Kerry Throws Down the Gaunlet on Bush Press Conference

[DJcairo]

Another unbelievable statement from the Bush press conference:

BUSH TODAY:
The "Mission Accomplished" sign, of course, was put up by the members of the USS Abraham Lincoln, saying that their mission was accomplished. I know it was attributed somehow to some ingenious advance man from my staff.”

HERE IS HOW IT WAS REPORTED IN MAY:
"White House officials say that a variety of people, including the president, came up with the idea, and that Sforza embedded himself on the carrier to make preparations days before Mr. Bush's landing in a flight suit and his early evening speech. Media strategists noted afterward that Mr. Sforza and his aides had choreographed every aspect of the event, even down to the members of the Lincoln crew arrayed in coordinated shirt colors over Mr. Bush's right shoulder and the "Mission Accomplished" banner placed to perfectly capture the president and the celebratory two words in a single shot."

JOHN KERRY TODAY:
“George Bush has replaced Harry Truman’s ‘The Buck Stops Here’ with ‘Don’t blame me, I only work here.’ The President refuses to take responsibility not just for his taxpayer-funded landing on an aircraft carrier, but for the betrayal of our troops that his lack of post-war planning represented. Ask our troops in Iraq whether the mission has been accomplished. Ask our troops in Iraq whether they’d rather have had a fancy aircraft landing from the President or a responsible post-war plan to keep them safe. It’s not our troops’ fault that the White House turned over to media strategists and advance staff an occasion that should have been used to bring other countries to our side and begin the multilateral rebuilding of Iraq and the end of an American occupation.”
http://blog.johnkerry.com/

[Hawkeye-X]

1. /me looks at his watch.

Six hours since the Dim One blabbed his mouth at the press conference, was this released. Fortunately, my man Dean and also Clark issued an immediate statement in regards to this slogjob.

Hawkeye-X

[cindyw]

2. Boy you know I was supporting Kerry and then you convinced me

that the one who gets his press release out first is the better man and will make the better president.

Dean 2012

[sandnsea]

3. Complete with rebuttals?

Sourced news articles? Several of them? No, just a statement. Not the same thing.

Use the damned articles, attribute them to Dean, I don't really care. For once, just spread the truth without politicizing every fucking thing towards the primaries. Fighting the Bush rhetoric is more important in this case.

[LuminousX]

25. I strongly agree,

though Kerry deserves kudos on this. It is one thing to just say, as Dean essentially did, 'that sucked' and quite another to prove why it sucked.

[Egnever]

28. yea cause thats hard

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=+bush+lands+on+aircraft+carrier&btnG=Google+Search

took ten seconds.

Bush lands aircraft carier + google= plenty of sources

real impressive

[MrPeepers]

34. Ok.

They did it didn't they? They completely crushed Bush didn't they? So what's the problem? There's really no need to try to make every damn thing Kerry's campaign does look bad; especially when it's great.

Peepers

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[Egnever]

21. LOL how did I know you would say that?

[Padraig18]

22. Lucky guess?

:P

[sandnsea]

5. Here's a better link

Please pick up these articles and spread them around.

http://blog.johnkerry.com/blog/archives/000575.html#more

[chookie]

16. The jaw drops, the mind reels, the stomach turns....

I missed His Chimperial Highness's speech today, and -- although I know he will never run out of ways to shock and repel me, still, I retain an inner sense of decency to still be revolted by anyone who would pull such a utter lie.

YEAH SURE SMIRKY! Yeah yeah -- the sailors put the sign up (I suppose they have a full graphic arts production studio on board) , and yeah yeah, SURE it meant that *their* mission was accomplished.

I guess turning the aircraft carrier to show the skyline rather than the coastline, and how the cameras framed the monkey masquerade (dress-up *is* fun, as Al Franken says) with the banner in the background -- in short, all the Triump of the Will stuff that was orchestrated that day was JUST A COINCIDENCE!!

BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT! DAMN! All the F***ing tv and print coverage of this event pushed it down our liberal throats that "it" had been a short, almost bloodless victory for our Divinely Chosen Magnificent Commander in Chimp -- and this event was celebrating joyfulling our Glorious VIctory!!

We all know they were going to use footage of the event (paid for by *our* taxes) for Campaign 2004 -- because THEY were too stupid to know that the war was FAR from over, as we did. Anyone remember how they hammered us the week of this event?

So -- they get caught, bareassed, ONCE AGAIN -- being stupid and lying -- and NOW they are changing the story, just like how Saddam Hussein was behind Sept 11 (Ann Coulter actually said this today, slipping it in, despite seconds earlier having said "Gee, you were STUPID if you thought Saddam Hussein was behind Sept 11!" -- because their lies are like reflexes, and they just can't help themselves, because they prefer to PRETEND things are one way, when they very obviously are not.

I have a lot of admiration for Sen Kerry as it is -- but how that boy can keep from smacking the shit out of that little chimpboy -- well, I just don't know how he can hold back!

Wanna make a bet, that some where in some warehouse, there are hundreds of boxes of Campaign 2004 flyers with Awol Pyle giving the "thumbs up" on the aircraft carrier, with a slogan on it like "All Hail Our Glorious Victorious Leader!!!"?

Just how LOW is this little shit going to drag down our nation before one of our Candidates kicks his monkey ass back to Lynch-ville County Texas?

[Egnever]

20. Wow that was a better statement than kerry's!!

Chookie in 2004!!!!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

29. I'm definately wavering after that post!

[Padraig18]

31. Yeah!

Makes you want to grab a huge chunk of that "Kerry vision", doesn't it? Oh, Howard, I am sssooooooooooo torn now... :P

[frank frankly]

30. keep at it, Kerry!

good work, John :hi: