August 1, 2004
John Kerry Would Make A Better Comedian Than a Politician
So, Amy sent me a link to Catholic Ragemonkey talking about a John Kerry speach. He mentioned a quote (possibly partly not exact words) that went like so: “…that Den Mother taught me to see trees as the cathedrals of nature…blah, blah…and so we can and must march to the day of full equality for all women.” And commented how equality is good nad such, but that it was like a political sleight of hand. He started talking about nature and then BAM! equality for women, hoo-boy, ya betcha!
This was what I was talking about in my post before. If he were a comedian and he said something like that, I’d laugh. It’s exactly what I meant, sorta. Start with one premise, and then smash a different one into one’s field of thought by using some little twist. It’s a great thing! If you’re trying to make someone laugh. Not if you’re trying to be president.
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Comments(5)
Yeah, because Bush joking about looking for WMD after(at the time) over 700 of our troops had died was just very mature…..
If you want to gripe about why politicians not wanting to be comedians, maybe you should start with our “Dear Leader”
Because you said you don’t want to elect a comedian:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3570845.stm
Another thing, I went over the speech again, you do realize that he is talking about his own dead mother, don’t you? Obviously since you did not listen to the speech, maybe you should stop talking out of your rear end and do some research next time.
Maybe you missed my point entirely, since thing things of which you are speaking were largely irrelevant. Comedians do routines. Anyone can tell a joke. Kerry used a verbal shift that was very illogical, and the manner in which he did so was very very similar to a comedic shift, which is something one would use in such a routine as mentioned above. I’m sorry for him that his mother is dead, but it doesn’t excuse any of that.
Mr. Bush was in immensely poor taste making fun of himself, but since I think it’s clear we didn’t go to war solely because of WMD’s, and also since the liberal side of the media largely made the EXACT same jokes in the past anyway, I don’t think anyone can easily point fingers. If it’s horrible for Bush to make fun in light of a war situation, then it’s still horrible for his opponents and [word that means people who disagree with him] to do so as well.
John Kerry was describing his mother, he didn’t use any logical shifts in the argument. So you think that John Kerry saying that his mother filled him with respect for women is a “routine”, this coming from a man who is all about family values.
And guess what, Geoge W. Bush said we went to war because of the “imment threat” of Saddam. He changed his reason midstream. Funny, because during the 2000 campaign he said that the US should not use it’s military on “frivlious nation building” excercises. Saddam was a kitten compared to Kim Jong Il, or what is going on in Darfur, or we should be intervening in the AIDS and famine crises in Africa, and yet we aren’t. I want to know why. Nobody has given me an anwer. Kim Jong Il probably has nuclear weapons, and yet we don’t rush off to war with North Korea. Bush used weapons as an excuse for a pre-ordained war(read Paul O’Neil’s or Richard Clark’s books if you don’t believe me) and then when that didn’t pan out, he just kept on changing reasons….. To me, that is the ultimate example of your, “weird shifts in logic”, and yet I don’t consider the deaths of over 900 Americans to be funny at all.
If you support the war in Iraq, then volunteer for the Army. Otherwise you are a chicken hawk, just like our “Dear Leader”.