…calm. That’s what everyone can agree on after watching the Taser video. And Clarissa Jessup, a student witness to the incident said, “Kerry almost got to a point where he lost his composure…”
Here then, are some other instances when the Senator almost lost his composure.
There’s Kerry about to be attacked by an angry dog…
Unflapped!
Kerry confronted by a tidal wave…
Cool as a cuke!
And Kerry just after being changed into a killer bee by a malevolent warlock…
“That was not cool dude. Not cool.”
Fanny Roborat
27 comments
david
September 19, 2007 at 1:32 pm
1Yargh, Mr. Kerry’s more even kee’ed than me best captain, Al Gore.
Murray
September 19, 2007 at 1:40 pm
2I guess after years of being bitch slapped by Bush every time he opened his mouth, Kerry just has an involuntary reaction to swallow his outrage.
Any time a Silver Star, 2 Purple Hearts winner can be called a wimp by an AWOL chicken hawk and not stand up and kick back, you know that his fire has been doused.
Pity, he used to be a hero.
Murray
September 19, 2007 at 1:44 pm
3David, it’s “Talk like a Pirate Day”, not “write like a Pirate Day”. RRRR
Pope Benny 16
September 19, 2007 at 3:33 pm
4Many untrue rumors have been spread by the Media concerning my not meeting with Condeleezza Rice last month.
BBC: There are at least two reasons why Pope Benedict may have decided peremptorily against a private meeting with Ms Rice.
First, it was Ms Rice who just before the outbreak of the Iraq war in March 2003 made it clear to a special papal envoy sent from Rome, Cardinal Pio Laghi, that the Bush administration was not interested in the views of the late Pope on the immorality of launching its planned military offensive.
Secondly, the US has responded in a manner considered unacceptable at the Vatican to the protection of the rights of Iraqi Christians under the new Iraqi constitution.
Instead of meeting the Pope, Ms Rice had to make do with a telephone conversation with the Vatican’s number two, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who was visiting the US during August on other business.
Not True! Come on! Lighten up! I was on VACATION - OK? Plus Father Guido did my laundry again and it’s well known that he is color blind. You should have seen my sock drawer - navy mit black socks; red mit green, weiß mit gray; purple mit mauve. Ach du lieber Himmel! It took forever to get those things sorted out. There simply was no time!
gillian
September 19, 2007 at 5:09 pm
5I hope someone brought a net…
dee
September 19, 2007 at 5:12 pm
6Oh I dunno. I would have paid good money to see Kerry shout “You little bastard, what the fuck do you know about it?” and then leap off the dais, pin the guy to the ground while waiting for security and then return to stage, straighten out his tie and ask “Any more questions?”
But that’s just me.
YLlama
September 19, 2007 at 5:27 pm
7Am I going mad, or does it make sense to think of the unflappable John Kerry as the opposite of the exceedingly flappable Chris Crocker (he of “Leave Britney Alone” fame)?
cooper
September 19, 2007 at 5:38 pm
8Yeah, but dee, that’s what so endearing about you.
Dave von Ebers
September 19, 2007 at 5:40 pm
9That picture reminds me of a certain John Belushi skit on SNL back in the day …
Ann
September 19, 2007 at 6:16 pm
10Oh, Dee—that would be a fundraiser!
H. Dean
September 19, 2007 at 7:52 pm
11Oh, NOW they want emotion?
Boomer
September 20, 2007 at 3:13 am
12Refresh my memory, didn’t Bill’s reference to “falafel” have something to do with kinky sex? OK, maybe I’ll start listen to him from time to time - strictly for research in the rightwing blogosphere, you understand.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/19/open-thread-588/
Sister Susie
September 20, 2007 at 5:41 am
13YLlama: You are 100% correct. The duck comes down and gives you a big cyber smootch.
Also, a belated “Aaargh!” to y’all.
Green Swamp David
September 20, 2007 at 6:56 am
14My Southern self is so with dee on this one, even as my educated self says reason should prevail in public affairs. ‘Course my Southern self grew up gigging frogs.
Shit, I hate these intractable conunudrums, and I hate the ease with which a champion of reason and fact-based public policy can be made to look so, well, however it is he looks to the voting public, as opposed to how the swaggermeister pissant from the Permian Basin was made to look to the “security moms” and my fellow white Southern males, the most misinformed and easily misled demographic out there, dammit.
Dale
September 20, 2007 at 9:41 am
15“DVDs, get your DVDs! $5! Five dollar DVDs!”
A belated talk like a pirate day to y’all too.
becca (and brian)
September 20, 2007 at 12:24 pm
16off topic (as usual).
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20070920_100442_7900&source =srch&page=1
Yowzers.
b
hedera
September 20, 2007 at 1:38 pm
17becca and brian, thanks for the great link to macleans.ca. A brilliant, depressing analysis whose only (sort of) positive side effect was to reassure me that everything I thought was going wrong in Iraq is actually going wrong.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, but this is ridiculous.
cooper
September 20, 2007 at 6:23 pm
18Welcome back, Keith.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/20/countdown-special-comment-the -president-of-hypocrisy/
sharon
September 20, 2007 at 7:59 pm
19So, it really is all about our oil under their sand.
So who’s going to go digging back through the archives to see which Felbernaut first said …er… wrote what everyone was already thinking?
No, wait, this just in …guess the goons got to him. Hope they didn’t rough him up too much. He is 81 years old, after all.
David
September 20, 2007 at 11:10 pm
20Who actually knows why W insisted on invading Iraq, but the US invaded Iraq for one reason, and one reason only - black gold. Does anyone actually believe the President can order a military invasion just because he or she personally wants to? Or that such a disastrous war can continue just because a president wants to continue it? It’s always been a resource war that a pinhead president could be talked into declaring by pushing whatever buttons needed to be pushed, but it is Cheney’s war, and it is a resource war. As somebody said (paraphrasing), the biggest favor God could have done for the Iraqis would have been to put that oil under Brooklyn.
Dale in Brooklyn
September 21, 2007 at 4:34 am
21David, no!!!!!!! Real estate prices are ridiculous enough here as it is.
David
September 21, 2007 at 7:10 am
22Based on the Baghdad model, there’d be no private real estate to buy or sell. I mean, how is Century 21 doing in Mesopotamia? And isn’t the habitable housing in the Green Zone (love the eco-friendly overtones) pretty much all government housing? Still marveling at the resounding success of L. Paul’s social-engineering “private” sectorization of the cradle of western civilization.
David
September 21, 2007 at 7:13 am
23I just realized the theme music for the opening ceremonies for the US embassy in Baghdad: “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.”
hedera
September 21, 2007 at 7:48 pm
24David - No! Is it really?? How classic.
David
September 22, 2007 at 8:34 am
25Well, I don’t have any confirmation from unnamed sources, but I do think it’s the odds-on favorite, and a logical extension of what has been happening at the Air Force Academy and at the Pentagon. I mean that one general, whose name escapes me, said as much.
Murray
September 26, 2007 at 10:24 am
26I would have thought that they would have chosen “Onward Christian Soldiers”.
David
September 26, 2007 at 8:14 pm
27That was their fight song going in, Murray. “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” is more befitting of the fucking US embassy, which is the largest, most fortified embassy in the world. Ten-to-one the insurgents find a way , to make the goddamned thing uninhabitable. They are like squirrels watching you try to make your bird feeder squirrel proof. They have all day, every day, and unless you simply kill every squirrel in the neighborhood and kill every other squirrel that tries to enter the neighborhood, they will breach your bird feeder. I would call our policy in Iraq moronic, but that is so stating the blatantly obvious. Mostly I’ll just stick with idiotically homicidal, “Forever and ever, alleluja, alleluja…”