Kerry's Rapid Response team respond by addressing the facts? Medals

US Newswire ^ | 8/31/2004 | usnewswire.com

[doug from upland]

They can answer all they want. The SwiftVets are going to continue to crush this phony.

[Howlin]

Well, I read it again, for the fourth time; I still do not see where they FACT CHECKED the "Medals" ad.

[Libloather]

Doesn't sound much like an apology to me...

[claudiustg]

Thanks for the heads up Chaaaddd! Burn any books lately?

[Boundless]

> Kerry's Rapid Response team respond by addressing the facts?

Umm, I though they were going to respond to the SBVFT
specific claims with some facts. Like, the 3 SStar
citations, the 2 BStar citations, Kerry's own
conflicting accounts of the PH events, and releasing
all the Kerry records in the naval archive.

All I see here is ad hominem and specious theorizing
about irrelevant imaginary connections between people.

Oh, I get it, no one is supposed to actually read
beyond the headline.

[NYCVirago]

I can't get over how mind-numbingly stupid this Kerry campaign is. A week after Kerry claimed it was time to move on, they're still sending out press releases about the SVFT. Unbelievable.

[mwp99]

"4th Prez Guy Tied to Anti-Kerry Ads" "A fourth Bush campaign official has been linked to a veterans group hammering Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam War heroism. GOP convention Chairman David Norcross practices law in the same D.C. firm, Blank Rome, as William Schachte, a retired Navy admiral who says Kerry did not deserve one of his Purple Heart medals, Time magazine reported yesterday. Schachte is aligned with the anti- Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which has dominated the campaign in recent weeks with accusations that the former Swift boat skipper is lying about how he got his war medals." (NY Daily News, 8/30/04)

I'm not even going to bother with the rest of this tripe, but when I first saw this story yesterday "linking" Bush to the Swifties, I didn't know whether to laugh or feel sorry for the Dems. Trying to pass this off as a "connection" not only is desperate, but also shows just how ridiculous the campaign finance reform laws are if having a law firm partner who speaks out against a candidate is illegal.

[doug from upland]

They are toast. I see their lips moving and all I hear is blah blah blah blah blah.

[Carolinamom]

Kerry hasn't been "rapid" in arriving at his fund-raisers or in signing that Form 180.

[Mach9]

Is this the product of the NEW Kerry staff or the OLD Kerry staff. I can't tell the difference. They obviously figure that the trick is MORE of what didn't work first time around. SHEEEESH.

[Congressman Billybob]

US Newswire is a fake website. It's a real site, but it has nothing to do with actual news. Instead, it runs whatever unmitigated twaddle its paid customers choose to spit out.

In the process of scrolling through to post a response, I saw the name Joe Conason fly by. Any allegedly factual statement that includes the name of that political wh*re (excuse me, esteemed journalist) is a crock of cr*p. I don't mean to be too harsh here....

Congressman Billybob

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

Absolutely pathetic attempt to defuse the situation. This is laughable.

"Perry, a Houston homebuilder, gave $100,000 to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth." What about the $13 million given by Fonda and the other $13 million (I think) given by Soros to MoveOn.org? How can they carp about a mere $100k donation? What really steams them is the totally ineffectual use of their $65 million compared to the devastating effects from the under $1 million to SBVT.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Kerry's disrespect in 1971 to USA Symbols Video

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Ramsey Clark to Join Panel for Saddam’s Defense
arabnews press release 25 August 2004
NOTE :
Ramsey Clark is pictured below with Kerry and
Vietnam phony vet Al Hubbard
Who was head of the
Vietnam Veterans Against the War movement.


Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. ’65-June ’66
- Al Hubbard, proven fraud who never set foot in Viet Nam.
The only Vietnamese he ever met was
when he was collaborating with the North Vietnamese in Paris
on the American Communist Party's nickel.

John Kerry's explanation:
"He (Hubbard) simply exaggarated his particular position.
But nobody knew it at the time. And those things happen."

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Kerry's "The New Soldier"
You can read it without downloading pdf files!
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The New Soldier, (46 pages)
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the War
FREE E-BOOK
IN PDF FORMAT
WITH PHOTOS


Kerry hopes everyone
in the USA gets this book!

NEW:
“Without question,
we were held captive longer
because of the anti-war people,
the Kerrys, the Fondas and Haydens,
the names we knew over there -
they encouraged the enemy to hang on.”
Excerpt from “Stolen Honor” website
- Leo Thorsness
Former Vietnam POW
CLICK HERE

Jane Fonda tells the student audience at the Michigan State University in 1969;
"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope,
you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communist."

Joe Moore, Can Tho Airfield 550th Signal Company

Copy and paste the links to everyone you know.

Kerry's disrespect in 1971
to USA Symbols Video

Windows Media
http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/medals.wmv

Real Player
http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/medals.rm

Quick Time
http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/medals.mov

AOL
http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/medals.mpg

Send this url for the online "The New Soldier" version

http://ejsmithweb.com/fr/newsoldier/

Send this url for the online photo gallery of "The New Soldier"

http://freekerrybook.com/photo0

Send this url for the Stolen Honor website

http://www.stolenhonor.com/

Print this out (46 pages) and disribute it,
especially to the liberals you know.

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[kcvl]

I see Hillary Clinton has infiltrated the Kerry campaign. It couldn't be anything else unless they are THAT stupid. ROFLOL!

[Travis McGee]

The Swifties have 17 more ads in the can, ready to deploy on a day's notice as needed.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

I'm John Kerry and I approve of this ad!

"My campaign motto!"

[devolve]

Another Soreass non-response response. - Great coffeebreak talk for tomorrow at work.

Ho hum reams of dry meaningless text -

How exciting!

Punt!

[doug from upland]

Imagine if you are John Kerry. Your senior advisors told you there was nothing to worry about and that your pals in the press would bury the Swiftees. I think John Kerry could have Edwards sue them for malpractice. What is even more staggering is that Kerry seems to have been blindsided by these guys. He thought he would just waltz through the campaign.

[DoughtyOne]

Of course I don't work for the media, so I'm unqualified to say this, but making a carefully structured responsed to charges made from four weeks to thirty years ago hardly seems rapid.

Rabid maybe.