First this, from the front page of John Kerry’s campaign website, September 8, 2004:
George Bush has made the wrong choices for four years – including choosing to go it alone in Iraq without a plan to win the peace. This choice has cost us $200 billion and moved America in the wrong direction. John Kerry and John Edwards will move America in a new direction with a better plan to create and keep jobs in America, lower health care costs, reduce the deficit, and restore our respect in the world.
Then this, from NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” August 31, 2003:
MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe that we should withdraw American troops from Iraq?
SEN. KERRY: No.
MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe we should put more American troops in Iraq?
SEN. KERRY: No.
MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe that we should reduce funding that we are now providing for the operation in Iraq?
SEN. KERRY: No. I think we should increase it.
MR. RUSSERT: Increase funding.
SEN. KERRY: Yes.
MR. RUSSERT: By how much?
SEN. KERRY: By whatever number of billions of dollars it takes to win. It is critical that the United States of America be successful in Iraq, Tim [my emphases]
John Kerry: serving every point of view simultaneously since…well, whenever he first opened his mouth, is my guess.
“The Pointed Man”
“Finally the two travelers reached what appeared to be the entrance to the Pointless Forest. There was a huge, thorny barrier with a small sign at its base which read, “This Way.” Once on the other side of the barrier Oblio and Arrow had their first encounter with the Pointless Man or the Pointed Man depending upon your point of view. You see the Pointless Man did have a point; in fact, he had hundreds of them, all pointing in different directions. But as he so quickly pointed out, “A point in every direction is the same as no point at all.”
I once read a quote that was attributed to Groucho Marx:
“These are my principles! If you don’t like them, I have others.”
It was the John Kerry episode of Gilligan’s Island where Gilligan promised the rest of the gang, “Dis, dat and de udder ting.”
John Forbes Kerry, the incaration of the space-time continuum.
Hey, pal I got yer mobius strip right here.
There used to be a common saying here in SV: “He turned his hat around so fast he has burn marks on his forehead.” It’s at least twenty-five years old, but it applies to John Kerry today.
If it was his lucky hat from that CIA guy, maybe he can pull an Al Gore and claim he invented that saying.
His lucky hat is in Gore’s lockbox.
/got nothing
/compelled to post anyway
/feel so Slashdot-Farkish with this hip programming slash deal.
“If you can believe seven conflicting things in the morning, then top it off with breakfast at Kerryway’s, the Restaurant at the End of the Campaign Trail.”
(my apologies to the ghost of Douglas Adams)
John Kerry is like a box of chocolates. You never know what position you’re going to get.
He’s becoming a parody of himself.
“Becoming”?