"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Is this the entire quote, or was there more to it that actually makes it a slam against Bush? This is all of the quote I've seen on the news or read in news stories.
2006-11-01 03:36:20 · 19 answers · asked by Mutt 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'm not a Kerry supporter, but I'm not bashing him. I know the media takes things out of context because it makes better news, so I want to get the whole story before I make up my mind on what he said.
2006-11-01 03:48:49 · update #1
Who cares......should we be squabling about such stupid issues when our country is turning to crap right before our eyes and its less than a week from the mid terms?
What about the real issues, doesnt anyone care about those anymore? I guess not...so keep talking about the has-been massachusetts senator.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aq0C.67XVjo.7b1As2KgAmbsy6IX?qid=20061101082507AAR5uWz
2006-11-01 03:39:42 · answer #1 · answered by big-brother 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋
This is not the entire quote.
The rest of the quote went....."...you make an effort to be smart, you can do well, you can even become President (sarcasm followed with crowd laughter)....."
The rest was meant to say "If you don't, you get US stuck in Iraq". It was clearly a botched joke making fun of the President.
AND, Tony Snow, the Press Secretary admitted yesterday that The White House recognized that it was a botched joke at the President.
It is in fact, well documented that The President was at best a C student, and did just average in his schooling. Which frankly, is abundantly clear, when in his "rebuttal" speech yesterday to the comments made by Kerry, he actually used the phrase "our military members are plenty smart". The President might actually be respected as a more intelligent figure if he could complete a sentence using proper English.
Additionally, John Kerry had a press conference yesterday explaining that it was in fact a botched joke, and he was sorry that he made the botched joke. He was talking about our President and not our (his words) "Brave Heroes".
I sure would like to see the media, and The President for that matter, spending less time worrying about a joke made by a Senator speaking to college kids, and more time worrying about matters that actually effect our country's well being.
2006-11-01 11:54:04 · answer #2 · answered by jemmy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If the quote presented here is what Mr. Kerry said, he is no smarter than Mr. Bush. In what context could this statement not be offensive?
{Kerry opened his speech at Pasadena City College with several one-liners, saying at one point that Bush had lived in Texas but now “lives in a state of denial.”
He then said: “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”}
This is not the type of "joke" we need from the leader of the free world, Democrat , Republican, Libertarian or Independent.
2006-11-01 11:48:52 · answer #3 · answered by Eddie J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all for the lack of a word.....
Very true.. however... people, especially politicians have to choose their words very carefully. There is a time to joke and there is a time not to joke... just like there are some topics you simply do not joke about.
Kerry, although taken out of context, should not have uttered anything along those lines. He has the audacity to talk about men and women who NEVER have worn this country's uniform when he has disgraced it by tossing his military medals away and his counterpart, Clinton, never wore the uniform.
I think Mr. Kerry, should rethink his stance and definitly think before he speaks.
You can't tell me that if Bush would have made such a comment that Kerry himself would not have been all over it.
2006-11-01 11:45:09 · answer #4 · answered by j H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As always, Kerry says the wrong thing. And again, the media sets the wrong spin on it. There is much larger picture here. Do not let yourself be distracted.
In Dubya's No Child Left Behind Plan school districts who are performing below standards are allowed to forward names of those students data info to the military. So basically, if you don't have (what?) education, you end up in Iraq. It is the truth, but Kerry being the loser he usually is, shoots himself in the foot again. I am so an Independent this election....
People need to understand the ramifications of the NCLB act and let people know this is Bush's way of feeding our sons and daughters to the military to do his evil bidding.
2006-11-01 11:52:57 · answer #5 · answered by Lucky Lola 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I only know what I heard and what I heard was a negative aspersion cast on our military. No matter how hard the left wingers try to manipulate their way out, it is still a negative by Kerry and thus the democratic party. Did the Republicans try to justify Foley's deeds? No!!! He resigned. Did Kerry offer an apology? No, he lied and tried the old democratic strategy of lies and half truths.
2006-11-01 11:52:06 · answer #6 · answered by just the facts 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, but if that is the whole quote, then there are many ways people will interpret what he said. To me it sounds that unless you take advantage of all the education this Nation has to offer, you might just find yourself joining the military and getting stuck in Iraq because of your lack of options. See that doesn't sound bad, it is how people interprit it, and many just wanna bash him, so they make it into a negative thing.
2006-11-01 11:45:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's it. He claims he meant to say "you get US stuck in Iraq."
If he would have apologized for the way it came out it would have gone away. He is too stubborn and hates Bush so much that he won't admit that he misspoke. He made this bigger than it should have been by not being conciliatory and trying to go on the offensive at the wrong time. He is going to hurt his party.
2006-11-01 11:42:14 · answer #8 · answered by C B 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
1.) Bush had better grades in college than Kerry
2.) Is Kerry too dumb to know when he's saying something that will offend people, or is he on auto pilot?
3.) Kerry is the joke
2006-11-01 11:43:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm with Big Brother on this one. Get over it people. He was making several jokes about Bush. You people know nothing about context, because all today's right-wing mouthpieces constantly take things out of context. You poor dupes, don't know any difference. I feel sad for you.
2006-11-01 11:43:45 · answer #10 · answered by Believe in Possibilities 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Kerry and the dumbocrats will be back peddling for days over this one. He said it, he meant it, and we are all lucky he isn't anywhere near the Oval Office. This was the best thing for the Republican Party since the Dean Scream!
2006-11-01 11:43:18 · answer #11 · answered by jh 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋