Interesting letter from my Mom, the Republican....

[DemWitch]

I got this e-mail this morning from my Mom. We care currently doing the right v. left battle, but with love. My response is at the bottom...


----- Original Message -----
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail] ; [e-mail] ; [e-mail] ; [e-mail] ; [e-mail] ; [e-mail]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 1:12 PM
Subject: Spelling



~ ~ ~ • This guy graduated from Yale? • ~ ~ ~

Straight from the Yogi Berra school of speaking! He might get your
vote but he certainly won't get mine!

"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."
- John F. Kerry

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
- John F. Kerry

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and
that one word is 'to be prepared'."
- John F. Kerry

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments
in the future."
- John F. Kerry

"The future will be better tomorrow."
- John F. Kerry

"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."
- John F. Kerry

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."

- John F. Kerry

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a
firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."
- John F. Kerry

"Public speaking is very easy."
- John F. Kerry

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
- John F. Kerry

"I actually voted for the $87 billion dollars before I voted against
it."
- John F. Kerry

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
- John F. Kerry

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
- John F. Kerry

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our
children."
- John F. Kerry

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the
impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
- John F. Kerry

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
- John F. Kerry

And they bash Bush about his use of the English Language?!!


Mom...

There's only one problem with this e-mail...

All of the quote's stated, except for the 87 billion dollr thing, were said, but not by John Kerry... OH no no no... they were in fact, and I do mean in fact, made by our duly selected president, President Bush. See it's very easy to cut and paste someone else's name into a slot not made for him. SO whatever Freeper sent this to you, if not outright lying, at minimum were passing along false information...

Feel free to do a Google search and see if I'm wrong. Yet another pitiful attempt by the Right Wing to trash the Democratic nominee for president. Flip flopper, bitchy wife, questioning military service, I wonder what else Shrubya Inc. is going to pull.

As always... Being "Right" doesn't make you correct...

Love You,

Eric

Clinton rules... Shrubya drools...

[expatriot]

1. All of them by Bush? Some remind me of things Quayle said.

And before the Bushisms, Quaylisms were the most popular list of moronic quotes.

[bryant69]

2. Oh my goodness

How could anybody read that list and take it seriously?

I mean if someone sent that to me my only response would be "Exactly how dumb do you think I am?" I guess I understand that's not a proper response to one's mother, however.

Bryant
Check it out--> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[sniffa]

3. tsk tsk tsk

those quotes have dubya's bLoody fingerprints aLL over them... how couLd she not know they're from his mouth?

[michigandem2]

4. as I was reading that...

I was thinking "where are the sources" it could of said "i hope all americans burn in hell"-John Kerry...LOL

its pointless...

good response from you though!

[LiberalBushFan]

5. Yeah they're actually mostly Quayle,

All except for the 87 billion, which is Kerry.

But of course in addition to correcting her on that, this is a golden opportunity to send her some of million Bushisms out there.

[tridim]

12. The 87 billion quote is wrong too

That's a quote from an out of context, edited speech in a Bush/Cheney campaign commercial. IMO, out of context quotes should always be attributed to the person who pulled them out of context, not the original speaker.

[Kierkegaard]

6. Many of them are attributed to Dan Quayle

Although, most are being falsly applied to both * and John Kerry. Google 'em up and see that they are all over the web.

[calico1]

7. What strikes me about a lot of Republicans,

even educated ones, is they will read something like this and believe it without doing any research or verification to see if its true or not.

[otohara]

8. What Nerve

unbelievable that the freepers would take quotes from toostupidtobepresident and Dan Quayle (toostupidtobevicepresident) and say they came from Kerry. Unless it's a joke, but I don't think so.

[expatriot]

10. I don't understand the logic of knowingly starting a lie....

I mean how can you cognitively justify having to completely lie and alter the names attributed to the quotes in order to "help" your candidate?

[skygazer]

13. Oh come on!

when your candidate knowingly lies to get the American people to send their sons and daughters to Iraq, this is really a very small step. They know he lied but they defend him anyway because he's got them convinced that "the means justify the end". And so to lie to get him re-elected makes complete sense.

[Hobarticus]

9. My dad forwards me goofy shit too...

Usually none of it makes any sense whatsoever. A ten-second cruise through Google repudiates it, and I send it back to him. Naturally, there's no comment following, and we never talk about it again in person. Easy to hide behind e-m ail letters, I guess.

[TexasBushwhacker]

11. But it's disturbing that they buy it in the first place

If a lie is repeated enough, some people will believe it. Some people will believe it the first go around, if it supports the opinions they've already formed. This one takes the cake though, because for everything that the Bush League has criticized Kerry for, I don't recall them calling him stupid. If they did, that would just open the FLOODGATES of the stupid Bushisms out there.

One question about the $87 million statement though. Didn't Kerry, in fact, vote to authorize the president to use force as a last resort, but vote AGAINST the $87 million funding because, at that point, we knew that Bush had jumped the gun and invaded Iraq before inspections were completed, etc. Please someone, correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe it's just semantics, but I think that voting to authorize the use of force as a last resort is very different that voting to authorize the funding of an indefensable, poorly planned and basically botched invasion.

[WoodrowFan]

14. they did the same thing to Gore

They took Quayle quotes and attributed them to Gore in 2000. The RW has ZERO shame, zilch, nada.

[shraby]

15. You can send her to

<http://www.dubyaspeak.com> She'll find the quotes there. He also has some Quayle quotes on the site.

[MARALE]

16. My Cousin Sent me 2 yesterday

She sent me 2 emails that I know weren't real. I sent here back the snopes version of both and told her that this is a great website and I am very sceptically of anything I am sent in email. She was very embarrassed and said she would not forward those any more. I hope she will get more knowledgeable using snopes. She is very sweet, but just gullible to the Rights dirty tricks.

[WoodrowFan]

17. send it to Snopes

they'll debunk it for the world to see.

[ncteechur]

18. They are almost all if not all from Dan Quayle. Not Kerry, Gore, or Clinto

[noamnety]

19. debunked here

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_john_kerry_quotes.htm

[PaDem]

20. Sadly this is being circulated and a lot of people

have been exposed to it. As we all know the electorate is generally apothetic and lazy so a lot of this garbage sticks.