"Outraged" victims tied to John Kerry campaign DIRECTLY.

[Fun Bob]

Is there a URL for this? Or is it original research? If so, good job. If not, I'd like to see where it comes from.

miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure

[oldironsides]

The news that Wilson met with Kerry's campaign before the CIA exposure claims gives me some serious doubts as to just who is behind the issue.

[TexasRainmaker]

Here's the condensed version:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040305/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_political_ads_7
"It makes me sick," said Colleen Kelly, who lost her brother Bill Kelly Jr., in the attacks and leads a victims families group called Peaceful Tomorrows. "Would you ever go to someone's grave site and use that as an instrument of politics? That truly is what Ground Zero represents to me."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040305/ts_alt_afp/us_vote_attacks_040305180734
"Ground Zero is a sacred site," said Rita Lasar, a steering committee member of the group, September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.

http://peacefultomorrows.org/contribute.html
Donate online - Please specify the book as a gift item with your donation.

Or make a check out to Peaceful Tomorrows/Tides Center and send to:

Peaceful Tomorrows Book
PO Box 1818
Peter Stuyvesant Station
New York, NY 10009


http://www.tidescenter.org/project_detail.cfm?id=60053.0
Peaceful Tomorrows
Organized primarily by families of victims, Peaceful Tomorrows seeks to open up a public dialogue about appropriate alternative responses to the September 11 tragedies. Efforts will be made to raise awareness of the complex issues involved in responding to terrorism and influence the US policy towards more effective, democratically-based responses to terrorism in both domestic and foreign policy.

Contact Information:
Kelly Campbell
Peaceful Tomorrows
5111 Telegraph Avenue
Suite 185
Oakland, CA 94609
(415) 518-1991
kelly@peacefultomorrows.org
www.peacefultomorrows.org

Director:
Kelly Campbell

Project Co-Director:
David Potorti


http://www.gristmagazine.com/pdf/crc.pdf
in 2001 the Tides Foundation and the Heinz Endowments, which are based in Pittsburgh, opened the Tides Center of Western Pennsylvania, also based in Pittsburgh. The chairman of the Howard Heinz Endowment is Teresa Heinz Kerry, widow of the late John Heinz, the Pennsylvania Republican senator, and wife of Senator John Kerry (D-MA), a candidate for President in 2004. The Howard Heinz Endowment had 2001 assets of $788,633,056. Between 1995 and 2001 it donated $4,298,500 to the Tides Foundation and Center. Howard Heinz’s father (and John Heinz’ grandfather) founded the Heinz food company, and his wife Vira founded the Howard Heinz Endowment in 1941.

The Tides Center also manages the Youth Gender Project whose goal is to "empower and support transgender, gender-variant, intersexed and gender-questioning youth and young adults." I freely admit, not all of these terms are in my spell-checker.

Grant recipients also include the Iraq Peace Fund that has so far granted $489,000 to 27 groups to promote anti-war marches and their coverage by the news media, as well as the mission of one of those groups, MoveOn.org, whose purpose is to defeat George W. Bush.

[mountaineer]

have you seen this thread?

[bray]

It takes a special type of pondscum to use her dead husband as a club to beat-up GW about the tragedy of 9/11. This was rehersed and planned and she is using the death of her husband in as disgraceful a way imaginable. Let the light of day shine on this Rat and all Rats like her.

Pray for W and The Truth

[satchmodog9]

this is surpising<sarcasm/not amused

[TexasRainmaker]

But it sets the Dems up in a great position.... I mean, make the Bush supporters seem heartless for questioning this obvious political agenda.

[Timeout]

Yep. I just know the NY Times is gonna jump on it the way they did the Richard Melon Scaiff connections. Next think ya know the press will be calling them "Bush Haters".

NOT!

[TexasRainmaker]

bump

[baseballmom]

Thanks, bumping

[dixiechick2000]

"How "affected" and "patrician" Kerry's voice was? I'm telling you the images of wealth and privilege embodied in that voice were frightening. In 1971, the man had serious delusions of grandeur. I doubt he's changed."

I thought the same thing. The word "patrician" was the first to pop in my mind. Like Clinton, the man has lived his entire life for this moment. I'll bet we don't know the half of what he has done to achieve this goal.

[dixiechick2000]

"Rush played this several times - he didn't get it until a little later in the show. She starts out to say "registered Democrat" and quickly switches."

Really? I missed that. Babysitting isn't conducive to quality radio listening. ;o)
I may just have to go to Rush's site and listen.
Thank you for pointing this out.

[StriperSniper]

BTTT

[DeaconRed]

SURPRISE!!
SURPRISE! !

[SunkenCiv]

Ya see this?

[nutmeg]

BTTT

[jonno]

bump

[TexasRainmaker]

Well, lookie here (http://www.boston.com/dailynews/066/region/Sept_11_families_release_letteP.shtml)

Sept. 11 families release letter supporting Bush
By Associated Press, 3/6/2004 12:58

NEW YORK (AP) More than a dozen families who lost relatives in the Sept. 11 attacks released an ''Open Letter to America'' Saturday declaring their support for President Bush and his use of images of the destroyed World Trade Center in campaign ads.

''There is no better testament to the leadership of President Bush than Sept. 11,'' the letter states. ''In choosing our next leader we must not forget that day if we are to have a meaningful conversation.''

''In the November election we will have a clear choice laid before the American people,'' the letter reads. ''President Bush is rightly offering us that choice and the images of Sept. 11, although painful, are fundamental to that choice. The images in President Bush's campaign television ads are respectful of the memories of Sept. 11.''

Jimmy Boyle, former president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, spearheaded the letter, signed by 22 people who lost loved ones mostly firefighters in the Trade Center attacks.

Boyle, who said he will be voting for a Republican president for the first time in November, said he decided to ask other families to sign the letter after hearing that the president was being criticized for using Sept. 11 images in campaign ads.

''I don't think he's taking advantage of Sept. 11 and I feel that he's given us the leadership that we need,'' Boyle said.

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Imagine that.

[ValerieUSA]

It stunk from the first moment I heard about the "outrage."

Since when is it an offense for a United States President to honor and remember the men who died in heroic efforts to save fellow citizens when their nation was under attack? Since when is it exploitation to portray the loss with dignity and and a policy to never forget, and a call to be a part of the campaign to protect America?

Yes, that is what the president's re-election campaign is about -- protecting America from enemies abroad and within. The worst enemies are not foreigners with malicious intent, but men and women in power who do not value liberty, honesty and America's goodness, who fear our own righteousness indignation and sense of self-preservation as a threat to world peace (which is non-existant). Men like Kerry. Men and women like the reporters in the mainstream press who immediately echo the "outrage" and fail to investigate the source.

[TexasRainmaker]

Funny thing about today's story regarding the families who SUPPORT Bush's ads..... to find it on Yahoo, you have to go at least 3 links deep. (Compare that with the 'outrage' stories which filled Yahoo's main page all day Thursday and Friday.