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I Condemned That Joke Before I Cracked It

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Published Oct 25, 2008

From the magazine issue dated Nov 3, 2008

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Under fire for a joke about John McCain and Depends, Sen. John Kerry blunders through a squirrelly defense, reminding us why he's not President Kerry. Score: 12

Former New York mayor (and gifted attack dog) Rudy Giuliani stars in a McCain robo-call that pushes racial buttons by calling Obama soft on killers and sex offenders. Score: 34

After insulting his constituency by calling western Pa. "racist," Rep. Jack Murtha backtracks, saying he meant the area was "redneck" until a few years ago. Nice save? Score: 49

Posted By: secondedition @ 10/25/2008 8:45:07 PM

Come on, Senator kerry's joke was just that a joke. His defense of it- although he really didn't need to defend it, was just fine. You know, I stopped receiving Newweek in 2004 because of the bias I saw in the magizine against the good Senator. Someone here has a real prpblem and it isn't Senator Kerry. For the people here, it seems he is damned if he does damned if he doesn't. The man deserves respect and many American's are tired of the attacks on a true patriot and honest politician. Nothing is wrong with the Senator-what is wrong is how this magazine gets off on constantly finding fault when there isn't any to find. After all the mess and trouble Mr. Bush is leaving this country in and all of his gaffes and lies- you don't mock him, yet go after the one man who tried damn hard to take him on and move this country in a better direction.
Newsweek, you disgust me.
I know you may not want to hear this, but the country would been in much better shap with President Kerry

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Posted By: secondedition @ 10/25/2008 8:45:07 PM

Come on, Senator kerry's joke was just that a joke. His defense of it- although he really didn't need to defend it, was just fine. You know, I stopped receiving Newweek in 2004 because of the bias I saw in the magizine against the good Senator. Someone here has a real prpblem and it isn't Senator Kerry. For the people here, it seems he is damned if he does damned if he doesn't. The man deserves respect and many American's are tired of the attacks on a true patriot and honest politician. Nothing is wrong with the Senator-what is wrong is how this magazine gets off on constantly finding fault when there isn't any to find. After all the mess and trouble Mr. Bush is leaving this country in and all of his gaffes and lies- you don't mock him, yet go after the one man who tried damn hard to take him on and move this country in a better direction.
Newsweek, you disgust me.
I know you may not want to hear this, but the country would been in much better shap with President Kerry
Posted By: CCLIB @ 10/25/2008 6:23:05 PM

All 3 of these men aren't exactly long on brains. Truth be told, their actions don't exactly speak well for those who elected them.

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