Posted on 08/21/2004 8:57:12 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Just found out from lurking that the DUers have been going to the Florida Republican Headquarters and taking pictures and sending them to the Gainesville Sun and other papers. These people are disgustingly ruthless and are planning on going to other Republican Headquarters around. Here are the pictures they took:
Thanks, Mia -- you're the best!
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Good eyes.
This is a rat piece of paper taped on the window.
I wonder if the picture was taken by a rat?
Would some reading of any of the crop of anti-Bush books be proof of the author & it's publishers having coordinatated with Kerry? lol
Agree. Just a clear case of the lefty thought police in action.
GRIDLEY Crew members (67-68) say Kerry exaggerated in TOUR OF DUTY
"...John Kerry and I were shipmates in the guided missile cruiser USS
Gridley (CG-21) in 1967 and 1968. He served as First Lieutenant, the
officer in charge of the deck division, and I was Executive Officer,
or second in command..."
"...But there is also no doubt in my mind that his anti-war
activities while our troops were still fighting, dying and being
tortured in filthy Vietnam prisons were despicable.
For that reason, even aside from his anti-defense voting record in
the Senate, he is one ex-shipmate that I could never support as
commander-in-chief of the armed forces."
J. F. Kelly, Jr.
USS Gridley (CG-21) Executive Officer in 1967 and 1968.
GRIDLEY Website page on John Kerry
http://home.nycap.rr.com/pwcarter/the%20kerry%20page.html
Other crew members speak about John Kerry
(Looks like Kerry's shipmates, who did serve with him,
say he lied and told whoopers about his time on the GRIDLEY.
Remember these are not Swift Boat Vets,
BUT Kerry's crewmates who served with him on the GRIDLEY)
Examples follow:
"As everyone must surely know by now, John F. Kerry came on board
GRIDLEY as a boot Ensign when we returned from our 1967 Westpac
Cruise. He remained on GRIDLEY through the 1968 cruise. Politics
aside, shipmates of the time who have read TOUR OF DUTY, the
authorized campaign biography, will have something to say about the
chapter on GRIDLEY. "
1. Kerry never talked about his time on GRIDLEY. He says on page
74 that it is because “nothing much of note” happened while
he was
onboard. He uses words like monotony and tedious, when, despite
being a boot ensign he was given every opportunity for responsibility
by Captain Slifer and Commander Kelly (XO). He came aboard
designated for Electrical Officer (80100), a grunt position in the
Engineering Department and spent four months in that position. He
was assigned duty as First Lieutenant, as Commander Kelly recalls,
because of his knowledge of seamanship and his experiences with small
boats and sailing. Besides being responsible for the decks of the
ship, the First Lieutenant is also responsible for the ship’s
small
boats. He also was assigned collateral duties as Public Affairs
Officer. Despite all the responsibilities he was given, he gives the
impression that serving on GRIDLEY was somehow beneath him. He
certainly had less of an opportunity to collect “gongs” there.
2. Page 78 – “motivate 400 swabbies” – The First
Lieutenant is
responsible only for the personnel of 1st Division, not the entire
crew. 1st Division had a roster of about 30 in 1968. To the extent
that other divisions had responsibility for deck space, their
officers would have been responsible for motivating them.
3. Page 87 has Kerry “shuttling sailors and provisions”
between
GRIDLEY and KITTY HAWK in a small motor whaleboat out in the Gulf of
Tonkin. The regular method of travel between the two ships was via
helo. That is how I went over to the KITTY HAWK. If such an event
did occur, it would have been unusual and hardly a shuttle.
4. Later on page 87 Kerry talks about Olongapo in the Philippines.
He talks about bloated corpses floating in the river and starving
women with babies dying of malnutrition. Now Olongapo was a wild and
wooly town that existed solely for the entertainment of the US Navy,
but in over three years of calling there, I never saw a single
instance of either thing happening. Kerry uncovered this in his
first visit. If this was from his letters home then he was certainly
writing for dramatic effect. Balderdash.
5. The trip to Danang – GRIDLEY went into Danang for briefings
before going to Northern SAR. This section is so full of hyperbole
that the urge to giggle is almost uncontrollable. “The panic and
pressure onboard GRIDLEY, strapping on a .45, wondering if I would
have to use it, B-52’s howling overhead”. A B-52 over Danang
would
have been so high that only contrails would have been visible, cloud
cover permitting. David Simons confirmed my recollection that during
our brief stay in Danang Harbor, the sky was overcast to the point of
being ominous.
More seriously, no one can remember John Kerry going ashore. I was
part of the shore party that went to Monkey Mountain. We were taken
in a screened in truck (to protect against grenades being tossed in)
and made to unload our .45’s. The driver said that he did not
want
us newbies to shoot anyone by accident.
Neither Commander Kelly nor LCDR Rueckert (Kerry’s immediate
boss)
can recall approving a trip ashore for Ensign Kerry. The author uses
remarks of David Simons IC2 as a lead in to the Danang section. I
spoke to David and he has no personal knowledge of Kerry going ashore
at all. He did talk to a researcher and made some generic remarks
about Danang but had never discussed Danang with Kerry. He recalls
arguing with the researcher because he tried to put the
words “cowboy” in his mouth, which ended up in the book.
There is no mystery about the “gruesome site of a pile of dead
VC.”
We saw no sign of anything like this. However, our escort to Monkey
Mountain did tell us how the VC bodies were stacked up on the
LZ’s
after the TET Offensive, which had been several months before.
Ensign Kerry would have been told this story by members of the shore
party.
If, indeed, he got to the pier, because he was in charge of the
motor whaleboat, it certainly would not have been within his purview
to wander Danang, eating dog meat and drinking beer in a bar (under
arms). It also seems amazing that he had all these observations on
Vietnam in such a brief visit.
6. In command – Again with the hyperbole. Kerry makes much
about
being “in charge” of the ship after the Captain and XO. The
OOD is
in charge of the operation of the ship during his four hour watch but
hardly in charge of the ship. Kerry qualified almost immediately as
OOD(P), in port OOD but that is a given. For much of his time
onboard he would have been Junior Officer of the Deck when underway.
Although his fitness report as of 22 March says "he is qualified as
OOD(I) now" (Independent steaming – with no ships or land
anywhere
near) , only OOD(P) is listed under duties. His Fitness Report from
July 1968 lists two months as OOD(I) which would mean he qualified
after leaving the war zone.
Seriesly? Now that I've seen the poster up close, Mr. Kerry is two sandwiches short of a picnic, cuz it's proof of nothing.
For example, I found that the largest contributor in my state (GA) to 527 orgs is Jane Fonda. A huge majority of her $13+ million in contributions went to pro-abortion orgs. So much for Ms Fonda's much ballyhooed "conversion to Christianity" of a few years ago.
Actually, the info I found on that site is depressing. The richest 527 orgs and the largest contributor to 527s are all liberal Democrats, ranging from fairly moderate liberals who give mainly to the Dem party or affiliated orgs all the way to radical leftists who give mainly to hate-Bush orgs such as Moveon and the the like. You have to look way down the lists to find contributors to pro-conservative/pro-GOP orgs, and in almost every case their contributions are minuscule compared to the other side's. Where are all the eeeviiil fat-cat Repubs I hear so much about?
BUMP
I forwarded your find to the RNC, George W Bush and Dick Cheney.
Big deal. I guess its news to dems that pubbies are pro-military, pro-USA, pro-truth.
Good catch!
Careful with that language. You spew the liberal line with such accuracy, one might not realize you're joking. Next time, exagerate a little.
Good idea. I hope to see the pics, and the fallout.
No dice, it is inside on the board, not outside on the glass. Look at the angles, there is a slight taper from right to left on the flyer, just like with the board, because both are at an angle to the window. If the flyer was taped to the window it would appear as a rectangle, not the trapezoid that we see receding from near to far.
Its no big deal, one flyer does not indicate coordination, and pales in comparison to that done between the Dems and their 527 spawns.
By their own standards, this proves the media, the kerry campaign, mcauliff, the dnc, moveon.org, maddox, the FL dems, Senator graham, Sentator nelson, and some dem named boob - I mean bob are all in collusion.
Thanks very much for the O'Neill / Kerry debate link at C-SPAN...
Looks like it's on the inside to me, but no matter, reading excerpts from someone's book can hardly be considered coordination with anyone else's campaign.
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