# Did I expect John Kerry to, ahem, screw it up? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 8, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704 "2003-12-08T05:46:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/1 "2003-12-08T05:46:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Democrat presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry launches an X-rated attack on President Bush over Iraq and uses the F-word in a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine. > > Kerry uses the expletive to describe his frustration over how his decision to back the president’s resolution to go to war in Iraq has hurt his candidacy while Democrat front-runner Howard Dean is breaking ahead of the pack due in part to his opposition to the war. > > ‘‘I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, ‘I’m against everything’? Sure. Did I expect George Bush [to f - - - it up as badly as he did?](http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35997) I don’t think anybody did,’’ Kerry told the magazine. Geez, Kerry, you sound like a major-league asshole. Big time. (That last part is a quote, class.) ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/2 "2003-12-08T05:49:12Z")
the F word is X-Rated now? Is the Taliban in power here? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/3 "2003-12-08T05:56:44Z")
> [@](#): > > Did I expect George Bush to f - - - it up as badly as he did? Was Kerry holding a fake turkey at the time? Surely Bush can handle a few blunt words passed in his direction without getting a case of the vapors? It’s not as if the president is a Sunday school teacher himself. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/4 "2003-12-08T07:18:49Z")
“F— Saddam. We’re taking him out.” GW Bush, as quoted in Time magazine > [@](#): > > "Did I expect George Bush to f - - - it up as badly as he did? I don’t think anybody did,’’ Kerry told the magazine. I cannot figure out why the Bush Administration is less transparent and more credible to a US Senator than it is to me. Kerry knew perfectly well the war was a fraud. He could not seriously have expected better from W, major-league f—er-upper of everything else. Could he? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/5 "2003-12-08T07:23:48Z")
I don’t see anything wrong with what Kerry said other than he should have said it sooner. What’s the problem here, **SAL**? Bush DID fuck it up. What’s wrong with saying that? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/6 "2003-12-08T07:28:38Z")
The most likely explanation is that he didn’t do what he “thought was best for the country.” He did what he thought would be most popular with the voters. Sounds like he’s more pissed at Bush for making him look bad than for anything actually connected to the war. Sigh. Of all the years when I thought I could vote Democrat in good conscience… ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/7 "2003-12-08T07:30:19Z")
Heavens! Just reading this thread is causing my ears to bleed! Does Sen. Kerrey realize that delicate women such as myself might read his interview? Oh dear, and I’ve misplaced my smelling salts! ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/8 "2003-12-08T07:37:20Z")
Hypocrisy is just not a big problem in politics, because most of hte the public rarely thinks to connect the dots. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/9 "2003-12-08T20:32:04Z")
Did Kerry actually say anything that was incorrect? Or are the Republicans merely desperate to tar Kerry today? ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/10 "2003-12-08T20:49:58Z")
He said the “f” word! I’m telling mommy! waaaaaa ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/11 "2003-12-08T21:12:03Z")
We may have to be a little more explicit - The Republicans have their panties in a twist, all the while forgetting the scene in which Bush , will attending a campaign rally, didn’t realize a microphone was open and called a NYT reporter “a major league asshole.” Cheney, ever the sucku, replied “Big time.” The hypocrisy should be obvious, but evidently it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/12 "2003-12-08T21:59:41Z")
Kerry ought to give an apology, all right. “I’m sorry Dubya f----- it up as badly as he did.” ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/13 "2003-12-08T22:11:23Z")
Didn’t Bush also say “Fuck Saddam. We’re taking him out.” to Condie Rice one time? So politicians say “fuck.” So fucking what? ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/14 "2003-12-08T22:18:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Does Sen. Kerrey realize that delicate women such as myself might read his interview? Oh dear, and I’ve misplaced my smelling salts! Careful guys. She might have the vapors. ---
**Author:** ![MrTuffPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-expect-john-kerry-to-ahem-screw-it-up/217704/15 "2003-12-08T22:22:02Z")
According to the FTC, Kerry is fine, unless he meant sexual conotations towards Bush. If that is the case, EEEEWWWWW!!!