Just shook hands with John Kerry.

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

...about ten minutes ago. He delivered a speech across the street from my house kicking off his campaign on energy policy, so I figured I'd walk over and see what he had to say. I liked the speech and the idea. He's proposing a JFK-like "Put a man on the moon" plan for a massive scientific effort to develop alternative energy technologies.

He did make a good point, among many others, that we produce 3% of the world's oil while importing 62% of our own oil consumption and there's no way in hell we're gonna drill our way out of this.

BTW, you might not see it in the photo but the dude needs to trim his nose hair...

[[AK]Squidly]

I hoped to hell you washed your hand afterwards.

[[AK]Palooka]

Maybe he'll fly in his hairdresser on his wife's personal jet to trim his nose hair for a few Benjamins.

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

I hoped to hell you washed your hand afterwards.

Good point, he might've touched a Republican...

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

More Evidence...




On another note, I was astounded at the Secret Service protection. There was easily as many guys as when I met Clinton and Bush Sr.

[[AK]Squidly]

Good point, he might've touched a Republican...

If that were the case, you'd be ok. As it is you've got a slimey handful of liberal take-your-money-run-your-life-faint-in-the-face-of-terrorism-flip-flop oil.

Wipe that garbage off.

[GovermentCheese]

Sonic had a even better story in conjunction with what happened this morning, I just got the 411 from him on it. I will let him tell it though. All I can say is !WOW!

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

Sonic had a even better story in conjunction with what happened this morning, I just got the 411 from him on it. I will let him tell it though. All I can say is !WOW!

Okay, I got a bit freaked out by the Secret Service this morning.

When I got to the security checkpoint, I'd forgotten that I still had my pocketknife kit. The Secret Service agent told me that he wasn't going to let me in with it and I asked him, 'What do you want me to do? I'm not giving up my pocket knife or my P-38 can opener for anybody."

He told me that I could take it back to my car and that I could go and see him at the front of the line and he'd remember me. So I went home and dropped off the goods and returned. I went up to him and he looked at me and said, "Okay, Curtis, you can go on through."

The thing is, I never gave him my name.

I did notice that in the security line there were a couple of photographers with really expensive cameras who were dressed-up to look like press, except that they were wearing Secret Service lapel pins.

I suspect that they were using some sort of facial recognition technology. After I got in, we had to wait for almost an hour. Coincidentally, the same two photographers were taking photographs of every single person in the crowd.

It may have been an accident that the agent addressed my by my first name, but the fact that he knew it was no accident.

I am impressed with the job they're doing and I do credit Bush for ordering Secret Service protection for Kerry as early as he did.

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

If that were the case, you'd be ok. As it is you've got a slimey handful of liberal take-your-money-run-your-life-faint-in-the-face-of-terrorism-flip-flop oil.

I really must ask what makes you believe that Kerry would "faint-in-the-face-of-terrorism." Is it his his exemplary record of service in the National Guard?

Could it be Bush's record as an international statesman? Is it because Kerry thinks that we shouldn't abandon Iraq?

[[AK]Squidly]

I really must ask what makes you believe that Kerry would "faint-in-the-face-of-terrorism." Is it his his exemplary record of service in the National Guard?

It's got nothing to do with his service, which is an irrelevant issue for a Presidential candidate.

It has to do with his voting record, his apparent willingness to bend to the will of the vile, useless UN, and his penchant for telling people what they want to hear to get enough votes and then switching sides to reveal his real agenda. Some of us remember how he sought to weaken our defense and intelligence agencies all those years. And now were supposed to believe he's a hawk when that's just what we need? Yeah riiiggghhht. He hates the military and views the WOT as a police action.

Could it be Bush's record as an international statesman? Is it because Kerry thinks that we shouldn't abandon Iraq?

I could care less if Bush kisses the asses of foreign leaders. And I don't believe that just because Kerry says he believes in one thing that he'll still believe it (and endorse it as a course of action) 2 years from now. His track record in this regard sucks.

[[AK]Palooka]

Before you start criticizing Bush's National Guard service (or lack thereof, as liberals love to eroneously point out), why not examine Kerry's supposedly heroic service in Vietnam?

As you may know, Purple Hearts are awarded to soldiers who suffer serious wounds from the enemy in combat. The awarding of three Purple Hearts to a soldier entitles him to be reassigned to non-combat duty. Kerry surely knew this when he petitioned (a rare event, since Purple Hearts are automatically earned when serious injuries are treated) not once, but twice for his first Purple Heart after he received a superficial wound from a his own mortar shell (read about it here). The fact that the wound was not inflicted by the enemy should have ruled out a Purple Heart, but his persistence payed off.

Of course, that was not the last Purple Heart. He would be awarded two more for even more superficial wounds, the last of which was a scratch and a bruise. Soon after he was awarded his last ill-deserved Purple Heart, he left his crew in Vietnam and returned to the US, where he later requested early discharge from the Navy in order to prepare to run for a congressional seat in Massachusettes.

Courageous? You be the judge.

As far as Bush's record as a statesman goes, would you really prefer the approach that Kerry has been saying he would take? Do you really want to rely on the UN, a proven corrupt organization with an abysmal record, for our national security? Do you want this nation's hands tied by the international community, rendering it powerless to defend itself?

Finally, when did Bush say that we are going to abandon Iraq?

And thanks to Squidly for partially stealing my thunder. You respond too damned fast. Don't you have a job or something?

[[AK]Bribo]

He's proposing a JFK-like "Put a man on the moon" plan for a massive scientific effort to develop alternative energy technologies.

Not a bad idea... but who's going to pay for it?

Besides, there already is a great alternative energy source - it's called nuclear energy. If we relied more on nuclear energy we'd depend less on foreign oil.

Even this hero of the environment movement agrees.

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

Not a bad idea... but who's going to pay for it?agrees.

He plans on starting with taking the money oil companies pay us for drilling, exploration and production of oil on public land.

Besides, since we're running a HALF A TRILLION DOLLAR ANNUAL DEFICIT under Bush, what the hell does it matter? It's just monopoly money that we don't actually have to pay...

<sarcasm off>

[[AK]Hylander]

a HALF A TRILLION DOLLAR ANNUAL DEFICIT under Bush

Which is not nearly unprecedented, nor necessarily unhealthy, in terms of the percentage of GDP it represents (Liberals don't like you talk in terms of real economics data because it confuses them and taints their lies). More so when you consider the effect 9-11 had on the economy and the cost of war.

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

Which is not nearly unprecedented, nor necessarily unhealthy, in terms of the percentage of GDP it represents (Liberals don't like you talk in terms of real economics data because it confuses them and taints their lies). More so when you consider the effect 9-11 had on the economy and the cost of war.

So, if a half-trillion dollar deficit isn't unprecedented, who did it before? Reagan?

If it's "not necessarily unhealthy," I ask, for whom? Please list all of the reasons that a half-TRILLION dollar annual deficit is "healthy."