I guess the obvious question to non-reporter moron to myself is: "If it's wrong to run an ad showing Kerry windsurfing during a war, isn't it, like, you know, more wrong for John Kerry to actually be windsurfing during a war?"

Sometimes one just has to state the obvious.

Did you just watch the press conference with allawi? David Gregory for MSNBC's jackass brigade states, "Cant you understand how some americans think that we were better off before saddam was deposed" (paraphrased)

I could hear the snap of gregory's neck when Bush says without a second's hesitation, "No, no I can't"

If that is not a perfect example of the difference between these candidates I do not what is. Kerry would have talked for 20 minutes on that and said absolutely nothing.

Aren't the Democrats denouncing this windsurfing ad the same guys who thought Moore's inclusion of Bush playing golf in F911 was incredibly insightful?

Kerry picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Seriously, could his timing be worse? Two days after he announces his Iraq version 5.0 – a full throated call to cut and run – the Prime Minister of Iraq addresses congress and refutes his entire argument.

Ace, you're paying this too much attention. It seems rather obvious that the reason the Democrats are squealing like stuck pigs about this is because the ad is so damn effective. Do you think anybody watching this ad in Minnesota or Pennsylvania or New Jersey is actually thinking "dammit, Bush is insufficiently grave about the war because he's running an ad showing Kerry windsurfing!"

Hell no. Your average palooka is thinking Christ Kerry looks like a moron on that surfboard thing. The ad is effective, and the lighthearted tone is perfect because it's always best to stick the knife in the deepest with a smile on your face. It further emphasizes, subliminally, how unserious KERRY is about these issues.

The howls of outrage are designed to trap Bush into withdrawing the ad. Heaven help us if the campaign falls for that.

Pictures? Here's a nice gallery of Kerry engaged in other J-School-approved methods of making the country a safer place to live for which Bush should be roundly condemned if he opts to belittle them.

Yea, It wasn't like he was snowboarding during the primaries or anything.

David Gregory's just miffed because Bush won't turn away from him as the emperor's subjects should.

It's always funny to see pundits and journalists at least three steps behind Bush-Cheney. What do you do when women voters are running out of the Kerry camp like an office with a wastebasket on fire? Use Kerry himself as a metaphor for his indecision: you know, that guy that women can't stand.

Holy shot, Ace! Get over to the Kerry Spot right now and read the post "Speaking of missed opportunities." It's like the gods of the blogosphere are conspiring to keep your rhetorical guns fully loaded with depressing factual evidence.

Rime of the Ancient 'Windsurfer'

Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.

The Swiftee men, so dutiful!
Alive and dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the AlGoretross
About my neck was hung.

Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
The Heinz within me burns.

I pass, like night, from land to land;
I have strange power of speech;
That moment that his face I see,
I know the man that must hear me:
To him my tale I teach.

O Democrat! his soul hath been
Alone on a wide, wide sea:
So lonely 'twas, that God Himself
Scarce seeméd there to be.

All kerry and Edwards have talked about in the last couple of days is iraq. If what is going on in Iraq is so important to them. Why weren't they there today? It was a joint session of congress.
kerry and edwards were not there to hear what
he had to say. If nothing else, it was disrespectful. This man's life is in danger every single day. pitiful...

toni

Ace and toni,

Yes, not only did John Forbes Kerry and John Reid Edwards miss the joint session of Congress, with you know, the Prime Minister du jour of Iraq n'stuff, but they also both missed the vote to confirm the new DCI (Director Central Intelligence).

Are these guys still getting paid as US Senators?

I mean, there seems to be an awful lot of free-time.

I'm just sayin'

Jeff B. has it right.

The DNC types aren't upset so much with the content of the ads as they are with the EFFECTIVENESS of the ads. Remember, in DNCworld, any attack is acceptable except those that score points for the opposition.

Have these people actually gotten more whiny since they said to "Bring it on"?

I wouldn't have thought it possible.

I could be wrong but I think Windsurfing is quite popular with the French. The picture sings to me of Kerry's Euro superficial wannabe and he's campaigning for the World's vote, thinking he can win the presidential race with those ballots.

Did the Kerry people complain of the non-seriousness of the ad before or after Kerry delievered the Top Ten list on David Letterman? F'ing morons!

Joe Mama--brilliant parody. You rock! :)

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Now you know that logic doesn't work with the liberal types? It hurts their head to think too much.

Just the latest example of Kerry showing himself as a thin-skinned prick - and lapsing into the Democrat-patented "HOW DARE YOU!" Outrage Display.

Now Bush may be the most mediocre Republican President since Warren Harding - a corporate crony rewarder of the rich, a reckless spender seduced by the neocons - but credit him with taking anything the hateful Democrats, inc. Kerry directly, have thrown at him, no matter how venomous, like a man.

And despite Bush's many failures, Kerry is even worse on matters foreign and domestic. So it's like having learned from voting for Jimmy Carter against Ford, and having a chance to go back and redeem yourself by voting for bumbling Gerry instead of Mr. Malaise, who was also a thin-skinned prick.

If you think the ad is bad, you should have been down here in Virginia Beach where he was doing the windsurfing. We had to watch it on the news for a week! Ughhhhh!!!

It's funny. I've been reading your blogs. You guys say the same things about us that we say about you. How can people see the same things and think so exactly opposite? Have you read John Dean's book? Worse Than Watergate? -A moderate Democrat