McCain condemns ad, Kerry's commander backs off

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-gov/2004/feb/06/516309920.html

Oh, no, squinney
Kerry just happened to get lucky. The man coughed it up as Kerry was clumsily attempting to get at the man's wallet. Just then he sat up and praised Kerry, thinking the Hiemlich manouver had been performed on him.

Edgar
Edgar, has Sofia been whispering the truth in your ear again?

BBB

When I was 12 years old my neighbor of 9 years old and I were playing in the back yard on a swing set which had a slide.

He was wearing a cowboy hat that had a chin cord....he climbed up the slide ladder with his hat off the back of his head... he proceeded to go down the slide but his hat got caught on the hand rail on top of the slide which pulled the chin cord taught around his neck which then slung him off the edge of the slide so he was literally hanging by the hat, the chin cord around his neck!

Without thinking I jumped off the swing and lifted him out of the noose, it's a natural reaction for most people to help save someone.

Right. A bulldog could have and would have done as much as Kerry. Never mind that everybody else watching didn't have a clue.

Most...not all.

DANG!


A picture worth a thousand words...

Prolly wasn't a right hook but makes for an exciting caption for a sports writer...

Looks like an upper cut to me.

The above photo, credited to the Yale yearbook (the caption is in the original), appeared in the August 9th issue of the L.A. Times, alongside a story (you'll have to sign in) on the appeal of "bad boys" in American politics.

Incidentally, while rugby is a contact sport, every rugby player knows that tackling above the shoulders is a foul. So is leaving your feet during a tackle. Either of these is serious enough that the other team is immediately awarded a penalty kick, often directly resulting in points for the other team.

So even without throwing the punch, Bush is already well outside fair play.

Grasping an opponent by the back of the head and punching him in the face is beyond the pale -- I've watched rugby for a few years; not really a big fan though, and I've never seen this during an open-field tackle -- and will typically result in a player being immediately sent off.

I'm sure by next week Karl Rove will have a collection of rugby players claiming that John Kerry was even worse...

That guy prolly punched GW in an earlier play.

I bet the guy hit Bush with his purse.

Well, I certainly hope he kicked the little cheerleader's jewels into his ribcage in the succeeding 'play'...

...amazing how character predicts destiny, isn't it?

Diddie. I was catching up on this thread and I , therefore wonder whether the striking similarity between this smear and the same (but successful) attempt on McCains honor by the bush team escaped the supporters of George.Probably not, they are pros at "THE BIG LIE"

Yeah, just ask Kerry. :wink:

Well, I could, but there's more than enough photographic proof:

Oh, I forgot Kerry has the staged 8mm film of himself while he should have been doing more important things, now that's character.

No matter how often I read and see that ad, it cracks me up every time.

Protecting Texas from Vietnam.

That lad sure knew his priorities.

As I said, go ahead and crap in both hands, that's the choices we have...

Yep, or blaming the victim.
-- very interesting to read about the various ways Bush was cheating in that photo. I thought all the blame was in grabbing the guy's head and hitting him in the face. I wonder where the Rugby vote is in the upcoming election?

No, you didn't forget...you just happen to be completely mistaken about the facts.

Did you know Jim Rassman was a retired L.A. County sheriff and a registered Republican?

Every time you start to go down that SBVFT hole, you need to go read the words of the man whose life Kerry saved.

And you need to keep in mind that while John Kerry was doing that, George Bush was playing "all-day water volleyball games" with "ambitious secretaries" right here in Houston (at least according to the Washington Post).

So, summarizing:

While John Kerry was serving as an officer in the United States Navy, leading men in a shooting war and winning an armful of medals in the process, Bush was a male cheerleader and fraternity president at Yale. He later went on to use family connections to land a spot in the Air National Guard, duty from which he took ample time off to run losing political campaigns. Kerry became a leader in an influential movement, a candidate for office, a successful prosecutor, the Lieutenant Governor of a medium-sized state, and then a U.S. senator during a period when Bush was letting alcoholism nearly wreck his marriage, doing something with drugs he refuses to answer questions about, and running a variety of businesses into the ground, losing his dad's friends a bundle of money in the process.

Questions? :wink: