Kerry Interview on Imus today: Can you understand him?

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-09-15 10:58pm

Exonerate wrote:Oh, why oh why did Kerry get nominated this race... Even Dean would be doing better by sticking to his opinions, as unpopular as they might be. Kerry should just pick a position and stick to it. The only thing he has going for him is that he's not Bush. The one important election, and the Democrats have an idiot running...

Almost as if they set Kerry up to fail...

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2004-09-15 11:06pm

I don't buy that theory.

What I think happened is that Kerry managed to run an inoffensive campaign that emphasized his war service while the rest of the pack savaged each other.

It made Kerry look more dignified and his running on Vietnam during the primaries convinced many Democrats that he was the perfect candidate to take 'AWOL' on.

Either that, or most of the primary voters needed help getting off the short bus in order to enter the polling places.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-09-15 11:34pm

Glocksman picked it. Kerry ran a stealthy campaign and had generally been inoffensive. The problem being of course that doesn't work forever.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2004-09-16 12:27am

Stormbringer wrote:Glocksman picked it. Kerry ran a stealthy campaign and had generally been inoffensive. The problem being of course that doesn't work forever.

And the fact that it only worked because the other candidates were tearing at each others' jugulars. Against Bush, when he's the only guy, everyone looks to Kerry as the one who should be ripping Bush.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2004-09-16 12:46am

Didn't Will Rogers once say that "I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat'?

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » 2004-09-16 03:36am

We need a FDR, a Lincoln, a fucking leader and statesmen. Instead we have dumber vs jellyfish...

I'm starting to feel like I'm in old Rome watching the death of the Republic.

Thinkmarble · Post by **Thinkmarble** » 2004-09-16 04:31am

Darth Wong wrote: No nuclear physicists either. Popularity with the voters is not very well correlated with intelligence. Naked ambition and the ability to bullshit people, on the other hand ...

Not exactly a nuclear physicist, but it is well possible that the next head of government in germany has a PhD in physics.
Angela Merkel, the most likely candidate of the conservatives for chancellor, has made her PhD in the field of chemical physics/quantum chemnistry.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-09-16 05:24am

Thinkmarble wrote:
Darth Wong wrote: No nuclear physicists either. Popularity with the voters is not very well correlated with intelligence. Naked ambition and the ability to bullshit people, on the other hand ...
Not exactly a nuclear physicist, but it is well possible that the next head of government in germany has a PhD in physics.
Angela Merkel, the most likely candidate of the conservatives for chancellor, has made her PhD in the field of chemical physics/quantum chemnistry.

Germany is not as hostile to intellectuals as America is. In America, the word "intellectual" is an insult, and people prefer "folksy and dumb".

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-09-16 11:27am

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Zaia wrote:My take on it: <snip>
no Z, thats what people wish he had the balls to say.

I think it's all in there. It's just rather garbled.

It's easier to understand when you can read it and go over it a couple of times than it would be to hear him speak this in an interview or speech. Pity.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2004-09-16 02:25pm

Oh man, I just saw Bush on the news, reading Kerry's quotes from the Imus show to a laughing audience...

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-09-16 02:33pm

Zaia wrote:
Col. Crackpot wrote:
Zaia wrote:My take on it: <snip>
no Z, thats what people wish he had the balls to say.
I think it's all in there. It's just rather garbled.

It's easier to understand when you can read it and go over it a couple of times than it would be to hear him speak this in an interview or speech. Pity.

Frankly, I think it's just a garbled mess simply so people such as yourself can read into it what they wish.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-09-16 06:17pm

Thinkmarble wrote:
Darth Wong wrote: No nuclear physicists either. Popularity with the voters is not very well correlated with intelligence. Naked ambition and the ability to bullshit people, on the other hand ...
Not exactly a nuclear physicist, but it is well possible that the next head of government in germany has a PhD in physics.
Angela Merkel, the most likely candidate of the conservatives for chancellor, has made her PhD in the field of chemical physics/quantum chemnistry.

Weren't Hoover and Carter engineers?

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2004-09-16 10:47pm

Hopeless tangent with Carter, Bush, and Reagan split.

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-09-17 01:19am

Stormbringer wrote:
Zaia wrote:I think it's all in there. It's just rather garbled.

It's easier to understand when you can read it and go over it a couple of times than it would be to hear him speak this in an interview or speech. Pity.
Frankly, I think it's just a garbled mess simply so people such as yourself can read into it what they wish.

And what kind of people would those be?

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