This has got to be one of the funniest lines I’ve read here in a while.
Thanks.
cj
Well, he could be both.
Here you are absolutely correct. Kerry has nailed his colors to the mast on this one. If it turns out he is not being completely truthful, he is dead meat.
Same with Bush. If he had denied the drunk driving arrest, we would be debating the re-election of President Gore.
I did not hear the Imus interview, but Kerry better not have tried any “oral sex isn’t sex” stuff or its equivalent. The last thing in the world he can afford is a chance for Republicans to label him “Slick Johnny”. This is a candidate who is not going to get away with shaking his finger in our face and saying “Ah did not have sex with that woman” if he did, and no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
Well, maybe just a trace. 
Regards,
Shodan
Dredge is now linking to this story:
So the “scandal” is that he asked a hot chick to work on his campaign, she said no and her dad thought he was “sleazy.”
It sounds like this is the same woman unless there are two journalists in Kenya who won’t talk to the press. There’s is not even an allegation that he boned her just that, at most, he may have hit on her.
In any case, if this woman won’t talk to the press then this story isn’t going to go anywhere even if he did bone her. Kenneth Starr isn’t going to pop up with a subpoena this time. I notice the mainstream press is still ignoring it. That says a lot, as does the fact that Kerry flatly denied it on Imus. Kerry must have learned something from Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman…” fiasco. He can’t possibly be stupid enough to repeat it.
I also haven’t seen any substantiation for Grudge’s assertion that this woman went to Africa at Kerry’s prodding (heh heh “prodding”) and Wesley Clark has not confirmed anything about that “intern” remark.
Ah, but he had a PROGRAM to have sex with her. Or the INTENTION to start a PROGRAM to have sex with her.
We need a pre-emptive scandal to take of this. Why wait until intercourse is imminent?
Those who are complaining about the sleaze of modern politics are clearly forgetting the election of 1884 in which Republican organizers tried to pin an accusation on Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland that he’d fathered an illegitimate child. Sample talking point: Pubbies said the choice in the election was between “the brothel and the family, between indecency and decency, between lust and law.”
Cleveland, to his credit, acknowledged he couldn’t disprove his paternity, and told those on his side to “Tell the Truth.” Sample of rhetoric used in response: “We are told that Mr. Blaine has been delinquent in office but blameless in public life, while Mr. Cleveland has been a model of official integrity but culpable in personal relations. We should therefore elect Mr. Cleveland to the public office for which he is so well qualified to fill, and remand Mr. Blaine to the private station which he is admirably fitted to adorn.”
The election was a squeaker, but Cleveland won.
Plus ça change, the more the panty-sniffers stay the same.
Poonany related program activities.
Maybe you weren’t paying attention at the time. The PD arrest records showed up first, courtesy of an insider who couldn’t keep quiet any longer. How was Bush going to deny it?
From your link:
And we all know the Democrats’ response after the election, “Gone to the White House, haw haw haw!” The panty sniffers lose again.
In the 106th Congress, 40 members (7%) were currently divorced, not including divorced and remarried. I’m going to assume that roughly half of those were Democrats, and that at least some of those divorces were caused by infidelity.
I for one am shocked that Kerry may have displayed some human frailty.
Up to this point, I had assumed he was some sort of animatronic device.
Ah HA! So we now have definitive word-of-mouth that Kerry… okay, allegedly… had an affair… okay, slept- not, okay, may have hit on or maybe not hit on per se - a young woman who decided not to be on his campaign… who left the country for reasons that nobody’s actually managed to connect to him in any way.
The bastard.
I never said I thought hes lying. I said hes categorically denied the allegations. IF hes lying then hes in for a fight. The best way to handle these things is to come out and be up front about them.
You may now remove your foot from your mouth.
Well, at least we know the Republicans werent behind this. We would have waited till the elevnth hour to surface it.
:shrug: I’m sure most of us would be more worried about a single man who didn’t indulge in weapons of mass copulation program-related activities. As for his target selection, the old saying goes “It’s just as easy to fall in love with a rich one”.
Let’s hope the RW hate media keeps up this same overplaying of hands that they perfected under Clinton. That backfired then, and it will backfire now.
Hold on just a cotton pickin’ minute. Maybe I’m reading a little too deeply into this. But check the exact quotes from Kerry. He didn’t really deny anything. He said that there’s nothing to report and that he’s not worried about it. Why wouldn’t he state for the record that nothing happened between he and an intern. Is he trying to cover his bases? Or is this a slick maneuver so that the Repubs spend time and money investigating this, embarrasing themselves in the end? The quotes kinda make me wonder.
Just to carry the parallel with the 1884 election a bit farther, Cleveland had not served in the Civil War. He had hired a substitute to serve in his stead. Some might think of that as the Civil War’s equivalent of getting a NG slot during the Late Unpleasantness in Indo-china. Up until Cleveland was elected it was just about impossible to be elected as dogcatcher if you were not a veteran. By 1884 there were a fair number of voters who were too young to have been caught up in the war and did not see it as the central event of Western Civilization. There were even more voters who were hardly sick of the economic and labor policies that had been perused by the post-war Republican administrations–labor unions were regarded, for instance, as criminal conspiracies against property rights, and periods of hard times and financial panics were frequent…
:rolleyes:
[Reuters]
Good God! Kenyans, interns, Mrs Ketchup, pantysniffers, Morgan fairchild!
How did Bill Clinton keep his name out of this!
I think someone asked for a photo of the alleged female in question:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004071781,00.html
You knew the Brits would get one. 
Drudge’s page is filled with lurid headlines which all link to atricles which admt that there is no evidence of an affair. A mob of reporters was camped outside the home of this girl’s parents yesterday even though the parents say they don’t believe there was an affair. These articles keep referring to “charges” and “allegations” that Kerry had an affair with this chick eventhough there are no such allegations. Drudge is sliming Kerry over this with nothing but smoke. Of course the right wing radio asswipes were all over it yesterday without a shred of evidence or even a clear allegation.
This smacks of Rove, despite Drudge’s attempt at misdirection with an unconfirmed Clark remark and the specious reference to Dean’s remaining in the race.
It’s an attempt to drive up Kerry’s negatives, create an impression that he’s immoral without ever really saying it and take up the media’s attention with a non-story. Making a guy publicly deny a sex scandal always makes him look guilty no matter how bogus the allegations are.
I disagree. This is one area where the American people are a lot wiser than the America media are.