With his latest joke, was he saying that the millitary is uneducated or if you study at Harvard you avoid the war?
2006-11-02 15:34:39 · 20 answers · asked by bora 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
He was saying everyone that is in the military is uneducated and stupid. He himself was in the military. What does it say about him?
2006-11-02 15:41:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋
I must say Kerry put his foot into his mouth he is only human, People sometimes use verb-age in a poor fashion after all he is a poor joke teller, But to say he is anti military is truly hog wash. Never here have I seen mention of his own military standing In fact he WAS a war hero in Viet Nam to make those assumptions about him is a slap in every service mans face, And by the way I'm a Democrat that is telling it the way it is!!
2006-11-02 23:51:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
he won two purple heart clusters in the Vietnam War,, he earned the right to say any damn thing he wants to,, you can respectfully disagree or not,, Bush said Democrats are on the side of terrorists,, how uneducated does he have to be,, he was a cheerleader at Yale,, went AWOL in the Air National Guard,, selected to be president by the GOP, and the Supreme Court,,, fell asleep on 9-11,, invaded a country and lost a war,,, there is no comparison to these two men,,, Bush is a loser
2006-11-02 23:46:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
If your a Harvard man like JFK, you go to War and return a decorated combat veteran, If your a Yale man like John Kerry, you go to war and return a decorated combat veteran. If you go to University of Wyoming and take five deferments like Dick Cheney, you don't go to war, you go to work for Nixon. If your a Yale man like Bush, you don't study, become a cheerleader, you might just get us stuck in a war in Iraq as he has.
2006-11-02 23:50:38 · answer #4 · answered by Victory ! 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't think it's fair to say John Kerry is anti-military. I'm sure he understands and believes in the value of the military and has deep respect for soldiers. His joke was in bad taste, but I don't think it suggests he "hates" the military. He was simply trying to appeal to an audience that would likely find humor in the joke - highly educated and liberal college students.
2006-11-02 23:36:20 · answer #5 · answered by nljth123 3 · 2⤊ 5⤋
His comments for years would lead one to conclude he is anti-military. All the military families I associated with as a mother of Army Ranger say Kerry is anti-military.
2006-11-02 23:44:00 · answer #6 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Depends on when you ask him.
Perhaps during some of the 90 days that he served in Vietnam he was pro. However, ever since he returned he has been very much anti.
2006-11-02 23:44:02 · answer #7 · answered by ML 5 · 2⤊ 5⤋
A bit of both.People can always change,throughout their life,for better or for worse,depending on the circumstance given....tom science 3
2006-11-02 23:44:18 · answer #8 · answered by Thomas M 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
He has total contempt for those who risk their lives to protect us. If that was a joke, why didn't anyone laugh?
2006-11-03 00:09:57 · answer #9 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
So now John Kerry has apologized to the troops; apologized for the Republicans’ deliberate distortions.
Thus, the president will now begin the apologies he owes our troops, right?
This president must apologize to the troops for having suggested, six weeks ago, that the chaos in Iraq, the death and the carnage, the slaughtered Iraqi civilians and the dead American service personnel, will, to history, “look like just a comma.”
This president must apologize to the troops because the intelligence he claims led us into Iraq proved to be undeniably and irredeemably wrong.
This president must apologize to the troops for having laughed about the failure of that intelligence at a banquet while our troops were in harm’s way.
This president must apologize to the troops because the streets of Iraq were not strewn with flowers and its residents did not greet them as liberators.
This president must apologize to the troops because his administration ran out of “plan” after barely two months.
This president must apologize to the troops for getting 2,815 of them killed.
This president must apologize to the troops for getting this country into a war without a clue.
And Mr. Bush owes us an apology for this destructive and omnivorous presidency.
We will not receive them, of course.
This president never apologizes.
Not to the troops.
Not to the people.
Nor will those henchmen who have echoed him.
In calling him a “stuffed suit,” Sen. Kerry was wrong about the press secretary.
Mr. Snow’s words and conduct, falsely earnest and earnestly false, suggest he is not “stuffed,” he is inflated.
And in leaving him out of the equation, Sen. Kerry gave an unwarranted pass to his old friend Sen. John McCain, who should be ashamed of himself tonight.
He rolled over and pretended Kerry had said what he obviously had not.
Only, the symbolic stick he broke over Kerry’s head came in a context even more disturbing.
Mr. McCain demanded the apology while electioneering for a Republican congressional candidate in Illinois.
He was speaking of how often he had been to Walter Reed Hospital to see the wounded Iraq veterans, of how “many of them have lost limbs.”
2006-11-02 23:36:54 · answer #10 · answered by dstr 6 · 4⤊ 6⤋