Kerry's F-Bomb. Good Political strategy

[bryant69]

Frankly the first we've seen from Kerry in quite a while.

It was bait. He said it in a candid sort of way and came across as genuine. But mostly it was bait. Of course the white house chief of staff responded, claiming that Kerry's speech was inappropriate.

That gives Kerry the perfect opportunity to remind us all what we should already know; he served his country in Vietnam while President Bush lazed around the air reserves. President Bush comes off as kind of a prig complaining about language, while Kerry's Manliness Quotient (MQ) goes up by a lot.

I like Kerry (I know there are others who disagree with me on this one), so It's nice to see him actually doing something right.

Bryant
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[quinnox]

1. Yea

I have the same thoughts, it was a calculated political move, heck, it might even work.

[BJ]

2. I don't know about you..........................................

...But I'm tired of middle-aged punks on Harleys.

[59millionmorons]

3. I like it

This could do to jr what WIMP in the Time Magazine did for Daddy.
Ask yourself, does the WH people really want to push this comment. If they do then people will think deeply about what Kerry said and they are likely to agree with Kerry.

[Left Wing Democrat]

4. F Word

Its seems to be more of a move of desperation than anything else. Kerry is sinking in the polls, and he had to do something to gain attention. Maybe he thought this would appeal to the readers of Rolling Stone.

[bryant69]

5. I'm not sure what you mean by move of desperation

Do you think it would be better if he dropped out? Gave up?

[sandnsea]

6. It really IS Kerry

He's not an aloof, elitist prig no matter how effectively the media has portrayed him that way.

"Hi, this is John Kerry," he says. "I had a message you called. Um, happy to help you out with, uh, whatever you need." He hangs up, then spins around with the phone in his hand. "What the hell was I calling this guy about?" He says. "Sorry," Wade says, shuffling through papers in the backseat. "I gave you the wrong guy." (Later, The New Republic will cite that mistaken voice-mail message as evidence of Kerry's 2004-minded courtship of the media: "When a TNR colleague left a message with Kerry's press office recently, the senator personally called him back a few minutes later although the reporter hadn't even asked for an interview.") Noting my physical discomfort beside him in the backseat, Wade asks Kerry, "Sir, have you ever considered getting a bigger car?" Kerry shoots back, "No, but I have thought about cutting all your fucking legs off at the knees." Then he waves a hand at the green world outside. "Look at this weather," he exclaims.. "If I could, I'd go roll around on the grass somewhere ideally a spot where a dog hadn't been."

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/clips/news_2002_0827.html

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. Well

Since nobody bothered listening to that *boring* foriegn policy speech then why not pull out the stops?

[sandnsea]

10. I've thought of that too

gossip column politics. And quibbling over the word fuck is really just more of it, I know.

Your link, called the most brilliant foreign policy speech in years, gets... nothing. Except hyperbolic reactions to the name Jim Baker by people who probably didn't even read the thing in the first place. *sigh*

[burning bush]

8. Thumbs up from a Dean supporter!

Somebody HAD to say this, eventually.

Maybe Kerry has gotten to the "who gives a F*" point in his campaign, and reached his Bullworth moment.

Please let it be so.... :)

[ArkDem]

9. Yes.

His campaign will really take off now.

[Ficus]

11. smart move

I see it as a calculated political move, however, I can't say I disagree with the tone or substance of his argument. I think it may fly with many undecideds who are thinking that.