posted on September 22, 2004 07:48:07 PM
This nails you again crow, its like the article was written specifically about you.
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[b]Supporters Of Kerry Blindly Support Him,
Ignore Reality, Record[/b]
by Chris Williams
In the eyes of Democrats, John Kerry can do no wrong. They don't judge him on what he has done, but only on what he promises to do, blindly ignoring reality, his inconsistent record and the hard facts of his 20-year voting history.
He supported ousting Saddam Hussein for years, but ran for office as the antiwar candidate, and now claims he's tough on defense. He was against the war in Iraq, but voted for it, then against the money to fight it with.
He was against gay marriage, then for it, and now censures the San Francisco mayor who sanctioned it. He says he is Catholic, and believes that life begins at conception, but is also pro-abortion, which Catholics oppose.
He claims he served heroically in Vietnam (just check out his home movies), but immediately converted to rabid war protester on his return. Though he accused himself and his fellow servicemen of heinous war crimes, he now claims to be a war hero, and uses the same men he then condemned as character references today. He reportedly threw away his medals in protest, but they now magically adorn his Senate office wall.
He testified before Congress, and elsewhere, that he was in Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968, which proved false. He also blamed President Richard Nixon for sending him there and lying about it, when LBJ was president at the time.
Kerry claims to be an American patriot, but is honored in the Hanoi War Museum as a foreign activist who helped the communists defeat the U.S. in Vietnam. He has also been officially endorsed by the U.S. Communist Party.
He promises to represent the common man, but has no clue about real life. He was born to wealth and privilege, is worth millions, is married to a billionaire and has no real life experience. He has accepted millions from powerful special-interest groups, and votes consistently against proposals of concern to the middle class.
He hypocritically denounces big corporations that "outsource" their jobs to save on labor costs, while he and his wife are equally guilty – most Heinz ketchup factories are located overseas. He also condemns gas-guzzling vehicles, but drives SUVs and owns yachts and jet planes, all notorious with conservationists.
He preaches against making military service an issue, except for his own, which he's made the centerpiece of his campaign. Now he is trying to silence those 60 pesky eye witnesses and the 254 combat mates who dispute his claims of heroism.
Instead of addressing their allegations, Kerry has now filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission to stifle the swift boat vets' freedom of speech, and has also threatened the publishers of their book and the stations playing their ads with lawsuits.
Kerry claims to be strong on defense, but voted against every major military appropriations bill since 1988, including battle armor for our troops. He pledges to upgrade our intelligence agencies, but voted to kill all antiterrorist activity of every agency of the U.S. government, including slashing funding of the FBI by 60 percent, of the CIA by 80 percent and of the NSA by 80 percent. He promises to be tough on terrorism, but while on the Senate Intelligence Committee he missed almost 80 percent of committee hearings, and is now "too busy" to attend the terrorist-update sessions offered by President George W. Bush.
John Kerry is obviously unqualified to be president, but his supporters are so blinded by fanatic anti-Bush hatred, they have completely lost their objectivity. They overlook the discrepancies between his past votes and present promises, dismiss the contradictions and ignore the lies. Blind faith may have its place, but not in the election for president of the United States.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
posted on September 23, 2004 09:05:09 AM
A great article describing kerry as The Mass. Drifter. Sounds more PC than flip-flopper. kerry likes to think of himself as JFK....but he shames his name. As this article points out...if JFK were alive today...kerry would probably be disagreeing with actions he took....
kerry, the JFK wanna-be is pathetic and it's hard to believe democrats support him and his past actions at all.
September 22, 2004
"(He is) decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent." Does anyone come to mind? Those were actually Winston Churchill's words describing the Hitler appeasers leading the British government prior to WW II. But it is an uncannily evocative description of John F. Kerry on the matter of Iraq in 2004.
In the last few months, Mr. Kerry has been for more troops and less troops, for believing the war was necessary (even knowing everything we now know), and for believing it is the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.
He has stated that anyone who thinks removing Saddam Hussein was not good and necessary was not fit to be president, and that removing Saddam was a mistake. He has said that we must succeed in Iraq, no matter how many resources it takes, and that he will substantially reduce our troops in the first six months of his presidency and almost completely get out by the first four years.
At any given moment John Kerry sounds decided, resolved, adamant and powerful in his convictions. But just as the appeasers against whom Churchill railed seven decades ago, Mr. Kerry soon undecides his decisions, revokes his resolution, drifts away from his adamance, liquefies his solidity and gelds the potency of his previous conviction.
Anyone with such a recent record of ludicrous reversals and re-reversals would not be taken seriously enough to be quoted by the national press if he wasn't the standard bearer for a great party's presidential quest.
Now, let's try a few more quotes. "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." "I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable -- as so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men -- brave men -- will make it so." Those were the words of John F. Kerry's hero, John F. Kennedy. It's amazing what a difference changing just four little letters in a last name can mean.
Jack Kennedy would "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe." For John Kennedy: "Only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it."
It is ironic that in this time and in this place, the direct descendent of those words, and the virile passions they convey, can be found coming from the mouth and heart not of the Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, but of his opponent, the Texas Republican George W. Bush.
Yesterday, addressing the den of jackals, thieves, petty dictators and other international flotsam -- which goes by the name of the United Nations General Assembly -- President Bush echoed the brave, necessary words of the once Prince of Camelot.
"We are determined to destroy terror networks wherever they operate ... We are determined to end the state sponsorship of terror ... we are determined to prevent proliferation and to enforce the demands of the world ... .The work ahead is demanding. But these difficulties will not shake our conviction that the future of Afghanistan and Iraq is a future of liberty. The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat, it is to prevail ... The advance of freedom always carries a cost -- paid by the bravest among us ...
"Let history also record that our generation of leaders followed through on these ideals, even in adversity. Let history show that in a decisive decade (we) did not grow weary in our duties, or waver in meeting them ... I am confident that this young century will be liberty's century. I believe we will rise to this moment ... I have faith in the transforming power of freedom."
As John Kennedy said, "any danger spot is tenable if men -- brave men, will make it so." He would recognize President Bush's convictions as his own -- words and thoughts which have not changed a jot or a title in the three years since Sept. 11 ...
None of us may predict what men from another time would think of our age. But it is hard to imagine that John Kennedy, a man who would -- and did -- "pay any price and bear any burden" could be heartened to see his near namesake and party son twist and turn, evade and avoid, rally and retreat on the supreme issues of war and peace in a desperate and unprincipled political hunger for high office.
It is doubtful that JFK-1 would support JFK-2.
"Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don´t have the judgment to be president or the credibility to be elected president." - john kerry
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"These dizzying contradictions -- so glaring, so public, so frequent -- have gone beyond undermining anything Kerry can now say on Iraq. They have been transmuted into a character issue."
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"What kind of man, aspiring to the presidency, does not know his own mind about the most serious issue of our time?" - Charles Krauthammer
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taken from www.townhall.com Tony Blankley
The Massachusetts drifter
[ edited by Linda_K on Sep 23, 2004 09:12 AM ]
than flip-flopper. kerry likes to think of himself as JFK....but he shames his name. As this article points out...if JFK were alive today...kerry would probably be disagreeing with actions he took....