Posted on 07/27/2004 3:11:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
The sister of the Democrat candidate to replace George W. Bush as president of the United States has been vigorously campaigning for her brother. Nothing unusual in that – except that she works for Bush.
In a speech delivered in Boston yesterday, Peggy Kerry told a campaign crowd of feminists that, if elected, her brother would overturn various Bush policies, policies she is expected to support in her day job as representative of President Bush at the United Nations.
In her campaign speech Kerry said her brother John would reinstitute U.S.
funding for the U.N. Population Fund, which President Bush has defunded over
UNFPA support for coercive abortions in China. Kerry also said her brother
would ensure U.S. ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination Against All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, something opposed by
President Bush. She also pledged that her brother would appoint only
pro-abortion judges to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Her comments caused not a few jaws to drop at the State Department. One
high-ranking official told the Friday Fax, "Even if it's legal, how can
she claim to effectively represent Bush's policies at the U.N., if she is
bashing those same policies in a speech in Boston."
It appears that Kerry
violated no federal law in making campaign appearances for her brother. At
one time, career civil servants like Kerry were forbidden to make
campaign appearances, though that has now changed. What is not yet clear
is whether Kerry violated any internal State Department guidelines.
Kerry first came to the State Department as a political appointee under
the Clinton administration and was charged with maintaining contacts with
U.N. nongovernmental organizations. In that capacity with the Clinton
administration, Kerry is best known for booking the U.N. press office on
behalf of "Catholics" for a Free Choice when it announced its campaign
to throw the Catholic Church out of the U.N. Kerry's job was made permanent
in the early days of the Bush administration.
'Secret Weapon'
Monday's speech was not the first time that Kerry has actively
campaigned for her brother. She introduced the singer Carole King at a
John Kerry fund-raising concert and has spoken at a number of his campaign
events. In fact, she was introduced yesterday as a "secret weapon" to solidify the radical feminist base for her brother.
According to
the Washington Times: "In introducing Ms. Kerry, Feminist Majority
President Eleanor Smeal said she had heard of misgivings about the
Kerry-Edwards ticket. Women are wondering whether they are 'really with
us,' she said. There is no question that Mr. Kerry and Mr. Edwards 'have a
huge track record with us,' Ms. Smeal said. 'And he has a secret weapon,'
she said, referring to Peggy Kerry and her many years of work with
feminist causes."
Kerry spoke yesterday at an event called "She Party," which was
held at the Harvard Club and was intended as a pun upon the Boston Tea
Party. According to a NOW invitation, the party was part of its "grassroots revolution against the Tyranny of King George."
"Kerry's job was made permanent in the early days of the Bush administration."
Two wings of the same bird of prey. Yes, I will vote for Bush as the lesser of two evils, but he has done virtually nothing to purge his administration of this ilk.
Yes. according to the article:
...Kerry first came to the State Department as a political appointee under the Clinton administration and was charged ...
In regards to your question, it says she was in the story.
Grounds for dismissal, oh boy, sounds series.
I wonder if she is a Clinton holdover?
Maybe Bush dated her in college? (kidding!)
If Hillary can fire everyone in the white house travel office why can't Bush rid himself of leeches like this?
Why do we do this sort of thing to ourselves?
The "new tone" is too compromising.
So much for Bush's "changing the tone" in Washington.
I hope Bush cleans house come November.
/sarcasm
Needed,.....moore 'plumbers'.....for 'leaks'....
:-(
I wouldn't say two wings of the same bird of prey. How do you know that it wasn't made permanant by some obscure bill when jumpin jim gave tommy daschle the leadership of the Senate for a year and a half.
Why is this b!tch still on the government payroll?
Was she also wearing a see through blouse like his pea chested daughter????
Because Bush is a lamb.
He has no respect for the people who put him there. We have to put up with crap like this.
I'm fed up with his "bi-partisan nice guy" act.
Solution: Your fired.
I gotta say this has happened several times now. Not smart.
I think Kerry looks great in a burqa!
BOUNCE HER BAGGY BRAHMIN BUTT NOW.
Here's a better idea. We cut funding for all of the UN programs and let Kofi try to keep running without us.
Huh, it seems that kerry's sister is the one who looks like the fool.
Anyway all it says is that the job was changed early in the Bush administartion.
Again the article doesn't say by who. Remember that daschle was Majority leader for a year and a half.
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