John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress [Original Interiew]

Harvard Crimson ^ | 2/18/1970 | Crimosn Staff Writer

[Paleo Conservative]

This is a life-long animus in Kerry. During the 90s he voted against several intelligence bills.

Yes, I know. We should hang this albatross around his neck from now til November. If 9-11 was largely cause by intelligence failures, most of those failures can be traced back to DemocRATS in Congress from the Church committee in the 1970s on.

[William McKinley]

Did you guys catch this little gem from the interview?

"He also favors a negative income tax"

That's a term I haven't heard in a long time:

In its purest form a NIT promised a revolution in American social policy. Gone would be the intrusive and costly welfare bureaucracy, the pernicious distinctions between "worthy" and "unworthy" recipients, the perverse disincentives for work effort and family formation. The needy would, like everyone else, simply file annual—or perhaps quarterly—income returns with the Internal Revenue Service. But unlike other filers who would make payments to the IRS, based on the amount by which their incomes exceeded the threshold for tax liability, NIT beneficiaries would receive payments ("negative taxes") from the IRS, based on how far their incomes fell below the tax threshold. Source.

[Krodg]

In America, "everybody who's against the war is suddenly considered anti-American," Kerry said. "But I don't think they can turn to me and say I don't know what's going on or I'm a draft dodger."

It's not like he didn't consider the possibility

When he approached his draft board for permission to study for a year in Paris, the draft board refused and Kerry decided to enlist in the Navy.

[Maria S]

"I've sent it along to Drudge. We'll see if he posts it."

He did post it.

How in the world do you find this stuff?

[El Gato]

"disobeyed orders" Did he now?

In the face of the enemy no less. Sounds a mite worse than missing a Air Guard drill weekend or two, doesn't it?

[El Gato]

Kerry's interest in politics began in 1960, when John Kennedy was running for President. Kerry gave his first political speeches for JFK and at St. Paul's founded a political group, the John Winant Society. In the summer of 1962, Kerry worked for Ted Kennedy, who was then making his first Senate bid. "I wanted to see how the political machine works."

Oh great, another kid inspired to left wing politics by the original JFK, just like Billy Jeff. Only this one is also envoled with the evil surviving Kennedy brother.

[NotchJohnson]

Because of Kerry's background, and his style which the ladies adored, he may have succeeded in charming them into driving out to Concord on Saturday. And four Kerry votes from Bolton would probably mean all of Bolton's electoral votes for Kerry.

So ladies love that Thurston Howell style? Damn, if I only known.

[litany_of_lies]

He does not feel there would be a massive slaughter of American, sympathizers once the United States pulled out.

That quote is the most damning in the piece, though there are many others. It demonstrates complete naivete as to the nature of the enemy.

We know what happened once we left, don't we? Or were all those boat people just a bunch of greedy capitalists looking for a better opportunity?

[NYCVirago]

LOL! I suppose he washed the villagers’ feet as well.

But what about the daycare facilities? Patty Murray said Osama was on top of that!

[lainde]

Bump for reference..."disobeyed orders, UN control of military, CIA elimination" first rearing it's ugly head.

[ChadGore]

ROFL ! ! ! ! !

When he approached his draft board for permission to study for a year in Paris, the draft board refused and Kerry decided to enlist in the Navy.

[syriacus]

"I as effectively as anyone else in the country, can address myself to the issue of Vietnam," Kerry said. "I'm very realistic, though. I'm just going to be one man adding to the work of men like Lowenstein."

Fighting Against the War LI's Rep. Allard Lowenstein mobilizes a national effort to stop the Vietnam conflict , Newsday article on Allard Lowenstein

It was Lowenstein who had won national attention as the architect of the campaign to dump President Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's candidate in the 1968 election. At first, Lowenstein had attempted to recruit Robert F. Kennedy to lead the charge, then persuaded Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota to serve as the antiwar challenger.