Kerry's finger (John Kerry flips a bird in front of children)

Washington Times ^ | June 2, 2004 | Greg Pierce

[Brandon]

"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 reported yesterday.

"Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry and his Secret Service detail at about 9 a.m. 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.'

[Fintan]

Gee, I didn't hear anything about this on CNN, so it can't possibly be true.

 

[SC Swamp Fox]

That is a photo of Kerry's campaign kick-off which was held at Patriot's point in Charleston, SC. The ship in the background is the USS Yorktown (CV-10) which is a museum piece. Patriot's Point is operated by a private foundation and raises money for the operation of the museum by charging admission. The Kerry Campaign had to pay for that photo-op, and I hope it was enough to keep The Point operating for a good long time.

[billhilly]

"McCain WAS a POW... how did he allegedly offend these families?"

McCain makes it a habit of offending people.

[craig_eddy]

The man has a real Freudian obsession with the "F" word, doesn't he? Maybe Thereza is frigid or he's just missing that 20-something he sent off to Africa after they were found out?

[aruanan]

It was posted under its original link to NewsMax. But it's nice to see that Washington Times has picked it up.

[Lil'freeper]

Priceless.

[Condor51]

FYI, there was a Senate investigation into POW's still being held in Vietnam - which was chaired by messrs McCain & KERRY.

These two scum-sucking maggots did everything in their power to discount all reports, sightings and PHOTOGRAPHS of our boys still being held by the commies. These pukes deep-sixed the senate 'investigation' from the get go.

Thereafter they led the effort to NORMALIZE relations with communist Vietnam. And after we normalized relations, KERRY'S B-I-L closed a multi-million dollar contract with communist Vietnam. Some coincidence, huh!

There are also 'stories' of McCainiac collaborating with the NVA to get preferential medical treatment for his wounds when captured - unlike Adm James Stockdale₁ who was brutally torture while a POW almost daily.

1 - Remember Stockdale as Perot's VEEP candidate? He was derided by the MSM a loon.

[eeriegeno]

John F Kerry

John F'ing Kerry

John Finger Kerry

John Flippin Kerry

That middle initial sure does have various meanings, now doesn't it?

[Kaslin]

Rush was also talking about it yesterday on his show

[Kaslin]

I see Kerry is now copying Dubya's Interstate 2004 logo. What an a-hole. By the way, that star logo on Kerry's t-shirts is almost identical to the logo that is ony my daughter's Aaron Carter cd!! What a wuss!!!

Since when have liberals ever shown originality?

[TomGuy]

It is simply amazing that the media who are all around Kerry keep forgetting to put film in their cameras.

Kerry falls snowboarding....6 or so times. No one apparently even got 1 photo.

Kerry falls off his bicycle...media forgot camera batteries.

Flipflop Kerry flips the 'bird'... media were watching GWBush for word stumbling or whatever over at the other side of the WW II Memorial and just happened to be looking the wrong way and didn't get any photo.

Don't the media smack of being inept and incompetent.

[TomGuy]

[Being nit-picky]

Photo background appears to be a ship of some kind.

Logo on lower right "Kerry American 04 Courage Tour" is for an Interstate Highway.

Is Kerry going to be sailing the ship down the Interstate?

That Interstate highway tour logo seems out of place with a Naval ship as background.

[alwaysconservative]

Just goes to show that no matter how many times they marry for money, some people just have NO class. This guy is such a joke, even liberals should be ashamed to support him. And anybody with a brain should be ashamed to support him. At least Mondale and Dukakis had principles, wrong ideas, but at least they were principles. This guy is a vacant suit, and you just have to laugh at the people who want him to be President.

[Brilliant]

Where are the media and the cameramen when you need them?

[arasina]

His tour is called American Courage? ROFL! I suppose it does take some courage to give the finger to a real Vietnam veteran, but then again with all those "SOB" Secret Service guys around him, I guess it doesn't. F'n Kerry's name will go down in history as synonymous with a lot of words (wimp, traitor, Metrosexual, liar, to name a few) but will never be equated with courage.

[philman_36]

He's just living up to his "Flipper" nom de plume.

[Paul_B]

This is not independant confirmation. Still, it rachets up the heat a lot; maybe some witnesses now will come forth.

[toomanygrasshoppers]

"Where are the media and the cameramen when you need them?"

I was just listening to Bill Bennett's "Morning In America" and he said that if Kerry actually did "flip the bird" at someone who disagreed with him, in public, then the race is all over for Kerry. I wish the media would pick up on it. Hopefully someone in the media will ask him if he did it. If he denies it then witnesses will hopefully come forward and show him for the liar he is. Maybe this will become "Fingergate" or "Flipoffgate".

[McGruff]

I equate John Kerry going to the Vietnam War Memorial to Bill Clinton going to church. They both don't belong there.

Let's do a poll. How many Vietnam War Vets prefer Kerry over Bush?

[normy]

Look for this nut to do something crazy in the debates. Remember the Al Gore step up to Bush, well I am seeing a finger in the face by Kerry and a "you liar!" when Bush burns him on his flip flops. I hope Bush's guys prepare him for that so he isn't surprised. Maybe Bush can drop him with a punch to the solar-plexus.