Posted on 08/24/2004 12:38:33 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Vanessa Kerry doesn’t try to hide her frustration with the recent criticism of her father’s war record.
"I’m a little disgusted," she said yesterday, adding that she gets "really heated up" when she talks about the issue.
Kerry, the younger of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry’s two daughters, spoke with the Tribune by telephone yesterday to highlight a Democratic community service project aimed at Missouri college students.
But she also touched on a variety of political and personal issues.
The 27-year-old medical student - who is on hiatus from Harvard University as she campaigns for her father - said much is at stake for her generation of voters because policies are being made that won’t kick in for years. As an example, she cited the environmental policies of President George W. Bush’s administration and tax cuts he’s pressed.
"I’m all for people getting money back, but I don’t think the wealthiest Americans need to take home the most," she said.
Kerry said her father has a record of conviction and optimism and described the nominee with the familiarity that only a daughter could employ. She recalled telling him recently about a story in the Los Angeles Times detailing the closure of emergency rooms in that city because of the costs of caring for uninsured patients. Her father, she said, "freaked out" and quickly read the article.
"He’s living and breathing this," she said. "This is not something that is for show."
As a daughter of the candidate, Vanessa Kerry is one of many surrogates lavishing attention on battleground states on behalf of the Kerry-Edwards ticket. She said she is enjoying the campaign, although she doesn’t enjoy the fact that strangers now recognize her.
Her main focus, she said, is motivating young voters to become involved, as in the "Call To Serve Presidential Debate Project." Under that program, announced last week, Missouri students are being challenged to perform community service. The two students who perform the most service between Aug. 20 and Sept. 30 will receive two tickets to the presidential debate scheduled Oct. 8 at Washington University in St. Louis. Details are available at www.johnkerry.com/missouridebate.
"Encouraging" community service "and being a part of that is really important to me," Kerry said.
In recent weeks, an organization called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has roiled the presidential campaign by airing television ads that accuse John Kerry of lying about his record as a war hero in Vietnam.
Vanessa Kerry said she’s discussed the controversy with her father and that he has expressed frustration that "people that he served with are also being tarnished by these accusations."
Paul Sloca, a spokesman for the state Republican party, said the GOP also thinks the youth vote is important, adding that "hard-working Americans got their money back" because of Bush’s tax cuts.
Yeah, well her sister doesn't try to hide her nipples. That doesn't mean that either her frustration or her sister's nipples are all that newsworthy.
Too funny! So true.
Diets, plastic surgery, hair straightening, hair coloring, doesn't make her attractive. Particularly when she wrote that insipid piece following 9/11 and said that because of Bush's tax cuts we wouldn't have enough money to fix NYC.
Diets, plastic surgery, hair straightening, hair coloring, doesn't make her attractive. Particularly when she wrote that insipid piece following 9/11 and said that because of Bush's tax cuts we wouldn't have enough money to fix NYC.
LOL!
What a shame she didn't have as much concern over hiding her breats while in France celebrating with Michael Moore.
They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.
How about those accusations, Vanessa?
Bump!
I can see why she isn't an Economics student.
I think Vanessa realizes that her Dad took the reality of his diving in a lake to save a gerbil, and turned it into the fiction of him diving in, under fire, to "save" Jim Rassman. Many children of liars first realize their parent's true nature when they hear family stories being transformed and exaggerated and told to others as obvious lies. My heart goes out to Vanessa. I wish her all the best as she begins to understand that her very own father is a complete fraud. One can only imagine how she already feels at having been declared illegitimate by her father's annulment from their mother.
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So give up your Fulbright Scholarship then sweetie! Let some poor student who doesn't have a billion-dollar sugar daddy to support THEM!
She disgusts me as much as her father does.
>>She'll just dabble in medicine and then moveon.<<
Do you mean, "She'll just dabble in medicine and then moveon.org"
Annulments do not make children illegitimate.
The poor girl has her father's jaw and beaver teeth.....
Bump!
And his lack of intellect.
Does Ben Afflack like this one!!!
YUCK
True story. I was there in the audience. Even the liberals were laughing.
She's a NAZI.
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