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Last updated on June 15th, 2017 at 12:34 pm

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!)

Posted by Tim B. on 04/21/2005 at 10:06 AM

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?
Posted by giles on 04/21 at 10:29 AM • #

In an emergency, form a committee!
Now THAT’S leadership…
/sarcasm
How come ANY Americans voted for that twerp I don’t know?
Posted by Rob Read on 04/21 at 11:33 AM • #

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.
Posted by m on 04/21 at 11:34 AM • #

Is there anything in the video that’s worth editing?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 04/21 at 11:36 AM • #

Why is he still talking? Can’t he just quietly go away?
What’s the video say anyway?
Posted by Aging Gamer on 04/21 at 12:03 PM • #

“I can’t literally sit in your living room”
Why not? Got the piles or is it that you just dont like mixing with hicks?
Posted by giles on 04/21 at 12:14 PM • #

Tim, 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 04/21 at 12:50 PM • #

Hey, I clicked on it. I even watched the first 10 seconds or so, then I realized my laptop speakers were turned waaaay down.
I realized at that point if I turned them up, I’d be able to hear what he was saying. The downside to that was if I turned them up, I’d be able to hear what he was saying.
Posted by david on 04/21 at 01:01 PM • #

I watched it, and kept waiting for his toungue to leap from his mouth and run away screaming.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a longer string of unsupported assertions in my life.
How can we miss him if he won’t go away?
Posted by Parker on 04/21 at 01:22 PM • #

It’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.
Posted by Nightfly on 04/21 at 01:42 PM • #

You know, all along I thought a democracy worked when the majority position carried the day. Somehow, in his view of democracy, it works when a minority blocks the majority. Sounds like the Soviet Central Committee to me.
How will we know when Kerry goes away?
Posted by Forbes on 04/21 at 01:59 PM • #

That should have come with a warning. Kerry’s even hard to take on an emplty stomach.
Posted by Retread on 04/21 at 02:16 PM • #

He looks like Stan Laurel in that pic.
Posted by Dave S. on 04/21 at 02:25 PM • #

I can’t literally sit in your living room
as opposed to
I can’t sit in your living room
Literally he literally can’t literally sit literally in literally my literally living literally room.
Well, thank God.
Posted by m on 04/21 at 02:27 PM • #

I have a plan to not watch this video.
Posted by tachyonshuggy on 04/21 at 02:30 PM • #

Looking each other in the eye generally precedes an attack, at least with chimpanzees. Offer a banana, is my advice. Democracy works best when you offer bananas. If you present yourself with proper humility soon you too may be top banana.
Offer Parker-Bowles an apple, would be the exception.
Posted by rhhardin on 04/21 at 03:02 PM • #

The Messiah refuses to come and Kerry refuses to go.
Posted by Kofi Annan on 04/21 at 03:05 PM • #

“He’s looking at me!”
Tim, please post something new at the top; make him quit.
Posted by m on 04/21 at 03:06 PM • #

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
John Kerry served in Vietnam? Who knew?
Posted by Achillea on 04/21 at 03:23 PM • #

Let’s get this straight.
Kerry was a sailor.
He was not EVER a soldier.
As the saying goes…..he’s not a soldier’s arsehole……well maybe I could concede him that distinction.
Yeah OK what the hell, I’m feeling particularly generous.
Sailor and an Arsehole.
Posted by 81Alpha on 04/21 at 03:49 PM • #

“I can’t literally sit in your living room”
Why not? Got the piles or is it that you just dont like mixing with hicks?
I don’t get it, either. It’s not like visiting the remaining 17 or so members of the johnkerry.com community would cut that much into his windsurfing time.
Posted by PW on 04/21 at 03:55 PM • #

Offer a banana, is my advice.
Then reenact the self defence class from “Monty Python”…
Posted by Mr. Blue on 04/21 at 03:55 PM • #

Springing 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.
Posted by blerp on 04/21 at 04:57 PM • #

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.
Posted by debo on 04/21 at 05:01 PM • #

Is this one of those Japanese horror videos, where you watch it and then, like, die??
Posted by cuckoo on 04/21 at 05:48 PM • #

He still thinks he got all those votes because people liked him. Hasn’t anybody told him yet that it was because so many of his constituents were voting for AnybodyButBush?
Posted by RebeccaH on 04/21 at 06:34 PM • #

bravo, nightfly.
Posted by guinsPen on 04/21 at 07:31 PM • #

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 04/21 at 07:58 PM • #

I 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.
Posted by terryelee on 04/21 at 08:09 PM • #

In the days ahead, I urge you to closely follow and actively participate in the debates now raging in Washington. ~John Kerry~
So, do you think they’ll let us use the Senate Lunchroom, or should we bring our own.
Posted by guinsPen on 04/21 at 08:44 PM • #

What’s that he’s standing next to? A wall of hieroglyphics? The nuance is all kind of lost on me.
Posted by m on 04/21 at 09:01 PM • #

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 04/21 at 09:13 PM • #

Do you have a hi-rez copy of that pic? I got paintball this weekend…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 04/21 at 10:31 PM • #

Another reason to like Benedict XVI Chicago Tribune
Posted by noir on 04/21 at 11:50 PM • #

show the man some respek! he’s got great hair!
Posted by Deo Vindice on 04/22 at 03:44 AM • #

he looked sort of like a pixar animation to me
Posted by steve68 on 04/22 at 03:50 AM • #

A sign – sigh -here’s my two fingers then.
Posted by crash on 04/22 at 06:53 AM • #

He’s pining for Camilla …
Posted by Stevo on 04/22 at 07:27 AM • #

He’ll probably follow this non-event with an interview with Teresa. Then the leetle peeples will see once more what they missed by voting for Bush.
He’s just going to make Hillary spend a lot of money before he finally slinks off to Idaho or Antibes still firmly clutching his 180.
Posted by Abu Qa’Qa on 04/22 at 07:35 AM • #

So, 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 04/22 at 09:00 AM • #

That’s not a compassionate head-tilt. That’s the meds kicking in…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 04/22 at 09:11 AM • #

eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Posted by KK on 04/22 at 09:29 AM • #

Make the scary man go away!
Posted by Mr. Blue on 04/22 at 05:42 PM • #

“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 04/22 at 06:26 PM • #

What’s really scary is this man still thinks he’s a leader…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 04/22 at 07:21 PM • #

Just 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.
Posted by lmbrjk on 04/22 at 08:55 PM • #