Kerry Humor Evolves
From botched to borrowed. Boston Herald:
Last time it was a “botched joke.” This time it was borrowed.
Gaffe-prone Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) is explaining himself again after joking that GOP presidential contender John McCain wears “Depends.”
The 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, addressing a business summit in Cambridge yesterday, was talking about the media’s “silly questions” to presidential candidates when he cracked his “joke,” his spokeswoman said.
“Barack got asked the famous boxers or briefs question,” Kerry said, PolitickerMA reported. He said Obama successfully parried the question.
“Then they asked McCain and McCain said, ‘Depends,’ ” Kerry said, referring to the brand of adult diapers. Kerry spokeswoman Brigid O’Rourke defended the Bay State senator, saying he was recycling an old joke: “The point he was making was that the press asks silly questions and jumps on ridiculous things - as evidenced by this very story.” Kerry was forced to apologize in 2006 when he “botched” a joke that poor students end up “stuck in Iraq.”
Hot Air cruelly notes that McCain is only seven years older than Kerry. Yeah, then there’s his messing the bed in an election he had no business losing.
Meanwhile, Kerry debates GOP challenger Jeff Beatty, who is campaigning vs. Kerry’s pre-against for. Herald again:
Sen. John F. Kerry was accused by his Republican Senate challenger Jeff Beatty of having “blood on his hands” over his vote to send U.S. troops into Iraq during a fiery televised debate last night.
A combative Beatty, 56, launched a vicious verbal assault after Kerry snorted at Beatty’s claim that he failed to read vital intelligence reports before voting for the war.
“Don’t laugh. It’s not a joke,” fumed Beatty, a counterterrorism consultant and former CIA agent, during the hourlong debate on NECN.
“You knew. You knew when you voted for that war that we didn’t have what we needed for the war . . . and you didn’t care because it was always about getting elected president. You have got blood on your hands.”
Kerry, 64, who has held a Senate seat since 1984, branded Beatty’s attack “insulting and frankly disgusting.”
I hope Beatty isn’t suggesting the sacrifice of American soldiers who took down a megalomaniacal mass murderer … with a record of trying to take over the world’s richest oil supplies and plans to revive his WMD programs as soon as the French succeeded in dismantling the sanctions … who by their sacrifice have fundamentally changed the dynamic of the Middle East, bringing democracy and hope to Iraq and beyond … was a bad thing.
Bad news, anyway. Slamming Kerry’s Iraq vote didn’t work for Dem primary challenger Ed O’Reilly and I doubt it’s going to work for a Republican challenging the Dem incumbent in Blue Mass. That said, I’m with Beatty on the need to remove Washington insiders named John Kerry. That and Question 1. Good luck, Jeff. Herald one more time:
Republican Senate hopeful Jeff Beatty is downplaying his GOP ties and says he can beat Sen. John F. Kerry, despite lagging sorely in the polls.
“I actually like our chances to win this race,” Beatty said in a sit-down with the Herald just hours before last night’s debate. “The only poll that matters to me is the one on Nov. 4.”
Trailing Kerry by 32 points in the latest Rasmussen poll, Beatty is rolling out a pointed TV, radio and Internet ad campaign that seeks to paint Kerry as the consummate Washington insider. Beatty dismissed speculation his campaign is doomed because Democrats are expected to vote in force.
“I’m not the handpicked candidate of the GOP or the (Republican National Committee),” he said. “I’m just a citizen, and I’m mad as hell. We deserve a better government than we have.”
In a wide-ranging interview, Beatty, a veteran and former CIA operative, blasted Kerry for taking money from special interest groups, including from executives of the financial giants responsible for the nation’s fiscal crisis. He also said he would not have voted for Congress’ $700 billion bailout.
“The only person (lawmakers) expect to sacrifice is the taxpayer, and that’s unacceptable,” he said.
A Harwich resident, Beatty is also backing Question 1, which would eliminate the state income tax. “We need a stimulus for every household,” he said. “We need people to have more disposable income.”
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:34 am on Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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October 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pm
No, no, Jules. We are the ones who need the sense of humor with John Kerry in the Senate.