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?
By definition it means a "local dialect or regional expression" I don't see how that applies here!
OMG. Of course, Kerry does have a history of rice......embedded in his butt.
No way am I making excuses for Kerry, but his staff is failing him left and right. This is lose-lose because either Kerry himself is ignoring staff advice and showing his personal incompetence, or he is relying on the staff and they are failing him, which shows Kerry's personal incompetence because he surrounds himself with doofuses (doofi?). This is as bad as AlGore's "doggie drugs" incident. Guess it will be buried by the MSM.
Really????
How do you like my new tagline?
Why are all modern Democrat Presidential nominees pathological liars?
I've been to New Hampshire; my first husband was from there.
I'm pretty sure that "every day" means "every day."
Don't know. I haven't heard about that one.
Love it!
What's your point, he's a democrat
He lied about being in Cambodia, he lied about SUV ownership, he lied to get his medals, he lied about getting rid of them, he lied about atrocities....
He's a democrat, all truth is relative
Move on, nothing to see here.
Wasn't it Gephart who claimed his own mother had to choose between medication and food? You are right - Dems have an innate ability to lie -- and tell the lie often enough and loud enough the sheeple will believe it.
Is this what Kerry calls 'nuanced'? Looks like lying to me....but I'm just an 'old fashioned' girl...........Julie
Kerry is just as big a liar as Gore. He is better at it, and more nuanced. This makes him twice as dangerous. Come to think of it, the whole rat party are liars.
Betcha never will either!
LOL!
Another post I can't repond to due to the rules *L*
But did you know John Kerry served in Vietnam? That's right! Three purple hearts!
But John-Boy is right -- there are two Americas....the one we live in with our meager bank accounts taxed to the bone, and the Edwards/Kerry America where multi-millionaires hide their income and won't release their return for us to see just how phony they really are!
THANK YOU!!!
I couldn't believe that story either.
How many nails does his coffin NEED?!!!
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