Posted on 09/14/2004 3:03:10 AM PDT by kattracks
Washington, DC, Sep. 13 (UPI) -- Five widows whose husbands were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks will endorse John Kerry for president on Tuesday, United Press International has learned.[snip]
Breitweiser and the others have become increasingly outspoken critics of the administration recently, especially since the launch of the war in Iraq.
"That was not about making the country safer," she said of the war.
The five have been criticized as partisan opponents of President Bush, after speaking out earlier this year against his use of imagery from Ground Zero in election ads.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Apparently, the MSM hasn't heard about the other 9/11/ families. Or perhaps they'd rather ignore them since they don't fit into the MSM's agenda.
All 5 very likely ardent Democrats before hand... I'm sure there are a number of widows and widowers who would endorse Bush in a heartbeat. This is a non-issue.
The same ones that attended the 9/11 hearings?
There are probably 1500 widows from that day, and these five are the only ones anybody listens to. I wonder why that is?
Don't bother telling me, I already know.
More than likely, they're somehow connected to one of Heinz's 57 variety foundations.
That the widows of 0.18% of the victims endorse Kerry is newsworthy? Just imagine the media firestorm if it was a whole 1%!
Not more than likely, already established. Organizational and funding support from the Tides foundation, the lunatic left money laundering operation.
Why airline security failed
Gore commission study material still classified
How Al Gore aborted air safety
"I can`t take the guilt anymore! I can`t take the guilt anymore! ARRRGH!"
Kerry and his POS will stop at nothing.
And these 5 woman don't speak for all or even most of the widows, so the headline is misleading. these are a few political hacks out of a group of thouseand or so.
Where I come from, this is called "making hay" from widowhood.
Yep, probably the ones they had front and center who cried on cue on camera anytime Bush was mentioned.
"The same ones that attended the 9/11 hearings?"
Yes, the "jersey girls". Foolish women.
Ignore them. They don't deserve a response, and they have very little influence, if any, on the voting public.
Kinda the same % as Kerry's "band of brothers"...I truly hope that the bigger band of brothers (VN era vets) will be the difference in this election.......
I fear their husbands may not be so happy with their activities.
600 were suing the Saudi Prince Jaime Gorelich's law firm was defending. I wonder who they supported?
DK
I know that political correctness dictates that nothing should be said about these unfortunate women who lost their loved ones in that murderous attack. I would not do so, but their hypocrisy is astounding. They castigate others for making a political issue of 9/11, while doing so themselves. I view this in the same light I view John Kerry's Vietnam service. If he had not made a big deal of it, perhaps I, and others, would not have either. Same with these women. Their wrong-headedness is almost too much to believe. It shows that politics does indeed trump common sense. As a counterpoint, I like to view the situation of Debra Burlingame - whose brother, Charles, was the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. How many times has she appeared in the media? She is an outspoken critic of the "Families of 9/11" organization, but she has probably been on TV once to every 10 times those other women have. And we all know, there IS no media bias.
On the contrary; the issue is why does UPI bring this up?
Why is the headline "Sept. 11 widows...." instead of "a few 9/11 widows"?
With 3000 dead, there would have to be 1000 widows, I would guess. Is this attitude prevalent among them?
How about widowers?
Why dig up five against, when there are five hundred for?
Unless you have an agenda, of course...
I am shocked!
It offends me how much money they were given (as pointed out by Rush). Compare this to the survivors of Oklahoma City and the families of our military men killed in action defending this country.
Under a hanoi john flip flopping kerry osoma bin laden the man who ordered the killing of their husbands will sit in a federal prison for the rest of his life, AFTER we give him a kidney transplant.
August 9, 2004
Beneath waffling, Kerry opposes death penalty
As a mother who is surviving the unimaginable pain of losing a child to murder, my opposition to John Kerry is very personal. In his acceptance speech, he never mentioned the death penalty.
Kerry opposes it, even for those who murder children. Not surprisingly, he has flip-flopped for political purposes and now claims to support the death penalty for terrorists who kill Americans. But does he really? And if he does, how can he justify executing terrorists who murder Americans but not the monsters who live among us and murder our children?
Kerry is on record that he will impose a moratorium on the federal death penalty. He favors Osama bin Laden being tried in a U.S. court. That would be a federal trial. Would the moratorium apply to the man responsible for the most horrific mass murder in our history?
Kerry brags about his record as a tough prosecutor, but he prosecuted white-collar criminals, not violent offenders. We can reasonably judge what people might do by what they have done. Kerry will be soft on crime. He will nominate leftist, weak federal judges. He defended the Michael Dukakis furlough program that allowed convicted murderer Willie Horton to murder again.
Kerry will NOT get this family's vote. It is very personal.
I'm Gail Keasling, mother of murder victim Jeremy Flachbart (16) and I APPROVE this message.
Under a hanoi john flip flopping kerry the osoma bin laden the man who ordered the killing of their husbands will sit in a federal prison for the rest of his life, AFTER we give him a kidney transplant.
August 9, 2004
Beneath waffling, Kerry opposes death penalty
As a mother who is surviving the unimaginable pain of losing a child to murder, my opposition to John Kerry is very personal. In his acceptance speech, he never mentioned the death penalty.
Kerry opposes it, even for those who murder children. Not surprisingly, he has flip-flopped for political purposes and now claims to support the death penalty for terrorists who kill Americans. But does he really? And if he does, how can he justify executing terrorists who murder Americans but not the monsters who live among us and murder our children?
Kerry is on record that he will impose a moratorium on the federal death penalty. He favors Osama bin Laden being tried in a U.S. court. That would be a federal trial. Would the moratorium apply to the man responsible for the most horrific mass murder in our history?
Kerry brags about his record as a tough prosecutor, but he prosecuted white-collar criminals, not violent offenders. We can reasonably judge what people might do by what they have done. Kerry will be soft on crime. He will nominate leftist, weak federal judges. He defended the Michael Dukakis furlough program that allowed convicted murderer Willie Horton to murder again.
Kerry will not get this family's vote. It is very personal.
I'm Gail Keasling mother of murder victim Jeremy Flachbart (16) and I APPROVE this message.
Concerning the money: And there were millions of other people in this country who lost their livlihoods as a result of 9/11 and who still haven't recovered. They received no compensation -- nor were they asking any. A professional gimmee, gimmee culture has sprung up amongst some of the widows that is quite unattractive.
I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking holy cow! Five widows, who had husbands killed in the 9-11 attacks, all endorsing John Kerry.
Five women who, before 9-11, were, no doubt, staunch Republican supporters, home schooling their children, taking them to church and giving them the foundation nessessary to become responsible American citizens.
Five widows all now separated, by death, from their Knights in shining armour, by a dastardly deed, committed by GWB, which enabled the terrorists to kill their spouses.
Yes folks ... it is only a trickle of five widows now, but it will soon be a raging torrent of thousands, nay, hundreds of thousands, that will soon open the flood gates to all things pure and sweet.
A Kerry victory in November.
And to think it was UPI that brought us this news that enabled us to know about those five widows, that made us see the light and vote for John F. Kerry, which saved the United States of America.
I stand in awe of the widows five, for they are the real hero's
Their rightful name is the 9-11 Hags.
Some people make a career out of widowhood, I seem to remember a widow who took her husbands Senate seat,Sarah Brady isnt quite a Widow, but she has made a career of her husbands handicap after the shooting, I am sure there are many other examples of widows who got a taste of their 15 minutes of fame and nursed it for the rest of their lives.
Thats what these women are doing nursing their 15 minutes.
I call them ATTENTION WHORES... Nothing more.
"It offends me how much money they were given..."
That was all done to prevent a tsunami of lawsuits, the litigation of which would make Dickens "Bleak House" look like a half-hour sitcom.
I work for a law firm in nj, and I do think it had some good effect. A lot of people just took the money NOW, as opposed to suing.
But, otoh, I'd agree it was probably a bad precedent.
One thing I think was really missed by President Bush was a chance to really rally the populace. There was too much encouragement to go back to "normal". Now, of course, some are surprised that the dims, for one group, took the administration up on that offer. I do think most people in the country realize we are still a long way from "normal" and won't be seeing that place for a good long time. Some of us may never see it again.
Welfare Widows
Breitweiser, and her band of sisters are very naive and, quite frankly, ignorant. Moreover, they have all become useful fools for those who want to bring down this country.
we need to get past this ....this is what the DEMS want..a side track.....EXPOSE KERRY, Bush can defend himself, he knows more than just 5 of 1000 loved ones support him.!!
this new article about kerry's silver star ...has longer legs regarding the truth about kerry, but press is killing time on this ALREADY BELEIVED TO BE A FORGERY....
**** this is a no brainer...DNC wants Bloggers consumed on this, so swiftvet, and Truth about KERRY DIRECTLY doesn't get presssed *****
Man, did he finally swallow Tipper?
Couldn't Whoopi have mentioned Slimfast or something?
I am anxious to see who these are. I think it may be the Jersey women.
I'll never forget an interview I saw of one of the women (I don't know if it was one of these) a few months after 9/11. She was from Jersey, lived in a HUGH house and all she could talk about was how she was not going to be able to live in the "style and comfort she was used to". That is a quote. I will never forget that. More regret about losing the lifestyle then the husband.
Sad really.
She basically used him as a living breathing ATM.
Thank you. This is exactly why I am supporting Thune with $$$. Daschle, his airline lobbyist wife, and Gore built a tangled web on airline security/safety. 9/11 blood on their hands IMO. I want to see Daschle go down in flames.
he gets 5, GWB gets the rest...
AARGH...FOX just said that they are going to be making campaign appearances for Kerry.
Who in the hell is politicizing 9/11 now?!?!?!
Dear God, I do find this repulsive. The damn Dims were saying at some point we shouldn't have even mentioned 9/11 at our convention.
Five well paid democratic lackies for kerry. They can thank Klintoon and Carter for their husbands death. I would be willing to speculate that they even lost someone in 9/11. Possibly they may be like some of these military heros the demo-commies parade around. We find out they never served and if they did were kicked out for having a kerry attitude. They don't speak for the majority of the unfortunate people who lost loved one's during 9/11. The bottom line, "What we have here is a commie-cratic ploy for the sympathy vote."
Not-so-Breit/wiser has made herself the darling of the Left by excoriating President Bush at every turn and praising WJClinton whenever she can.
There has never been a question of the media bias.... it's always been there and it will always be there. I heard this report this morning on CBS radio ...and to their credit, they did mention that although there were these 5 widows, many have also come out to support George Bush. I really don't think this will sway any votes at all. The War on Terror is something that John Kerry doesn't have the stomach for, and America knows it.
"The same ones that attended the 9/11 hearings?"
Appears to be the case ... I am shocked, aren't you?
While you're at it, include me even though I'm not a widow. I dated a guy who died on the 110th floor of the North Tower and I'm hereby giving my endorsement of President George W. Bush. I'm waiting to hear from you...but I definitely won't hold my breath while doing so.
Breitweiser is one of the 4 women I saw on Chris Matthews during the 9-11 Commission thing and she is nothing more that a Katie Couric wannabe. I bet they were all democrats before 9-11.
Source of this piece shows us how different the world looks inside the beltway. Can you say parallel universe?
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