Signed up for a g-mail account today (got an invite from a buddy). Can’t say that I’m all that impressed. The only neat thing about it is that it keeps the e-mail together like conversations.
When I get some invites, I’ll give them to the FJRP readers.
-mjg
While I was going back and reading some of the posts on FJRP there was one that I could not get out of my head: DOS attacks made by FJRP readers?
Mainly this was about Mr. Beard suggestion that I had some control/doing with these DOS attacks. Now, as I’ve said before, Paul and I go “back” a little bit, and I thought about that “past” we have had. I have learned with this community that people get personally offended. I’m not just talking about name calling or anything like that, more if one were to say “Kerry Sucks” they get personally offended by that comment. Or if one were to say “Bush is the best", this would, most likely, personally offend them as well. Comments like this have never personally offended me (if they were referring to Bush sucking or Kerry being the best or even if they were attacking me in a personal nature (name calling etc) (I assumed it was all in ‘good fun’).
I don’t have any personal (or any other) problem with anyone in these blogging communities, including Mr. Beard. Sure Mr. Beard and I disagree on things, and argue about them, and the arguements can get ‘heated’, but I have never walked away from any internet argument (no matter how heated it got) upset at anyone.
However, to actually suggest that I’m engaging in an illegal activity certainly leads me to believe that Mr. Beard has a serious personal problem with me. Which was never my intention, I thought it was all in ‘good fun’ (until now).
I do admit, I talk a lot of trash. I went to Grab The Mic because it expressed/s good Kerry/liberal point of views, and started to post comments on that site to have a ’sort’ of rivalry between sites. However, instead of my trash talking rivalry idea, I got people personally upset at me. As a result, I’ve decided not to post at Grab The Mic anymore, which I’m sure they will be happy to hear, because all I end up doing is getting people personally upset at me, which I don’t like to do that to anyone.
So I would like to extend my personal apology to anyone who I’ve offended over at Grab The Mic, or any where else for that matter. Understand that this was not my intention, and I mistakenly thought people were like me and didn’t get offended by bloggers/politics commends/discussions.
-mjg
Again:
But the official records on Kerry’s Web site only add to the confusion. The DD214 form, an official Defense Department document summarizing Kerry’s military career posted on johnkerry.com, includes a “Silver Star with combat V.”
But according to a U.S. Navy spokesman, “Kerry’s record is incorrect. The Navy has never issued a ‘combat V’ to anyone for a Silver Star.”
Naval regulations do not allow for the use of a “combat V” for the Silver Star, the third-highest decoration the Navy awards. None of the other services has ever granted a Silver Star “combat V,” either.
Reporting by the Washington Post’s Michael Dobbs points out that although the Kerry campaign insists that it has released Kerry’s full military records, the Post was only able to get six pages of records under its Freedom of Information Act request out of the “at least a hundred pages” a Naval Personnel Office spokesman called the “full file.”
Kerry can’t be as honorable as Bush and release his records like Bush did. How sad.
NEW YORK – Retired Rear Adm. William L. Schachte Jr. said Thursday in his first on-the-record interview about the swift boat veterans dispute that “I was absolutely in the skimmer” in the early morning on Dec. 2, 1968, when Lt. (j.g.) John Kerry was involved in an incident that led to his first Purple Heart.
“Kerry nicked himself with a M-79 [grenade launcher],” Schachte said in a telephone interview from his home in Charleston, S.C. He said, “Kerry requested a Purple Heart.”
Yup, you go it. Nicked himself with a M-79, how honorable.
I also notice that Kerry continues to slip in the polls. Helping my hypothesis, and FJRP’s call, for Bush to win the election.
Mr. Beard seems to think so, infact he is going as far to suggest that I might have some sort of control over the situation. I’ve said on several occasions that Mr. Beard was ignorant, mostly referring to the realm of politics; however, it’s quite clear to me now that he is very ignorant in other realms (ones that I thought he might not be so ignorant in, technology). Is this shocking from the type of person Mr. Beard is? Of course not, you know what they say about ignorance.
http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/index.php?p=2103
Go ahead, have a good laugh.
I am pleased to say that we have reached the 10,000 hit mark (actually 10441 hits todate). Thats pretty good considering we have only been in business for four months. That means we get around 87 hits per-day, which is great. Now start commenting more 
-mjg
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Letter to John KerryAugust 25, 2004
Senator John Kerry
304 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510Dear Senator Kerry,
We are pleased to welcome your campaign representatives to Texas today. We honor all our veterans, all whom have worn the uniform and served our country. We also honor the military and National Guard troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan today. We are very proud of all of them and believe they deserve our full support.
That’s why so many veterans are troubled by your vote AGAINST funding for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, after you voted FOR sending them into battle. And that’s why we are so concerned about the comments you made AFTER you came home from Vietnam. You accused your fellow veterans of terrible atrocities – and, to this day, you have never apologized. Even last night, you claimed to be proud of your post-war condemnation of our actions.
We’re proud of our service in Vietnam. We served honorably in Vietnam and we were deeply hurt and offended by your comments when you came home.
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t build your convention and much of your campaign around your service in Vietnam, and then try to say that only those veterans who agree with you have a right to speak up. There is no double standard for our right to free speech. We all earned it.
You said in 1992 “we do not need to divide America over who served and how.” Yet you and your surrogates continue to criticize President Bush for his service as a fighter pilot in the National Guard.
We are veterans too – and proud to support President Bush. He’s been a strong leader, with a record of outstanding support for our veterans and for our troops in combat. He’s made sure that our troops in combat have the equipment and support they need to accomplish their mission.
He has increased the VA health care budget more than 40% since 2001 – in fact, during his four years in office, President Bush has increased veterans funding twice as much as the previous administration did in eight years ($22 billion over 4 years compared to $10 billion over 8.) And he’s praised the service of all who served our country, including your service in Vietnam.
We urge you to condemn the double standard that you and your campaign have enforced regarding a veteran’s right to openly express their feelings about your activities on return from Vietnam.
Sincerely,
Texas State Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson
Rep. Duke Cunningham
Rep. Duncan Hunter
Rep. Sam Johnson
Lt. General David Palmer
Robert O’Malley, Medal of Honor Recipient
James Fleming, Medal of Honor Recipient
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Castle (Ret.)
Even as Sen. John Kerry and his cheerleaders in Big Media try to associate President Bush with the modestly funded Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they remain silent about the links Kerry and the Democrat party have to multimillion-dollar Bush-hating groups. But they cannot keep concealing these ties, because NewsMax has uncovered multiple examples.
Thanks in part to tips from readers nationwide who are outraged about the blatant bias of the media establishment, we have found the following:
From Democrats.org, a Web site of the Democratic National Committee, May 9, 2003:
“The Democratic Party is partnering with MoveOn.org, People for the American Way, Campaign for America’s Future, and dozens of other groups representing millions of Americans to organize a massive public mobilization. On Wednesday, May 14, join us by calling and emailing your representatives in Congress to let them know that the majority of Americans oppose more irresponsible tax cuts that go overwhelmingly to the wealthiest sliver of Americans.”“In their own words, DNC coordination with MoveOn.org,” noted a reader from Florence, S.C., one of several who sent this tip.
http://www.democrats.org/wvc/weekinreview/200305120002.html
‘Kicking Ass’
From the same Web site’s unironically named “Kicking Ass: Daily Dispatches from the DNC,” here’s the ultimate in hypocrisy last Nov. 13 from one of Vermont’s more extreme ideologues:
“Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, took a short break from the 30-hour Republican hypocrisy-a-thon to come and see the results of the DNC’s petition drive. We collected more than 310,000 signatures and comments from Americans who stand with Senate Democrats in the fight to keep ultraconservative ideologues off the federal bench.”An accompanying photo has this caption: “DNC Chief Operating Officer Josh Wachs (left), Senator Leahy, and Zack Exley from Moveon.org pose with the more than 310,000 signatures.”
Keep reading HERE. Hat Tip to Rob Bernard
(CNN) – Vietnam veteran and former Sen. Max Cleland Wednesday plans to deliver a letter to President Bush for the Kerry-Edwards campaign, asking Bush to publicly condemn attack ads that dispute Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s combat record in Vietnam, according to a Kerry campaign adviser.
What are you worried about Mr. Kerry? You did no such thing when the Republicans were calling on you to do the same thing.
Why is John F. Kerry so terrified at what these people have to say? So terrified that he is saying the Bush administration is funding these people. So terrified he had to call some of them at their home’s to talk about this. What is it John Kerry? Why are you so terrified? The people have the right to know.
People have been asking me:
Why do you feel that this is a cover up by John Kerry?
The main reason is: why would John Kerry call someone who was making up lies about them? Did President Bush call Michael Moore when he was making lies up about Bush? No, of course not, the reason Kerry is calling these people is because he KNOWS that something big is going to be exposed about him.
What I find funny about this is Kerry is doing EVERYTHING in his power to discredit these people who wrote this book. What did Bush do about Michael Moore? Hardly nothing, he knew that the American people would see it for what it was worth, lies and spin. Kerry is terrified about people learning the truth about him. Bush has released his military records, why won’t Kerry?
From The Drudge Report:
Kerry’s campaign now says is possible first Purple Heart was awarded for unintentional self-inflicted wound…
Kerry received Purple Heart for wounds suffered on 12/2/68…
In Kerry’s own journal written 9 days later, he writes he and his crew, quote, ‘hadn’t been shot at yet’… Developing…
So maybe Kerry did lie about his Purple Heart awards, yet again, slapping the faces of all our vets. Fine Job Kerry, Real Proud!
Is Kerry trying to clean up his mess?
Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry personally phoned anti-Kerry swift boat vets, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Kerry reached out to Robert “Friar Tuck” Brant Cdr., USN (RET) Sunday night, just hours after former Sen. Bob Dole publicly challenged Kerry to apologize to veterans.
Brant was skipper of the #96 and # 36 boat and spent time with Kerry in An Thoi. Kerry and Brant slept in the same quarters, and Brant used to put Kerry back to bed at night when Kerry was sleepwalking.
Brant received a call from Kerry at his home in Virginia while he was watching the Olympics on TV.
The call lasted 10 minutes, sources tell DRUDGE.
KERRY: “Why are all these swift boat guys opposed to me?”
BRANT: “You should know what you said when you came back, the impact it had on the young sailors and how it was disrespectful of our guys that were killed over there.
See, I’m not the only one who thinks what Kerry did was utterly disrespectful
[Brant had two men killed in battle.]
KERRY: “When we dedicated swift boat one in ‘92, I said to all the swift guys that I wasn’t talking about the swifties, I was talking about all the rest of the veterans.”
Kerry then asked if he could meet Brant ["You were one of the best"] – man to man – face to face.
Brant declined the invite, explaining that Kerry was obviously not prepared to correct the record on exactly what happened during Vietnam and what happened when Kerry came back.
Developing…
This man never ceases to amaze me.
Only if Kerry could have been as honorable with outside ads against President Bush.
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - President Bush on Monday denounced campaign commercials aired by outside groups, including an ad that accuses John Kerry of lying about his combat record in Vietnam.
“That ad and every other ad” run by such groups have no place in the campaign, Bush said when asked about the commercial sponsored by Swift Boat Veterans For Truth that has roiled the race for the White House. The group said it would not stop its new anti-Kerry ad, which will start running in three states this week.
But then again, we are talking about John F. Kerry. The man who tossed his medals (or someone elses?); then he and his followers get angry when you question the validity of the medals that he “received” (I’m most likely beating a dead horse on this one but: John Kerry, clearly, showed what medals meant to him by throwing them away. To top it all off, he tries to make his medals part of his campaign. Amazing, absolutely amazing.
This, folks, is truly a shame. If John Kerry did do this, then he should step down immediately from the running for President.
August 23, 2004 – WASHINGTON — Disabled World War II hero and former presidential candidate Bob Dole demanded yesterday that John Kerry apologize for insulting Vietnam vets — and ripped him because he collected “three Purple Hearts and never bled.”
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole suggested Sunday that John Kerry apologize for past testimony before Congress about alleged atrocities during the Vietnam War and joined critics of the Democratic presidential candidate who say he received an early exit from combat for “superficial wounds.”
It is apparent to me that Kerry tried to get these medals for political reasons (that, to me, is a slap in the face of all veterans of this great nation). Then he tosses his medals away (I assume he did this because he feels the medals were worthless) and then claims that they were another soilders medals (some how that makes it OK to disrespect all of our vets ).
I always laugh when people try to defend Kerry’s Purple Heart awards (they act like they are insulted that your questioning the honor of the Purple Heart, when it comes to Kerry). To them, it was A-OK for Kerry to insult all of our vets by tossing his medals (or someone “else’s” medals) away. By Kerry’s actions, he made it very apparent that the medals were worthless/trash worthy (yet this same group of people seem to not care about that).
Why do people question his awards? Shouldn’t any war-time awards that were given on the grounds of possible fake injuries and political gain for one’s self be questioned? The answer to that is ‘Yes’, they should be questioned and it is perfectly OK to do so.
Sources/Links:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Politics/Investigation/kerry_vietnam_medals_040425.html
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/29319.htm
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040822/D84KIAL00.html
Well, here we go folks, Ms. Jackson gets into the game of conspiracy theories.
From the Drudge Report
JANET JACKSON: BUSH WHITE HOUSE USED MY BOOB TO DISTRACT FROM IRAQ
Janet Jackson now claims that her “Nipplegate” Super Bowl incident was used by the Bush administration to distract people from the war in Iraq!
Mike Slezak, managing editor of GENRE magazine, tells DRUDGE he has set the provocative Jackson interview for October’s issue.
Developing…
Trust me, if the Bush administration had that much influence on the media, you would hear all of the good things that are happening in Iraq. Not just the negative information; the only stuff they report out now.
If only I could sit on my butt all day and do nothing and some hard working guy I’ve never met would pay for my healthcare, my food and my housing….then, OH THEN I would be happy! All my problems would go away and life would be good. I just can’t figure out why in the world that rich guy doesn’t want to just give me his money. He doesn’t need it. He should know that if he is stupid enough to work his butt off to get rich then it’s only fair that he support my laziness! It’s only fair…right?
As a woman and a wife, I have to say that I find Laura Bush so refreshing. I have to admit, it took me a while to warm up to her. During President Bush’s first campain I was not a big fan…BUT, this article demonstrates why I like her so much.http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040819-121932-1223r.htm Here is a first lady who is completely behind her man! After Hillary, who clearly had her own agenda, this is refreshing to me. As a woman who is crazy about my husband I love to see a first lady who clearly is crazy about hers. And I have to say from what I’ve seen of Teresa Heins, I like her too in this aspect. There is something calming about a woman who is not afraid or threatened to be identified as her husband’s wife. A woman who doesn’t feel like she has to seperate herself in order to be an idividual. From what I have seen, both of these women seem to be confident enough in themselves to get behind their man 100%. That’s awesome!
FJRP is now calling the 2004 election for President George W. Bush.
Why:
Really it’s quite complicated and I don’t have enough time to type it all out; BUT, mainly it’s because of this poll which shows Kerry LOST ground after the Democratic National Convention. The article says:
“However, it is the first Gallup poll since 1972 showing a presidential candidate losing popular support in the wake of his political convention.”
The person they are referring to in 1972 was Democratic candidate George McGovern. In-fact Nixon beat George McGovern by one of the widest margins in the record books (Richard M. Nixon 520 ECV, George McGovern 17 ECV).
Before that, Kerry continued to lose ground shortly after he chose Edwards as his V.P. (See http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040708/D83MR9TG0.html ).
The republicans expected for Kerry to get a very large boost after the DNC (15 point boost to be exact (see http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595075325,00.html ) Gallop expected a five point boost for Kerry (See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1183074/posts ).
After the review of history, polls, issues and etc, FJRP is quite comfortable in calling the election for George W. Bush.
Sources:
http://www.freerepublic.com/
http://www.ap.org/
http://apnews.myway.com/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
http://www.dol.gov/
http://www.gop.com/
http://www.johnkerry.com/
http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://news.google.com/
http://web.archive.org/
(and more, but these are the ones that led to the conclusions stated above)
While up in Canada I found myself walking around a mall. I walked into a book store and began browsing through some of the titles. Bill Clinton’s book….Hillary Clinton’s book…..2 of Michael Moore’s books….Al Franken’s book…..wait a minute, these are all left wing books??? I asked an employee if they had any more political books and she pointed me over to the political section. I looked and looked and could not find a single conservative book at all!! Interesting…what’s up with that?
Throw in the free healthcare and you’ve got yourself a liberal heaven!
President Bush recognizes that supporting America’s small businesses is critical to ensuring continued job creation. Small businesses create two-thirds of new private sector jobs in America, employ more than half of all workers, and account for more than half of the output of our economy. Because small businesses are vital to our prosperity and reflect the hard work of the American people, the President has taken important steps to assist small businesses and the people they employ by reducing taxes, encouraging investment, and removing obstacles to growth.
The President’s Policies are Helping America’s Small Businessesmillions of Americans are prospering because the President made tax relief for America’s small business a key component of his economic program.
In 2004, 25 million small business owners will receive tax relief totaling about $75 billion.
The President’s Jobs and Growth package reduced marginal income tax rates across the board, including the creation of a new 10-percent tax bracket and the reduction of the top rate to 35 percent. These rate reductions benefit the more than 90 percent of small businesses that pay taxes at the individual income tax rates, not the corporate rates.
The President’s Jobs and Growth package also raised the amount that small businesses can expense for new capital investments from $25,000 to $100,000, reducing their cost of purchasing new machinery, computers, trucks, and other qualified investments.
The President supported and signed into law the phase-out of the Federal death tax, ensuring that family business owners are able to leave their businesses to their families or key employees.
America is the world’s largest exporter, and America’s small businesses are a large part of that success.
ports accounted for about 25 percent of our economic growth during the 1990s, supporting an estimated 12 million jobs, and small and medium sized companies make up 97 percent of all exporters.The Bush Administration is opening markets for American goods and services by completing free trade agreements with 11 countries (Australia, Morocco, Chile, Singapore, five countries of Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Bahrain) and launching negotiations with 10 others (Thailand, Panama, five countries of the Southern African Customs Union, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru).
Taken together, the free trade agreements that the Administration has completed and/or launched would constitute America’s third largest export market, totaling $66.5 billion in U.S. exports.
Small exporters benefit from these agreements. For example, more than 6,000 small and medium-sized businesses export to Chile, more than 4,000 export to Costa Rica, and approximately 3,000 export to Honduras.
The Bush Administration is working to ensure that small businesses can compete fairly for their share of Federal government contracts, expand in under-served areas, offer flexibility in the workplace, and have access to capital.
The President developed a strategy to reverse the trend toward the bundling of contracts, a practice that denied small businesses the opportunity to win billions of procurement dollars.Small businesses won more than 23% of all contract dollars last year, reaching a historical high and exceeding the statutory goal for the first time by any Administration.
In fact, Federal contract dollars to small businesses owned by women, minorities, and veterans increased to historic levels, surpassing several statutory goals in 2003.
Contracts to small firms that are socially and economically disadvantaged increased last year by an astounding 80%, from 249,000 to 449,000.
The President has announced a new initiative to expand business ownership and entrepreneurship among minorities. The Administration will undertake a unique association with the National Urban League (NUL) to create an entrepreneurship network.
The President has urged Congress to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to provide private-sector workers the same voluntary, flexible scheduling options that government employees already enjoy, including Comp-Time and Flex-Time. Now that more families have both parents in the workforce, American workers need more options and flexibility to arrange their work schedules.
Between 2001 and 2003, the Bush Administration has more than doubled the number of loans to small businesses, a 50-year record. This record level has already been surpassed in 2004.
In addition to reducing the tax burden and opening markets, the President is helping millions of entrepreneurs by reducing the costs of doing business in America. This agenda is especially important to America’s small businesses.
The President has worked to make health care more affordable. The President has called for Association Health Plans (AHPs) to give America’s working families greater access to affordable health insurance.The President is pushing Congress to pass legislation reducing frivolous lawsuits. The President supports enactment of medical liability reform, class action lawsuit reforms, and asbestos litigation reforms to expedite speedy resolutions of plaintiffs claims and curb the costs frivolous lawsuits impose on American businesses.
The President has proposed, and called on Congress to adopt, a National Energy Policy (NEP) to ensure that America has a reliable and affordable source of energy and to reduce our dependence on foreign sources. The Administration has completed implementation of nearly 75% of the more than 100 recommendations contained in the President’s comprehensive NEP.
The President is urging regulatory relief to ensure that Federal regulations do not unduly handicap America’s entrepreneurs by streamlining regulations and reducing paperwork.
The President has made tax relief permanence a top priority. All the tax relief enacted over the past three years, including the tax relief benefiting America’s small businesses, is scheduled to expire over the next several years. Raising taxes on small businesses will hurt economic growth and job creation.
In 2005, the expanded 10-percent bracket will sunset, increasing the tax burden of millions of owners of flow-through businesses.
In 2006, allowable small business expensing will shrink from $100,000 to just $25,000, increasing the cost of capital investments for America’s small businesses - thus subjecting them to a higher top tax rate than corporations could face.
In 2011, the rate relief and other tax relief enacted over the past three years will sunset, resulting in a tax increase for every small business that pays taxes as an S corporation, a partnership, or a sole proprietorship.
In 2011, the death tax returns, threatening the ability of family farms and businesses to survive from generation to generation and increasing the costs of estate planning for their owners.
Of course you won’t hear liberals calling him a war monger like they do with Bush.
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said on Monday he would have voted for the congressional resolution authorizing force against Iraq even if he had known then no weapons of mass destruction would be found.
Liberals? Are you outraged at this statement? Are you going to come up with slogans like drop Kerry not bombs? Something tells me, you won’t be doing this.
Where this all started:
“Now, there are some questions that a commander-in-chief needs to answer with a clear yes or no,” Bush said. “My opponent hasn’t answered the question of whether knowing what we know now, he would have supported going into Iraq.”
“I have given my answer,” Bush said. “We did the right thing, and the world is better off for it.”
Of course its right, the only reason people think that it’s wrong is simply because of a ( R ) behind someone’s name (we won’t say any names here). Kerry has now said that he would go into Iraq; of course he would, but he would not support our troops while they were there.
Well FJRP has sent SPP to Canada to do some research for us, we wish him well.
Don’t worry though, he will be back in one week from today.
-mjg
Sen. Kerry’s long awaited speech was typical in its liberal style - lots of promises, but little substance.
Let’s go through a number of them, shall we. First, “wages are falling, health care costs are rising, and our great middle class is shrinking. People are working weekends; they’re working two jobs, three jobs….We’re told that outsourcing jobs is good for America. We’re told that new jobs that pay $9,000 less than the jobs that have been lost is the best we can do. They say this is the best economy we’ve ever had. And they say that anyone who thinks otherwise is a pessimist.”
No, Mr. Kerry, we call those people left wing opportunists. The fact is that the U.S. economy is in very good shape. More people, again, more people are working today in America than ever before. Wages have increased under the Bush administration, not the opposite. America also has a positive number of imported jobs - in other words we import more work than we export. If we were to cease job exportation than foreign companies would, due to reciprocity, stop employing Americans in the U.S. What would you say then to the worker at the Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio?
To taxes - “And let me tell you what we won’t do: we won’t raise taxes on the middle class. You’ve heard a lot of false charges about this in recent months. So let me say straight out what I will do as President: I will cut middle class taxes. I will reduce the tax burden on small business.”
Do you really believe that? Throughout his “moderate” tenure in Washington Kerry has voted 350 times for higher taxes and against tax relief at least 29 times.
On Iraq - “Now I know there are those who criticize me for seeing complexities - and I do - because some issues just aren’t all that simple. Saying there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq doesn’t make it so. Saying we can fight a war on the cheap doesn’t make it so. And proclaiming mission accomplished certainly doesn’t make it so…As President, I will ask hard questions and demand hard evidence. I will immediately reform the intelligence system - so policy is guided by facts, and facts are never distorted by politics. And as President, I will bring back this nation’s time-honored tradition: the United States of America never goes to war because we want to, we only go to war because we have to.”
The flaw with this statement is obvious. Kerry saw the same evidence that the president saw and authorized him to go to war with Iraq. To state otherwise or, in this case, to pretend that Kerry was opposed to an invasion is clear revisionist history. 5 May 2003 “I said at the time I would have preferred if we had given diplomacy a greater opportunity, but I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein, and when the President made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.”
I support the fact that we did disarm him. Apparently he has since found his medal-heaving roots and is now a peace candidate - who also is strong on defense. Now, if that isn’t intelectual dishonesty I don’t know what is.
We saw nothing new tonight. It should not have surprised anyone. If things were peacefull and quiet in Iraq he would be gloating about his war vote. The opposite, which we see today, is also true. He is a populist politician - one that is not guided by morals or values, but instead on his perception of what the masses will find most appealing. This is exactly what we experienced throughout the 1990’s. We all know what that was like. Kerry, however, has gone through more political cosmetic surgeries than his Arkansas colleague ever had. And the left keep screaming that Bush is dangerous?
This video talking about the FLIP-FLOP, that Kerry does so well, with the war in Iraq: (You can view the video HERE)
CHYRON: In the year leading up to the Iraq war, Senator Kerry consistently viewed Saddam Hussein as a threat to the United States and “one who is and has acted like a terrorist.” (Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” 12/11/01)
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SEN. JOHN KERRY: “[I]t is something that we know-for instance, Saddam Hussein has used weapons of mass destruction against his own people, and there is some evidence of their efforts to try to secure these kinds of weapons and even test them.” (CBS’ “Face The Nation,” 9/23/01)
CHYRON: “Face The Nation” 9/23/01
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KERRY: “He is and has acted like a terrorist, and he has engaged in activities that are unacceptable.” (Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” 12/11/01)
CHYRON: “The O’Reilly Factor” 12/11/01
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KERRY: “I think we ought to put the heat on Saddam Hussein. I’ve said that for a number of years, Bill. I criticized the Clinton administration for backing off of the inspections when Ambassador Butler was giving us strong evidence that we needed to continue. I think we need to put the pressure on no matter what the evidence is about September 11.” (Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” 12/11/01)
CHYRON: “The O’Reilly Factor” 12/11/01
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KERRY: “I think we clearly have to keep the pressure on terrorism globally. This doesn’t end with Afghanistan by any imagination. And I think the president has made that clear. I think we have made that clear. Terrorism is a global menace. It’s a scourge. And it is absolutely vital that we continue, for instance, Saddam Hussein.” (CNN’s “Larry King Live,” 12/14/01)
CHYRON: “Larry King Live” 12/14/01
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(more…)
Breaking sharply with the enforced harmony of the Democratic National Convention, the president of the largest AFL-CIO union said Monday that both organized labor and the Democratic Party might be better off in the long run if Sen. John F. Kerry loses the election.
Andrew L. Stern, the head of the 1.6 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), said in an interview with The Washington Post that both the party and its longtime ally, the labor movement, are “in deep crisis,” devoid of new ideas and working with archaic structures.
Stern argued that Kerry’s election might stifle needed reform within the party and the labor movement. …
Asked whether if Kerry became president it would help or hurt those internal party deliberations, Stern said, “I think it hurts.”
Well, it appears the pro-union man might want to reconsider voting Kerry. This is a fairly big blow to the democrats when the largest AFL-CIO union suggest “both organized labor and the Democratic Party might be better off in the long run if Sen. John F. Kerry loses the election.”
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