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An open letter to Senator John F. Kerry My wife had rotator cuff surgery earlier this year, and the recovery is terribly painful. Then, she developed a staph-epi infection, and they had to cut the same scar open and operate on her again. Just thinking about the pain and anxiety of facing that painful surgery a second time in the same wound, makes me cringe. That experience, however pales in comparison to what I am going through right now, in my heart. The old hurts are surfacing and the feelings of betrayal by fellow citizens, and their leader stirring them...

CAPTION JOHN AND TERESA!

<p>February 18, 2004 -- THE 2004 presidential election may be decided in the next two months. For three years, George W. Bush has sought to define himself by his accomplishments as president. Legion though they are, he has only achieved a stalemate: His job approval is only a break-even 48 positive and 48 negative in the most recent Fox News poll.</p>

While many people have been focused on whether or not John Kerry had an affair with an intern, they overlook the two most important questions. These are: 1. Should past adultery disqualify a candidate for President of the United States on ethical or moral grounds? 2. Given your knowledge of the American people, do you believe that an accusation of adultery, even if proven, can prevent a candidate from being elected President?

U-Turn in Kerry sex row From BRIAN FLYNN in New York THE father of the woman said to have had an affair with US Presidential hopeful John Kerry has made a dramatic U-turn. Terry Polier pledged to vote for the super-rich Democrat after daughter Alex, 27, publicly insisted she had not had a fling with him. Yet just four days ago, Terry branded Kerry, 60, a “sleazeball” and said he and wife Donna would NEVER support him. He said: “I know my wife will not be voting for Mr Kerry, let’s put it that way. “Two years ago he was...

please watch NBC evening news for those in other time zones. Lisa Meyers torches John Kerry

Letter Of The Week TIRED OF HEARING KERRY CALLED A 'HERO' Thank you for your article, Kerry's post-battlefield conversion is pathetic. I spent three tours in Vietnam with the 5th Special Forces (Airborne) with side trips to Laos and Cambodia. I lost twenty-three of my friends during the war. That is the price you pay for the profession we followed. However, the America public and a lot of Vietnam Veterans are being taken in by John Kerry's service in Vietnam. If you read about the award of his three Purple Hearts, they were nothing but scratches. If my Team Medic...

ELECTION 2004Woman denies affair with KerryPolier's parents now vow to vote for senator they called 'sleazeball' Posted: February 16, 20043:00 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The woman with whom Sen. John Kerry is alleged to have had an affair broke four days of silence today, saying the rumors are false. In a statement released to the Associated Press, Alex Polier said, "I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry, and the rumors in the press are completely false." Alex Polier (photo: London Telegraph) In another statement, released by her parents, Terry and Donna Polier of Malvern, Pa., the Poliers portray a...

During Monday's program, I posed some questions about Alex Polier, the woman now denying any affair with John F. Kerry: When did she leave the United States? Who made her reservations? Who paid for her ticket? How long will she be gone? How is she earning a living? How long has she been engaged? Why did she tape an interview with an American network before she left? Who set that up? What about her medical records and dental records? Could we maybe see those? Why did the father say Kerry's a "sleazeball," on Friday, and now is going to vote...

The woman at the center of unsubstantiated rumors that Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts had an extramarital affair released a statement on Monday in which she denied any romantic involvement with him. "I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry, and the rumors in the press are completely false," the woman, Alexandra Polier, 27, said in the statement. "Whoever is spreading these rumors and allegations does not know me, but should know the pain they have caused me and my family."

WASHINGTON (AP) - John Kerry stands astride the decades, reaching back 35 years to his days as a Vietnam War hero to show the measure of his character now as a presidential candidate. The pitch has been a powerful energizer for Kerry's campaign and now critics are hoping to use the rest of Kerry's war story to the opposite effect. Kerry rarely gives a speech anymore without thanking the "band of brothers" who helped catapult his presidential bid from lost cause to apparent Juggernaut. With phone banks, personal appearances and campaign ad testimonials, Kerry's war buddies and other veterans...

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has smooth answers for the problems of health care, the economy and just about every issue on the minds of voters. Yet he has been afflicted with a complete loss of words concerning a stunning event about which many Americans can't stop talking. What is striking, and some say telling, is his silence about the raunch-filled Super Bowl halftime show. Thousand of families in Kerry's home state had tuned in to watch their home team, the New England Patriots, compete for the professional football championship against the formidable Carolina Panthers, only to be embarrassed during the...

<p>Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards have been engaged in an intense competition in recent months to become the Democratic Party's most aggressive "anti-special interest" candidate. Mr. Kerry repeatedly claims to be "the only senator who has been elected four times, voluntarily refusing to take one dime of political action committee special interest money." Mr. Edwards claims to have "never taken a dime from a Washington lobbyist." A dime here, a dime there. To borrow a phrase from George Wallace, there's "not a dime's worth of difference" between the two presidential candidates in terms of their extraordinary financial dependence on the special interests they purport to despise.</p>

<p>There's no public evidence that John Kerry has played around on the Widow Heinz, but the poor guy probably has 57 varieties of trouble at home, anyway.</p> <p>That's because wives nearly always operate from a lower standard of proof than mainstream newspapers, rarely requiring multiple sources, and suspicion alone is usually enough to convict. Some of that ketchup in the Heinz-Kerry boudoir might be blood.</p>

<p>NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A woman who has been the subject of rumors linking her to Sen. John Kerry denied yesterday that she ever had an affair with the Democratic presidential candidate.</p> <p>Breaking her silence four days after the accusations surfaced on the Internet, Alexandra Polier issued a statement to the Associated Press saying, "I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry, and the rumors in the press are completely false."</p>

It isn't for nothing that Bill Clinton has Wesley Clark on his speed dial. What with Clinton running his campaign and all. No sooner had Clark pulled the plug on his presidential run last Tuesday night -- and started the firestorm surrounding stories of Kerry and his extramarital affairs -- than Clinton was on the horn telling him to shut his mouth and get in line behind Kerry. Clinton is thought to have once wanted Clark to at least be on the bottom of a Democratic ticket. But as the campaign wore on, doubts arose. "All of the reasons Clark...

The treatment by the media of the rumors of an alleged Kerry affair with a young woman should both frighten and anger all Americans. Frighten them because it is striking proof that our First Amendment freedom of the press has been subverted and twisted into an unrecognizable abstraction. Anger them because it illustrates the supreme arrogance of our media and elitist “opinion makers” who believe it is for them to determine what is news and what is not. When this treatment is examined in the context of the current media circus about President Bush’s National Guard service, the “blackout” on...

Woman in Kerry 'sex scandal' breaks silence to deny affair ... Reports of an alleged extra-marital affair concerning Mr Kerry, whose wife, Teresa, is heiress to the Heinz ketchup fortune, first appeared last Thursday on ...

Kerry to Keep Senate Seat During Campaign Kerry Campaign Says He'll Keep Senate Seat While Seeking Presidential Nomination The Associated Press WASHINGTON Feb. 17 - Sen. John Kerry doesn't plan to resign his Senate seat while he pursues the Democratic presidential nomination. Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said Kerry, who has won 14 of the 16 Democratic primaries and caucuses to date, "will continue to fight for the issues important to the people of Massachusetts and all Americans" as he makes his bid for the White House. Darrell West, a Brown University political science professor, said it would make sense for...

<p>February 17, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - The young woman at the center of rumors linking her to John Kerry broke her silence yesterday to deny she had an affair with the married Democratic front-runner. "I have never had a relationship with Sen. Kerry and the rumors in the press are completely false," Alexandra Polier, 27, said in a statement issued to The Associated Press in Nairobi, Kenya, where she is staying.</p>

Forget the current hullabaloo regarding the thirty some odd year old service records of the two candidates and all the other hysterical, hypocritical, hyperbolic horse hockey being raised by the Democrats and their operatives. Here's the commonsense bottom line of what the coming election is about: Either we re-elect President Bush or we allow President Kerry and the Democrats to surrender our national sovereignty, our national security and our national defense to the United Nations and other so-called world government bodies. The Democrats do not believe that war is sometimes necessary to defend the nation and or our national interests....

<p>Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential front-runner, has asked supporters to stop suggesting that President Bush shirked his duty during the Vietnam War, but a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee says his group will not back off.</p> <p>At Sunday night's Democratic debate in Milwaukee, Mr. Kerry dismissed the charge by DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe that Mr. Bush was AWOL -- absent without leave -- when he was required to report to the Alabama Air National Guard in 1972.</p>

This election may be the most important in living memory. I believe that it is the most important since 1864, when the voters of the North were asked to choose between the folksy Republican who had led them through three years of war and a Democratic “war hero” whose election would almost certainly lead to capitulation and defeat. There were two sides in 1864: patriots, who were willing to save the Union regardless of the cost, and traitors, who were willing to lose the war for ideological reasons. The same is true today. Let us understand the cause for which...

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 Kerry lover holed up in city house By Nixon Ng'ang'a The woman who could end Senator John Kerry's chances of becoming president of the United States remained holed up in a Lavington house in Nairobi amid claims that she had confessed her affair to a US TV station. The gate to the house where twenty four-year old Alexandra Polier, who allegedly had a two-year affair with the Senator favoured to clinch the Democratic Party nomination stays, was closed yesterday. Local and international journalists camped at the gate for hours but were denied access to house no...

Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley revealed Sunday that Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry personally met with "Hanoi Jane" Fonda at least twice during the days when the two played leading roles in the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War, including a never before detailed 1971 meeting in Detroit. "The Jane Fonda incidents occurred in two places; one on a march from Morristown to Valley Forge when they shared a platform at Valley Forge," Brinkley told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. "Then he met her in the more troubling Detroit Howard Johnson's Comfort Center [event], where there was this thing called the Winter...

Kerry Blasts Bush's Daytona 'Photo Op' By NEDRA PICKLER .c The Associated Press WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) - A confident John Kerry launched a full-throttle attack on President Bush's economic policies, mostly ignoring his Democratic rivals on the eve of the Wisconsin primary. Howard Dean's campaign shed another top manager and John Edwards vowed to press on no matter how he fares Tuesday. Kerry, who has a commanding lead in the race to oppose Bush this fall, chided the president for taking time out Sunday to attend the Daytona 500, saying the country was bleeding jobs while he posed for a...

Had enough yet? Are you sick and tired of the networks falsely portraying Kerry as a war hero, while covering up his war crimes and how he backstabbed Vets and POW/MIA? Are you sick and tired of the networks reporting Democrat attacks on the President as "hard news" while dismissing attacks on Kerry -- from his OWN PARTY -- as GOP dirty tricks (even though the GOP has nothing to do with it -- Clark and Chris Lehane leaked the info)> Are you fed up with the networks taking every opportunity to follow Demo breadcrumbs, demanding the President's *DENATAL RECORDS*...

<p>The story is being shushed around the family dinner table &#8212; and in newspaper city rooms &#8212; but all the neighbors are talking about it.</p> <p>What the neighbors are talking about are rumors of marital infidelity by Democratic White House front-runner John Kerry, and they have learned about them from the Internet, talk radio and the foreign press.</p>

You'd think the political media as well as operatives for the Democratic and Republican parties would have learned two valuable lessons from Bill Clinton's election victories: 1. Sexual high jinks, real or alleged, do not necessarily doom a candidate. In 1992 and in 1996, tens of millions of Americans probably agreed with the GOP assessment of Clinton as a horny, rutting pig -- and yet they voted for him anyway, because they didn't think his sexual habits had that much relevance to his strengths as a world leader. 2. Military history (or the lack thereof) probably won't be the determining...

The 2004 American presidential election is shaping up to be a rough one by recent standards with questions already rife about President Bush's National Guard service and Senator John Kerry's private life. But in historical terms, this is quite mild stuff and there is a moderating influence these days in that the heavyweight US media are reluctant to get involved in what they see as private issues. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post, for example, have written about whether President Bush actually carried out his duties as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard in 1973....

<p>A woman at the center of John Kerry intrigue dated longtime Kerry Finance Director Peter Maroney, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.</p> <p>When pressed by media outlets in recent week, the Kerry campaign confirmed the relationship, according to top sources.</p> <p>Alex Polier on Monday denied "Internet and tabloid rumors relating to me and Senator John Kerry."</p>

<p>"For the last several days I have seen Internet and tabloid rumors relating to me and Senator John Kerry. Because these stories were false, I assumed the media would ignore them. It seems that efforts to peddle these lies continue, so I feel compelled to address them. I have never had a relationship with Senator Kerry, and the rumors in the press are completely false. Whoever is spreading these rumors and allegations does not know me, but should know the pain they have caused me and my family. I am in Kenya with my fiance visiting his family, and we ask that the press respect our privacy and leave all of us alone."</p>

Alex Polier, the twenty-four year old journalist who could end Senator John Kerry's hopes of becoming the next president of the United States is alleged to have had a two-year affair with the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Last night the rumours were in danger of becoming a full-blown scandal. "This is not going to go away," one American friend of Miss Polier said yesterday. "What actually happened is much nastier than is being reported." The allegations come at a crucial time for the senator. Polls showed him leading Mr Bush by 52 per cent to 42 per cent, and...

KERYY INTERN AFFAIR!This won't go away. What happened is much nastier than is being reported' By Adrian Blomfeld in Nairobi and Andrew Alderson (Filed: 15/02/2004) Alex Polier, the twenty-four year old journalist who could end Senator John Kerry's hopes of becoming the next president of the United States is alleged to have had a two-year affair with the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Last night the rumours were in danger of becoming a full-blown scandal. Alex Polier, 24, is alleged to have had an affair with John Kerry "This is not going to go away," one American friend of Miss...

The name of the intern Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) allegedly had a two-year extramarital affair with beginning in Spring 2001 surfaced over the weekend. The Telegraph UK reported on Sunday that the name of the Kerry's intern is 27-year old journalist Alexandra Polier. "This is not going to go away," said an American friend of Polier to the Telegraph UK. "What actually happened is much nastier than is being reported." Polier formerly worked for the New York bureau of the Associated Press after graduating with a double major in philosophy and government from Clark University in...

Boycott News Advertisers For Biased Election News CoverageAs many of you are aware, CBS spiked the biased mini-series "The Reagans" when Americans threatened to boycott CBS advertisers (although pay-channel Showtime purchased it later).  I believe that this tactic can be used to eliminate some of the media bias going into the the critical, life-or-death 2004 presidential election.  Here is what I am proposing.Our lives, essentially, depend on President Bush's re-election -- Kerry will turn the War on Terror into a dangerous PC farce.  We can't take that risk.  However, the media has admitted (see here) that it will be actively...

Kerry: intern's TV confessionFrom David Gardner in Washington femail.co.uk - 16th February 2004 A woman who claims she had an affair with presidential hopeful John Kerry has taped a kiss-and-tell interview with a U.S. TV network, it was revealed last night. The news is the latest blow to hit John Kerry, the 60-year-old senator who is expected to be George Bush's Democrat challenger for the White House in November. Former Washington intern Alex Polier, a 24-year-old journalist, is said to have recorded the potentially explosive interview over Christmas. The network is reportedly sitting on the tape while it carries out...

Matt just flashed that the Kerry campaign will say that if this girl, Alex Polier comes forward, they will say it was not Kerry but one of his "right hand" men!!!!! Slime alert!!!!

Ignore the hand-wringing of those earnest American "presidential scholars" lamenting how Senator John Kerry is being subjected to disgraceful internet smears over a supposed liaison with a woman less than half his age. Forget the complaints that President Bush has been viciously targeted by a partisan liberal American media fighting old battles over a 30-year-old Vietnam draft record. This year's US presidential election is getting dirty precisely because it is getting serious, and the rest of us should be celebrating because we are in for a classic spectacle. Appearances are always misleading at this stage of the election process, so...

The young intern at the centre of a furore involving United States presidential hopeful John Kerry is hiding out in Kenya. Alex Polier, 24, has been in the country for the past few weeks visiting her fiancee, Mr Yaron Schwartzman, who works with FilmStudios, along Nairobi's Ngong Road. Ms Polier, who could end Senator John Kerry's hopes of becoming the next president of the United States, is alleged to have had a two-year affair with the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. "This is not going to go away," one American friend of Ms Polier said yesterday. "What actually happened is...

The young woman at the centre of the sex scandal allegations against presidential hopeful John Kerry has recorded a tell-all interview for an American TV station. Reporter Alexandra Polier is said to have given the interview with a major US network before Christmas - but the channel has held back from showing it until it can verify that her claims are true. It was reported last week that the TV news division of ABC was investigating the 27-year-old's alleged relationship with Senator Kerry, who is said to have pestered her to join his campaign team. The channel has refused to...

Among my Christmas presents this year was a copy of Survive, a recent collection by Sports Afield magazine of helpful tips for the great outdoors, published by Willow Creek Press of Minocqua, Wisconsin. Most of the stuff was familiar enough – rub a raw potato on poison ivy, roast a wood bug before you eat it – but on page 70 I was surprised by this novel approach to dealing with mountain lions: "Do not approach one, especially if it is feeding or with its young. Most will avoid confrontation, so provide an escape. Do all you can to appear...

Once again Matt Drudge has run across a Democrat shocker. Once more, the mainstream media seems to be ignoring it. Will this one turn out to be as true as the Monica Lewinsky story? If it does, all hell is going to break loose inside the Democratic Party, and once again proof of Leftwing media bias will emerge....(Snip) It is certain that the networks and America’s large news organizations, including the press services and newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post, have been suppressing this story, defending such suppression on the basis that there is no “smoking...

Most Democrats are Politically Illiterate. I came to this conclusion after hearing Democrats calling to a local talk show. The questions the Democrats asked were enough for me to know, they knew very little about the political process or their own party. We, "FreeRepublic", have always said the Democrats did not want the sheeple to know what they were and what they stood for. I want to educate the Democrat Voters about the party they vote for every four years.

See drudge.

The mainstream media has made a huge blunder in failing to report the basic allegations of the Kerry intern matter that has just been released by The Drudge Report. Ultimately, the media's treatment of this matter will result in more people going to the Internet and talk radio for their news. The networks and the mainstream press will continue to lose viewers and readers as more Americans realize that their news is filtered, massaged, packaged and shaped by the mainstream media before it is broadcast to what they undoubtedly view as the unsophisticated rabble in this country. My first reaction...

The always provocative Spy takes the plunge - some might say right into the sewer of sleaze and unnamed sources. The cover story of its July/August issue discusses George Bush's supposed infidelities and publishes the name of longtime aide Jennifer A. Fitzgerald, around whom rumors have long circulated. The piece by Joe Conason also details other supposed liaisons, including a 1980 relationship with ''Ms. X,'' then a 30-ish news agency employee.

If you own a computer or listen to talk radio or read the British or Australian papers, you'll know that John Kerry is currently beset by rumors of interns. By the time you read this, it may be that America's genteel broadsheets and network news shows will have overcome their squeamishness and tiptoed gingerly down the path blazed by Drudge and Fleet Street, or it may be that they decide to investigate it a bit longer, just to get chapter and verse nailed down, which means you may not get to read about it till, oh, midway through President Kerry's...

ONLY a few days ago they were fighting hard for the Democratic presidential nomination, but on Friday Senator John Kerry and General Wesley Clark arrived in Wisconsin to shower each other with praise. The front-running Massachusetts senator was “the right character to bring America forward”, Clark told cheering students in Madison. “He will stand up to the Republican attack dogs and send them home licking their wounds.” Kerry was equally generous. Clark had shown “great selflessness and great courage” by ending his campaign and offering his support to a former rival. It was exactly the display of solidarity that many...

The young intern at the centre of a furore involving United States presidential hopeful John Kerry is hiding out in Kenya. Alex Polier, 24, has been in the country for the past few weeks visiting her fiancee, Mr Yaron Schwartzman, who works with FilmStudios, along Nairobi's Ngong Road. Ms Polier, who could end Senator John Kerry's hopes of becoming the next president of the United States, is alleged to have had a two-year affair with the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. "This is not going to go away," one American friend of Ms Polier said yesterday. "What actually happened is...