10/15/2004 10:17:00 AM|||Joe|||I swear — Republicans are trying to drive us insane.

This “nuisance” garbage is the height of stupidity. Either the pundits and politicians spewing this garbage are stupid, or they think we are, or they're just cynically and desperately doing whatever they can to get any sort of edge.

Either way they are sorry example of human beings. Here's what Kerry actually said:

When I asked Kerry what it would take for Americans to feel safe again, he displayed a much less apocalyptic worldview. “We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,” Kerry said. “As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.”

And what are some jerks saying about this? Here ya go:

Read this one. Quote: “With these words John Kerry, speaking to a New York Times reporter, labeled the World Trade Center debacle as little more than a nuisance.”
Bush says: “... just this weekend, Senator Kerry talked of reducing terrorism to — quote — ‘nuisance’ — end quote — and compared it to prostitution and illegal gambling. See, I couldn't disagree more. Our goal is not to reduce terror to some acceptable level of nuisance. Our goal is to defeat terror by staying on the offensive, destroying terrorists, and spreading freedom and liberty around the world.”
... and of course Limbaugh said similar nonsense.

Ugh.

Seriously. Don't we want terrorism reduced to the point where it is merely a nuisance? Wouldn't that be nice? Isn't that a worthy goal? Kerry isn't talking about faking it. He's not saying that we should, right now, treat terrorism as a nuisance. Jesus Christ people. Are you that cynical or dumb? Have you any critical thinking and comprehension skills?

This is why our society needs lawyers. People complain about lawyers... bleh. We need them because weasels like Bush and Limbaugh will interpret things out of context and in a false light for their own gain. Whereas a lawyer knows to put things in ridiculously unambiguous terms.

This is why Kerry has to repeat — over and freaking over — that he won't give other countries a veto of our security blah blah. Any moron knows that, but the Bush camp just does this constant, stupid, malevolent and deliberate misquoting.

I can't wait for Bush be ousted. Jerk.

You know what the next paragraph was?

This analogy struck me as remarkable, if only because it seemed to throw down a big orange marker between Kerry's philosophy and the president's. Kerry, a former prosecutor, was suggesting that the war, if one could call it that, was, if not winnable, then at least controllable. If mobsters could be chased into the back rooms of seedy clubs, then so, too, could terrorists be sent scurrying for their lives into remote caves where they wouldn't harm us. Bush had continually cast himself as the optimist in the race, asserting that he alone saw the liberating potential of American might, and yet his dark vision of unending war suddenly seemed far less hopeful than Kerry's notion that all of this horror — planes flying into buildings, anxiety about suicide bombers and chemicals in the subway — could somehow be made to recede until it was barely in our thoughts.

Here's the article. Not that anyone who's lying about this is interested.

I am so pissed off. I need a f&#$ing hug or something.|||109786080035013451|||Staring into the Abyss