Top Ten Cloves: Other Ways John Kerry Could Have Claimed President Bush Is Stupid

News Item: Bush Calls Kerry Remarks Insulting to U.S. Troops; Senator Says President, Not Military, Was Target of Botched Joke

10. Still thinks guys named “Chad” helped him win 2000 Presidential election

9. Hey, I provide food for my family; I don’t put it on my family, like the President said

8. Well, he did nominate Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court

7. First Lady likes to wear a “I’m With Stupid” T-Shirt around the living quarters at the White House

6. He’s the one with the "Ek-A-Lec-Tic" Reading List, not me

5. Whenever someone mentions “No Child Left Behind”, President worries and asks if “One of those Timber Alerts” has been put out

4. You look at this White House ... It’s almost as if that Lincoln Group is writing the script for their policies and statements

3. Even former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough thinks the President is an idiot

2. They’re so desperate, they had to have Vice President Dick Cheney’s wife write a children’s book to get the President to understand the domestic policies

1. The President said he likes to use ‘The Google”... My God, with all his lies and broken policies, it’s as if, instead of an ‘I’m Feeling Lucky” search bar, the White House put a “I’m Feeling Stupid” one on his computer

Cowboy Diplomat or Cowboy Dunce?

Chopped Garlic - Bonus Kerry - Bush Cloves

Quite the flying of fur the past few days ... What did John Kerry say? What did he mean? Was it a joke? An Insult?

Just to toss a few pennies into the pot, I’m more fascinated, less about Bush and the Republicans, but how the media, and in particular, the cable news gatekeepers are doing their darned best to float this story and keep this story front and center - and how they are presenting it out of context.

The consensus is, if you listen to all these talking heads, that Kerry insulted the troops. They’ve played, over-and-over, the single clip of Kerry’s big “punchline”.

When the longer version of Kerry’s speech is played, and, as Chris Matthews of MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’, as well as ‘Countdown’s’ Keith Olbermann, read the newswire reports of the speech, it’s crystal clear that Kerry’s “botched joke” was clearly and squarely aimed at President Bush.

Now, not so much for the RNC, and all those Republican politicians, candidates, and pundits, but you have to give the White House credit. They are, whether they like it or not, forced to respond the way they have.

After all, it’s rather late in the game to send Bush out there to defend that he isn’t stupid ... It’s a Lose-Lose game for them

Enjoy

Peace
JTD

Here’s some Bonus Cloves of some of that fur flying out there

Slates - The Misunderestimated Man - How Bush chose stupidity

CommonDreams - GW Bush: The Man is Stupid

Huffington Post - Is Bush Evil or Stupid?

The Moderate Voice - Is John Kerry The Gift That Keeps On Giving For Bush And The GOP? (UPDATED)

The Reaction - Tempest in a teapot

Taylor Marsh - Kerry's Mangled Statement a Distraction

Huffington Post - Have You Heard The One About The President Who Screwed Up A War And Killed 3,000 Kids?