September 6, 2004

INITIAL IMPRESSIONS:

`W stands for wrong,' Kerry says (THOMAS FITZGERALD, 9/06/04, Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Seizing on a common campaign sign that features President Bush's middle initial, Sen. John Kerry on Monday declared that "W stands for wrong," shifting his focus from the rhetorical quagmires of Iraq and Vietnam to pocketbook issues.

Is this a game you really want to start when your middle name begins with "F"?

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 6, 2004 7:10 PM
Comments

Flip-flopper, fool, fuddy-duddy, failure, fink, flop, fizzler, flailer, finagler, flim-flam man, fumbler, fiasco, fourflusher...

Posted by: Joe at September 6, 2004 7:38 PM

Kim du Toit certainly knows what the 'F' stands for!

Posted by: at September 6, 2004 7:40 PM

Doesn't this approach to campaigning strike anyone else as childish?

Posted by: jd watson at September 6, 2004 7:45 PM

Anonymous:

Who?

jd:

No more childish than the argument that "I fought in combat so I should be President"

Posted by: oj at September 6, 2004 7:47 PM

Frog.

Posted by: jsmith at September 6, 2004 7:50 PM

OJ

"Kim du Toit"

He's a blogger (primarily about guns) who sometimes uses colorful language.

Posted by: h-man at September 6, 2004 7:51 PM

h:

Thanks.

Posted by: oj at September 6, 2004 7:57 PM

Fraud.

Posted by: Dave P at September 6, 2004 8:06 PM

This is the way an adult proposes to change the subject to domestic issues? What's next, your mother wears Army boots?

Posted by: Fred Jacobsen (San Fran) at September 6, 2004 8:06 PM

Too bad his first initial's not "M".

Posted by: joe shropshire at September 6, 2004 8:10 PM

Man alive, just saw this on C-SPAN. "On every issue of importance, W stands for wrong!" He then lists a bunch of issues, some of marginal importance, most not.

The only issue of importance wasn't on the list.

Posted by: jsmith at September 6, 2004 9:28 PM

Even better, "S".

Posted by: joe shropshire at September 6, 2004 9:28 PM

Fubar — which describes his campaign.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at September 6, 2004 9:34 PM

Fabulist.

Finished.

Posted by: jim hamlen at September 6, 2004 10:50 PM

Flatulent?

Posted by: Bart at September 6, 2004 10:59 PM

Fool.

Posted by: John at September 7, 2004 12:18 AM

Français, in French of course, his mother tongue.

Posted by: Peter at September 7, 2004 3:39 AM

Fatwa, F-liberal, F-kakis

Posted by: Mike at September 7, 2004 10:18 AM
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