.

"If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy," he said. "No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut-and-run policy in Afghanistan and a stand-still-and-lose strategy in Iraq."

Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, spoke to students at Pasadena City College in California on Monday.

According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, the senator took the stage to roaring applause before regaling the crowd with one-liners, Bush barbs and tales of surfing at nearby Mission Beach.

He then said: "You know, education -- if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well.

"If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

A Kerry aide told CNN that the prepared statement, which had been designed to criticize President Bush, "was mangled in delivery."

Kerry was supposed to say, "I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq."

Before the announcement that the statement was botched, McCain, a Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war, joined his GOP colleagues in condemning the remark and demanding an apology.

"Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country's call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education," McCain said in a statement.

U.S. troops "deserve our respect and deepest gratitude for their service," he added and said the notion that only those with poor educations serve in the Iraq "is an insult to every soldier serving in combat."

"Without them, we wouldn't live in a country where people securely possess all their God-given rights, including the right to express insensitive, ill-considered and uninformed remarks," McCain said.

But Kerry refused to relent, calling the criticism part of the "classic GOP playbook."

"I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed-suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq."

He further expressed disgust with "Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country."

Kerry added that President Bush and Vice President Cheney "owe our troops an apology" because they "misled America into war."

Bush and Cheney "have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it," the senator said.

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John Kerry: Do homework or "get stuck in Iraq"
October 31, 2006
By Greg Strange

Well, the good senator from the commonwealth of Massachusetts, John F. Kerry, is at it again. That's right. That debonair, wind-surfing uberpatriot and well-known member of a certain "band of brothers" who gave it his all in Vietnam fighting for his country (right before he proceeded to trash every American serviceman there as a war criminal) is once again caving in to his seemingly irresistible urges to say stupid and highly offensive things about Americans in uniform.

The latest came during a campaign event in California for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides. While talking about education, Kerry said this:

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

There you have it, boys and girls. Either you hit the books and get that homework done or you get shipped off to that illegal, unwinnable war in Iraq with the rest of those dunce cap-wearing losers.

Wow! The injudiciousness of some of Kerry's statements can be absolutely breathtaking. And just think, two short years ago it was John Kerry, "reporting for duty," saluting everybody in sight, traipsing around the country with the band of brothers and sharing all those great war stories from his proud time in Vietnam.

Of course, everybody knew then that it was all a crock cooked up for his presidential campaign to enhance his image as a plausible commander-in-chief. Subsequently, the whole thing collapsed like a bad souffle.

One might think he just doesn't care anymore about trying to project an image that he respects the military, but there have been rumors that he might take another stab at the presidency in '08. Suffice it to say, he can pretty much forget about getting the military vote. Hey, maybe he could run as the "education" president this time instead of the "war hero" president.

In the meantime, somebody needs to tell the senator that we have an all-volunteer military now and people don't just "get stuck in Iraq" because they were academic failures. It's just one more indication that when it comes to military matters, John Kerry's mind is still stuck in the Vietnam era and every engagement is a quagmire for illiterate losers.

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Kerry's Gift
Posted by TOM BEVAN
October 31, 2006

If Republicans really are depressed heading into this election, there's nothing quite like a public yelling match over John Kerry's willingness to insult U.S. troops to offer a little pick me up. After McCain called on Kerry to apologize, Tony Snow at the White House followed suit, adding that Kerry's remarks were "an absolute insult" to U.S. soldiers and their families.

Instead of taking his lumps and apologizing for his ridiculous comments, Kerry went off:

"If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.

I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have."

Nowhere in the statement does John Kerry address the substance of what he said. I understand that Kerry has been eager to show off his tough new, "I WONT BE SWIFT-BOATED AGAIN!!!" strategy that he thinks will help convince Democrats to give him another chance at the brass ring in 2008, but to trot out this tripe to defend an insult against U.S. troops is breathtakingly arrogant - and it's an absolute gift to the GOP seven days before an election.

Kerry over the top response assures that he'll dominate the news chatter for the next 24 hours or more. And you can bet that Republicans in Congressional and Senate races around the country are prepping press releases as we speak (if they haven't already been sent out), calling on their Democratic opponents to disavow Kerry's remarks. It'll be interesting to see how that little drama plays out in the coming days.

[Zulu 36]

Yeah, I think that particular "veteran" would criticize 140,000 troops in Iraq in a heartbeat. Whadda know, he did! And all the rest of us to boot. I guess I wasted my education by being in the military.

The resident senatorial ChiCom agent strikes again. Notice too how he pretends McCain hasn't said anything, just blames the White House and the GOP in general for badmouthing him (with cause). I'm no special fan of McCain, but he does have far more veteran gravitas than Kerry does.

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Kerry Belittles U.S. Troops

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLuMWiQ6r2o

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October 31, 2006
American Legion demands Kerry apology

By Rick Maze
Staff writer

The American Legion’s national commander said Tuesday that former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., should apologize for statements he made Monday that college students who don’t take advantage of educational opportunities may end up “stuck in Iraq.”

Paul A. Morin said he is ‘disappointed” as a Kerry constituent and “outraged” as the Legion commander at that apparent reference to U.S. troops fighting in the Iraq war.

“The senator’s false and outrageous attack was over the top and he should apologize now,” Morin said in a statement. “While The American Legion shares the senator’s appreciation for education, the troops in Iraq represent the most sophisticated, technologically superior military that the world has ever seen. I think there is a thing or two that they could teach most college professors and campus elitists about the way the world works.”

Kerry made his remarks to a college audience in California at a rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides. According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Kerry advised the students that if they take advantage of the many educational opportunities available today and study hard, they can get good jobs and do well in life.

Then he added: “If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq,” according to the newspaper, which reported that the audience reacted to his comment with a combination of gasps and laughter.

Kerry, who appeared at Pasadena City College with Angelides, fellow Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other politicians, was trying to make the point that Angelides would be a better choice for governor for college students because he would repeal an increase in college tuition and expand financial aid.

A clip of Kerry’s statement is on the Internet site YouTube.

Kerry’s press office had no immediate response to questions about his statement.

Morin said this is not the first controversial statement Kerry has made about veterans. “A generation ago, Sen. Kerry slandered his comrades in Vietnam by saying that they were rapists and murderers,” Morin said. “It wasn’t true then and his warped view of today’s heroes isn’t true now.”

Kerry is a decorated Navy veteran of the Vietnam War and a fierce critic of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy who has repeatedly called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

In an Oct. 26 statement, Kerry said it was “clearer than ever that we need new leadership if we are ever going to change the administration’s failed course in Iraq.”

Ellie

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[Kegler300]

You know, Kerry redefines the phrase, "stuck on stupid."

[Ironrider]

A botched joke? A botched joke. It didn't sound like a botched joke to me. Every vet I know is more than just a bit ****ed off. Even non-vets are ticked off. And according to the media, he's still refusing to apologize.

The kids I have know, going to and coming home ( and my former step-son is one) are some of the brightest young men and women I've met. To have that boob belittle them in such a manner is inexcusable.

The man owes an apology in everyone who ever wore the uniform for this nation.
Jim
Vegas

[marinegreen]

Let me sum up all this ****; "fuq all politicians!" there all phonie azzed crooks,liars. Here we're supposed to be this ulitimate nation but all we can do is belittle and make accusations of one another.Watch what happens when this chit is all over with,it'll cause more hate and discontent in politics. MAN IS DESTINED TO DETROY HIMSELF !