Kerry hits a home run at the debates

[kcwayne]

Quote:

There are two ways you can have a lower cost prescription program:
1. Hire Rush Limbaughs maid
2. Elect me as president of the United States


ROTFLMAO!!!!

[VermontDem2004]

1. Yeah real funny

:eyes:

[GalleryGod]

4. I thought it was indeed,funny

:spank:

[quinnox]

2. LOL

I was rolling! Great line.

[soleft]

3. laugh line came after getting caught setting up ambush, not funny

[realFedUp]

5. Well...he missed a few times...

but nice cheerleading for him anyway!

[dolstein]

6. Yeah, good joke. Too bad he's been acting like a dork otherwise

Trashing Dean in the newsroom? Yeah, great move. And his lame response only made him seem even more petty.

And his wuss quotient shot through the roof on the Iran question.

Question: If you had proof that Iran was about to start building nuclear weapons and you went to the UN refused to take any steps to stop Iran, would you be willing to act alone in order to protect the security of the U.S.?

Answer: I disagree with the presmise of your question.

Way to answer the question, John. Michael Dukakis ain't got nothing on you.

[kwolf68]

8. One way to answer it would be to say

...I can tell you one thing...IF I DIDN'T have proof I surely wouldn't attack Iran.

Tough question, but he could leave it right there. So...The premise of the question was dubious.

However, I wish he would have reacted better. All tough questions can be turned around to make you look good even if you don't really answer it. He is a debate champion...Surprised he couldn't pull that off.

[Octafish]

11. That's what all good campaign staffs do.

... it's called the "Spin Room." As soon as a political opponent says something, the staff gets it over the "Fax" machine. It's SOP. Gee, dolstein. I thought you knew all about that political stuff.

[madrchsod]

7. kerry pitches

tomorrow night..maybe he will hit a home run.go cubs!!!!

[displacedtexan]

9. looks like kerry's finding his inner elvis

the king was a tough bastard, too! does anyone really think a nice guy in a pink tutu is going to crush bushco? i want a gentleman junkyard dog!

[SaveElmer]

10. Good Line but...

I though Kerry came of as smarmy and negative. His constant stupid attacks on Dean are really wearing thin.

[Octafish]

12. What attacks?

I watched the entire debate. I don't recall Sen. Kerry attacking Howard Dean. What do you refer to?

[Octafish]

13. Sen. Kerry knows his stuff. Here's one good example.

EXCERPT...

CROWLEY: Senator Kerry, within the last 48 hours, the foreign minister of Iran has said that his country will continue to enrich uranium despite the fact that the International Atomic Energy Agency has told them to cease and desist by the 31st.

Should you become president, if you get solid evidence that Iran is in fact developing nuclear weaponry, and you cannot get anything in the U.N. like what you would like, are you prepared to go after a factory in Iran on your own?

KERRY: I would do whatever is necessary to protect the national security of the United States of America, but, Candy, I don't accept the premise of your question completely.

And it really comes back to the original question about Iraq also.

I spoke with the secretary general in the last 24 hours, and I know that we could be doing better in terms of pulling other countries to our side now with respect to Iraq.

If we did that with respect to Iraq, if we had a different policy with respect to North Korea so that we froze in place the current status quo, i.e. their plutonium, their enrichment and our threat so that we can take that off the table and begin to renegotiate, we would begin to change the dynamics of how countries are perceiving the United States.

But as long as this administration leaves a preemptive doctrine on the table, as long as our administration is proceeding down the road to develop nuclear bunker-busting weapons, and as long as we remain a country that will conduct a preemptive war, we're inviting people to do the very thing that we don't want them to do.

We need a president now to prevent us from the very choice that you just said could occur, and that will only happen if we go to the United Nations now and get rid of the sense of American occupation in Iraq. Take the target off American troops.

(APPLAUSE)

SOURCE:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A5841-2003Oct9?language=printer

Not a bad job of thinking on one's feet. Can't wait to see him put one right up George W's backsides!

[Dr Fate]

14. I rather enjoyed that line myself...

...the media keeps telling us that Kerry is "losing steam"...but I did not see anything fitting this description when I saw him live or on the debate...

[AP]

15. I didn't understand the joke he was trying to make with rebutal to Edwards

biography question.

It was something about "we're all opening our own wallets" or something like that.

Did anyone get it? Kerry seemed amused by it.

[oasis]

16. Kerry has a Bob Newhart kind of wit.

Amusing, funny but no knee slappers.