Posted on 05/31/2004 8:09:15 PM PDT by Kaslin
Democratic Senator - and certain presidential nominee - John F. Kerry gave the middle finger to a Vietnam veteran at the Vietnam Memorial Wall on Memorial Day morning, NewsMax.com has learned.
Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry and his Secret Service detail at about 9:00 AM Monday morning at the Wall. Sampley walked up to Kerry, extended his hand and said, "Senator, I am Ted Sampley, the head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, and I am here to escort you away from the Wall because you do not belong here."
At that point a Secret Service officer told Sampley to back away from Kerry. Sampley moved about six feet away and opened his jacket to reveal a HANOI JOHN tee-shirt.
Kerry then began talking to a group of school children. Sampley then showed the tee-shirt to the children and said, "Kerry does not belong at the Wall because he betrayed the brave soldiers who fought in Vietnam."
Just then Kerry - in front of the school children, other visitors and Secret Service agents - brazenly 'flashed the bird' at Sampley and then yelled out to everyone, "Sampley is a felon!"
Kerry was referring to an incident 12 years ago when Sampley confronted Senator John McCain's cheif aide, Mark Salter, in a Senate stairwell after McCain repeatedly offended POW families at a Senate POW hearing. Sampley, whose father-in-law at that time was MIA in Laos, followed Salter into the stairwell and, when they emerged, Salter had a bloody lip and a broken nose.
Sampley's group, Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, has garnered huge national attention and been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post and on MSNBC's Scarborough Country. Tens of thousands of Vietnam vets have registered their opposition to Kerry through Sampley's group.
Clearly Sampley has gotten under Kerry's skin once again.
If he had actually done this I suspect some guns would have been drawn on him. Unwise maneuver.
Not even FOX reported this .. but they did report on the woman who yelled at Kerry about the veterans he "spat" on when he returned from Vietnam; at least some of the FOX people did mention that story, and then others later in the day didn't mention it. More libs on the weekends.
We all need to inundate FOX about not showing this story .. unless somebody saw them report on it??
What is scarier is how the Congressional races are slipping away from the GOP, and no one is talking about it.
Kerry, an alleged lawyer, doesn't know the diff between a felony and a misdemeanor.
See post 118. It satisfies your wish that Kerry doesn't get elected.
Always strive to eliminate bad unintended consequenses from the wording of your wishes...
Hope you don't have anything planned for about the next 6 years.
He could listen to crickets...
And watch grass grow.
I'll just respectfully agree to disagree ........Stay Safe !
What do you mean NewsMax has backed off? It's still on the left side where it was when I posted the article and I just did a disk cleanup and rebooted
That's not really an "eye witness" - that's 2nd hand. While I'm not disparaging the story .. it's still 2nd hand.
Kerry's a bastard
It isn't intelligence .. it's a lust for power. It will cause you to do things you never thought you'd do. It has a bad side though .. lusting for power causes you to ignore reality. If you ignore reality, you will end up in overkill mode - which is where the dems are already. Their Bash-bush mode has been oversold and the public is getting fed up with it.
Don't anybody ever tell me Hillary has great political skills .. this garbage is all her mess and it was poorly planned and executed.
I don't think we're disagreeing. You stay safe, too!
And bumpers rust...
LOL!
You're right -- I missed the line where the writer said he was quoting Sampley on the first pass...
'Night Sweet...
Night Nully.
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