Hope, Change, and the Uninformed Public
by Bret JacobsonIf you can’t beat ‘em, beat up on ‘em is apparently the new playbook for the Democrats. John “He even looks French” Kerry, now the senior Senator from Massachusetts, voiced his view of Americans today: “We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.”
And it must have been an informed public that voted for hope and change …
How many ways can liberals find to call Tea Partiers and fed-up Americans dumb, lazy, disinterested, and racist?
They’re running out of names to call in English, so maybe Kerry will have to resort epithets in French.
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Kerry needs to jump on his yacht and steer it directly into the eye of the next hurricane.
" How many ways can liberals find to call Tea Partiers and fed-up Americans dumb, lazy, disinterested, and racist? "
Well….certainly not up his nose as this photo shows.
That's what I call a true photo of 'thumbing your nose' at the American people! The democrats want to vilify O'donnell for 'dabbling' in witchcraft as a teenager, but at least she did not MURDER a young girl like Kennedy did!!! They will find out real soon what WE THE PEOPLE think of them!
The "uninformed public" is our greatest problem. It's one thing believing in certain point of view, but based upon false statements by politicians, it's a travesty.
It's our fault. We have become lazy. It will be our downfall.
Message to Democrats- Don't fool yourselves. We know EXACTLY what is going on, and we are voting you all out! Can you hear U.S. now?
Maybe Kerry could have taken the time to make himself better informed about the state tax laws here in Massachusetts and how they would require him to pay sales tax on his $7M yacht instead of hiding the boat in RI and avoiding the tax
Our first black president has further enslaved the black and latino community by extending Unemployment to three years, tying them to the Govt. for their very existence.
DEMOCRATS/SOCIALISTS/MARXISTS = EPIC FAIL
November, don't hug, but vote your local Socialist out…
Kerry, you're an a$$hole, pure and simple truth !
How do these jerks get elected over and over again? Does the public not get that Kerry is a lier, tax cheat, and a buffoon? My God he called our fine young men in Viet Nam baby killers. He filed falsely for a purple heart. He exasperated his exploits during the war. He lied to Congress.
Why is this guy still walking as a free man?
The major voter fraud in Houston shows that we must be very very diligent in November,citizens have the right to not only watch the polls but to start an investigation when something just doesn't smell right,citizens got involved in Houston and found out exactly where the corruption was coming from,citizens,ordinary concerned citizens busted the case wide open,check it out and find out what you can do this coming election in your neighborhood.
I think kerry should share the weatlth….I certainly wouldn't mind a half-day cruise on his little boat….how about you??
I'm uninformed? I was more informed at the age of 15 then you nuts are at 45. Kiss my ass Mr. Kerry:
Dear President Obama and John Kerry,
I’d like to tell you a story. As a boy I walked into my fathers office with a book. It really isn’t a book per se it is more like a tome – in the old days the Encyclopedia Britannica would include a set of books called the “Book of the Year.” Anyway, I’ve got this book and in it are the statistics and subjects that cover the milestones in the given year. The year in question is 1979. So there I am, some time in 1995 in my old mans office with this massive book cracked open, and I pose a question: “Dad, Why didn’t you invest all your money in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1979?” My father looked over the nose of his bi-focal glasses, and simply said “You and your sister needed to eat.”
Well I was not gonna take that for an answer. I mean for crying out loud, do you have any idea how much money we would have made if you had just done that! What could have been easier? Just take a little of your paycheck and invest it or live cheaper and we could have an awful lot of money now! My old man took this enthusiasm as an opportunity to give me a lesson in economics and money management, actually Mr. Obama had you been present for that lecture, hundreds of millions of Americans would have more than a fair shot at prosperity now.
Back to the lecture. So the Oldman asked me for the book. Dad pointed to the table on interest rates for the time, and the asked me a question “Joe(my name’s not Joe, but lets just call me Joe) If I told you that the US Government would give you a guaranteed return of 10% or you could risk your entire nut in the stock market what would you do?” My answer was “No way pop. I’m not going to take that bet.” Then I pressed him further, “Why didn’t you buy those bonds and make 10% for 30 years?” Then he launched into the concepts of inflation and price controls and disposable income and all the rest. By the end of it I said simply. I get it. “We needed to eat.” Then he gave me the save for a rainy day lecture, and why that is the breeding ground for success as well as survival, he called it “insulation from poverty,” and how to save through diversification and how to use debt wisely.
So fast forward to August of 2008. The old man calls me up “Joe, 50% chance of rain.” He was talking about you Mr. Obama, you are the rain. But, I had prepared for your socialist redistributive economic philosophy, while preparing for the usual financial setbacks. Actually I noticed that a whole lot of people began to go into a similar mode of anticipatory economic survival. Companies shed workers to protect capital, operations in Union friendly states began to diversify in “Right to Work States” or out of the country entirely. The job losses mounted and mounted and you and other Democrats took this as a golden opportunity to win an election, because Americans often work under the false assumption the government can cure what ever ails them, so they went Big Government, they went for you Mr. Obama, and they regret that choice.
Now, if you had been in that office with my father and me, you would have known exactly what to do. Alas this was not so, you reached for the Federal Credit Card, and man you spent, and spent, and spent, and now you are a failed CEO millions of employees, trillions in debt, trillions in deficit, and all you can talk about is some poor broad who you canned on the bases of ten minute snippet taken out of context, right before you go on your one hundredth vacation or play your next golf game.
This isn’t even funny anymore, this is a disaster.
People like Kerry get voted in by hook or crook,We the People cannot tolerate this ANYMORE.
Kerry is the kind of guy I'd like to have two of. On to $ hit on and the other to cover it up with.
" Why is this guy still walking as a free man? "
The same reason as the rest of the criminals on the hill are walking free.
He'd no doubt charge a fee for the ride. ; )
Great post, whoever you are Joe !
I'd rather poke myself in the eye with a sharp stick than to get anywhere near that guy OR his boat.
That makes 2 of us. I'd be too afraid he'd throw me overboard and hide the evidence.
Hey, somebody's got to pay his tax bill.
“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.” John Kerry.
You people of America pay so little attention to what's happening in America you make this statement by Kerry to be accurate! And you know what… they (your elected officials) love it! They count on it! They expect you people to keep your heads buried in the sand! They know you're just to busy indulging yourself to watch what they are doing to acquire more influence in your life and you are not going to do anything about it! You have been "dumbed down" by your government! You have been dumbed down so much they will even now install illegal presidents and they know you lack the wisdom to stand up and say WTF is going on around here in this country? But, hey it's your life! If you want to be their puppet that's your decision to make! That means you are a following slave. Others like myself and a few others want to maintain our freedom and have the ability to have a say in whats goes on in America! The problem is though, there are more of you slaves than there are of us freedom loving patriots and you people are having a negative impact on our ability to remain free! There is a Constitutional Crisis in America right now that pertains to Obama not being qualified to be president! This is true and factual! It would be good for your future to stop what you are doing for a while and start asking your government and the MSM why they are harboring an illegal president!
I'm just a regular guy trying to do the right thing . . . every day.
The Driveway . . .
September 1, 2010
Dear President Obama,
I read your speech and it reminded me of one of the reasons I voted for John McCain for President in 2008. Please allow me to explain, by using a failure of my own character as an example. As my graduation day from high school approached my father realized that I had not applied to college. After all I’m the guy who showed up about a half an hour late for the SAT’s, I had no desire to go to college. I wanted to work. As I’ve mentioned before I spent most of high school working, and my average at the end of it all was B+ to an A. What did I need college for? Why could I not just enlist in the Air Force like my father and my grandfather did? So begins the slow boil argument between me, and the old man. Well, long story short, I come home one day with a chip on my shoulder the size of Mount Everest. The old man wasn’t having the best of days anyway, and I declare that I’m not going to college, no way, never. One thing led to another, my nose was bleeding and I am chewing on asphalt. The next day I applied to five colleges, and express mailed my applications in, I was excepted to one, Arizona State University.
You see Mr. Obama, my father served during a tumultuous time in this nations history. The memories of that time generated a fear in him that I was not prepared to overcome. But all my father saw was a casket, with his son in it, and all I wanted to do was join the Air Force, I wasn’t thinking about the casket, only the “wild blue yonder” the jets, and all the rest. See, one of my dad’s duties then was guarding those caskets coming and going. This left a mental scare that I began to pick in the worst way by my adolescent, and immature approach to enlistment. Later that day my Dad and I made a deal, try college, if it doesn’t take I could join the Air Force. My father was betting on broads and beer, and that would be enough to keep me alive, if he knew what I did that first year in college while living at “Manzanita Hall” he would have put me on the bus to basic training with his own two hands. Now, at 18 I could have walked over to the Air force recruiter in Phoenix and signed up, but to do that would be to break my word, and I only had one nose, and I do not like the taste of asphalt, and I was not in the mood to taste 2X4.
Back to your speech. When a man utters words about war without deeds of past acts to back them up, and worse, in your case you uttered words in the past that gave aid and comfort to the enemy, and put our sons and daughters at great risk, those words said last night, ring hollow, and fall flat. Had Senator McCain been President having suffered, and served, as he had, I cannot imagine he would ever say what you said in a million years. Mr. McCain understands that there is a son or a daughter out there that is going to have to do what I and you failed to do, that is, serve this nation. No matter the geopolitical reception of ones utterances, the notion that a President in time of war must lead the next generation to fight what will be a very long war, if not, leading this nation in winning the longest of wars, must be at the forefront of those comments.
I failed to overcome my fathers objections, and the broads and the beer, to meet my obligation to this country. Who knows what my military career would have attained; I probably would have ended up arming bombs in the desert somewhere, or as an armorer because of my lack of athletic ability, and an insatiable curiosity of all things mechanical, and I don’t think that they would have entrusted an F-16 to someone with eye glasses! But I know this. I’ve a debt to repay to everyone of those that stepped into that breech, and every month I send whatever I can to those organizations that support them, and their families to make good on that debt. If they had a President, and not a photographic political opportunist, that once shared their suffering either as a parent, or as one their ranks, that would make all the difference in the world to them.
In 2010, 2012 and beyond, it will be my honor to do what ever I can to make that a reality.
Respectfully,
Joe Doakes
The democratic party has come to personify 'projection' — their accusations say far more about who they are than who they say they are.
JoeDoakes! You are awesome! Thanks for your two posts. They are sending me off to work in an improved mood! I love it when someone hones-in on the philosophy of the problem. We have so many great contributors and posters here on this board! I am learning so much, that I wish I would have learned in school, oh so many years ago.
I like you too but no offense meant, I think you can try and make your points with fewer words.
I don't have time to read all that.
“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.”
Oh, we are paying attention John… believe it.
I think John Kerry is great… for me to poop on.
Read this about the mass level of voter fraud committed in Kansas City. Notive the lack of care. This is the democrats November plan.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/sneak_prev...
John Kerry is a poor example of a human being….However he is a shining example of a liberal/progressive/democrat.
I second that Gary…. But I think I know who Joe really is…. he is all of us "realist".
Kerry has it backwards the more we learn an get informed the less we like what Washington is doing to us, you wont dumb us down anymore.
No offense but they do have speed reading courses; old man once bought me the book, on speed reading – get it?
Whether it be John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, or the entire Rogues Gallery of the Elite Intelligensia Ruling Class; at the end of the day, this is the only thing they have to say:
"“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.”
That is their collective attitude.
In my opinion, it is pretty lame.
If after being in power, and governing, and leading America down the primrose path to failure and bankruptcy, that is all they have to say for themselves, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
For Kerry, and his ilk, who echo those sentiments, I would offer a word of caution.
You can only swat the American people so many times, before you will suffer their wrath.
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Thanks Syrin23….Interesting article. One of which I think every American should see. I'm going to pass this to everyone in my address' . Thanks again!
Scary ELITE Kerry can KISS my TEA PARTY BUTT! I have learned from my 50 plus years that he and his fellow Elites only want to control me via a SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT ECONOMY. I prefer MY FREEDOMS and am responsible for my destiny and do not want or need a NANNY!
That is exactly what they are banking on…..the progressives on BOTH sides of the aisle view us as a bunch of dumb assed Homer Simpsons….
It will take time to turn the SS America…but it is already hapening…
They have spent all the money we have and have legally committed us to spending an amount equal to twice the wealth of the entire planet and now it is our fault we don't "get it"? What we don't get is why we shouldn't give you a blindfold and shoot you with the other liberal-progressive traitors for treason.
“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.” J.K.
Oh… you mean kind of like "HOPE and CHANGE"?
That's right Mr. Kerry. A bunch of un(ill)informed voters put your man/boy in office. Those of us who were informed had the option of voting for McCain, obviously not much to get fired up about. The ONLY good result about BHO and the other progressives running the show has been to stir up the ant hill. Well people are paying attention now.
Doesn't look so good for you s ocialists now.
Duh-o!
Yes he is, but that "whoever you are Joe" was because he said in his post that his name wasn't Joe….
I wish you would stop equivocating and take a stand on one of these issues. For God's sake have an opinion….
Maybe he can take Nancy, Reid and Obama and a few others on a "three hour tour" with him. I hear there is a perfect storm named "November" brewing.
You hit that one out of the park!
Tell him sister. We ARE paying attention. Remember: with liberals what they are saying and promoting is always the opposite of what is or what their actual intentions are.
Rock on brother, Joe! Continue your promenade, sir!
He's a joke but it's no joking matter. I hope that Kerry will be removed from Washington DC soon. Please Massachusetts voters, show him the exit ! Has he ever done anything worthwhile in his life?
Once again you are right on the cusp of the issue that people conveniently overlook as they load themselves into the sausage grinder, but even Black America is beginning to realize they put way too much lipstick on this pig.
Hey John ( the lier ) Kerry and all looser Dems, keep calling the American public names, keep calling us stupid, keep telling us that we are not important and see how that works out for ya.
What a bunch of Aholes !
I caught that…. id est…. "who Joe really is".
Kerry is a loser. And like all losers, the Democrat party with Obama leading the way, must blame others. How many times and in how many ways do we need to see that their way doesn't work. Never. Ever. Keep talking your trash, Dems. Keep thinking you can't be thrown out. And then start packing, because America knows enough to see you guys are crooks and hoods and commies. That's it.
Here is a great piece in the National Review
It appears, the mare won't take the bit…..
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/2478...
Payback can really be a bitch……….slapping…….
The best description of Kerry would be an "Arrogant elitist Jerk", with no respect for the average American citizen. We can only hope that one of the stupid Americans to which he refers, is elected to take the seat he holds. May God help us in our efforts to remove Jerks like Kerry and many others.
Kerry, "I am an American Blue Blood and the rest of you are just mongrel low life".
Right! The new group is called "True to Vote" They were shocked at the blatant Voter Fraud that they found when they volunteered to work at tht polls.
**********BREAKING NEWS*************
AP (not really) Utah.
In the latest attempt to break the tidalwave of disgust for the democrat/liberal agenda, President Obama announced that cans of "STUPID" will be distributed without cost to those areas heavily infected with independant thinking, freedom of speech and a complete disregard for socialistic values.
Senior Sen. Pierre Kerry stated later, "I surrender," Then he slapped a staffer and sobbed at an oil painting.
Thank you my friend.
That is an excellent article.
I know that being a shy retiring wallflower is something I have always struggled with. Perhaps there is an assertiveness class just for me? Should I seek out a PELL GRANT?
You are on a roll this morning "Joe". Great set of posts !
John Heinz-Kerry has been out of touch and addled by delusions of grandeur every since he married Terezaaa
Heinz.
Could you imagine if I put on my best suite, double windsor knot tie, shined my shoes, like my grandfather taught me and ran for office using these letters as a basis for my public oratory? That would be some sight. Who knows . . .
Obummer got his xmas present, A health care bill. Pelosi informed us that when we pass this bill, then we will know what is in it. And the last remaining votes were secured within hours before passing the health care reform bill. We are an uninformed public since we still don't know what is in this bill. John K is right. THEY will forget by November. John K and the dems are wrong on that one.
We remember and we are going to vote.
As he threw designner sportswear into his Vitton bags to head for his yacht to flee the REPUBLIC!!! Purported guests Harry Reid & Nasty Nancy were spotted fleeing down the freeway to the marina during their last ride in GOVERNMENT PROVIDED black gas-guzzling SUV's.
Yes and today's news shows that Obama's Administration is working feverishly behind the scenes to wire tap our electronic communications under the guise of homeland security! NOT!
Obama had better stay out of our personal privacy, guaranteed to U.S. through the Privacy Act! But I don't think they will stop until we stop them!
“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.”
"Hope and Change" seems to ring a bell. Oh, and don't forget creepy logos that pop up everywhere. They certainly helped get Obama in office.
Seems to me like Kerry's shot himself in the foot by making that statement.
I fear that is part of the problem with our country today. Too many people have been taught to speed read at the expense of wisdom or woe held in the spaces between the lines.
It has gotten so bad that people read the title "Health Care Bill Passed" or "Hope and Change" and think they comprehend the deeper message.
Looks like he is getting ready to do another line.
State-funded counseling or some other taxpayer-funded dependency program should do the trick. Think of what John would say. You have to do this for mankind, SC. We're talking saving the planet here…
Love your wit.
This will be nothing compared to what's going to happen in November….
Yes, in part. Somethings we know suck because they put waaaaay to much authority in the wrong hands, all we need to do is understand that to 2,000 pages and the 2,000,000 regulations are meant to take stuff from one and deny care to another. I've got the t-shirt, we don't need to see act 2. The liberal democrats did not campaign on higher taxes, lower growth, and socialized medicine. They campaigned on "hope and change." What they meant was "death and destruction."
I think it goes back farther than that. More than likely, when he was a swift boat commander.
That picture reminds me of "The Sting"…
FYI – We The People are in the process of being "stung"
"…so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth…"
You mean like 'Hope and Change' John?
I'd love to sting him with something……..
Yes and no, that really wasn't my point though.
What I mean is like this, do you make your resume 10 pages? No, for the most part people are only going to look at the first page. You need to make it short or it won't get read.
I meant the op literally, Joe is on target and makes great points.
But I usually don't read the posts because frankly I don't have the time.
Yeah.
Was he the Skipper, or Gilligan on the SS Minnow?
It's damn frightening, isn't it?
Kerry: "a MEEEEEELion dollars"
crowd: "you're doing it wrong!"
Look at the photo of Kerry on this thread.
It piqued my curiosity, especially the "ve ri tas" on the podium. http://www.veritas.org/About/What-Is-Veritas.aspx
I think Kerry was addressing the Veritas Forum.
Now what would John Kerry know about truth?
If I could go back in time, I'd be sunning myself on the riverbank……looking thrugh the scope of a Barret………
Isn't this the same guy whose wife apparently didn't know what chili was? Just sayin' … lack of edumukayshun works two ways.
And has the purple heart, Thrice!
Amen! You said it! People like this used to sell us Asbestos siding for our homes.
I'd be voting for you… early and often.
A politician once asked me who I was pulling for in a local election here. Without missing a beat I responded… "the citizens". You should have seen the look on his face.
I love hitting them with:
"Do you know where I can buy an honest politician?"
Senator, and Vietnam war hero, John Kerry is right! I remember all the stupid teabaggers holding signs that stated, "Keep the government out of my Medicare!"
John Kerry served his country honorably in Vietnam while both Dick Cheney and "the Decider" avoided Vietnam AT ALL COSTS!!
No, we view you as a bunch of dumbass Sarah Palins, Christine "Satan-worshipper" O'Donnells, and W's!
President Clinton campaigned for Barney Frank and made a comment that John Kerry didn't mean it:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20...
Christine "I dine on Satan's altar" O'Donnell is a bufoon that thinks the mice are running around with human brains, LOL! Just because the average mouse has a bigger brain than the average teabagger, that does NOT mean that they have "fully functioning human brains" Christine!
You should thank Senator Kerry for serving his country in Vietnam while cowards like Bush and Cheney avoided it!
So saith the haughty John Kerry, (he's a Viet Nam vet, don't you know) and loser of a race for the presidency. After all, what would us unwashed serfs know about anything. How silly of us to think we know better than Kerry and Reid and Pelosi and Obama, who are all, clearly, our "betters".
Sorry, I can't stay any longer, I have to get out to the lord's field and gather in the crops and tend the herds before I spend some "free" time thatching the roof of my hovel as Winter approaches!
REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER! (The Peasants' Revolt)
Viet Nam hero, my ass…………
Lol…. My answer would be "You will find them on the last aisle at the end of the row… right between the unicorns and the rainbow pots of gold."
By the way isn't illegal to use "honest" and "politician" in the same sentence?
Kerry is also one of the scumbags that gave the ok to kill all those men, women, children and elderly in Waco, Tx! He's a scum bag murderer.
What do we got 38 days to go . . . we got a few . . . maybe it is not enough . . . but it is a great start, and one of 'em is Rand Paul, he is gonna really piss these commies off! If we get Angle, and O'donnel and Fiorina and maybe Delagurdia by a nose. They're toast.
Right. It's called the Democrat Way!
I agree with you and Ambassador John Bolton. Obama is NOT QUALIFIED to be President!
However, he and his Admin. DO qualify for High Crimes against a Nation.
Great find! This is the Dem's mode of action. Houston also found a huge problem, and they've formed a great Citizens Group called "True to Vote" Check it out. There are millions of Voters names that are registered across this Nation are Fraudulant.They must be PURGED NOW! in prep for Nov.
"You should thank Senator Kerry for serving his country in Vietnam "
Remember, Bendict Arnold was a war hero, too.
You are Right. I believe that Pelosi's statement constitutes Abuse of Power and Deriliction of Dury and Failure to uphold the OATH of Office to abide by The Constitution. Therefore I'm looking forward to the Trials for High Crimes against a Nation.
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