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To: Steven W.

Is John "F." Kerry his real name? I am to that stage with John Kerry. This is just mind boggling. Why would he tout Vietnam so much when it is clear that there are a lot of questions not only about his medals but now what he says happened? Guess he thought he could get a free pass from the media and no one would question a true Vietnam "hero." Boy was he wrong!


3 posted on 08/08/2004 5:14:16 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Oklahoma is Reagan Country and now Bush Country -- Win Another One for the Gipper!)
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To: PhiKapMom
Why would he tout Vietnam so much when it is clear that there are a lot of questions

What else does he have to run on? He's got a hard left record with no real accomplishments and a history of defaming American soldiers. That's not going to sell...

So, why not try to use the Vietnam experience? Immoral? Yep, but when has that ever stopped a leftie? And we've been catching lefties engaged in overemphasizing their military records (when not making up service experience out of whole cloth) for some time now.

The thing that boggles my mind though is how he thought he could get away using the other swift boat officers in his ads. He must know they hate him for his post war betrayal. But I guess living the sheltered life of a senatorial gigolo really has divorced him from any grasp of reality...
17 posted on 08/08/2004 5:21:22 PM PDT by swilhelm73 (When Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq, his son murdered 2,000 people in the Abu Gharib prison in *one* day.)
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To: PhiKapMom
Guess he thought he could get a free pass from the media . . .

The jury is still out on that. This, and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth advertisment, might well be buried by a media that is inclined to protect the myths of John Kerry. Further, the "powers that be" in the GOP do not want these issues to be raised, and a fair number of Freepers concur (that these issues should not be raised, at all).

20 posted on 08/08/2004 5:23:06 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: PhiKapMom

It's Kohn.


34 posted on 08/08/2004 5:25:53 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza)
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To: PhiKapMom; spectre; the Deejay; Jaded

The guy almost seems like a pathological liar. Given the sad fate of Lori Hacking, perhaps Mrs. Heinz-Kerry should sleep with one eye open.


35 posted on 08/08/2004 5:26:58 PM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: PhiKapMom
Is John "F." Kerry his real name? I am to that stage with John Kerry.

Funny you should say that. I noticed when the swifties were giving their news conference that several of them referred to him as, I think, John G. Kerry.

I'm sure it was just a mistake, but you kind of have to wonder, given Kerry's history of lying.

40 posted on 08/08/2004 5:28:33 PM PDT by alnick
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To: PhiKapMom
Is John "F." Kerry his real name?

The "J" and the "F" are real, it is "Kerry" that is faked. It's his irish name. Actually it was his grandfather that dropped original Jewish family name for an Irish name.

60 posted on 08/08/2004 5:35:56 PM PDT by Poincare
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To: PhiKapMom
Why would he tout Vietnam so much when it is clear that there are a lot of questions not only about his medals but now what he says happened?

The four month war "experience" is just a vehicle for his current political ambitions. Just as it served to gain him notoriety when he came out against the war, he is now conveniently using it to create a political persona to make him over as a war hero in order to contrast himself with Bush. He threw away medals when it served his purposes and now wants credit for earning those same medals. If he were a Republican, the leftwing media would be all over him. Look at how they went after Bush's National Guard service.

72 posted on 08/08/2004 5:40:21 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: PhiKapMom
Is John "F." Kerry his real name? I am to that stage with John Kerry. This is just mind boggling. Why would he tout Vietnam so much when it is clear that there are a lot of questions not only about his medals but now what he says happened?

Because this bllsht worked with the voters of Massachusetts. I was one of them and took his claims at face value. After all, he was a decorated Vietnam war vet! </sarcasm>

99 posted on 08/08/2004 5:50:26 PM PDT by dennisw (Once is Happenstance. Twice is Coincidence. The third time is Enemy action. - Ian Fleming)
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To: PhiKapMom
Why would he...

Because Kerry is a Manchurian Candidate -- born and raised to serve the higher orders of globalists, humanists and socialists.

He spent his childhood in Switzerland and Berlin. He was sent to Viet Nam in order to turn right around and condemn it. He re-filmed his exploits in Viet Nam because he needed to memorize the script. He tossed his medals because he knew they were meaningless.

He is not real.

109 posted on 08/08/2004 5:55:48 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (Hey, RNC! Get Bob Dylan to sing "Saving Grace" at the Convention!)
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To: PhiKapMom
"Is John "F." Kerry his real name? I am to that stage with John Kerry."

Actually.....Kerry isn't his real name.  Story and source below:

In the case of Sen. John Forbes Kerry, new scrutiny led to the discovery that the grandfather of the Massachusetts Democrat was Jewish, born Fritz Kohn in a small town that was once part of the Austrian empire and now is in the Czech Republic.

'Irish-American' Kerry's Jewish roots revealed

280 posted on 08/09/2004 12:57:45 AM PDT by windchime (Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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To: PhiKapMom
Why would he tout Vietnam so much when it is clear that there are a lot of questions not only about his medals but now what he says happened?

It's quite simple. Because bill clinton lied his face off and got away with it for years and kept getting re-elected to public office, the terminus being the Senate's vote not to dirty his name after the House impeached him. As a democrat, what really was there to make him think it wouldn't work for him, especially since he's been re-elected to the Senate repeatedly?

283 posted on 08/09/2004 2:04:07 AM PDT by GretchenM (A country is a terrible thing to waste. Vote Republican.)
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To: PhiKapMom
Why would he tout Vietnam so much when it is clear that there are a lot of questions not only about his medals but now what he says happened?

Look, I've been screaming this from the rooftops! Get off this VN thing because it totally detracts from his 20+ year senate career which he did absolutely Jack Shinola!

Kerry gets to shape the history and the debate with VN. I personally think Rove is waiting until Sept to hit Kerry with his dismal senate record.

290 posted on 08/09/2004 3:52:33 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Do you just think I fell off a turnip truck?)
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To: PhiKapMom
Is John "F." Kerry his real name?

No, his real last name is Kohn. Has grandfather converted from Judaism to Catholicism, and changed his name to attempt to masquerade as Irish as well. A new twist on "Look British, think Yiddish".

Shades of "The Matchmaker". An Massachusetts "Irish" Senator sends an aide to Ireland to find his roots. Turns out they don't exist, because his roots are really in eastern Europe and his grandfather changed the family name.

295 posted on 08/09/2004 5:35:31 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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