Kerry Calls Opponents ‘Crooked,’ ‘Lying’
Sen. John F. Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate, used his harshest language yet to describe his Republican opponents, accusing them today of corrupt and deceitful behavior.
Kerry’s comments came during a stop at a sheet metal plant in Chicago as he shook hands with workers. “Tell it like it is,” a man at the Hill Mechanical Group told him. “Keep smiling.”
“Oh yeah, don’t worry, man,” the senator from Massachusetts responded. “We’re going to keep pounding, let me tell you. We’re just beginning to fight here.
“These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I’ve ever seen,” Kerry added. “It’s scary.”
The Bush campaign denounced Kerry’s remarks as angry rhetoric.
“At every turn, John Kerry has claimed to be the victim of an imaginary smear machine,” Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said. “Today, John Kerry made a comment that showed his true colors: a relentlessly negative campaign that is negative and pessimistic and offers no positive plan or agenda.”
Kerry has a very positive plan and agenda. It starts with getting rid of the idiot who’s in the Oval Office now.
i remember when bush/cheney were campaigning 4/5? years ago, and they didn’t know that the mic was picking up their conversation about a journalist/reporter? and they were calling him a jackass or something, and there was a brouhaha over it. they got elected anyway. i think what happened with kerry will be talked a bit for a while and then forgotten.
It was referring to Adam Clymer from the NY Times as an asshole, big time.
I’m not sure if Kerry didn’t want to be picked up by the mic, much as Jeb Bartlett did when talking about Gov. Ritchie on a live camera calling him dumb.
So now we know Kerry has a canny eye for character traits…