It reminds me of one of my favorite films: Bullets over Broadway.
Posted on 07/21/2004 4:12:27 PM PDT by Vision Thing
Several groups have invited Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) to speak to their members as the result of a statement made at the recent NAACP convention. But Kerry may have opened a Pandora's Box when he declared that as president of the United States, "you need to talk to all of the people."
The presidential aspirant was trying to take advantage of President George W. Bush's decision not to address the nation's oldest civil rights organization. The White House believes the leadership of the organization has been overly partisan and has used inflammatory rhetoric against the president. Bush will speak to the more centrist Urban League on Friday.
The Gun Owners of America (GOA) has invited Kerry to speak to its members.
CNSNews.com quoted GOA Director of Communications Erich Pratt as saying, "We're so glad to hear that you (Kerry) want to talk with us and help unite this nation. How about working with us to defend the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights?"
Pratt noted that Kerry has not shown up for most of his Senate votes this year, saying, "He did fly into town this March, specifically to ban several scores of semi-automatic firearms."
Concerned Women for America (CWA) invited presidential candidate John Kerry to speak at its national convention in September when CWA, the nation's largest public policy women's organization, celebrates its 25th anniversary. The group is challenging Kerry "to meet his own standard for the presidency as he campaigns."
"Sen. Kerry vowed that this is a prerequisite for the presidency," said Michael Bowman, CWA's director of state legislative relations. "What's good for the president is good for the candidate. We're giving Kerry a chance to prove himself just before voters come out for the election."
Bowman added, "Sen. Kerry should recognize that this invitation is a unique opportunity to directly address some of the most politically engaged of CWA's 500,000 members before November 2."
He also said, "Political pundits claim that the Kerry campaign is reaching out to conservative women. If that's true, then CWA is the perfect audience."
The Family Research Council (FRC), led by President Tony Perkins, has also taken Sen. Kerry up on his offer, inviting the senator to meet with some of its members.
In a letter to the Kerry campaign, Perkins wrote: "On behalf of the millions of families represented by [the FRC], I would like to invite you to a roundtable discussion at FRC's Washington, DC 'home' to discuss a number of issues on which you have proclaimed similar positions to those we represent."
Perkins continued, "You have proclaimed that you are adamantly against same-sex marriage, as are we. You have proclaimed that you believe in stem cell research and FRC, alongside Senator Sam Brownback, has been a leading advocate for stem cell treatments that have shown great promise. In addition, you have stated that you believe life begins at conception -- a view shared by the millions of families we represent."
He pointed out that Kerry voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, he opposed the partial-birth abortion ban, and he favors embryonic stem cell research -- positions which directly contradict his stated personal beliefs.
"It is our hope that a meeting with the Senator will help clear up the differences between his recent public comments and his voting record," said Perkins.
And permanent, distributed storage of the resulting pictures remain widely accessible to all Americans via the Web.
We really should thank Gore for inventing the Internet. :-)
Why don't we extend an invitation to Senator Kerry to speak at the GOP convention? We're all Americans and it would be the perfect venue to try to unite this country by reaching out to the opposition. ;-)
I think you're on to something here. Maybe the RNC should slot him in for the first night. That would be a hoot.
Well, if Hillary is as potent as everyone says she is, and if she wants to destroy the Kerry campaign this year for her 2008 run, she should be able to marshall her media forces to use this issue against him.
#30 - she sure doesn't want to do a "tipper", does she?
Funny!!
It reminds me of one of my favorite films: Bullets over Broadway.
Pubbies growing gonads...WOW!!
And a sense of humor, all at the same time.
"Kerry has such a tortured, conflicted soul."
Actually, he does not have one: an incubus is a body animated, puffed up and moved around by an unclean spirit. As for the soul - it does not have it. Besides, he even looks like an incubus. Does he by any chance cast a shadow or reflect?
You're right .. and I believe it's a regular dem condition. They WILL SAY ANYTHING with no thought about the consequences of what they are saying. They have no core values .. therefore, they flip and flop back and forth every which way the wind blows.
I'd like to see Kerry attend these groups and literally cut his throat with his own words.
If he does that I cannot be responsible for his safety. ;-)
Kerry is lucky he made it out unscathed from his disgraceful appearance at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial earlier in the campaign.
I'm not sure. I did a google image search for incubi, and none showed up. Perhaps incubi aren't capable of being photographed. :-)
Well, see for yourself - incubi images are even not google'able.
Paging Eddie Eagle! Eddie Eagle, please pick up the white courtesy phone!"
Idiot with a gun alert.
There is no difference in using it on terrorist than on a non-terrorist killer.
His stats are more junk stats, it's more like 12, most of the 100 he sites have been freed due to technicalities in the trial...not because the were innocent.
KING: I've done a lot of shows recently dealing with the death of little children. A person who kills a 5-year-old should live?
KERRY: Larry, my instinct is to want to strangle that person with my own hands. I understand the instincts, I really do. I prosecuted people. I know what the feeling of the families is and everybody else.
But we have 111 people who have been now released from death row -- death row, let alone the rest of the prison system -- because of DNA evidence that showed they didn't commit the crime of which they were convicted.
After spending -- I myself worked to get a person out of jail who had been there for 15 years for a murder that person did not commit.
Now, our system has made mistakes, and it's been applied in a way that I think is wrong.
Secondly, I don't believe that, in the end, you advance the, sort of, level of your justice and the system of your civility as a nation -- and many other nations in the world, most of the other nations in the world, have adopted that idea, that the state should not engage in killing.
(APPLAUSE)
Because they have very bad memories of what happens when the state engages in killing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10722-2004Feb26_2.html
You're welcome. As a life member I like to make the NRA gets properly acknowledged.
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