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STEP BACK!
An e-mail arrives from John Kerry HQ:
There are moments in our work together when it’s important to step back, look each other in the eye, and decide what to do next.
Vote for George Bush again?
This is one of those moments.
Okay. Stepping back. Looking you in the eye. Hit me, Mr. Seabiscuit.
The Republican Party’s leaders have set America on an extraordinarily dangerous path. We are no longer just debating the merits of one policy over another. It’s far more fundamental than that. The far right seems set on a path that challenges the fundamentals of how we make our democracy work best for all of us.
Am I standing far enough back?
I can’t literally sit in your living room and talk about what’s going on and how we need to rise to the occasion.
You can’t? You CAN’T? (crying)
So, I’ve chosen the next best thing, recording a video message that I hope each and every member of the johnkerry.com community will take the time to watch.
Here it is. For all of you in the johnkerry.com community. (Note the compassionate head-tilt above! Give the man a sign!)
There are moments in our work together when it’s important to step back, look each other in the eye, and decide what to do next. This is one of those moments.
There should have been moments, before they let this one loose, when they ran it by an editor tasked with removing the sophomoric prose.
But then there might not have been any text remaining.
Is there anything in the video that’s worth editing?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2005 04 21 at 12:36 PM • permalinkWhy is he still talking? Can’t he just quietly go away?
What’s the video say anyway?
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 04 21 at 01:03 PM • permalinkTim, I think it’s damn nice of you to link the video. I can’t imagine too many left liberal blogs linking a video from President Bush.
Of course, I don’t think many of your readers are accessing the video. But at least you offered it.
Very nice.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 21 at 01:50 PM • permalinkIt’s not a bad video. He looks rather Senatorial - not that that’s a compliment, mind you.
He even tells the truth by accident:
We are no longer just debating the merits of one policy over another. It’s far more fundamental than that. The far right seems set on a path that challenges the fundamentals of how we make our democracy work best for all of us.
We have indeed fallen below debating policy merits. A solid majority of your party, Sir, have gone stark nutters. They don’t even believe that our democracy works at all - they don’t believe in the right to defend it by force against armed enemies. They believe that judges are the ultimate arbiters of that democracy, able to dominate and suborn the several states’ legislatures, and by extension the citizens. And they are so fond of themselves that they label any attempt at correcting the Republic to be “extremely dangerous” and “far right.”
Well, the “right” part is accurate. We have the right to do exactly as you fear we may do, as given us by the country you swore to defend as a soldier, and the Constitution you swore to uphold as a Senator. It’s not our fault that you continue to prove yourself to be full of grade-A refined Bravo Sierra.
I have a plan to not watch this video.
Posted by tachyonshuggy on 2005 04 21 at 03:30 PM • permalinkThe Messiah refuses to come and Kerry refuses to go.
Posted by Kofi Annan on 2005 04 21 at 04:05 PM • permalinkSpringing that picture on us with no warning was very bad. Some of have very quirky stomachs, you know. The comments made up for it though. Wonderfully entertaining.
Kofi I hope you won’t mind, but I’d like to add this to my list of great one-liners:
“The Messiah refuses to come and Kerry refuses to go.”
It’ll keep me laughing every time I think of it for a long time to come.
Anyone care to venture into the Interview tab and tell me how much of the “Meet the Press” Interview is included? I suspect they edited out his saying he’d sign form 180, but there were a few other points I remember as terrible missteps (the pessimistic response to the Iraqi elections for one).
I’d do it - honest - but I don’t have working speakers. Can’t stand the meeting reminder, email alert, and instant messaging chirps nagging me all day. Er - literally.
Run, Kerry, Run!!!
Only you can expose that soft leftist underbelly of She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named, n’est-ce pas?
You can win in ‘08, if you can just prevent the Republicans from enaging in all that “voter intimidation” stuff.
Just Do It.
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2005 04 21 at 08:58 PM • permalinkI will not listen to his idiot video.
I had to listen to this fool for an entire presidential campaign and that is quite enough.
You know I don’t understand why Bolton is a meany for putting his hands on his hips and pursing his lips but Kerry gets to scream at his man servant for bringing him the wrong hair brush. And gets to chew out the secret service man for getting in his way on the ski slopes. And gets to cut in line with an imperious, do you know who I am???
Not to mention the fact that he gets to go in front of the whole freaking planet and call tens of thousands of Americans rapists and murderers.Talk about not working and playing well with others.
But I forget, he is a liberal Democrat and the rules that apply to we mere mortals are not for the likes of John Forbes Kerry.
So, do you think they’ll let us use the Senate Lunchroom
Or maybe see his office, AKA the Senate Lurchroom.
Posted by tachyonshuggy on 2005 04 21 at 10:13 PM • permalinkDo you have a hi-rez copy of that pic? I got paintball this weekend…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 21 at 11:31 PM • permalinkAnother reason to like Benedict XVI Chicago Tribune
show the man some respek! he’s got great hair!
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 04 22 at 04:44 AM • permalinkSo, do you think they’ll let us use the Senate Lunchroom, or should we bring our own.
It’s be held at Wendy’s. They’re serving chilli, a brand new dish discovered by Teresa. Of course, she won’t be eating it. Her lunch is coming from the country club.
Does anyone else get the impression of Mrs. Thurston Howe III?
Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 22 at 10:00 AM • permalinkThat’s not a compassionate head-tilt. That’s the meds kicking in…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 22 at 10:11 AM • permalink“Sometimes you have to grab the bull by the tail and look him in the eye.”
-Groucho Marx
Makes more sense than ol’ Horseface.
N. O’Brain
Posted by N. O'Brain on 2005 04 22 at 07:26 PM • permalinkWhat’s really scary is this man still thinks he’s a leader…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 22 at 08:21 PM • permalinkJust look at that picture, ladies. Isn’t he just dreamy. He probably has to beat the girls away with poison-tipped punji sticks, and with all those botox injections, this is one aging hippy who isn’t going to age anytime soon.
Come on girls, he’s worth more than a passing glance. It’s highly probable that Teresa will mysteriously choke to death by ingesting a lucky hat, and Johnny-boy here is more than likely to be the major beneficiary.
Mike G — That’s no death star. It’s something even more dangerous, a building full of Congressmen…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 23 at 01:04 AM • permalinkWe don’t let them have access to the laser cannon, though.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 04 23 at 10:02 AM • permalinkWe don’t let them have access to the laser cannon, though.
For which the Moties thank you.
-N. O’Brain
Posted by N. O'Brain on 2005 04 23 at 02:28 PM • permalink
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There are moments in our work together when it’s important to step back, look each other in the eye, and decide what to do next.
Yawn?