Saturday, November 17, 2007

Bring. It. ON.

Kerry has accepted Boone Picken's challenge.

I intend to follow this one here. I am sure Tom McGuire will have some posts on this as well.

This should be fun.

7 comments:

Luther said...

My only comment is that it was an awfully loose challenge by Pickens. I am reading that he came up with more particular conditions after Kerry's response. As yet to be accepted so far as I know.

They both reduce themselves through this charade. Though is it possible for Kerry go any lower...

chuck said...

I'm curious to see the upshot. Based on past history, I don't expect Kerry to bestir himself to answer the questions, he will just promise to do so. Has he released all his military records yet?

vnjagvet said...

I don't believe so, Chuck.

Barry Dauphin said...

But we do know that his Yale grades and military IQ test suggest something less than a powerhouse intellect. Of course, all one has to do is listen to the man speak...

Doug said...

Just in case this hasn't been linked here yet:

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Luther said...

Kerry has the money to buy brains... and maneuverability. The ending of this will be very low key, just as the beginning.

buddy larsen said...

I've met Boone --a long time ago, before he was such a celebrity, dad worked for Mesa for awhile (as a geologist, not a takeover guy) up in Amarillo. I met him there in Amarillo, during a visit to the folks, when I went along with dad to a meeting. Boone & I chatted for about two minutes, during which he asked my kids' names. I gave him the three (at the time) names.

The next time we met, a few years later when dad & I were down in the Rio Grande valley white-wing hunting and dropped by some drilling rig christening in Corpus Christi, we bumped into Boone (still not a celebrity, I stress, before his Wall Street raids), and he asked about the three kids by name, remembering also their ages and order.

I was amazed--dad said later that Boone had near-total recall of everything he ever read or heard.

This guy was born poor, went to a small obscure college in Oklahoma, and made it to the multi-billionaire, Wall Steet maven, media celebrity stratosphere all on his own, with just his guts, brains, character, and salesmanship.

I seriously doubt that he will have too much trouble breaching the intellectual defenses of John Kerry.