Posted on 08/09/2004 11:38:51 PM PDT by kattracks
NEXT TIME John Kerry accuses President Bush of misleading the American people, remember Mary Ann Knowles.Knowles is the Hudson woman whose battle with breast cancer Kerry has turned into a campaign anecdote. Here is what Kerry said about Knowles during his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on July 29:
“What does it mean when Mary Ann Knowles, a woman with breast cancer I met in New Hampshire, had to keep working day after day right through her chemotherapy, no matter how sick she felt, because she was terrified of losing her family’s health insurance? America can do better. And help is on the way.”
What it means is that John Kerry is fibbing. As Union Leader correspondent Scott Brooks reported on Sunday, Mary Ann Knowles did not have to work through her chemotherapy for fear of losing her health insurance. Employed by Elderhostel, the Boston-based non-profit travel organization for people 55 and older, Mary Ann had 26 weeks of paid disability at her disposal. More was available for a long-term illness. She did not have to work through her chemotherapy. She chose to.
Knowles would have lost some income had she taken the disability leave, said her husband, who is unemployed. But she would not have lost her health insurance, as Kerry has repeatedly misstated.
Asked if the Kerry campaign bothered to get the details of Knowles’ personal story, spokeswoman Judy Reardon said Kerry’s use of the words “every day” in describing Knowles story was “a colloquialism.” She went on: “When a woman has a mastectomy and goes through therapy, I don’t need to double-check on her.”
In other words, Kerry knowingly used the words “every day” when he did not mean “every day,” and he used the phrase: “she still has to go to work every day — just to hang on to their health insurance” when she did not have to work every day and was in no danger of losing her health insurance.
In short, he lied. Repeatedly.
With all that has come to light about Kerry’s voting record and his Vietnam service, his misrepresentation of Marry Ann Knowles’ story should surprise few. Kerry cannot even get his own personal history straight, so how can we expect him to correctly relay someone else’s?
fruit loops.... fruit loops
Amen to that. I've been getting a bit buggy here. I miss my crew, God bless 'em.
From now on just remember this, you're not allowed to be sick. Ya dig?
Sir, yes SIR! 
Thanks! Couldn't have done it without the Good Lord's help and everyone's prayers! The last doctor I saw (infectious disease specialist) was really amazed at my recovery. Now all I need to do is get the oncologist's blessing, get my left kidney repaired, and I should be good for awhile. : )
Still praying for you,my friend. :-)
Kerry tells Kerrytruth. Translated to English - lies. All lies. The lies are the only good things that can be said about him.
I think I'm getting physically sick of his mug and I never listen to him any more. He's not allowed on my TV set. Visually or audibly. He effects me exactly the way X42 did.
Please dear Lord, don't make us endure John Kerry as X44 one day. We just can't take it.
Of course Kerry is not qualified. As Gardner said - the guy is a traitor to his country, and an incompetent coward. And most everyone knows Kerry as a flip-flopping fool. He's a man whose very name is about to be associated in the dictionary with - dishonor.
But when there's a problem every day, as with Clinton, I think it all starts to blend together. It becomes too much. Many people can hold one or two things against a man, for good reason - but not 1000. I think Clinton was well received, only by some, because those some couldn't see 1000 things wrong with the guy, but would have rejected him for just one.
The point is that people with cancer who can work, should work. They live longer if they are occupied at something useful. She lived for four years after the metastasis was diagnosed which is above average. She missed very little work until the last two months of her life. Kerry is trying to use a sad situation to capitalize on peoples ignorance. Thats the general game plan of the Democrats since FDR, I guess.
I am happy to hear you are recovering, Jay! Keep up the good work - your artwork to makes searing points.
Kerry lied? AGAIN? Is he related to Al Gore? Wasn't this about the time during the 2000 campaign when Gore's penchant for mendacity came to America's attention? Isn't it time for American to wake up to the fact that Kerry's reckless disregard for the truth makes Gore look like George Washington by comparison?
This guy Kerry is close to replacing Klinton as the world's best liar!!!!!!
He flips, he prevaricates, he exaggerates but he never, ever tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Kerry lying is not the important issue (even if it is important to me). His campaign people don't have the skills. If someone did not actually get this story from Mary Ann first, to use and then arrange a meeting to make it happen, then they are stupid, lazy, and not doing their jobs. It shows.
But more importantly, this is being reported. The dam is busting. The Swift Vets story is not going away. There is probably more coming, and it won't be pretty.
DK
Careful. I agree with what you say, but if we go over the top with this, President Reagan's "welfare queen" could come back to haunt us.
This is great news!
When Clinton lied during his first State of the Union about a couple who "were forced into bankruptcy" due to medical bills, no one in the media bothered to check it out, except for one reporter for a British paper. He discovered that the hospital had a large fund to help those unable to pay their bills. The couple chose to use medical as the excuse to get out of a whole bunch of other bills.
Now, Kerry is getting outed by an American newspaper for basically the same lie to the American people. Great news!!
The man is absolutely frightening. And I don't just mean the way he looks. Ha ha.
But he is even more of a liar than Clinton. The prospect of having a man of such bad character as president should scare even loyal Democrats.
I wish Mr Bush would be bold during the convention, and the debates, and just come out and call him on it. Tell America what a liar Kerry is. The media and the elites would explode with rage but it just might resonate with voters.
I once beat Michael Jordan in one on one basketball. I can run a mile in 2 minutes flat. I keep a live dragon in my basement. Of course you understand these are all just colloquiallisms.
Ginger was just a Hollywood tramp.
Kerry is learning from Clinton. It eems that the Dems HAVE to lie because truth is NOT on their side.
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