KERRY: "I have no intention of wilting. I've never wilted in my life."

[Lex]

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Ya go that, Smirky?

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BUSH: . . . it is one of the things I've learned in the White House, is that there's enormous pressure on the president, and he cannot wilt under that pressure. Otherwise, the world won't be better off.

LEHRER: Thirty seconds.

KERRY: I have no intention of wilting. I've never wilted in my life.

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:smack:

[Catfight]

1. wavier or wilt?

[Lex]

4. The quote in my post is from the transcript.

Kerry also said he never wavered.

[sui generis]

2. I'm sure Viagra is just dying to use that clip . . . /nt

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Yeah. Not one of Kerry's best lines.

But forceful, unequivocal and Presidential.

I think it also unnerved Bush a little bit more.

--bkl

[Lex]

6. He used Bush's word 'wilt' back at him.

Then Kerry also said 'I've never wavered either.'

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. So Kerry used just 3 of 30 seconds and that was his answer?

FANTASTIC!

[Lex]

7. Here's the FULL quote

KERRY: I have no intention of wilting. I've never wilted in my life. And I've never wavered in my life.

I know exactly what we need to do in Iraq, and my position has been consistent: Saddam Hussein is a threat. He needed to be disarmed. We needed to go to the U.N. The president needed the authority to use force in order to be able to get him to do something, because he never did it without the threat of force.

But we didn't need to rush to war without a plan to win the peace.