I’ve been following with some interest the fallout from John Kerry’s latest flare up of Hoof in Mouth disease. I didn’t hear what he said about the military on the day he said it. I first found out about it from listening to Hugh Hewitt interviewing the head of ABC News, Mark Halperin, a day later. It wasn’t until the following day, yesterday, when I heard the clip. In hindsight, I shouldn’t have been shocked or surprised that Kerry would say such a thing, but I must admit I was. It’s the kind of thing really stupid people with no mental safeguards say at parties and then wonder why everyone is shunning them.
Of course, the ‘apology’ Kerry offered up is just pathetic. No one of intelligence higher than my dog heard a ‘joke’. And the fact that every other democrat in the free world has to explain that it was, in fact, a joke just shows how completely morally corrupt the democrats are. Why would anyone defend such a statement? Here’s a newsflash for those of you too clueless to figure it out, if you have to explain that it’s a joke, it’s not a joke.
Further, if in fact Kerry was trying to make the joke at Bush’s expense, as he claims, why didn’t he reference Bush in ANY way in his words? Usually when you try to make such a joke, you say something oblique that references the person you’re trying to slam and that people hearing can reasonably infer was about that person.
This is a Freudian slip, pure and simple. Kerry let his true feelings about the military slip out yet again and doesn’t want to admit it. So Kerry continues to dig his hole deeper by refusing to apologise and Mark Halperin, presumably a pretty smart guy, otherwise he wouldn’t be head of a major news organization, further slams the military. The Karmic Boomerang, which so far has missed Mr. Kerry, looks poised to whack him on the head.
What a sad state of affairs. Do you really want these people running the country come November 8th?
These people? If your bashing Democrats as a group based on Kerry’s goof they’re no better or worse than Republicans. Are you still buying all that propoganda about “making America safer”….I hope that’s not the reason you vote Republican in November.
Every single one of “those people” and those “other” people started an untenable war in Iraq and continue to support large portions of the Patriot Act. We have a federal government that is in complete denial of the state of affairs in Iraq from even their own advisors.
I say it is time to completely clean house (and Senate)
I have my doubts about our ability as a people to do that though even if there was a will to given the current state of our national election system.
There is a very lengthy Princeton study that raises serious concerns over not only the software security Diebold voting machines (90% market share) but also physical security of all voting machines.
This study also showed that paper audit trails were not a very effective safeguard during recounts in many states in 2004 due to lack of legislation regarding their storage, use and interpretation in the event of a mandatory vote recount.
In many cases the paper audit trails were simply discarded or illegible!! Even when legible paper audit trails are kept, an election has yet to be contested in a state that would use them assuming their use was legislated at all. In short they haven’t withstood the legal test (yet)
God help America if we have another close election in November.
Here’s the quickie demo of a virus designed to hack Diebold’s touchscreen voting machines on none other than Fox News.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JESZiLpBLE
Here’s the full length video from Princeton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE1wQdCqrjE&eurl=
And for those of you who enjoy reading
http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/
Dude, stay on point. This is about Kerry being a dumbass and the dipshits who defended him, not a referendum on the bad software in Diebold voting machines.
And I honestly don’t care about them in any specific sense, here in Oregon we vote by mail on good old fashioned paper ballots. Having said that, I would rather see the entire country use paper ballots. I find it satisfying to use something tangible like paper to vote with. It gives heft and weight to an act of such importance. Using a touch screen, which I’ve done in California, has that empty feeling you get an hour after eating Krispy Kreme donuts.
Point – is Kerry an elitist dumbass? Sure
Point – do I care? No
Point – will his comment change my votes in November – No
That’s great that Oregon still uses paper ballots, especially with all those trees nearby to pulp! lol
Yeah, his comments didn’t change my vote either. I had already voted and mailed in my ballot by the time he made those comments.
Just watched the Deibold video. That machine was NOT the machine that I used in California. The system I used, can’t think of the name right now, was much more secure. Each voting machine was just a screen in a sealed case. There was no input plugs on these machines at all. Each machine was daisy chained together to a central machine that collected the votes and that I did not have the codes to get into. Did I mention that I actaully worked at a polling place the first election these things were used. The procedure was the voter came in, got his named checked off the voter rolls, he came to my machine, I punched in a code that corresponded to his registered party, the machine spit out a random 4 digit code that the voter would then use to log into a voting machine. This was a March primary election by the way.