What bothers me most is not so much the lack of judgment or the profanity, but the fact that this yet again goes to show that Kerry elieves on a fundamental level that he is just better than everybody else. That's downright dangerous in a president, because it is just so easy for people like that to believe that "the rules do not apply" to them when there is a difficult decision.

This is deeply troubling. If Kerry cant get along with his secret service agents how can he be expected to properly kiss the French's ass? I mean all these cowboy antics and arrogance arent going to play well in Bonn or Lyon.

Alright, I don't think Kerry is exactly a prince, but I think we may be blowing this out of proportion a bit. Maybe he just has an ill-temper. So did Lyndon Johnson. So did Thomas Jefferson, by some accounts. I've said things I regret. Haven't you? There are plently of things to assail John Kerry about besides how he refers to a Secret Service Agent after he eats a faceful of slope.

johnnymozart, good points, but the problem is that there's a whole history of Kerry with this sort of thing. Jefferson and Johnson may have been ill-tempered, but my understanding of history is that they were both fundamentally (small d) democractic and respected the equal worth of their fellow man. I do not see this in Kerry.

Drudge is the sole link? 1/10 for effort. Although he was 'out of sight for part of the descent', eyewitnesses say Kerry went left, then right, then left again, all the way down the slope. And he looks French. I know all this from a radio broadcast that was on in the other room. And a half-remembered dream I once had of a begoggled communist yelling "Do you know who I am?".

If this were a single incidence, I would not have even posted it. However, Kerry has a habit of treating everyday people poorly. Classical Values has a valuable perspective ...about evaluating powerful people. Watch how they treat the little people, he said; like the ordinary workers, servants, waiters, secretaries, etc. The kind of guy who's rude to a waiter or who yells at his secretary is the same sort who'll stab you in the back, welch on a deal, and treat you like shit if he ever has power over you. Let us vote to ensure Kerry never has power over us.

Some might say a few of us bloggers are making a mountain out of a molehill. But do we really want someone with Kerry's arrogance as president? He and his staff expect special treatment, to the extent they even hacked off Dave Barry last September. Sen. John Kerry, who once came, with his entourage, into a ski-rental shop in Ketchum, Idaho, where I was waiting patiently with my family to rent snowboards, and Sen. Kerry used one of his lackeys to flagrantly barge in line ahead of us and everybody else, as if he had some urgent senatorial need for a snowboard, like there was about to be an emergency meeting, out on the slopes, of the Joint Halfpipe Committee. Kerry is not the type of man who should be our leader.

oh, but DRUDGE!!!!! reports it as fact, it must be true!

This sort of attack on my patriotism has become a hallmark of the right-wing attack machine that has so divided America.

And Banana Boy, the story was posted by the New York Times, Drudge just linked to it. And, while I have long been a stalwart champion of the issues important to fruit-based Americans (I'd be honored to be considered the first fruit-based American president), I must ask you to stop attacking my patriotism.

Samuelv,

Its not that I disagree with the sentiment. I don't. I don't like him and I don't trust him. I think he says what he thinks people want to hear, rather than what he actually thinks. I think his policy proposals suck, and betray utter cluelessness of how economics works. More than that, his newspeak about how he'll fight the war on terror leaves me with the same feeling I have after drinking Bud Lite. Less filling.

On the other hand, he fought in Vietnam. (rolls eyes)

Maybe this does fit a pattern of behavior that suggests he thinks there's one set of rules for him, and another for everyone else. I wouldn't discount that. But Republicans are frequently saying that Democrats should address "the issues" which I wholeheartedly agree with. If they get bogged down in a non story like this when there are so many other numerous issues on which to legitimately attack Kerry, it only gives liberals more opportunity to lob charges of partisan meanness on the part of conservatives. Ultimately, this story is counterproductive for Republicans, even if true.

So X is a banana? I thought his true color was yellow.

No dont you understand, anything Drudge links to is automatically false. Even if it is the NYT, which is always correct. Strange but true.

JohnnyMozart said: "I think he says what he thinks people want to hear, rather than what he actually thinks."

I wholeheartedly agree with the first half of that sentence, but I am not sure about the second half. I am not sure that I know what he actually thinks. I've heard postulations about his being a globalist and other things, but I have yet to hear him say what he thinks. I've yet to hear him say what he believes in. Not credibly anyway.

x's parents are out protesting the way today & they let him play on the computer.

x's parents are out protesting the war today & they let him play on the computer.

Ignore everything else except this: "I don't fall down...."

"I don't fall down"? That's something a 16-year old punk says when you're questioning his manhood.

EVERYBODY falls down. What we're seeing here is the senator's thinly veiled God-complex talking. In his God-like universe, everyone else is a mindless dolt servant who had better get with the program or get his ass on the road.

If you're half-way human, you treat the help as if they're half-way human as well. But Kerry's beyond that. Everyone's an SOB, including the SOB hired to protect him. Poor SOB.

Whiny, sniveling spoiled little rich boy - you don't deserve an honor guard from your neighborhood crime watch. Stop acting like a prick and maybe you might become loveable.

Maybe.

johnnymozart, Thomas Jefferson may have had a temper, but he also wrote the Constitution, invented the coat hanger and the dumbwaiter.

In 20 years in the Senate, Kerry authored 3 pieces of minor legislation, 2 of them on marine exploration.

Reminds me of my friend Tom, who always wanted to be a great writer. He learned early on that Hemmingway, Poe, Hammet, they were all big drinkers. So he tore into the bottle. Now he's an alcoholic.

Also, Kerry and Jefferson were both men. So they have that in common too.

Torpedo,

Merely an illustration. I don't think Kerry is on the same level as Jefferson, or as the guy who pressed his shirts. But beyond a one-time (or multiple times, as the case may be) personal flub on camera, there are plenty of reasons why Kerry is not Presidential material, not the least of which is his inability to grasp the war on terror. We should concentrate on that, instead of what an idiot he makes of himself while snowboarding, or when he tries to convince us that a Swiss finishing school boy from Massachusetts could be the second "black President"

Do you know Kerry's Secret Service call name?



SNOWMAN!

rofl

Because under a bright light, he melts.

T-8 Dang! I thought it was because he's a FLAKE. But then, I'm usually reserved about name-calling. :o)

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