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Of course being a contributor to someone running for the Democrat nomination to oppose Bush doesn't necessarily make him a liar.

But I think it does put what he says in some context. Especially since he has no documentation to back up his claims.

1 posted on 02/05/2004 6:11:59 AM PST by Hon
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2 posted on 02/05/2004 6:14:23 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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This guy is right up there with the 'rat functionary who pushed the 20 year old DWI story into the media. I hope he enjoys the "attention" he gets.
3 posted on 02/05/2004 6:14:39 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Come see the violence inherent in the system!)
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I hit post instead of edit after previewing. I meant to try to clean up the links.

Here they are again:

The sample of an article that mentions Turnipseed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1071803/posts

The Google search for Turnipseed and Kerry
http://www.google.com/search?q=turnipseed%20"john%20kerry"

The FEC search results
http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/qind/
4 posted on 02/05/2004 6:15:15 AM PST by Hon
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BTW, when you search Google for Tunipseed and AWOL you get 949 hits:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Turnipseed%20AWOL

He is the epicenter of this story. I don't think it is an accident.
5 posted on 02/05/2004 6:17:04 AM PST by Hon
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Peter Jennings is behind this non-story.

Remember, he hates American power, and a Kerry/UN/Soros ticket will suit the elite lib media just fine.
6 posted on 02/05/2004 6:17:13 AM PST by roses of sharon
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Turnipseed???
7 posted on 02/05/2004 6:17:29 AM PST by nuconvert ("Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?")
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To: Hon
Interesting! BTTT.
10 posted on 02/05/2004 6:18:55 AM PST by Constitution Day
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The first hundred (of almost a 1,000) hits from Google give you some idea of how Edwards supporter, Turnipseed has promoted this story:

Bush AWOL?
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11 posted on 02/05/2004 6:20:57 AM PST by Hon
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To: Hon
BUMP!
15 posted on 02/05/2004 6:24:51 AM PST by jmstein7
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To: Hon
If the President had been AWOL he would have been brought up on charges and either convicted (likely) or acquitted. Those types of records do not disappear. That record would be the hottest piece of paper in town if it existed. If it did exist it would already be plastered on the front page of the New York Times in 4 inch type. If the President was brought up on charges there would be people that would damn well remember the charges and inquest.

We have the word of one man, Colonel Turnipseed. We have nothing else to back up the claim.
1. No records of this>
2. No one stepping forward about charges>
3. During the last election Al Gore had the entire Federal Government at his disposal. If those records existed he would have found them and destroyed Bush with them.

Colonel Turnipseed is either confused about what happened or Colonel Turnipseed is DAMNED LIAR. I suspect the latter.
19 posted on 02/05/2004 6:35:12 AM PST by cpdiii
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To: Hon; *Edwards Watch
Indexing to Edwards Watch...
22 posted on 02/05/2004 6:44:48 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Hon
Good catch!
23 posted on 02/05/2004 6:45:27 AM PST by Sloth (It doesn't take 60 seats to control the Senate; it only takes 102 testicles.)
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To: Hon
INTERESTING!

Obviously, a planted story, dredging up an old story - so what are they really trying to hid.

Something about them is about to come out, got to sow the seeds of deception before the real story comes out, and hope no one is awake when it does.
24 posted on 02/05/2004 6:49:14 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: All
More from the other Turnipseed (the DNC Party Exec):

my turn
Money for Nothing and Oil for Free

By TOM TURNIPSEED

As 2003 begins, greed and violence are being glorified, romanticized and marketed by the U. S. power structure in a manner unparalleled in recent history. Not since the out-of-control acquisitiveness and martial madness of ancient Rome destroyed its arrogant empire has such material and military excessiveness so dominated a culture. The Bush administration’s intentions to control much of the world’s energy resources with military might and become the top cop to an unruly world are evident beneath the guise of economic globalization and the continuing “war against terrorism” and an “axis of evil.”

More credible reports from reliable scientific authorities reveal that carbon dioxide omissions from overuse of fossil fuels are causing global warming, but U.S. television is jammed with ads that glamorize gas-guzzling SUVs and giant pickup trucks. The SUVs entice adventure-seeking Americans to go on fantasy power trips across the rugged terrain of mountains and canyons while blue-collar guys in hulking trucks reap the longing looks of sexy young women.

Yet, the world’s consummate consumers slowed their profligate spending during the critical holiday season, and even administration apologists admitted that war jitters are causing a problem for the economy.

The lagging U.S. equity markets and the entire economy also were damaged by corporate scandals in 2002 that involved top administration officials who passed through the revolving door between U.S. corporations and public policymaking bodies. The scandals included President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Bush benefited personally as an official of Harken Energy, and Cheney made millions as chief executive officer of Halliburton Corp. (a giant in the energy and military arenas) from questionable business deals.

The war hype is the ultimate distraction for Bush, Inc. In fact, a White House memo recently revealed that the war on terrorism is the No. 1 issue for Bush’s reelection campaign in 2004. The media- savvy war makers have worked with Hollywood to produce war movies and have pressured their corporate media buddies to produce news/war talk shows friendly to the administration.

Cashing in on the war effort, the media/entertainment industry has risen to new heights as vendors of violence, with new war productions and incessant reruns of most every war movie and special in U.S. and world history, along with lots of killing and gratuitous violence in the ever-popular action/adventure extravaganzas. The industry peddles violence in a good vs. evil milieu to appeal to everyone from age 8 to 80.

Recently, the military enlisted reporters from big news organizations to go through boot camp at Ft. Benning in Georgia so that the reporters have a better chance of surviving combat in Iraq under the protection of the U.S. military. Maybe this is how truth becomes the first casualty of war.

Employing politics of fear since the 9/11 attacks against the United States, the corporate war planners of Bush, Inc. have manipulated emotions to a point of awakening latent anxieties among Americans about old adversaries in an “axis of evil.” You don’t have to be a marketing genius to sell a few generations of Americans on the idea that we have scores to settle with evil old foes like North Korea, Iran and Iraq.

Remember the bloody, “forgotten war” against North Korea that ended in 1953 with the deaths of more than 54,000 Americans but without a U.S. victory? Remember the humiliating standoff with Iran from 1979 to 1981 when more than 50 Americans were held hostage for 444 days? And, many red-blooded Americans are still smarting at the failure of Bush I to “finish the job” in Iraq by allowing Saddam Hussein to remain in power after the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

The cunning corporate war planners didn’t need a focus group to tell them that the mere mention of North Korea, Iran and Iraq conjures images of ill will and evil in the minds of good Americans. Because we have shed so much blood and spent so much money in previous altercations with these members of the “axis of evil,” we might as well settle our differences with these scoundrels once and for all, as our chief fear monger, George W. Bush, would say.

Before swaggering into a coffee shop in Texas for a New Year’s Eve cheeseburger with some of his hombres, High Sheriff Bush — with his flinty gaze fixed on the vast oil reserves of Iraq — allowed that diplomacy rather than force was needed in dealing with a nuclear-armed North Korea.

Thus, the immediate military option is reserved for Iraq, even though Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said that we could whup ‘em both at the same time. No matter that North Korea might already have two deliverable nuclear warheads and recently expelled United Nations weapons inspectors, while Iraq has no nuclear weapons and is cooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors.

When questioned on New Year’s Eve about the inevitability of war with Iraq, Bush replied to a reporter, “I’m the person who decides that, not you.” Reminds me of a Caesar of imperial Rome contemplating world conquest as hordes of barbarians gather at the gates.

Turnipseed is an attorney, writer and civil rights activist in Columbia.

http://www.free-times.com/Editor/My%20Turn%20Archives/myturn021903.html
25 posted on 02/05/2004 6:53:02 AM PST by Hon
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BTW, John Edwards NEVER served in the military in any way shape or form whatever.
27 posted on 02/05/2004 7:16:42 AM PST by Hon
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To: Hon
Of course being a contributor to someone running for the Democrat nomination to oppose Bush doesn't necessarily make him a liar.

But it helps.

28 posted on 02/05/2004 7:41:06 AM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: Hon
The story is to defuse the issue of Sen. John "Freekin" Kerry's (D-NVA) hijinks after he left the Service (Kerry was in Viet Nam don't you know).
29 posted on 02/05/2004 7:58:59 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Bush Bot by choice)
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To: Hon
INTREP - 2004 Election
31 posted on 02/05/2004 10:04:22 AM PST by LiteKeeper
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To: Hon
Is this guy related to Tom Turnipseed, a South Carolina Dem who Strom Thurmond ran against? This Turnipseed was born in Alabama. http://www.turnipseed.net/turnipseed.htm
35 posted on 02/06/2004 12:01:20 AM PST by NYCVirago
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To: Himyar
Ping! You need to see this, given your inside information.
42 posted on 02/06/2004 4:41:01 AM PST by FreedomPoster (This space intentionally blank)
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