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I owe Jammie Wearing Fool a debt of gratitude for introducing me to the photo above. Looks like I’ll have to reconsider my favorite dumb-politician photo.
It wasn’t “looking French” that scuppered Kerry’s bid for the Oval Office, nor his Hanoi John antics – it was the inevitable consequence of being Dork Of The Millennium.
Seriously. Where else but in politics can someone atrophy for years as a prerequisite to then being accredited as a party grandee?
Kerry’s latest no-no, obviously in a show of solidarity with his collectivist brothers and sisters, is to have run afoul of the IRS, to whom his 2004 presidential campaign owes more than $800,000. As Jammie states, Kerry is now eligible for office under President Intern.
Kerry says that the IRS has made a mistake, but has otherwise not let this diminish his profound love for inefficient government bureaucracy.
It’s going to be a long time before auditing of the Obama campaign is complete (assuming, of course, that we get to see this document, unlike certain other ones that Obama spends taxpayer money to keep hidden away…), but it’ll be worth the wait.
June 9th, 2009 at 14:53
J-,
I hope I do not sound too patronising, but I take an almost fatherly delight when you young whippersnappers stumble on gems like these.
This picture is a significant artifact from that famous old battle back in ‘04, an arrowhead nestled between the ribs of a cavalryman’s bones bleaching along the Medicine Tail Cooley, a musket ball pried from tree at Gettysburg, a rusted M-1 clip dug from a field near Bastogne.
It was one of the three or four iconic images that started John “Reporting for Duty” Kerry on his slide to defeat. It was — along with the phony ANG commander’s letter and counterfeit Bush OERs, that sealed the deal for a Democrat loss in 2004. It was one of the examples of how then-powerful right-wing blogs — and blogs who cared more about truth than political rhetoric — were in those days, places like Blogs for Bush, The Northern Alliance, Little Green Footballs, and the nascent Pajamas Media.
They/we were the mighty warriors on the battlefield in those days, our mastery of English, logic, reason, and HTML held the vicious and ignorant hun at bay, dissecting his foibles at every turn, pointing our the sublime and (like the above picture) the ridiculous.
This hit the internet, as I recall, about a month after the Democratic convention and was one of the pictures that pricked poor John Kerry’s pathetic post-convention bounce bubble and brought him back to the pack.
Then came the Soros-underwritten forces of darkness, the internet-savvy Visigoth Trolls who stole our wondrous thunder with their constant bleating about The Beloved and Sainted Obama and their Clearasil-dripping “I know you are, but what am I” ripostes and their Chi-Comm like hordes flooding over the border, busing alkies and druggies and the homeless to voting booths by the thousands near you and me..
..leading to the abomination that was the election of 2008 and subsequent debasement of our country and its princioples.
So it falls to you, my son, to pick up the spear and stand at Thermopylae with your other young blogger brethren. to seize this country back from the likes of the HuffPo, Media Matters, Acorn, and the terminally ugly Jeanine Gerafalo.
Emitte lucem et veritatem.
June 9th, 2009 at 18:46
The Kerry campaign was a diaster from conception. He is just a horrible, terrible public speaker. He is also one of the most odious people I have ever encountered. President Bush messed up a lot during his second term but in 04, the Dems managed to have the biggest DB ticket in history with Kerry/Edwards.
June 9th, 2009 at 23:14
This is my absolute favorite picture of John Kerry. As I’ve said elsewhere, he looks like one of the anthropomorphic sperm cells from Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted to Konw About Sex.