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| Kerry's in a 'Fighting Mood' |
| 2004-09-21 |
| Sep 21, 5:04 PM (ET) By Patricia Wilson One speech may not a campaign make, but John Kerry and his top advisers are pumped up and in "a fighting mood" after the Democratic candidate's aggressive attack on President Bush's handling of Iraq. Hell yeah! I'm still pumped from using the mouse! Bring it on! But not the swiftvets please? The Massachusetts senator, lagging in opinion polls six weeks before the Nov. 2 election, seems to have kicked a habit of pulling his punches at the last minute and showed a new willingness to mix it up with his Republican rival. "These guys, they've got me in a fighting mood," Kerry said to roars of approval at a reception in New York on Monday night. Campaigning in Florida on Tuesday, he openly acknowledged his hard-hitting approach. "I know it sounds sort of tough, I know it does," he told a town hall meeting in Jacksonville. "I wish it didn't, but the fact is ... on Iraq, they haven't leveled with the American people and we deserve a president of the United States who looks Americans in the eye and tells you that the americans are over there killing civilians, raping livestock for fun and committing all sorts of war crimes? (oh wait... thats the arabs in Sudan. Fire that speechwriter!) the truth." Several Democrats outside the campaign called Kerry's speech in New York a turning point that would force Bush to play defense. "My opponent has taken so many different positions on Iraq that his statements are hardly credible at all," Bush told reporters in New York where he addressed the United Nations. Translation: He's as credible as Dan Rather..... "He rocked, didn't he," the candidate's wife Teresa Heinz Kerry declared. "There's a time for everything and it was time for him to take off the gloves." But enough about last night Teresa - uh please! We really don't want to know. What about today? "I think people responded to the fact that someone finally told the hard truths," the aide said. "The White House's weak response was telling. They didn't challenge a single assertion he made about the situation on the ground." Did he make any specific charges? I didn't notice.... |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #4 Ask him is the war was illegal. He will shadow-box himself to a TKO. I think he is doomed in the debates. Here's one from CSN: Kerry's Views on Iraq, Vietnam 'Virtually Identical,' Swiftvet Charges |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-09-21 10:39:52 PM |
| #3 If he fights like he threw that limp-wristed girly-man pitch in Boston, Bush gonna tko that punk ass in the first round. Man, it gonna take all two hospitals to put that huge jaw ina sling. |
| Posted by: Atropanthe 2004-09-21 10:35:13 PM |
| #2 God, Teresa! Please don't take off the gloves!!! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-21 9:50:51 PM |
| #1 Yeah, but it's harder if your opponent isn't a wounded teenager running away from you. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-09-21 8:32:06 PM |