Jeff Wells over at Rigorous Intuition pretty much pins my feelings about John Kerry today.
He is either a total fool or a Ratpub mole.
Or of course, both.
Forget about him.
Forever.
Read on for some Jeff Wells quotes.
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For instance, John Kerry’s accustomed clutch performance. While uselessly stumping in California for designated sap Phil Angelides, Kerry horks a virtual gob in the eye of America’s volunteer army, as if to scream “Over here!” to the Republicans’ sputtering Noise Machine. It’s enough to make even the relentlessly conventional Wonkette suggest, if only for rhetoric’s sake, that “it’s like the White House is paying Kerry to be out in public screwing things up.”
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Like I wrote a couple of years ago, watching an earlier Kerry flame-out, “Skull and Bones remains to some a silly issue, but an issue it will remain so long as the question ‘Do you know General Russell?’ can send an old boy into a trance faster than ‘Why don’t you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?'”
We can’t say that Kerry took the call. We can only judge his actions, which appear to be those of a man who knows his part well.
Yup.
Flush him.
He’s done.
AG
P.S. For those who took umbrage at my outrage over the fixed 2004 Dem Convention, complete with a protestors’ cage out underneath the elevated highway…just look who got nominated.
Kerry and Lieberman.
Please.
Check out their subsequent performances and then tell me I was wrong to totally give up on the Democratic Party as it now stands.
Rahm?
Schumer?
Pelosi?
Reform Neo-Cons.
Plan A Lite comes to the liberal suburbs.
Disgusting.
Of course, I no longer know how much good they will do.
But I do keep on trying.
Yup.
AG
I don’t dislike John Kerry. I think he has his heart and his ideals in the right place. But he’s an awful politician. That says more to me about the moral wasteland of politics than it does about Kerry or other similarly bumbling politicians. I want straight fucking talk. I don’t want some Cecil B. DeMille production of Johnny get your gun..I’m John Kerry and I’m reporting for duty bullshit. The problem is our culture and our system are based on consumerism. Who can sell that broken down car with a smile and a lie better. Honesty gets you no where. Genuinly concerned, thoughtful, creative, and driven people like Dean, like Feingold, like Wellstone, even Kucinich, people who aren’t afraid to think outside of the box are ridiculed into oblivion. It’s our national character that’s ill, and Kerry is a symptom of that illness.
<<It’s our national character that’s ill, and Kerry is a symptom of that illness. <p>
I’m with you, Super. ALL of the sheer CRAP politics has become disgusts me beyond words. Living under a governmental system where the only Americans who have a chance in hell of getting elected are the richest (and least likely to have principles that are not for sale),makes me ashamed of what we’ve become as a nation. I see what’s on my TV now and literally cringe, at knowing intelligent people all over the world are watching what we have become.
I’ll go vote next week, but why I can’t even tell you anymore. Because I can, I guess. But I go knowing full well a) my vote may or may not even get counted and b) that if the Dems win, while things may get better than they are now, nothing is really going to change appreciably, not long haul, because there is no ethical foundation under this political system anymore. Period.
None of this is ever going to change from the top down, and the top has all the power. It would mean that those who are benefitting the most from how it is now, would have to WANT it to change. Come on. Just how likely is that, when sheer greed for more and more power and control is fueling the biggest engines in this country.
No. Change is going to have to come from within each and evey one of us individual Americans and it’s going to take a very long time before enough of us are willing to step out of our own comfort zones and denial and make the kind of individual changes in our lives that will take of off this programmed merry round.
I think this can, and may well be ahead, but I won’t be here to see it. Maybe my new grandaughter will get to be a part of it.
Meanwhile, I am done with politics as is, and instead I am spending my activist energies talking with poeple in my world about the system itself, and how badly and irgently basic change is needed, and how we can each become be a part of repairing the foundation underneath this broken political/societal system. We do what we can, I guess, from wherever we are.
Change will come when we stop feeding the virus. This election is the starkest example of how we continue to do it. As far as I’m concerned fear is being used by both parties to pummel us into submission and get our votes. I am honestly heartsick to be caught in this quandry. I want Bush so bad I could kick his sorry ass down the street myself. But to get there we need to cave in on principles. I’m big on principles. In a country that is so transparently decadent, my principles are about all i have left to keep me anywhere close to grounded in reality. I can’t easily compromise them. Hold my nose and vote? I don’t know. I really don’t know.
Agreed on the fear thing. I refuse to submit to the Dems “protection racket”, handing over my vote after they break a few things (women’s health care, equal protection under the law, the Great Writ) to show they mean business.
As for Kerry, I just fervently wish that the old gigolo would retire to his estate in France and leave us to moving forward. Go away John, far away.
Well, crap, Super. Now I have to really think about this some more: I mean about why I am even voting at all this time. It’s always been a privilege and an obligation I have taken very seriously and have held dear. But you have a point: voting for what one cannot reconcile in ones own princples and values, makes little sense either. I guess I join you in just not knowing what to do..and in hating it so bad, that any of of have been put into this kind of quandry.
but yesterday when I was filling out my early ballot I decided that the ballot initiatives were important enough to participate. The far right has used them to push their agenda at the state level in order to build credibility for national campaigns of fear and hate so hopefully we can stop them at their infancy. I think I gave myself high blood pressure, tho, when I turned it over and looked at the slate of candidates. Sigh…
I don’t dislike John Kerry. I think he has his heart and his ideals in the right place.
Well from an objective perspective, AG is giving you a choice about Kerry:
1. He is either an intelligent mole working for the secret and likely Skull and Bones objective of the rich elite controlling the masses for whatever good,
OR
2. He is a stupid man!
Now take your pick from only these 2 choices, IMO!
Thus I choose neither.
The Skull & Bones thing is hype. A mole? I keep my tinfoil hat smartly polished but even that suggestion is too far out there. Stupid? No. Out of touch? Probably.
In politics, out of touch IS stupid.
One might make the excuse that he is “out of touch” because of his position in the American class system.
RFK inhabited the same exalted regions of money and power as ol’ Small K, but he (And to a lesser extent this goes for JFK as well) was not out of touch.
Why?
BECAUSE HE…THEY…WERE TOO SMART.
Too smart for their own good, it turned out.
Kerry is a dummy masquerading as an intelligent man.
Or…he is a double agent of some kind..
I give it about 20 to 1 that it’s the former.
But long shots HAVE been known to come in.
(Come in out of the cold, sometimes…)
AG
The longer people continue to talk about this fucking distraction, the longer people are not talking about the real issues. Like dead soldiers for lies.
So let me use one of Arthur’s favorite phrases. “Wake The Fuck UP”. You are buying into the repug spin. Jesus people let it go!
You’re right Leezy
Thanks Super. Even last night Tweety and Feneman were saying the spin has gone through five news cycles. KKKarl is getting exactly what he wanted. Ok…got that off my chest. Now I am moving on.
And if “we” win and people like Small K kerry are still in charge…do you really think that it is going to be appreciably better?
I do not.
It will just postpone the inevitable.
I call bullshit on BOTH sides of the aisle.
AG
Me too. Both sides of the aisle.
What a choice: Like hey,looks like your country has a terminal disease. Would you like it to go fast and get it over with, or would you prefer it to linger awhile? Vote accordingly.
I want it to LIVE, dammit.
Or…would you like to cure the disease?
What if…like the vast majority of “modern” diseases as far as I am concerned (Epidemic cancer, the various “New Flus”, the bewildering variety of new childhood learning problems, etc.)…the disease itself has been CAUSED by the so-called cures?
Most successful …successfully elected…modern DemRats and RatPubs having been the main purveyors of (Or at least the main spokesmen FOR) these “cures”.
If everyone is getting sicker and sicker while the doctors are claiming great breakthroughs in modern science, isn’t it logical to STOP GOING TO THOSE DOCTORS? This seems like such a no-brainer that I find myself wondering every day how so many of us can be so fooled about health.
And by extension…ditto the government as it is now constituted.
Pepsi or Coke?
Miller lite or Bud Light?
Advil or Tylenol?
Dems or Ratpubs?
There is ALWAYS a third alternative, but most of us are stuck in a two-dimensional world.
Jeez!!!
What a coincidence!!!
TVS HAVE A TWO DIMENSIONAL SCREEN!!!
Duh.
Think outside THAT box.
Later…
AG
So don’t vote and then see what happens.