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  • Would that it were (what?)

       August 24, 2004

    John Kerry recently appeared on The Daily Show. with Jon Stewart. I didn't see it, and I'm not at all broken up by that. Don't get me wrong, I love The Daily Show, but John Stewart is such a disgustingly flagrant liberal that I can hardly stomach it when he has Dems on the show (e.g. like when he had Bill Clinton on to attack President Bush a few weeks ago.)

    According to the article, the following exchange took place:

    Stewart also sought answers to another hard-hitting question: "Is it true that every time I use ketchup, your wife gets a nickel?" The candidate's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, is heir to the Heinz food fortune.


    "Would that it were," Kerry said.

    What the hell does that mean? "Would that it were?"

    I assume it's a New England thing? Or maybe it's an Kerryish-intellectual thing that is so far beyond my lowly, uneducated, easily confused understanding? Or, perhaps before going on the show, Kerry punched "what kinds of coloquialisms do normal people use?" into google and got back a lemon? I don't know, but, in any event, we certainly don't say things like that in Midwest. And I've never heard anyone use the phrase anywhere else in the country, either, and I've lived in a lot of places.

    A google search shed no light on the answer. Maybe someone out there can fill me in on not only what this phrase means, but also where it's used and where it came from?


    Posted by jkhat at August 24, 2004 07:44 PM

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    #  March 7th, 2005 6:48 PM      Converted_Comment
    Converted comment: Posted by: kris at August 24, 2004 10:13 PM

    Isn't it just short for "Would that it were true?" Kinda like how people from Wisconsin say "wanna come?" or "wanna come with?" to mean "do you want to come with me?"

     
     
    #  March 7th, 2005 6:48 PM      Converted_Comment
    Converted comment: Posted by: james at August 24, 2004 10:23 PM

    ok, lets assume that it is short for "Would that it were true?"

    what the hell does THAT mean? again, not a sensible sentence.

     
     
    #  March 7th, 2005 6:48 PM      Converted_Comment
    Converted comment: Posted by: kris at August 24, 2004 10:43 PM

    a fanciful way to say "i wish it was true"? let's face it, Kerry *is* a fanciful kind of guy.

     
     
    #  March 7th, 2005 6:48 PM      Converted_Comment
    Converted comment: Posted by: james at August 24, 2004 11:04 PM

    so when asked whether his wife for a nickel for every ketchup sold, kerry basically answered "I Wish?"

    Seriously? He went on national television and intimated that he doesn't have enough money and that he wishes that he had more?

     
     
    #  March 7th, 2005 6:48 PM      Converted_Comment
    Converted comment: Posted by: kris at August 25, 2004 08:07 AM

    exactly
    because john kerry is a man of the people, a man of the poor and downtrodden

     
     
    #  March 7th, 2005 6:48 PM      Converted_Comment
    Converted comment: Posted by: Nicole at January 15, 2005 02:45 AM

    How do you even know hes a liberal?Give me facts showing he said he was a liberal.Don't just say it without any facts!That just makes you sound ignorant.

     
     

     

     


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