Feder: Watch Out for Kerry

Newsmax ^ | 2/7/04

[areafiftyone]

"Is there anything about the war-hero/VC symp, "Irish”-Jewish-Brahmin, left-wing moderate, pro-abortion Catholic, patrician-tribune-of-the-people that’s real?" asks columnist Don Feder about John Kerry.

His answer: Sure, there' "a stark consistency" that runs through Kerry’s career – "He’s an opportunistic, back-stabber who never met a commie he didn’t like. He also has chutzpah to spare."

Writing in the February 2, 2004 FrontPageMagazine.com ("Kerry: War Zero")Feder notes that he's a resident of Massachusetts who has kept a close eye on Kerry’s career "with a mixture of fascination, revulsion and amusement."

In an unremitting assault on the record of real John Kerry as opposed to the one John Kerry would like you to think it is, Feder lays out the facts on the junior Senator from Massachusetts and it's not a pretty portrait.

• "... nothing about Kerry is what it seems. He’s Irish, right? Well, actually, he’s part Jewish. (His paternal grandparents were Kohn, before they goy-icized their name.)"

• He’s a war hero who became an anti-war activist, when it looked politically advantageous to turn on his country and slander his fellow Vietnam vets.

• Claiming to have a common touch but he's really a snooty Boston Brahman with an aristocratic ancestry on his mother's side who improved his modest financial standing by marrying two enormously rich women, one of whom he dumped when she was suffering from depression, after she bore him two kids.

• This graduate of uppity St. Paul’s and Yale – member of the ultra-secret and super-exclusive Skull and Bones, now married to a lady worth over half-a-billion dollars - has the gall to talk about this nation belonging "not to the privileged few, but to all Americans.”

• He claims to be a "moderate" Democrat in the face of a a voting record far left of either Ted Kennedy or Dennis "The Red" Kucinich. Kennedy’s lifetime congressional rating from the if-it-moves-tax-it Americans for Democratic Action is 88 percent – compared to 93 percent for Kerry. Kucinich’s lifetime score from the American Conservative Union is 15 percent. Kerry’s is 6 percent.

• In the late Sixties, Kerry went to Vietnam, as a naval Lt. jg "probably to round out a resume for the political future he was planning even then." He was awarded medals which he later claimed to have tossed over the White House fence as part of an anti-war demonstration. It turned out that the medals weren't his - those he kept to display to everyone who'll look at them.

• One of Kerry’s medals was for killing an enemy soldier who supposedly was armed with a rocket launcher. But, says Feder, "evidence suggests the fearsome foe was wounded at the time and may have been shot in the back. Perhaps this was a dress rehearsal for young Benedict’s eventual betrayal of the guys he fought with."

• Believing there was a political advantage in opposing the war on arriving home in Massachusetts, Kerry enlisted in Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and worked side-by-side with such VC-lovers as Hanoi Jane Fonda and Ramsey Clark in the so-called Winter Soldier Investigation, and paraded around with scruffy Marxists carrying Viet Cong flags and signs with slogans praising Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung and Fidel.

• But that was just the beginning - Kerry went on to slander his former comrades-in-arms as a bunch of degenerate, mutilating baby-killers. "The man who’s now running on his war record – and mentions his medals in every other breath – told a Senate hearing that Americans then bleeding and dying in the rice paddies were the moral equivalent of the Waffen-S.S."

  Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 23, 1971 , Kerry charged that American soldiers had "raped, cut off ears, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of Vietnam.”

  Gen. George S. Patton (namesake of the World War II general) -- who led troops into combat in Vietnam – said Kerry "gave aid and comfort to the enemy.”

• He was kinder to the murderous Viet Cong. They were simply agrarian reformers. Apparently never having heard of North Vietnamese regulars, Soviet aid or the Ho Chi Minh trail Kerry insisted the conflict was a "war of the people” fought by indigenous peasant reformers. He demanded not only an American withdrawal, but the cut-off of all aid to Saigon. If the wicked South Vietnamese puppet state fell, at most 2,000 to 3,000 of its lackeys might face recrimination, Kerry assured us.

  But after the fall of Saigon Feder recalls that an estimated 700,000 went through communist reeducation camps and many never came out. Moreover more than a million boat people fled Kerry's indigenous, peasant reformers. Says Feder, "The fall of South Vietnam led to the fall of Laos and Cambodia – and the genocide of the killing fields. And Kerry is actually trying to sell this foreign-policy expertise as a presidential credential."

• As a senator, he fought against American aid to the government of El Salvador during the communist insurgency of the 1980s. He also opposed support for the freedom-fighting Nicaraguan Contras. He described the Salvadoran military as "some of the most blood-drenched men on the planet.”

• He’s never known to have uttered a word of criticism about Cuban intervention in the Central American conflicts or spoken harshly of Soviet imperialism. President Reagan's rescue mission to Grenada, he claimed was "a bully’s show of force against a weak, third-world nation,” according to the likely Democratic nominee.

• He opposed the MX missile, B-1 Bomber and a missile defense system. Had the war hero prevailed, the Kremlin would still be in business, and opening branch offices all over the world. In 1991, he voted against the first Gulf War. (Body-bags would becoming in by the thousands, the military expert predicted.)

• Kerry voted to authorize the president to use military force to rid humanity of Saddam Hussein. Now he says he was only voting to give Bush the authority to spend the next decade in a futile quest for the UN’s approval.

• Kerry has even found time to bestow understanding on Columbia’s drug-dealing FARC terrorist butchers. A year ago, in a speech in Boston, Kerry said Columbia’s narcotics-fueled insurgency "seems to be a renewal of a kind of chaos fueled partly by guerrillas who have legitimate complaints and the combination of drugs and war and the drug lord.” Just another example of indigenous, peasant reformers asserting their rights.

  Feder concludes: "John Forbes Kerry/Kohn is a man whose time came and went – roughly 30 years ago. He could be elected president of Hollywood, president of the Ivy League, president of the National Council of Churches, president of the Dixie Chicks or president of CNN. But president of the United States? Only if the American people have a complete and total memory failure – if the nation has collective amnesia for the next nine months."

[OldPossum]

"the American people have a complete and total memory failure – if the nation has collective amnesia for the next nine months."

That's the part that worries me. The American electorate can sometimes be awfully stupid. I offer into evidence 1993-2001.

[Just mythoughts]

Guess this about sums it all up, what a resume, "Bring it ON".

[camas]

agree. does anyone have a list of how much kerry has given to charity??

gore and clinton were cheap as dirt.

[thesummerwind]

Well, actually, he’s part Jewish. (His paternal grandparents were Kohn, before they goy-icized their name.)"

He's still the child that he was when he was born. Just older, more greedy,and selfish.

What a fraud. I cringe when I hear that monotone of false authority that the punk-Kerry tries to put in his speeches. What a bum, and to think the media has a very good chance of making him President.

Watch what the networks do with G.W.'s appearance on Russert tomorrow. Even if he is on his "A" game, they will "slice and dice" the interview, and make him look as bad as possible for the next weeks with tiny pieces of the interview.

Do you think Russert will have a lovefest like he did with 'Hillary Rotten in Pink' like a while back???????? Sure.

Nope the media will do it's best to make the greedy, selfish fraud Kohn/Kerry/Redstone/Rothstein/Heinz the President of The United States in November.

[RJCogburn]

Feder's typically limp stuff.....and I really find Kerry viscerally distasteful.

[Cicero]

I would also be worried about the amazing capacity of the American voters to remember anything about the past, coupled with the amazing readiness of the left-wing media to cover up and lie, so as to ensure that the voters are never acquainted with these inconvenient facts.

But we have in our favor a ton of extremely embarassing PICTURES of Kerry as a slimy war protestor. Those will be impossible to ignore. A picture is worth a thousand words. One picture of Dukakis in a tank was almost enough to sink him without any other screwups in his campaign. The pictures of Kerry are far more damaging, IMHO, especially since (have you heard?) he is now running as a heroic war veteran.

[ghost of nixon]

At first glance, Kerry looks presidential. The Dems seem ready to rally around him. Polls are coming out showing him leading Bush. Leftish millionaire elites are pouring millions into anti-Bush organizations. Hollywood elites are planning their anti-bush strategies. Kind of scary until you soberly assess what Feder lists here. The Dems are betting it all on a shallow, East Coast, liberal, with nothing (NOTHING!) to admire in his resume except a 2-month period in 1969 he spent in a free-fire zone in Vietnam. Then he spends the next 20 years doing everything he could to tarnish the same soldiers & military he was supposedly serving with honor and bravery. Unbelievable!

[areafiftyone]

Actually I have been lurking on the dem forums. Not all dems are happy with Kerry. They are unhappy with his war vote, unhappy with his vote for the Patriot Act. If they let that go and vote for him they are hypocrites themselves.

[aculeus]

DKB. (Defeat Kerry Bump)

[Enterprise]

Look folks - America is only one more leftist Democrat President away from extinction. Kerry is the perfect candidate for the job.

[BobS]

I reserve the right to regress 30 years also...

Kerry looks and sounds like a douche-bag!

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[BobS]

Don't worry. Kerry is not a likeable or pleasant man. He runs on hate. When uou run it all comes out!

[Bob J]

I hope the pubs don't take Feder's lead here, going after Kerry will be a prickly situation and could backfire.

The Irish thing, his wives, his Skull and bones snooty New England upbringing, etc., is all a black hole. Even attacking his war record could have a backlash. Better to concentrate on the one issue that will be in voters minds this November...the next President will need to continue to execute the war on terror, and Kerry is not fit for that role.

His loathing of the military, support for leftist regimes and guerrillas around the world, gutting of our military and refusal to support the Gulf War should be the only talking points for Bush attack dogs for the next nine months.

[Bob J]

By the time the media is finished with Kerry, he will be a warm and fuzzy decorated soldier best fit to lead this nation.

Never forget Clinton was elected twice and the she-beast is a US Senator. The media believe themselves king makers and king destroyers and all the big guns will be out to end the administration of Bush.

[chimera]

Only if the American people have a complete and total memory failure – if the nation has collective amnesia for the next nine months."

This is the problem. Not only memory failure, but most who make up the electorate are incredibly lazy from an intellectual viewpoint. They'll believe what they're told by the media or what they feel. And this campaign will be played in the media as Kerry the Populist, Kerry the War Hero, Kerry-Who-Cares-About-You, against the detached, isolated, uncaring Bush who snuck into the White House on the heels of a USSC decision. No mention will be made of Kerry's hobnobbing with the indescribably wealthy out on Nantucket Sound, marrying twice into unimaginable fortunes, a Vietnam burn-out who threw in his lot with antiwar protestors and Hollywood elites who made their bones marching in antiwar protests. There is a lot of damning stuff out there about Clinton, er, Kerry, but that will only matter if, first, the opposition has the guts to use it, second, it gets out there, and, third and most importantly, people care about it.

Remember the events of 30 years ago? Hell, the sheeple are in the process of acquiring mass amnesia about 9/11/2001, and the media are more than happy to bury it down the memory hole. Bush and the 'Pubs better get off their duffs and start working to remind people of these things, or they'll find themselves exactly in the spot that Bush 41 was in in '92, spending all their time between the convention and the election trying to crack 40%.

[thesummerwind]

o.k., Boss.

[BobS]

Kerry is being hoisted upon America by the media at this time. Bush is quietly keeping his mouth shut as he should. There are times for action and this isn't the right time. The disturbing Kerry has the floor to himself to pander to those deviant groups that comprise the democrat party. Bush should wait 2 more months before campaigning. The "hate Bush" stuff is not emotionally sustainable. Let the RATs become a caricuture of themselves in the meantime. That's how you spot weaknesses:)

[areafiftyone]

;-)