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Kerry is for faith-based initiatives *BARF ALERT*
JTA ^ | July 08, 2004

Posted on 07/09/2004 12:05:24 AM PDT by dandi

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said he would expand faith-based initiatives if elected president. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee, would establish a presidential advisory group to expand participation of faith-based groups in government programs, according to a campaign document published this week. Orthodox Jewish groups support President Bush’s executive orders mandating such initiatives, but other national Jewish groups oppose them, saying they blur church-state divisions.

Kerry said he would rewrite the orders to ensure that money not go to proselytizing.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cynical; faithbased; hypocrite; kerry; pandering
Ahh, the Kerrybird in full pandering plumage. The good thing is, it has the DUmmies' bowels in an uproar. Pffft.
1 posted on 07/09/2004 12:05:25 AM PDT by dandi
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To: dandi
Kerry said he would rewrite the orders to ensure that money not go to proselytizing.\ for Jesus, that is. Everything else is OK
2 posted on 07/09/2004 12:07:20 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: dandi

His idea of 'faith-based initiatives' would be to supply Muslim 'charities' with Federal funding.


3 posted on 07/09/2004 12:08:51 AM PDT by Az. Mike
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4 posted on 07/09/2004 12:09:07 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: dandi
Don't I recall Democrats being outraged at President Bush for supporting faith based initiatives? Didn't Time have a front page article stating how frightening it was? Will they do the same thing with Kerry, or will he be Mr. Warm and fuzzy for this revolutionary brilliant new idea of his?
5 posted on 07/09/2004 12:10:04 AM PDT by ladyinred (What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about? Become a monthly donor and find out!!!)
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To: dandi

it's obvious who is winning the war of ideas; every day that
goes buy, kerry adopts another GWB position, thereby basically
surrendering more territory.

he needs to change his campaign slogan to "Me, too!"


6 posted on 07/09/2004 12:12:26 AM PDT by smonk
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To: dandi; Perlstein; rdb3; mhking; Howlin
Senator Kerry has tried to back away from his radical pro-abortion stance (he says life starts at conception) and he's now reversing his opposition to President Bush's faith-based charities.

This is rich. He's got the most liberal voting record in the entire Senate and now he's getting his picture taken with a shotgun, backing our faith-based charities, agreeing with President Bush on Israel and no right of return for Palestinians, as well as trying to back away from his extremist pro-choice position of the last couple of decades or more.

Is he going to be against progressive income taxes next?! Privatizing Social Security?! School choice vouchers?! Missile defense?!

It's almost as though he's done enough polling to actually figure out that the old left-wing agenda isn't selling...

7 posted on 07/09/2004 12:13:38 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

It's like he's running as Bush!


8 posted on 07/09/2004 12:16:45 AM PDT by Howlin (I think Iraq is the most serious and imminent threat to our country. ~~John Edwards, CNN, 2/24/04)
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To: dandi

Kerry is looking more and more like a guy who needs to be fitted for a jacket, a very straight one. He doesn't say anything just to get elected, he says anything because he can't help it!


9 posted on 07/09/2004 12:19:21 AM PDT by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath
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To: dandi

Kerry at a $7 million celeb-studded fundraiser in New York City embraced Merl Streep who issued a warning, apparently directed at Bush, not to take religion on the campaign trail.

Hey folks, they will play a two-way street for themselves and make it a one-way street for the Bush campaign. However, we shall shine the light of truth on them until they're toast.


10 posted on 07/09/2004 12:20:07 AM PDT by jonrick46 (jonrick46)
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To: Howlin
Have you seen the Kerry-Edwards campaign poster? It is the exact replica of the Buch-Cheney campaign poster. This is political science 101: appear as closely identical to your opponent as possible in order to attract the independent voter who, for their inability to study the issues, remain undecided until they settle on a fresh version (the Kerry campaign) of the old policies (the Bush campaign). This is why you hear the Kerry team talking about a "fresh start for America."

This is pure psych-ops directed at the independent who changes his mind much like he buys a new car every two years.
11 posted on 07/09/2004 12:39:41 AM PDT by jonrick46 (jonrick46)
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To: Az. Mike

They already do. It's just one reason I oppose them.


12 posted on 07/09/2004 4:16:02 AM PDT by risk
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To: smonk
he needs to change his campaign slogan to "Me, too!"

hmm, you just gave me an idea for a Kerry campaign song

Will be back in a bit :-)

13 posted on 07/09/2004 7:17:29 AM PDT by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. -- Gen G. Patton Jr)
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To: dandi

The anti-God Talk voters in John F*ckin's base are going bananas. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!


14 posted on 07/09/2004 7:21:43 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: dandi

DUers are livid over this. They chose pathetically in this election.


15 posted on 07/09/2004 7:50:05 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: dandi
The good thing is, it has the DUmmies' bowels in an uproar.

Big Time

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=573810

16 posted on 07/09/2004 12:56:40 PM PDT by smonk
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