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Kerry in Space Suit: Big Fu*king Deal

Let's get something straight. Yes, John Kerry in his space suit looks like a sperm primed for blast off in "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex." But the picture of our next president is cheerful, funny, goofy, and another view of a multi-faceted man.

President Bush on the deck of the Intrepid in his freaking cod-pieced flight suit, standing in front of a "Mission Accomplished" sign was a deadly serious, mind-bogglingly misguided publicity stunt by the White House PR machine.

Even the New York Times felt the need to compare the Kerry photo to one of Michael Dukakis, "whose presidential aspirations ended not long after he was photographed in a tank wearing a helmet that made him look like Rocky - as in Rocky and Bullwinkle."

I certainly hope the traditional media gets over this ridiculous conversation about Kerry looking goofy and gets back to what is real -- it's time for a regime change, not a costume change. The media need to talk about substance, not form.

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BL Ochman | Jul 28 04 1:09 | TrackBack (0)

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First of all...don't misconstrue Kerry's multiple personalities as being "multi-faceted." The fact that the "liberal" traditional media is calling Kerry's outfit goofy is that even they have decided that the man himself is more about form than substance...so what else do they have to talk about? All Kerry has is costumes...

Posted by: Dee Rambeau at July 28, 2004 10:51 PM

And all Bush has is a bunch of dangerous puppet masters.

Posted by: B.L. Ochman at July 29, 2004 1:17 PM

I can't fathom why such a flap was made about Kerry wearing a clean suit. I see it as a sign of desperation on the part of the Republicans. Pathetic.

Posted by: CJ Jackson at July 29, 2004 2:54 PM

You seriously think voting for Kerry is *regime change*? Yeah, right. You can vote for statist spendthrift 'Dubya' Bush or you can vote for statist spendthrift 'Flipflop' Kerry, and either way you get the 99% of the same thing. You seem like far to smart a woman to not understand that.

Posted by: snide at July 30, 2004 9:17 AM

I think you meant "too" smart.
BL

Posted by: B.L. Ochman at July 31, 2004 11:36 AM

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