Posted on 08/10/2004 7:35:02 PM PDT by Gorilla44
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?
OH DANG! ...
I've had to delete my response about 5 times already
I WISH I could type what I am thinking right now
What?????
IF the press does their job .. count on a lot more
Kerry couldn't tell the truth .. they WHOLE truth and nothing but the truth if his life depended on it
Do you have any idea what she meant by that?
Do the democrats EVER have a candidate that doesn't lie?
Just a colloguialism, I guess. Obama had such a good response to HIS one America speech that Edwards stole it...typical. Kerry/Edwards have stolen every Bush slogan and have imitated everything else...including Kerry's wearing a cowboy hat. He's no cowboy, not even a rhinestone one. He's as bad as algore in trying to find a persona that fits, but he won't own up to the ONE that does: a loafer and a liar who will do anything to get what he wants.
bump
Humm!?! Bet you didn't see this in the alphabet media!
Not in my lifetime, which, as we all know, has been "a while," but I am using "a while" as “a colloquialism.”
The Kerry Kamp is making Edwards leave the 2 America's theme because polls show Americans aren't buying it. Rush was talking about this today. Edwards isn't thrilled about abandoning it either, LOLOL!
Saw a Kerry/Edwards yard sign today and I thought it was Bush/Cheney. Do the RATs not have an original thought in their pea brains?
We provincials can use colloquialisms, but they should be beneath sophisticates such as Kerry. /sarcasm
The Rats are a pathetic joke. Nothing surprises me anymore.
The whole Two Americas theme is borrowed from that Book James Carvile wrote "Two Americas"
Did ya hear he hired a black women by the name of Dr. Rice to be his new National Security Advisor??
(New) Kerry Advisor's Disgraceful National Security Record (Dr. Susan Rice)
Just wait until the campaign really gets going in September and October. The Kerry lies have only just begun!
Their lack of originality is stunning, isn't it?
Hey Edwards can always sue Kerry
BTW .. how's his front porches idea coming along .. I haven't heard much about it lately
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