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Thu Sep-30-04 10:55 PM
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Did you get the "leash" comment about his daughters??? |
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When they chatted it up about their daughters, and Kerry said he appreciated the Bush daughters' humor, * said "I should probably put a leash on them." Kerry said, "No, I've learned that's not a good idea."
I don't know about you, but when * said "leash", I immediately thought of Abu Ghraib and the humiliation of Iraqi prisoners. Obviously the USA has completely forgot about our biggest fuck up in Iraq: Abu Ghraib.
And finally, neither candidate admitted that the Iraqi people don't even want us there, thanks to our leading naked prisoners around on leashes (not to mention our bombs falling on their children). You can't "win the peace." Peace is not a war.
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Thu Sep-30-04 10:58 PM
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1. Hadn't put the prison into it, but you're right |
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I thought it just a total insult to his daughters. You should never insult those you love in public. Let alone in front of the entire world.
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Fri Oct-01-04 12:25 AM
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12. Bush does that all the time, it's horrible. He is such an asshat. |
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Thu Sep-30-04 11:01 PM
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2. That COULD be the #2 gaffe of the night, but it's too horrible to report |
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Kerry's momentary confusing of Saddam and bin Laden will be the big spin point. Neither it nor Bush's Freudian Abu Ghraib allusion is truly a significant slip.
The real sound bite OUGHT to be when Kerry busted Bush for saying hitting Iraq was a way of striking back for 9/11. God help that poor bastard (and the people he's supposed to be protecting), but I think he really believes attacking country Y for the evil deeds of an unrelated terrorist group from country X is a case of "striking back."
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Thu Sep-30-04 11:02 PM
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3. bucky: it was bush who confused and not Senator Kerry. |
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Thu Sep-30-04 11:03 PM
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5. Oh thank God. I was listening on the radio and posting to DU @ same time |
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No TV means THEY can't monitor my bowel movements and control my thoughts.
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Thu Sep-30-04 11:03 PM
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4. I don't think bush complimented Mrs Kerry. JK praised Laura though |
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Thu Sep-30-04 11:06 PM
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Kerry went out of hs way to compliment the manslaughterer Laura...
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Fri Oct-01-04 12:55 AM
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16. A very classy (and smart) move on Kerry's part |
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Anyone criticizing Theresa now will look like a complete a-hole.
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Thu Sep-30-04 11:04 PM
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6. Kerry had a couple of these... |
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if Bush actually caught them or not, or the rest of the American public, I would be surprised...
Kerry referred to the Russian media, and I believe it definitely was in regards to our media..
And then this one...too funny!!!
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Thu Sep-30-04 11:06 PM
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It was a revealing, unscripted moment. The only thing Kerry could have better spoken to handle it might have been, "I haven't tried that, how does it work out for you?"
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Thu Sep-30-04 11:09 PM
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10. I think Kerry said the perfect thing. |
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I feel badly for Bush's daughters. To have been raised so poorly and then put down like that in public by their father. What a shame.
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Fri Oct-01-04 12:18 AM
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11. yes - they then had to get up on stage with him - nothing like building |
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your kids up. But it should be no surprise to anyone - bush has always said he is the master of low expectations.
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Fri Oct-01-04 12:52 AM
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14. "I feel badly for Bush's daughters." |
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I do too, even thought I don't care for them so much. The fact that a parent would say something like that about his own children in front of the entire world, even as a 'joke' ha, speaks volumes about the relationship they have. The put-down came so quickly and apparently without thought. * doesn't self-censor. "Put a leash on" is something you do to a dog. Sure, it's an expression and all, but with Abu Ghraib still fresh in people's minds, it wasn't just tasteless and crass, it was telling of how little an impression the pictures and reports from Abu Ghraib made on him.
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Thu Sep-30-04 11:07 PM
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9. I wonder how THEY felt about it. |
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Fri Oct-01-04 12:54 AM
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15. Well thats how wannabes like dubya are |
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they like to leash their daughters. I am no fan of their father but I don't dislike the Bush twins, though I must say I prefer Vanessa and Alexandra Kerry and Cate Edwards to those two but it's not as if they're spreading lies about Kerry around like their father and his master, Dick Cheney.
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