From The Comments (Rosemary, the Q.O.A.E.)
In my Super Tuesday Predictions post, most of the commenters have taken exception to this: The haughty, French-looking Senator, who by the way served in Vietnam.
The best comment by far came from a somewhat surprising source...
Libertarian said: I must speak up for the French-looking.First, Kerry does not look French. He looks like a mortician, or rather like of the customers of a mortician. I should polish off my political pin stating
"Nixon 2000 - He's not as stiff as Gore". He ain't as stiff as Kerry, either!
Clinton got impeached for being too stiff. I need to be as stiff as he was.
I don't think Kerry looks French, but he sure does orate like a caricature of a Frenchman. The prospect of spending four years with that Voice coming at me every time I turn on CNN is not a pleasant one.
Wow, Sean isn't it a bit early for you?
Let's compromise and call him a croque-mort, French slang for an undertaker.
Hatcher47 -- I'm glad you included the English translation. My french is rusty. There for a minute I thought you wanted to call him a "dead frog". Not that I'd necessarily object to that ...
Because my state's primary is still a month off? /: )
I decided to leave for the office with the boyfriend this morning. His being a Japanese bank, he starts at 8:00. Mine opening at noon, I can get some quality paper-pushing in before everyone else gets here.
BTW, am I wrong? Mickey Kaus is the only commentator I've seen go off on how nerve-abrading Kerry's speaking is, unless I've missed others. But it really drives me up the wall. I'd almost rather watch Edwards flip his hair like Heather Locklear all the time.
Sean,
I think you may be right, I don't think I've heard others complain/talk about his lackluster ability. I may have mentioned that his speach is DULL and makes me drowsy.
"Nixon in 2004, tanned, rested and ready!"
You can bet that if he ran, he'd win, and I can't think of anything that would scare the piss out of the enemy like Nixon. :)
(Scare the piss out of ME too.)
I didn't know Japan was a state!
...And of course NOBODY is as stiff as Bill Clinton (ahem).
Rosemary the Queen Of All Evil (HAIL....!!!!) wrote:
"The best comment by far came from a somewhat surprising source...
Libertarian said:"
Not surprising to me! The Libertarian's comments here are always good and almost always the best.
If looking French is this [entirely safe link, promise] then that's quite a compliment.
Out of Rosemary's mouth it's fairly meaningless (no offense). Out of Dick Cheney's mouth it means something - and it's not good for Cheney.
"I didn't know Japan was a state!"
According to some of my friends, it became the 51st state when Koizumi sent Air SDF personnel to Iraq in January. (For some unfathomable reason, I often find myself surrounded by snarks.)