Posted on 06/18/2004 3:19:31 PM PDT by Maria S
How does Sen. John Kerry differ from Ronald Reagan? Let us count the ways.
Here is an incident that didn't get much media attention, possibly because no cameras were running. Kerry had officially taken Memorial weekend off from campaigning. However, he was at the Vietnam Memorial shaking hands with tourists at about 9 a.m. on Memorial Day. (You probably are not aware of the fact that he is a decorated Vietnam veteran. He's modest and shy about his medals.)
According to a June 7 Washington Times story, Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who had served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry. He walked up to Kerry, extended his hand, introduced himself and said, "Senator, I'm Ted Sampley, head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, and I'm here to escort you away from The Wall because you don't belong here." A Secret Service agent told Sampley to back off. Sampley did so and took off his jacket to reveal a "HANOI JOHN" T-shirt.
Kerry began talking to a group of schoolchildren. Sampley then showed the T-shirt to the children and explained the connection to Jane Fonda. Kerry reportedly became visibly enraged and gave Sampley the middle-finger salute, commonly called "the bird." In a similar incident about three months ago, Kerry slipped and fell from a snow board. Somehow a Secret Service agent got blamed for causing the fall and was called an SOB.
This from a man who was a leader in the anti-war movement, denounced his military service and threw his medals over the White House fence. He advocated dodging the draft and moving to Canada. He called combat murder and accused his fellow war veterans of killing civilians and livestock for sport.
Teresa Heinz-Kerry, you're no Nancy Reagan.
Part of Kerry's regular stump speech calls attention to "Benedict Arnold" companies who move jobs overseas and his plan to penalize them. His wife is a major stockholder in the giant Heinz food company which has 57 of its plants and 72 percent of its employees outside the United States. (Note: 57 is too much of a coincidence, Heinz's slogan being "57 Varieties," so I tried to find another source. I have one detractor who delights in finding my mistakes. I'll give him the pleasure of proving me wrong.)
Teresa is the widow of Republican Sen. H. John Heinz III. When he was killed in an aircraft accident, she inherited the $500 million Heinz fortune.
Four years later, she married Kerry, the junior senator from Massachusetts. She required Kerry to sign a prenuptial agreement. She also changed her political affiliation from Republican to Democrat.
So how does she spend her inherited fortune? Here are some selected samples.
Between 1995 and 2001, she gave more than $4 million (tax deductible) to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what did the Tides Foundation do with that money? Supported numerous anti-war groups, including Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. Clark has offered to fund the defense of Saddam Hussein.
The Tides Foundation supports the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the Tides Foundation and billionaire George Soros. The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from terrorist states. It supports the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders are known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.
The Tides Foundation supports the National Lawyers Guild. One of the guild's attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has been arrested for helping a client, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with terror cells in Egypt. Rahman is the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The foundation supports the most violent of all homosexual action groups, ACT-UP. It supports the Barrio Warriors, a radical Hispanic group whose goal is to return Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas to Mexico.
Democrats, do you really want this couple in the White House? If I were a Democrat, I'd start a draft movement for Hillary Clinton.
Virgil Van Camp can be contacted in care of the Amarillo Globe-News, P.O. Box 2091, Amarillo TX 79166, or letters@amarillo.com. His column appears every other Friday.
I would encourage anyone who can take 5 minutes to write the Globe-News and comment on Van Camp's column. He is an honorable conservative...and goodness knows, we need all the help we can get these days.
Like Bill and Hill, Kerry apparently considers himself to be divine. You know, like Caligula.
Thanks for posting items from my hometown (Houston now).
Is the Globe still owned and operated by the Whittenburgs?
Bump. Good article.
"Is the Globe still owned and operated by the Whittenburgs?"
Nope. Not sure exactly when they sold it, but it's been several years. Now owned by Morrison Communications out of Florida, I think. Morrison apparently owns many newspapers...we occasionally get Letters to the Editor from other parts of the country.
Going from the dryness of Amarillo to Houston must have been tough!!
I thought it was his ribbons...
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