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 familys 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 Kerrys 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 dont 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 Kerrys 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 elses?
It is turned to TV Land and I just noticed Bonanza is on. Guess who is portraying a young girl? Yep, Dawn Wells and she does look good.
To liberals this is all OK because liberals lie constantly for a higher, noble cause. Even though black churches were not burning in Arkasas and Bill lied, we all know that many white folk wished they were burning, therefor it was true enough.
It's a very strange mental condition which needs to be diagnosed and treated if for no reason other than judicial accuracy. You get these people in a courtroom you could convict mother Theresa on murder charges based on their made up tales which they themselves are convinced of.
"Maybe a few more years of not controlling any part of the government will convince the Dims they must return to honesty."
Fat chance, the Democrats are now the defacto Communist party USA and should change their name accordingly. They will never again be interested in the truth. People tell the truth because they believe in the truth for the sake of truth, no habitual liar ever turns to the truth because someone has convinced him that it works better than a lie. Only a genuine, life changing, religious conversion cold reform a hardcore liar.
My wife had breast cancer for 6 years before it killed her. She worked all through it missing only 4 or 5 days right up until the last couple of months of the disease. Why did she do this when, as a teacher, she had months of sick time and disability available to her?
Because people with cancer who work live longer. She lived 4 years after the metastasis was diagnosed and for most of that she missed very little work. People who sit home and obsess about their disease are the ones that go quickly. People who work and remain productive and outwardly focused are the ones who live the longest.
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