John Kerry: A Great Example of Spin
John Kerry botched a joke, and now all Democrats want our troops to die. Wow. These conservatives are the masters of spin.
The best part of this thing was Bush's response: that our troops are "plenty smart." Sorry, but the president of the United States should be capable of speaking standard English. Calling people "plenty smart and plenty brave" makes him sound almost as ridiculous as when he says "nucular."
Anyway, none of this matters. Everyone knows that the Republicans are taking this statement completely out of context as part of their last-ditch desperation to rescue themselves. They're circling the drain, and deservedly so.
But even if Kerry DID mean to insult our troops, it STILL doesn't matter. The fact remains that a majority of Americans don't support this administration and everything it stands for. The fact remains that people are just plain sick of it. Kerry's been wrong before, but in his rebuttal today he was absolutely right about one thing: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Six months ago, when things didn't look too good for the Dems this election, I went on the Soapbox and said I still believed people are angry enough to vote them back into power. I was laughed at, but now the polls are proving me right. People are sick of the dirty tactics, the lies, the billions of dollars going to a useless cause, the attempts to insert religious beliefs into our laws, and the thousands of deaths for no good reason. It's a very simple equation - when people are unhappy with the status quo, it will show up in the election results. Political party affiliation has become irrelevant; even seasoned Republicans are rejecting their own party's candidates now. And good for them.
The best part of this thing was Bush's response: that our troops are "plenty smart." Sorry, but the president of the United States should be capable of speaking standard English. Calling people "plenty smart and plenty brave" makes him sound almost as ridiculous as when he says "nucular."
Anyway, none of this matters. Everyone knows that the Republicans are taking this statement completely out of context as part of their last-ditch desperation to rescue themselves. They're circling the drain, and deservedly so.
But even if Kerry DID mean to insult our troops, it STILL doesn't matter. The fact remains that a majority of Americans don't support this administration and everything it stands for. The fact remains that people are just plain sick of it. Kerry's been wrong before, but in his rebuttal today he was absolutely right about one thing: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Six months ago, when things didn't look too good for the Dems this election, I went on the Soapbox and said I still believed people are angry enough to vote them back into power. I was laughed at, but now the polls are proving me right. People are sick of the dirty tactics, the lies, the billions of dollars going to a useless cause, the attempts to insert religious beliefs into our laws, and the thousands of deaths for no good reason. It's a very simple equation - when people are unhappy with the status quo, it will show up in the election results. Political party affiliation has become irrelevant; even seasoned Republicans are rejecting their own party's candidates now. And good for them.
