Is the Kerry "diapers" soundbite the new "Dean scream"?

[underpants]

I saw it on

ABC WNT last night
Aaron Brown (twice)
The Daily Show
Today this morning
ABC GMA this morning (flipping around)

The full court press is on folks the SQUASH SQUASH SQUASH the momentum from the Edwards selection.

Suddenly the media is being extra special fair and balanced making sure that YOU are informed of the Republican talking points against Edwards and the past statements (in a campaign no less) by Kerry.

My wife walks out of the room as soon as it starts now.

[Ivote]

1. No Way

n/t

[kimchi]

2. It was a lame joke.

But that is what politicians do best, I think. It isn't like it is an original idea or anything. You'd think Kerry was the first person in the world to use the expression.

They are desperate, and it shows.

[rfranklin]

3. Well, Reagan wore diapers too!

It happens.

[sniffa]

4. bwahahaha

[ibegurpard]

5. Best way to deal with this

Acknowledge it in the joking way it was originally stated. Don't back away from it...make fun of it.

[Wickerman]

6. Excuse me, I live in a cave

does anyone have the orginal quote or a lin?

thanks

[underpants]

9. WaPo link (good article showing words pre-selection of VP)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32358-2004Jul6.html

"When I came back from Vietnam in 1969, I'm not sure John Edwards was out of diapers then yet or not," Kerry said just before the Iowa caucuses in January.

Never mind that Kerry seemed to regret the remark and immediately tried to backtrack. "I truly don't want to be negative about anybody," he said later in the presentation. "That comment I made was not meant to be negative. I don't want to go that road."

[Wickerman]

14. Thanks

I'd forgotten that. Oh well. Shouldna said it, won't be helpful, but such is politics.

[yardwork]

17. Actually, Kerry's point was valid.

Edwards was born in 1953. In 1969 he was 16. A lot older than diapers, but yes, too young to serve in Vietnam.

Candidates running against one another in primaries tend to criticize each other. That is politics.

This is nothing compared to what Shrub did to John McCain during the primaries. Let's hear a little about that on the news, hmmmmm?

[librechik]

7. Why isn't the liberal media blasting out McCain "I Love Kerry!" clips?

Kerry campaign needs to spend some money NOW!

[underpants]

10. OR showing how Kerry retracted it in the next breath

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32358-2004Jul6.html

"When I came back from Vietnam in 1969, I'm not sure John Edwards was out of diapers then yet or not," Kerry said just before the Iowa caucuses in January.

Never mind that Kerry seemed to regret the remark and immediately tried to backtrack. "I truly don't want to be negative about anybody," he said later in the presentation. "That comment I made was not meant to be negative. I don't want to go that road."

[Jacobin]

8. Nah. Remember Bush I calling Rayguns policies

voodoo economics?


Course they were republicans, so it was all in good fun, and Kerry's slip of the tongue/judgment is a venal, snide remark which is telling of his contempt for Edward's youth and inexperience!!

(Hey, maybe I could start writing scripts for CNN)

:-)

[LittleApple81]

11. I was depressed yesterday during The Daily Show... it was a very

effective lampoon of this statement... which on its own was absolutely not offensive... it just meant that Kerry thought Edwards was young.

[SOS]

12. CNN showed that clip

at least 12 times yesterday. CNN takes their orders direct from the White House. That was proven in the Kagen/Letterman episode. Our consolation is that the CNN Republican machine isn't watched. MSNBC has no ratings at all (Dennis Miller has a 0.1) and CNN is an echo chamber.

US population: 280,000,000
CNN daily: 600,000

465 out of 466 Americans don't watch even one minute of CNN's drivel.

[Tellurian]

13. USE IT against them...don't back away

"When I came back from Vietnam in 1969, I'm not sure John Edwards was out of diapers then yet or not," Then add...

"It's a shame nothing has changed in this country, with Republicans YOU get WAR...with Demos, you END IT!


zzzing!

[nayt]

15. but

didn't lbj start the war and nixon end it?

[yardwork]

16. No, LBJ did not start the war. Check your facts.

We started moving troops in under Eisenhower. Nixon "ended" it - after drastically expanding it to Cambodia and Laos - but nobody thinks that it was a victory.