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Moderator: You have a new plan.
Senator Kerry: Can I just say here Chris for one moment that I have a new plan?
Moderator: Er... exactly. (he gestures but she does not say anything) What is it?
Senator Kerry: Where? (looks round)
Moderator: No, no. Your new plan.
Senator Kerry: Oh, what is my plan?
Moderator: Yes.
Senator Kerry: Oh what is my plan that it is. Well Chris you may well ask me what is my plan.
Moderator: I am asking.
Senator Kerry: Good for you. My word yes. Well Chris, what is it that it is - this plan of mine. Well, this is what it is - my plan that I have, that is to say, which is mine, is mine.
Moderator: (beginning to show signs of exasperation) Yes, I know it's yours, what is it?
Senator Kerry: Where? Oh, what is my plan? This is it. (clears throat at some length) My plan that belongs to me is as follows. (clears throat at great length) This is how it goes. The next thing I"m going to say is my plan. Ready?
Moderator: Yes!
Senator Kerry: My plan by J Kerry. Brackets Senator, brackets. This plan goes as follows and begins now. I will spend more at the beginning, still more in the middle and then more again at the end. That is my plan, it is mine, and belongs to me and I own it, and what it is too.
(apologies to Monty Python)
Update: Boi has a similar take.
you have to respect the way he has a plan.
Posted by: jason at October 14, 2004 06:21 PM
Kerry's plan is so intelligent and amazing. It's new and improved, and as a moderate undecided swing-voter, I just love that!
I can't tell the difference between John Kerry plan and a dead crab.
Posted by: Alien Gray at October 14, 2004 07:02 PMWe used to dream of having a plan. It would have been like a blueprint to us! The best we could manage was stick figure on a bit of rolled up newspaper!
But if you tell kids that today, they won't believe you.....
Hehe, I haven't heard that routine in years, brings back fond memories. And very apt as satire. Thanks, well done.
Please feel free to enjoy my own parody of the final debate, at blog.gleeson.us.
Posted by: Sean Gleeson at October 14, 2004 07:17 PMI think that the reason we all can't
understand the plan is that it contains
complicated subtle nuances which were
created by the amazing intellect of the author. And by the way Bush looks like a chimp
and Cheny's daughter is a lesbian
I'd like to return a dead parrot
Posted by: matt holzmann at October 14, 2004 08:23 PMI also have a plan.
http://www.legendgames.net/myblog.asp?view=plink&id=223
Posted by: Robert at October 14, 2004 08:26 PMPlan, plan, plan, eggs and plan...
Posted by: triticale at October 14, 2004 08:34 PMI have been around and in many, many organizations over the last 45 years. There is an archetypical creature that is universally regarded with great derision: "The man with a plan".
Posted by: Roy Lofquist at October 14, 2004 08:46 PM"I have a plan that one day, even the state of Florida, a state sweltering with the heat of blocked recounts, sweltering with the heat of vote suppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a plan today!"
(Note: the opinions stated above do not reflect those of sane people.)
Posted by: Alan K. Henderson at October 14, 2004 08:57 PMThat should be "opinion" singular case.
Posted by: Alan K. Henderson at October 14, 2004 08:59 PMAnother right-wing smear. Senator Kerry has been very clear about his plan, on multiple occasions. It uses a FRESH START. Where Bush has had no plan, Senator Kerry has been very clear that his plan does everything Bush did, but does it better.
How much clearer can the Senator, who by the way is a war hero, be about his plan?
Posted by: a reader at October 14, 2004 09:08 PMTake a look around you at the world we've come to know
Does it seem to be much more than a crazy circus show
But maybe from the madness something beautiful will grow
In a brave new world
With just a handful of men
We'll start - we'll start all over again - all over again - all over again - all over again
We'll build shops and hospitals and barracks right under their noses - right under their
feet! Everything we need - banks, prisons and schools... We'll send scouting parties to
collect books and stuff, and men like you'll teach the kids. Not poems and rubbish -
science, so we can get everything working. We'll build villages and towns and... and...
we'll play each other at cricket! Listen, maybe one day we'll capture a Fighting Machine,
eh? Learn how to make 'em ourselves and then wallop! Our turn to do some wiping out!
Whoosh with our Heat Ray - Whoosh! And them running and dying, beaten at their own
game. Man on top again!
...
JOURNALIST: In the cellar was a tunnel scarcely ten yards long, that had
taken him a week to dig. I could have dug that much in a day, and I suddenly had
my first inkling of the gulf between his dreams and his powers.....
I see you've been to Kerry's website.
And seen his "plan".
No no no.
When the man says "I have a plan" he's trying to say "I have a _plane_". Some oddity of trailing silent e's, particularly ones that affect other interior vowels in combination with a strong background in French has corrupted his use of English.
Posted by: Al at October 14, 2004 09:50 PM"Ze Plan!, Ze Plan!"
I see what you mean...
Posted by: j.pickens at October 14, 2004 09:53 PMDo I have a plan? Let me tell you about my plan:
ODE TO A PLAN by John "Mojo Jojo" Kerry
I have a plan and it is smart because it is my plan and not Bush's plan. The plan is smart and secret, and no one knows my plan because if they knew my plan it would not be secret, but it is secret so no one knows my plan except me because it is my plan, and it is a secret plan known only to me. I have told everyone of my plan but not what's in my plan because that part is secret, but I do have a plan, and it is a good plan because it's a smart plan and a secret plan, and it's a smart plan because it's my plan, and I am smart. Bush's plan is not secret and is not smart because it is not my plan which is both a secret plan and a smart plan, so you can see that my plan is much greater than Bush's plan which is neither my plan nor a secret plan, which is precisely my point.
Plan shlam I just.... I've forgotten what we were talking about, excuse me.
Posted by: Duncan Winn at October 14, 2004 11:06 PMWe all have a plan for John Kerry here: http:/stanfordforbush.blogspot.com
Next time you feel like renting some funny old B-movies, look for "Hell Comes to Frogtown" starring Roddy Piper and Sandahl Bergman. I'm reminded of it every time Kerry says "I have a plan" because one of the running jokes in the movie goes basically like this:
"We're getting out of here."
"How?"
"With a plan."
Mr. Praline: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
Mr. Kerry does not respond.
Mr. Praline: 'Ello, Miss?
Mr. Kerry: What do you mean "miss"?
Mr. Praline: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
Mr. Kerry: We're closin' for lunch.
Mr. Praline: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this plan what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Mr. Kerry: Oh yes, the, uh, the socialist state... What's, uh... What's wrong with it?
Mr. Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
Posted by: Tony at October 15, 2004 02:08 AMAt least in the "Black Adder" series, his servant Baldrick did not merely have a "plan" but he had a "Cunninmg Plan".
Posted by: LaVallette at October 15, 2004 03:15 AMBlackadder: "Well, Baldrick, that is indeed a cunning plan. It has just one tiny little flaw."
Baldrick: "And what would that be, milord?"
Blackadder: "It is bollocks."
Is it as cunning as a fox with a Ph.D. in cunning from Oxford?
Posted by: drivel at October 15, 2004 05:50 AMHey! That's my plan!
Posted by: A Elk at October 15, 2004 06:10 AMIn the beginning was the plan....
I think the Plans are secured in Al Gores Lock Box.
Posted by: Glink at October 15, 2004 07:07 AMTalk to the man at the tan van. He has the plan.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at October 15, 2004 07:11 AMI once had a plan but I got drunk and forgot it.
Posted by: Buster at October 15, 2004 07:34 AMGod bless you, Kevin, for reading my mind!!! I've been dying for someone to slap the Ann Elk parody on Kerry since the latest debate. Now if someone could just read my mind about the other matter.... What? You guys need me to spell it out for you? Well, alright then! Haven't you noticed John Kerry's resemblance to John Cleese, or at least to the characters played by Cleese? I don't mean just his gangly awkwardness, underbite, overbearing demeanor, and stentorian voice. Yes, my friends, I'm talking about the Ministry of Funny Walks! (See http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20041002/capt.sge.oqt18.021004074416.photo00.default-384x289.jpg)(See http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/02/77/25/image_525772.jpg) (See http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20041009/i/r1141944921.jpg) (And see http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20041011/capt.sge.rbu09.111004123705.photo01.default-255x398.jpg) Now get cracking and churn out more Kerry-Cleese parodies!!!
Posted by: Mina at October 15, 2004 07:55 AMSenator, "Well, I didn't expect the Planish Inquisition...."
Posted by: bugscawfey at October 15, 2004 10:01 AMKerry doesn't even understand that anyone who knows baseball knows you don't grip a baseball like a handful of pate'. Not only does he throw like a girl he cannot even grip the ball. For some really funny pictures, check out Football Fans for Truth.
Posted by: Glen at October 15, 2004 11:01 AMSlip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
you Poeple mak me sick HE HASS A PLAN if yuo HAVE a plan to MAKE a plan THAT IS A PLAN and i am sher that is IT and knot 2 just KILL KILL KILL lak i teech my POLLY SI studants bush DO
Posted by: Buddy Larsen at October 15, 2004 12:26 PMPlan for Iraq:
Why in the world should we allow French, German, Canadian, Chinese or Russian companies to bid on contracts? THe French and Germans in particular, since their armtwisting of the Turks prevented the norther pincer from happening and allowed all those "insurgents" to regroup. Between them, France and Germany killed maybe 500 Americans. F*ck 'em.
Not to mention the Canadian prime minister whose son-in-law had US$1 billion bet on Saddam as heir to 10% of ELF.
Besides, France, Canada & China are too busy helping kill people in Darfur -- check out who's financing the government's oil operations in Southern Sudan.
Plan for social security:
Seems to be abandoning the income cap on the payrol tax. They tripled my payroll tax last fix, and they aim to do it again.
Plan for taxes: see my post here. To sum it up: why was it wrong to repeal the 1993 tax increase, especially when the cut was extended to lower incomes when the 1993 increase wasn't.
Posted by: Kevin Murphy at October 15, 2004 02:48 PMNo, medium dave, we meant the plan to advance himself by making up whatever fragrant fantasy he thinks will get your gullible saliva flowing. BTW, John Lennon had a poem called "Partly Dave", was that your muse? If so,may an old boomer say, Lennon had an exquisite bullsh*t meter; Kerry would've sprung the gears badly, badly, badly.
Posted by: Buddy Larsen at October 15, 2004 03:37 PMI have a better take on you, Mediumdave. You are at least producing arguments rather than talking points, and I thank you for that, as it's rare(And rarer from the left, I'd contend). I think your points can be refuted, but I don't think they are quickly refuted. I think, in fact, that in your short missive you make the case better than Kerry does.
Posted by: Assistant Village Idiot at October 16, 2004 07:41 AMHe reminds me of a plan.
What plan?
The plan with the power.
What power?
The power of hoo-doo
Hoodoo?
You do.
I do what?
Remind me of a plan . . .
But, AVIdiot, so many assumptions hanging in the air! Solid cases can indeed be made from assumptions. But if the assumptions are bad, the solid case will collapse as soon as it's animated.
Lotsa folks spends losa time wonderin' 'what went wrong' about something-or-other. Good cases for bad laws is usually mixed up in there somewhere.
Posted by: Buddy Larsen at October 18, 2004 08:22 AM