Did anyone just watch channel 5 news???

John Kerry was just talking smack about Prez Bush. He thought his mike was off. Anyone see it!!

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I saw it on channel 4. The Republicans are calling for an apology, but Kerry refuses.

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Re: Did anyone just watch channel 5 news???

You mean this:

Kerry's idiot mouth.. caught!

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I really don't know who's side I am on yet...but these politicans should ALWAYS watch what they say!

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Well once Bush got caught when he thought his mike was off too, during his campaign in 2000.
ANd looks like Kerry is not the only one who does not like GW:
Venezuela prez calls GW an ahole
This is Rueters too, not some random website!

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Posted by djkatscan

Well once Bush got caught when he thought his mike was off too, during his campaign in 2000.
ANd looks like Kerry is not the only one who does not like GW:
Venezuela prez calls GW an ahole
This is Rueters too, not some random website!

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Re: Did anyone just watch channel 5 news???

well they are just people after all, with thier own thoughts and feelings.

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i agree that they are people like you and me, but i think they should be a little more aware of what they say and when.

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I talk about baby bush ALL the time...with or without my mic on

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Posted by michele31

I talk about baby bush ALL the time...with or without my mic on

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The whole point is to WIN...this is a game and the winner gets the White House to play in for the next four years. They are going to be tons of mean talk between the two men over the next few months.

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Kerry's an a$$

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Don't for a second think this happened by "mistake" .

I think he knew perfectly well what he was doing. These guys are hyper aware of everything they do during this time.

I love JK !!!!!!

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Kerry: Comment aimed at 'attack dogs'
Hastert takes 'great umbrage' at comment
Thursday, March 11, 2004 Posted: 10:27 PM EST (0327 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry said on Thursday that he was not referring to all Republicans as "crooked" in an off-the-cuff comment captured on camera -- just his political opponents' "attack dogs."

After a union rally in Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday Kerry told a worker that "these guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group of people I've ever seen." His microphone was still on when he made the comments.

Kerry, who was on Capitol Hill Thursday to meet with Congressional Democrats, he told CNN, "I didn't say it about the Republicans, I said it about the attack dogs."

On Wednesday, a campaign aide had said that Kerry wasn't talking about President Bush.

Kerry has touted himself as a "fighter" who will stand up to GOP attacks. He told the worker, "Don't worry, man -- we are going to keep pounding, let me tell you."

House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, said on Thursday that he took "great umbrage" at the comment.

"I am one of those Republicans in Illinois," he said. "If he wants to ascribe to me being crooked and a liar, I think he'll have his (comeuppance) coming." Hastert said Kerry's remarks were "the wrong way to step forward in this campaign."

Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot called Kerry's "crooked" comment "unbecoming of a candidate for the presidency of the United States."

"We call on Senator Kerry to apologize to the American people for this negative attack," Racicot said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.

"On the day that Senator Kerry emerged as his party's presumptive nominee, the president called to congratulate him," Racicot said. "That goodwill gesture has been met by attacks and false statements."

In his speech Wednesday, Kerry told AFL-CIO leaders, who have endorsed him, that "this is the most important race of our generation."

"This is the most significant moment of crony government and crony capitalism that I've seen in my political life. And we've learned the truth of what George Bush thinks -- exporting our jobs is good economic policy. I believe that creating jobs here in America, keeping good jobs here and exporting goods, is good for our economy."

Kerry campaign official David Wade later told reporters that Kerry knew his microphone was on at the time he made the comment in question.

Wade said Kerry was not calling Bush crooked but was instead referring to Republicans who launched "crooked, deceitful, personal attacks over the last four years."

Among the examples Wade cited were comments made about former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia during his failed re-election campaign in 2002 and about Sen. John McCain of Arizona during his race against Bush in 2000 for the GOP nomination, as well as doctored photographs appearing to place Kerry alongside Jane Fonda during protests against the Vietnam War.

Blaming the incidents on a GOP attack "machine," Wade said, "We are going to make it very clear that [Kerry's] a Democrat who punches back."

But Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt, in a statement, chided Kerry for claiming "to be the victim of an imaginary smear machine."

"John Kerry has run a relentlessly negative campaign from the very beginning, and this comment is completely consistent with that," Schmidt said. "He has offered no plan or positive agenda for the country and has based his entire campaign on a series of false and inaccurate attacks." "We have seen that again today when he attacked tax relief for American workers. His campaign-trail promises mean he is going to raise taxes by at least $900 billion." (Full story)

Kerry has called for the repeal of some of Bush's tax cuts, which Republicans insist would amount to tax increases. However, Kerry has said he wants to retain the tax cuts geared to people in the middle class, whom he says face burdens from higher property taxes and rising costs for health care and education.

-- CNN's Ted Barrett contributed to this report.

Re: Did anyone just watch channel 5 news???

this remind me of our wedding day and DH had a microphone clipped to him...and it was on...but he had no idea...and over the loud speaker you could hear him greeting everyone and making small talk....


thank goodness he didn't say anything like "I can't believe that girl showed up wearing that!" or something worse...

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Posted by Xelindrya

You mean this:

Kerry's idiot mouth.. caught!

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