Time to do some damage to Kerry's base...

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[FreeAtlanta]

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Subject: John Kerry, man of the common folk.... he understands your pain, really... trust him - lol, yeah - right

The many homes of Democrat Presidential candiate, John F. Kerry.

Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania  (Assessed value: $3.7 million)

 

Ketchum, Idaho ski getaway/vacation home  (Assessed value: $4.916 million)

 

Washington, D.C - Georgetown area (assessment: $4.7 million)

 

Nantucket, Massachusetts waterfront retreat on Brant Point (Assessed value: $9.18 million)

 

Boston, Massachusetts  - Beacon Hill home (Assessed value: $6.9)

 

oh, and he sold this estate in Italy to activist actor George Clooney, just before announcing his running for president.  I guess he thought it might not sit well with the common man.  ($7.8 million)

 

other foreign property ownership by John Kerry is unknown... because he denied repeated requests for this information.

 

 

Please e-mail this information to all your friends, family and contacts.  Class warfare is not right, but neither is being a hypocrite.  This man wants to be our president, while claiming that he relates to Joe-6-pack and the common man.  He wants to raise income taxes on the rich, well, guess what?  He won't pay those taxes because he is already rich!  He wants to make it harder for you to get rich by raising taxes on your income!  Talk about snobbery and protecting his "class." 

 

Please e-mail to at least 5 people.

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[Ditter]

Just think of the maintaince on these homes & the electricity bills & the salaries of the caretakers & staff. Yikes! I wonder how often he spends the night in some of them? How about .......... never?

[Ditter]

Oops, make that maintenance.

[Aarchaeus]

IF this is all true, the John F-ing Kerry needs a nes addition to his wardrobe. A hemp necktie.

[uglybiker]

Actually I would call it a four way tie, Kerry, Teddy, and the Klintons. We should have a vote-off in here to decide.

Actually, I think that's the makings of the perfect WWF Tagteam SMACKDOWN!!!

(Only on Pay per View!!)

[Liz]

About the sale of that Italian villa, has anyone seen anything about whether or not Kerry had to pay any taxes on the foreign property sale? Does anybody have anything about US tax obligations on the sale of foreign property?

[Old Yankee]

You don't like class warfare, yet you oppose a tax reduction because someone wealthier might benefit? You're quoting bumper stickers and repeating tired old chants. You don't believe what you're saying and it confounds me that it's so easy to recruit economic, intelletual and social failures by telling them "It's not your fault". The President didn't cause your failure, whatever it is, and John Kerry for darn sure isn't going to fix it for you. Get a grip.

[guitfiddlist]

Perhaps a very short Michael Moore type documentary, showing someone knocking on the door of each and every one of his houses, asking if John F. Kerry, Man of the People, is home.

Turnabout is fair play, even when copying last century's greatest cheap shot artist.

[sport]

Bump

[yoe]

BUMP!

Freepers, this is such an important article and we must not simply read it and do nothing. Start now by sending week-end faxes to all your elected and to the FEC.

Federal Election Commission
999 E. Street, NW
Washington, DC 20463
(800) 424-9530
In Washington (202) 694-1100
For the hearing impaired, TTY (202) 219-3336

The Clintons and Al Gore got away with using foreign money in two elections - we must not let this happen again.

These articles should stay on the front page of FR until we see some action to stop John Kerry from this egregious and some would say, treasonous act.

As for class warfare, I don’t like it either but there is a very important lesson to be learned here...democrats have a plantation/serf mentality where they like the rich to be their leaders, no matter what the character of that leader is, i.e., Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Barbara Fienstien, the Clintons, their DNC head Terry McAulffie, Jay Rockerfeller and more – they all have great wealth and business’ abroad yet they claim President Bush is loosing jobs for the American worker – yet they have all been in government for years and have done nothing about job loss except to say they are for labor.
Truth is, they are as long as labor stays in its proper place.
Truth is they gleam rich contracts for their constituency at the taxpayer’s expense with needless and wasteful PORK. Democrats love wealth as long as it lines their pockets and is not a Republican. They hate President Bush because he has corrected many of the things they failed to correct while they had a democratic president. President Bush is getting the job done.

Kerry's rhetoric is the same as in all elections, yet he has done little as a United States senator his entire time in office to correct the very things he is now claiming need to be fixed - why didn't he and why hasn't he worked harder? Why has he voted so many times aganist bills that would help the everyday American. John Kerry is a failure as a senator because he hasn't been able to fix anything when he and all the other democrats had a chance for eight years. His pledges for more jobs ring hollow in light of his voting record - election rhetoric is all this hot air is.

[reformedliberal]

The ABB crowd is spamming various boards/email lists w/anti-Bush garbage. They mostly act as drive-by posters and usually are just ignored by the people who wish to stay on topic.

I have been taking the time to respond to these various scurrilous allegations against the POTUS when I encounter them. When I do, suddenly the silent majority of Bush supporters speak up to say *Good post* and the detractors vanish. If the bashers keep it up, the Bush supporters, having seen that they are not alone, begin to fight back and always w/facts.

So, I suggest these class warfare factoids be bookmarked and added to our arsenals. When we are in a situation where a response is needed, we can judiciously use whatever is appropriate. Sometimes it will be a dissection of Kerry's policy, sometimes of his character and always, it will be a refutation of the allegations made constantly against the POTUS.

I really think it is extremely important to not let distorted attacks against the POTUS go unanswered. But I also think it is more important to have positive facts and the truth about this administration and the POTUS/Cabinet posted than to engage in almost ritualized slams against the opposition that the ABB posters use. People will remember the refutations that support the President and pass them on in turn.

There is a cliche in PR that the negative attacks will rebound against the negative speaker. That is only true, IMO, when the negative lies can be refuted w/the positive truths.

John Kerry is not for the common man. He is an internationalist & a socialist. As a kept man who has not worked since a brief stint as a prosecutor, he is clueless about anything out of his own experience. His speeches and TPs are written for him by the old guard attack dogs at the DNC: Shrum, Mulholland, Carville, Begala, et al. They failed in 2000, they failed in 2002 and they failed in the California recall in 2003.We need to exercise some judicious caution in emulating their tactics,

I hate these guys and their MO. But, I really think they are shooting themselves in the foot while simultaneously digging themselves a hole. So, whenever I refute the TPs and lies, I usually sign off by reminding the readers that the progressives poll in the 30th percentile while conservatives poll in the 60th percentile (not party affiliation, but core values) and that these tactics are never going to either dissuade us from exercising our vote as we see fit or convince us to vote for their candidate.

I have found that this gives a lot of courage and support to the usually silent majority. That should be our goal, IMO: to create an atmosphere where normally reticent folks feel confident enough to enter the debate and support the administration in their own words. This gives folks a feeling of having a stake in the debate, rather then being either depressed by the attacks or overwhelmed by the voluminous misinformation. I hope they then go on to use the facts in other venues to support their views.

Anyone who spends enough time on FR has the facts to support our side available almost instictively. In this Internet age, I think we are a valuable asset to the campaign.

JMO.

[FreeAtlanta]

The next thing to do is to get a lot of people to write to www.snopes.com and ask them if this is an Urban Legend.

All good lefties go to snopes when they get an e-mail. If they don't find it, they assume the story to be false if it hurts their man, and true if it hurts the one they don't like.

[Natural Law]

Why not hit Kerry where it hurts? He should be asked repeatedly why it wouldn't be more fair to impose a wealth tax on the richest Americans rather than an income tax since income is easy to hide?

[SamAdams76]

Note: We should point out that this is the home Kerry uses during those few occasions when he actually shows up in Washington to spend taxpayer money (usually he doesn't even bother to show up and vote). As you can see, he's really slumming it here. Maybe if he had a nicer home here, he'd show up to do his job more often. Also note how there is no fire hydrant here.

[yoe]

Ping!

Great Catch - how did you come by this? Got any more?

[Fiddlstix]

[international american]

I agree on both points!!

[Sybeck1]

I am new here. Just wondering how I can post this. Is it a thread from last year dealing with Kerry charities giving..small mind you.



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[Turbo Pig]

that Kerry had the town of Boston move that fire plug around the corner to give him more room to park his SUV.

To be fair, if the common man can get $20K, he too can have fire hydrants moved for his convenience.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Great find! I'll go over & bump the thread...and welcome aboard.

[The Bat Lady]

#34 since Bush was selected by the Supreme Court.

Another one who hasn't read the Constitution. One more time... if there is a dispute it goes to the State House and Senate (ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE of Fla.) and since they were republicans it would have been Bush

IF there still was a dispute it would have gone to the US House (ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE) which was majority Republican and it would have gone for BUSH

That is ONLY if Bush had not WON EVERY count 7 or 8 times.

Get over it, GORE LOST.

I know that the DEMS cheated massively (at least 1 million illiegal aliens who got citizenship w/o their FBI files and felons voting) but GORE STILL LOST.

That includes the recount that the liberal press did a year later and GORE LOST.

When are you going to "MOVE ON"?