Posted on 08/25/2004 6:45:01 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Of course, if serving in Vietnam were the primary qualification to be president, the United States would need thousands of Oval Offices, but John Kerry, trying to avoid his Senate record, chose to make a four-month stint decades ago the centerpiece of his campaign. And every day now he must be regretting that decision.
Kerry's latest faux pas: calling Vietnam veteran Robert "Friar Tuck" Brant and asking if he knew about that awful group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
"I said, 'I am one, John,'" Brant said.
The Massachusetts Democrat failed to note that Brant had appeared at a news conference announcing the group in May.
"There was a moment of hesitation, and he said, `I appreciate your honesty.' He said, `Well, why are you?'"
Brant reminded Kerry of his depiction of veterans as war criminals. "I said, `You know that's not true,'" Brant recalled to the Associated Press. "That's been simmering in me about 35 years."
The New York Post reported today: "Sean McCabe, a spokesman for the 264-member organization, said it plans to send a cease-and-desist letter warning Kerry 'to stop calling our members,' because it's an independent '527' group and it's illegal for campaigns to contact them."
The senator was breaking the law and should have immediately ended the call when Brant said he was a member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends" reported this morning.
At a Democrat fund-raiser last night in Philadelphia, Kerry tried to defend his anti-U.S. activism even though communist torturers used his discredited congressional testimony in 1971 to add to the suffering of American POWs.
"You can judge my character, incidentally, by that," Kerry
told the Democrat crowd.
Gladly.
If Kerry wins I only have my bible for comfort.
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Why would this phone call be illegal? No supporting evidence for the headline IMHO
He and Bush are not supposed to have any contact with 527 people.
Kerry is running out of feet to shoot. Unless he is a dentipede, along with all his other claims. Gues that should be chameleon centipede.
At the rate he is going, he will be in a wheelchair himself on election night to give his consession speech- about 8:04 PM Pacific time. (Polls close at 8PM.
Hey- what time do the polls close in Alaska and Hawaii? How come the media isn't required to keep quiet until they close also?
That is absurd. The candidates and their CAMPAIGNS are not supposed to have any coordination with 527 organizations, ads, or campaigns.
But this Swiftee is not even a supporter of Kerry or a Kerry 527. How could Kerry co-ordinate his campaign with a non-supporter?
We need to keep our site free from wild accusations and uninformed allegations. This is the sort of stuff the media use against us when they call us radical fringe ultra-conservative kooks.
I want GOP to focus on Kerry's anti-war actions in all the years since he he returned from Viet Nam.
The fact that he hasn't passed any meaningful legislation falls under the "less government" area for me.
Focus more on the bills he voted AGAINST which directly affect the ability of our military men and women to safely carry out the tasks which the commander in chief sends them to do.
No matter what, we have to keep hammering on Kerry.
Kerry is running out of feet to shoot. Unless he is a centipede, along with all his other claims. Guess that should be chameleon centipede.
At the rate he is going, he will be in a wheelchair himself on election night to give his consession speech- about 8:04 PM Pacific time. (Polls close at 8PM.)
Hey- what time do the polls close in Alaska and Hawaii? How come the media isn't required to keep quiet until they close also?
LOLOL Kerry the (French looking) bumbler ;)
Coordination is not allowed under CFR.
This is really the worse I have heard yet!
It speaks of a not-very-quiet desperation.
He'd have to be driven by desperation to make a move like that before knowing the outcome -- and it's obvious from the outcome that he didn't know it, because it is inconceivable that he'd have walked into that if he knew in advance where it would take him.
Hmm, sorry for the longish sentence, but I believe it parses.
Exactly. And Kerry wouldn't be coordinating with a Swifty good guy would he?
Kerry's a criminal.
OMIGOD!! Abdominal cramps from LOL!!
HAHAHA, you made my laugh, because your laughing. I am glad you liked it.
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