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John Kerry's Katrina Aid Arrives Late
NewsMax.com ^ | Sept. 12, 2005 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 09/12/2005 2:27:31 PM PDT by rightalien

Billionaire Democratic Sen. John Kerry has finally sent his own aid package to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans more than two weeks after the storm hit - and a week after most of the city had been successfully evacuated by the Bush administration.

Kerry traveled to New Orleans on Monday aboard a UPS Boeing 757 loaded with 5,000 bottles of baby formula, 5,000 pairs of sneakers and an array of cleaning supplies, the Associated Press said. "Everything that any of us can do is so welcome, and it provides just a little bit of help at an extraordinary time," the Massachusetts Democrat told the AP.

But rather than pay for the aid using his wife's ketchup fortune - which the Los Angeles Times estimated last year at over a billion dollars - Kerry's aid package was donated by Boston's Children's Hospital, the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans and the New Balance sneaker company.

UPS donated the plane, the flight crew and fuel, trucks and drivers to transport the goods to Logan International Airport and then to disperse them to Baton Rogue and Lafayette, La.

It's not clear what, if anything, Sen. Kerry paid for.


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To: peyton randolph
Kerry and Edwards, together again.
41 posted on 09/12/2005 3:06:29 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: loveliberty2

Typical liberal freeloader. But hey, it's sooooo easy to be generous with other peoples' stuff.

Just goes to show: socialism works - for those in charge.


42 posted on 09/12/2005 3:12:05 PM PDT by Noumenon (Activist judges - out of touch, out of tune, but not out of reach.)
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To: My2Cents

Liberals are always generous with other people's money.


43 posted on 09/12/2005 3:16:22 PM PDT by mwl1
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To: GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
If you haven't heard, he was in Vietnam.

What? F'ing John Kerry, the french looking one? He was in 'Nam?Are You Series?

44 posted on 09/12/2005 3:24:34 PM PDT by shiva
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To: weegee
Better not see Boondocks today.

Saw it. The "thousands upon thousands of dead in New Orleans". Wonder if McGruder will apologize.

45 posted on 09/12/2005 3:25:06 PM PDT by sharkhawk
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To: rightalien
The Hurricane Katrina political flap is now officially over. You know for certain that once John F. Kerry jumps into the ring, the issue is settled and nobody cares anymore.

In six months, he will be bloviating on the floor of the Senate about how he saw National Guardsmen taping telephone cables to the genitals of hapless Louisianans, slaughtering their livestock and generally ravaging the Mississippi Delta in the matter of Ghengis (pronounced Jen-jis don'tcha know) Khan...

46 posted on 09/12/2005 3:33:02 PM PDT by gridlock (IF YOU'RE NOT CATCHING FLAK, YOU'RE NOT OVER THE TARGET...)
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To: sharkhawk

No. He hates Bush.

Much more provably than Kanye's comment that Bush hates black people.

Goebbels would be proud.


47 posted on 09/12/2005 3:34:16 PM PDT by weegee (The lesson from New Orleans? Smart Growth kills. You can't evacuate dense populations easily.)
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To: rightalien

Mister sKerry, would you run again for president? Last time you were so close, now with this record of saving millions of people from ravages of Katrina, rebilding the NO with bottles of milk and sneakers, this is simply unbeatable. Not even Swiftboaters can sink that! You are our hero!
We would love to see you beating the heck out of Hitlary.
Run F'n, run!


48 posted on 09/12/2005 3:41:21 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeePeee!)
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To: rightalien
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All I wanna doo-im is a boom boo-im ana zoom zoo-im!

49 posted on 09/12/2005 4:04:25 PM PDT by MarineBrat (When it rains, New Orleans makes its own gravy.)
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To: zip; BOBWADE

pihg


50 posted on 09/12/2005 4:04:59 PM PDT by Mrs Zip
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To: isthisnickcool

I agree with your assessment. I will be surprised if that remark isn't black-balled, and pulled by the FR admins.


51 posted on 09/12/2005 4:05:43 PM PDT by Cobra64
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To: weegee
"Did he loan Sean Penn the leaky dingy?"

I've also heard that a "leaky dinghy" 35 years ago is why Kerry won't release his medical records.

52 posted on 09/12/2005 4:25:15 PM PDT by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: rightalien

So he or Teresa couldn't put up a few evacuated families in one of their five manses or their yacht?

http://www.liveshot.cc/billions_and_billions.htm


53 posted on 09/12/2005 4:28:36 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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To: rightalien

http://news.bostonherald.com/election/view.bg?articleid=44728

Teresa: 'Let them go naked'
By Andrew Miga
Friday, September 17, 2004

The article you requested is now archived or expired off the site.


WASHINGTON - Teresa Heinz Kerry has done it again, chirping off a one-liner that landed like a thud on the campaign trail.



Visiting volunteers in New York packing relief supplies for Hurricane Ivan victims, the Democratic presidential nominee's wife said that food and water and" generators were more important than clothes...let them go naked for awhile


(Teresa's famous Marie Antoinette quote is all over the net)


54 posted on 09/12/2005 4:34:26 PM PDT by YaYa123 (@ God Bless President Bush As the MSM and Democrats Seek To Destroy Him.com)
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To: rightalien

BTTT


55 posted on 09/12/2005 4:45:07 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: rightalien

Well, it could have been worse. I expected to see him wind surfing up and down the flooded New Orleans streets with a megaphone announcing that he was 'John Kerry reporting for duty'.


56 posted on 09/12/2005 4:46:07 PM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: layman
I expected to see him wind surfing up and down the flooded New Orleans streets with a megaphone announcing that he was 'John Kerry reporting for duty'.

Great idea for the photoshop artist. Anyone?

57 posted on 09/12/2005 7:37:35 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeePeee!)
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To: rightalien

Kerry Demands Silver Star for Piloting Swift Boat Through New Orleans
Written by Jeremy Robb
Monday, September 12, 2005
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=16758


WASHINGTON, DC --- John Kerry contacted the Pentagon today to request a Silver Star for a recent swift boat mission he ran through the streets of New Orleans. While the Pentagon claims the mission was unauthorized, Kerry claims it was a secret mission approved by the highest levels of the government.

"I clearly remember listening to the radio and hearing President Bush deny that swift boats were in New Orleans," said Kerry. "And there I was on a swift boat in New Orleans. Dodging bullets. Scanning the shore for enemy fire and mortar attack. The band aid on my hand covers a wound I received while moving too quickly on deck for a photo op and scraping against the railing."

Sean Penn tried to join Kerry on his own swift boat, but it sank before leaving dock. Penn forgot to put the plug in the bottom of the boat and refused to stuff his Communist flag in the hole to prevent flooding.

About the Writer: Jeremy Robb is a San Francisco resident and satirist who notes that he is on a "one man's jihad against liberalism." He is the editor of the "Jerhad!com Newsletter" and his website is at http://www.jerhad.com. Jeremy receives e-mail at jeremy@jerhad.com.


58 posted on 09/13/2005 7:13:43 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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